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| 2022-04-09T19:00:25Z
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PUKALANI, Maui (KITV4) -- Instability near the islands could help fire off some enhanced showers for windward areas this weekend. Some of those could be heavy at times, with the possibility of isolated thunderstorms for the Kona side of the island of Hawaii.
Fortunately, winds are expected to be breezy enough to push those clouds and showers along rather quickly which reduces the threat for flooding should those heavier pockets of showers develop over the state today and Sunday.
Average wind speeds across the state this weekend are forecasted in the 10-25 mph range out of the east primarily. Our winds have a southeasterly element to them from time to time.
Looking ahead, drier and more stable weather is on the horizon for next week as we return to more typical trade wind type weather.
Our current northwest swell is gradually fading out Saturday. A new WNW could bring a small boost on Monday and Tuesday. A new NW is expected to fill in Friday through the weekend.
East shores remain elevated through Tuesday.
Overlapping south swells keep heights elevated through Tuesday with another pulse on tap for next weekend.
SURF:
North: 2-4'
West: 1-3'
South: 2-4'
East: 5-7'
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Weekend Meteorologist and Maui County correspondent
Malika has been at KITV since July 2020. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and attended Mississippi State University for her certification in Broadcast Meteorology. Malika started her career in the Hawaii news industry in 2007.
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| 2022-04-09T19:34:07Z
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10-year-old boy called a hero after saving family from burning home
OXFORD, Miss. (WHBQ) - A 10-year-old Mississippi boy is being called a hero for helping save his family from a house fire.
According to the Lafayette County Fire Department, Bailey Doyle remained calm, cool, and collected and did exactly what he should have done.
“It’s something that you love seeing. That’s the reason we go into the communities and do what we do in the schools. We teach these things and love to see them implemented in situations like this,” said Casey Henderson, with the Lafayette County Fire Department.
As soon as he saw smoke, Bailey said he knew what to do and alerted his grandparents, who were visiting, to get out.
“I just thought as soon as I saw the smoke. OK, get my parents and go,” Bailey said. “I guess it was the firefighters coming to my school. They were the ones who taught me to wake up my parents and all that.”
His grandfather, Joe, said Bailey went off before the smoke detectors, buying them extra time.
“We are just happy that Bailey had the sense not to wait around to get the family up. He went right into action,” grandpa Joe said.
Bailey said many people have been making a big deal out of what he did, but he’s just thankful he was in the right place at the right time.
“A lot of people have been saying I am the hero. I am just glad everyone was able to get out of the house,” Bailey said.
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| 2022-04-09T19:49:06Z
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Feds accused of ignoring asbestos, mold at women’s prison
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog has found a “substantial likelihood” the federal Bureau of Prisons committed wrongdoing when it ignored complaints and failed to address asbestos and mold contamination at a federal women’s prison in California that has already been under scrutiny for rampant sexual abuse of inmates.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel now wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to step in to investigate the allegations after multiple whistleblower complaints were filed earlier this year. The office detailed its findings in a letter this past week and has asked Garland to submit a report within 60 days.
The whistleblower complaints, filed by union officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, alleged that senior Bureau of Prisons officials had failed to act to resolve the allegations of workplace contamination. The union had repeatedly complained that correctional officers and other prison workers and inmates were being exposed to potentially hazardous mold and asbestos but says those concerns were ignored.
“Management’s failure to address unsafe and dangerous working conditions at FCI Dublin has put the health and safety of both employees and inmates at considerable risk,” Dublin union president Edward Canales said. “We look forward to the outcome of this investigation, which we hope will result in the unsafe conditions being remedied and appropriate disciplinary actions being taken against the managers who failed to act.”
The Justice Department has already been investigating serious misconduct at Dublin, where five employees — including the former warden — have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. An Associated Press investigation this year revealed a pattern of sexual misconduct and detailed a toxic culture that enabled it to continue for years.
After the AP’s investigation was published, whistleblowers at the prison said they were being attacked for speaking up. The Bureau of Prisons launched a task force of 18 senior executives who visited the prison in March to assess the conditions there and work to reform the facility. The agency’s director, Michael Carvajal, also visited the prison.
The Justice Department said Saturday it had received the letter and “appreciates OSC’s responsiveness to these concerns.” It said the Bureau of Prisons was “addressing concerns raised by staff at Dublin and working to ensure that all facilities are operating under safe, healthy conditions.”
In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons said its staff members perform weekly fire, safety and sanitation inspections and staff members are encouraged to report unsafe or unhealth conditions to their supervisors. It said anyone who believes that such a condition exists could report it to the warden, other prison system officials or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
“All safety concerns reported by staff at Dublin are being addressed,” Bureau of Prisons spokesman Emery Nelson said in a statement.
The Office of Special Counsel said that while it found “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” based on the complaint that was filed, the referral to Garland does not constitute its final determination. The case remains open until the agency submits its final report, which is then forwarded to President Joe Biden and Congress.
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Grandmother struck, killed by police patrol car
MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) - The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a grandmother who was struck and killed by a police car.
Josefa Blandon, 82, was hit by a marked Merced Police squad car driven by a five-year veteran of the department.
The intersection of G Street and 16th Street is one of the busiest in Merced, California, since it leads to Highway 99. It’s also just a block away from the spot where Blandon was killed Thursday night.
Authorities said she was walking in the roadway when an on-duty Merced police officer, identified as Chase Wilson, hit her while driving a marked car.
Wilson is now on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure, as the investigation continues.
“We have accidents and as things like this evolve, it’s tragic and our sympathies and our heartfelt sympathies go out to all those who are involved in this type of tragedy,” Lt. Daniel Dabney with the Merced Police Department said.
This is not the first fatal collision involving Merced police.
Back in 2013, a Merced SWAT vehicle was involved in the death of a pedestrian, However, the officer who was driving was cleared of any wrongdoing.
“Anytime we have a tragic situation we always reflect back and see you know, the situation and try to evaluate it and we have some of the best training, you know, in the state of California,” Dabney said.
KFSN spoke with Blandon’s family Friday evening. They shared a video of her dancing in Tijuana last month for her birthday.
Her family said she loved to walk, and she was full of life. They said she would give anything to help someone in need.
“She was a great mother,” a family member, who didn’t provide their name, said. “She sacrificed a lot for her family.”
As the family continues to grieve, the highway patrol is investigating the traffic collision as the Merced Police conduct their own administrative investigation.
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| 2022-04-09T19:49:19Z
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GILLETTE — A group of about 25 people gathered in an old, dusty barn last weekend.
Some sat at a table, some on a beam along the wall. Others sat on bales of fleece nearby. Young and old, they ate plates of pork, beans and salads, as a cattle dog ate beneath another table.
They didn’t travel to the historic Edwards Ranch south of Gillette just to eat, however.
They came to shear, and Roy Edwards brought his sheep.
“I learned in a school just like this 26 years ago,” he said, standing at the end of the shearing chutes, as his lunch break came to an end.
For many of those participants, some of whom participate in 4-H and FFA, it was their first time trimming wool themselves. It’s an age-old technique, but one that varies and comes with its own challenges.
“They will make a lot of cuts on the sheep, which is what happens, and they’ll tear the fleeces all up, but that’s how you’ve got to learn,” said Ronda Boller, a Campbell County rancher who helped organize the event. “There’s no other way to shear sheep than like this.”
Many a Campbell County sheep throughout the years has been sheared by Australian or New Zealand shearers. The international help would come from their part of the world, where shearing occurs nearly year-round, to Wyoming, where the wool-shearing season is mostly handled in the few months before summer.
The history of shearing sheep runs deep in Campbell County, but the methods vary from those from Down Under. As they say, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
Well, it turns out that saying rings true for giving sheep haircuts.
“Their technique is a lot faster,” Boller said of the wool shearers from Australia and New Zealand.
In Wyoming, shearers would tie down sheep before getting to work on their winter coats. But in Australia and New Zealand, it’s more common to shear “loose,” with the animals unrestrained.
Despite his enthusiasm and willingness to shear again, “loose” proved challenging for Caden Cantu, 14, of Moorcroft, after getting a lesson from Gus Pellatz.
“I’m little. I’m short,” Cantu said.
It’s unclear when a sheep shearing class was last held in Campbell County, but it’s commonly agreed that they have become more rare.
The COVID-19 pandemic made it more difficult for some of those shearers to make the trek across the world to Campbell County, which is partly how Boller and her husband got the idea to organize the class.
When they needed help shearing their own sheep, they realized the shortage of able hands for the job. Soon enough, with a few sponsors on board, they helped arrange the two-day shearing school that the community had the chance to join free.
Wade Kopren led the class, along with local shearers. LeeAnn Brimmer taught the wool handling. It was sponsored by Campbell County Woolgrowers Auxiliary, Campbell County 4-H and Edwards Rambouillets.
With the growing scarcity of those privy to the art of wool shearing, a handful of people left the Edwards Ranch last Saturday evening two days and a few wool fleeces closer to keeping that art alive.
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| 2022-04-09T20:16:34Z
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| 2022-04-09T20:16:41Z
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10-year-old boy called a hero after saving family from burning home
OXFORD, Miss. (WHBQ) - A 10-year-old Mississippi boy is being called a hero for helping save his family from a house fire.
According to the Lafayette County Fire Department, Bailey Doyle remained calm, cool, and collected and did exactly what he should have done.
“It’s something that you love seeing. That’s the reason we go into the communities and do what we do in the schools. We teach these things and love to see them implemented in situations like this,” said Casey Henderson, with the Lafayette County Fire Department.
As soon as he saw smoke, Bailey said he knew what to do and alerted his grandparents, who were visiting, to get out.
“I just thought as soon as I saw the smoke. OK, get my parents and go,” Bailey said. “I guess it was the firefighters coming to my school. They were the ones who taught me to wake up my parents and all that.”
His grandfather, Joe, said Bailey went off before the smoke detectors, buying them extra time.
“We are just happy that Bailey had the sense not to wait around to get the family up. He went right into action,” grandpa Joe said.
Bailey said many people have been making a big deal out of what he did, but he’s just thankful he was in the right place at the right time.
“A lot of people have been saying I am the hero. I am just glad everyone was able to get out of the house,” Bailey said.
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| 2022-04-09T21:17:33Z
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The AP Interview: Zelenskyy seeks peace despite atrocities
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he is committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world, and he renewed his plea for more weapons ahead of an expected surge in fighting in the country’s east.
He made the comments in an interview with The Associated Press a day after at least 52 people were killed in a strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, and as evidence of civilian killings came to light after Russian troops failed to seize the capital where he has hunkered down, Kyiv.
“No one wants to negotiate with a person or people who tortured this nation. It’s all understandable. And as a man, as a father, I understand this very well,” Zelenskyy said. But “we don’t want to lose opportunities, if we have them, for a diplomatic solution.”
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Wearing the olive drab that has marked his transformation into a wartime leader, he looked visibly exhausted yet animated by a drive to persevere. He spoke to the AP inside the presidential office complex, where windows and hallways are protected by towers of sandbags and heavily armed soldiers.
“We have to fight, but fight for life. You can’t fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war,” Zelenskyy said.
Russian troops that withdrew from northern Ukraine are now regrouping for what is expected to be an intensified push to retake the eastern Donbas region, including the besieged port city of Mariupol that Ukrainian fighters are striving to defend.
The president said those defenders are tying up “a big part of the enemy forces,” characterizing the battle to hold Mariupol as “the heart of the war” right now.
“It’s beating. We’re fighting. We’re strong. And if it stops beating, we will be in a weaker position,” he said.
Zelenskyy said he is confident Ukrainians would accept peace despite the horrors they have witnessed in the more than six-week-long war.
Those included gruesome images of bodies of civilians found in yards, parks and city squares and buried in mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha after Russian troops withdrew. Ukrainian and Western leaders have accused Moscow of war crimes.
Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged. It also put the blame on Ukraine for the attack on the train station in Kramatorsk as thousands of people rushed to flee ahead of an expected Russian offensive.
Despite hopes for peace, Zelenskyy acknowledged that he must be “realistic” about the prospects for a swift resolution given that negotiations have so far been limited to low-level talks that do not include Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskyy displayed a palpable sense of resignation and frustration when asked whether the supplies of weapons and other equipment his country has received from the United States and other Western nations were enough to turn the tide of the war.
“Not yet,” he said, switching to English for emphasis. “Of course it’s not enough.”
Still, he noted that there has been increased support from Europe and said deliveries of U.S. weapons have been accelerating.
Just this week, neighboring Slovakia, a European Union member, donated its Soviet-era S-300 air defense system to Ukraine in response to Zelenskyy’s appeal to help “close the skies” to Russian warplanes and missiles.
Some of that support has come through visits by European leaders.
After meeting Zelenskyy in Kyiv earlier Saturday, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he expects more EU sanctions against Russia even as he defended his country’s opposition to cutting off deliveries of Russian natural gas.
The U.S., EU and United Kingdom responded to the images from Bucha with more sanctions, including ones targeting Putin’s adult daughters. While the EU went after the Russian energy sector for the first time by banning coal, it has so far failed to agree on cutting off the much more lucrative oil and natural gas that is funding Putin’s war chest. Europe relies on those supplies to generate electricity, fill fuel tanks and keep industry churning.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson also made an unannounced visit to meet Zelenskyy, with his office saying they discussed Britain’s “long-term support.”
In Kyiv on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented Ukraine’s leader with a questionnaire marking the first step for applying for EU membership. The head of the bloc’s executive arm said the process for completing the questionnaire could take weeks — an unusually fast turnaround — though securing membership would take far longer.
Zelenskyy turned introspective when asked what impact the pace of arms deliveries had for his people and whether more lives could have been saved if the help had come sooner.
“Very often we look for answers in someone else, but I often look for answers in myself. Did we do enough to get them?” he said of the weapons. “Did we do enough for these leaders to believe in us? Did we do enough?”
He paused and shook his head.
“Are we the best for this place and this time? Who knows? I don’t know. You question yourself,” he said.
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AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka contributed to this story.
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Feds accused of ignoring asbestos, mold at women’s prison
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog has found a “substantial likelihood” the federal Bureau of Prisons committed wrongdoing when it ignored complaints and failed to address asbestos and mold contamination at a federal women’s prison in California that has already been under scrutiny for rampant sexual abuse of inmates.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel now wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to step in to investigate the allegations after multiple whistleblower complaints were filed earlier this year. The office detailed its findings in a letter this past week and has asked Garland to submit a report within 60 days.
The whistleblower complaints, filed by union officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, alleged that senior Bureau of Prisons officials had failed to act to resolve the allegations of workplace contamination. The union had repeatedly complained that correctional officers and other prison workers and inmates were being exposed to potentially hazardous mold and asbestos but says those concerns were ignored.
“Management’s failure to address unsafe and dangerous working conditions at FCI Dublin has put the health and safety of both employees and inmates at considerable risk,” Dublin union president Edward Canales said. “We look forward to the outcome of this investigation, which we hope will result in the unsafe conditions being remedied and appropriate disciplinary actions being taken against the managers who failed to act.”
The Justice Department has already been investigating serious misconduct at Dublin, where five employees — including the former warden — have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. An Associated Press investigation this year revealed a pattern of sexual misconduct and detailed a toxic culture that enabled it to continue for years.
After the AP’s investigation was published, whistleblowers at the prison said they were being attacked for speaking up. The Bureau of Prisons launched a task force of 18 senior executives who visited the prison in March to assess the conditions there and work to reform the facility. The agency’s director, Michael Carvajal, also visited the prison.
The Justice Department said Saturday it had received the letter and “appreciates OSC’s responsiveness to these concerns.” It said the Bureau of Prisons was “addressing concerns raised by staff at Dublin and working to ensure that all facilities are operating under safe, healthy conditions.”
In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons said its staff members perform weekly fire, safety and sanitation inspections and staff members are encouraged to report unsafe or unhealth conditions to their supervisors. It said anyone who believes that such a condition exists could report it to the warden, other prison system officials or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
“All safety concerns reported by staff at Dublin are being addressed,” Bureau of Prisons spokesman Emery Nelson said in a statement.
The Office of Special Counsel said that while it found “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” based on the complaint that was filed, the referral to Garland does not constitute its final determination. The case remains open until the agency submits its final report, which is then forwarded to President Joe Biden and Congress.
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| 2022-04-09T21:17:47Z
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Grandmother struck, killed by police patrol car
MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) - The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a grandmother who was struck and killed by a police car.
Josefa Blandon, 82, was hit by a marked Merced Police squad car driven by a five-year veteran of the department.
The intersection of G Street and 16th Street is one of the busiest in Merced, California, since it leads to Highway 99. It’s also just a block away from the spot where Blandon was killed Thursday night.
Authorities said she was walking in the roadway when an on-duty Merced police officer, identified as Chase Wilson, hit her while driving a marked car.
Wilson is now on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure, as the investigation continues.
“We have accidents and as things like this evolve, it’s tragic and our sympathies and our heartfelt sympathies go out to all those who are involved in this type of tragedy,” Lt. Daniel Dabney with the Merced Police Department said.
This is not the first fatal collision involving Merced police.
Back in 2013, a Merced SWAT vehicle was involved in the death of a pedestrian, However, the officer who was driving was cleared of any wrongdoing.
“Anytime we have a tragic situation we always reflect back and see you know, the situation and try to evaluate it and we have some of the best training, you know, in the state of California,” Dabney said.
KFSN spoke with Blandon’s family Friday evening. They shared a video of her dancing in Tijuana last month for her birthday.
Her family said she loved to walk, and she was full of life. They said she would give anything to help someone in need.
“She was a great mother,” a family member, who didn’t provide their name, said. “She sacrificed a lot for her family.”
As the family continues to grieve, the highway patrol is investigating the traffic collision as the Merced Police conduct their own administrative investigation.
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Off-duty police officer’s home, car riddled with bullets in ‘targeted’ shooting
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - Police in Iowa are investigating a shooting that involved one of their own officers.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department said officers responded to calls about multiple gunshots being fired in a Cherry Hill neighborhood late Friday night. Officials said several bullets struck an off-duty officer’s home, garage and take-home squad car.
KCRG reports there were no injuries in the shooting but officials are calling it a targeted incident toward the off-duty Cedar Rapids police officer.
Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said he viewed the “intentional violent act as an extremely serious incident.” Officials also said that they were actively working to find those responsible and to hold them accountable.
“It was deliberate. It was an act of intimidation and we will not tolerate it,” Jerman said, in a statement.
Police said anyone with tips or more information should call the Cedar Rapids Police Department at 319-286-5491.
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First Bank & Trust Company Recognized As Sponsor Of The Meadows During Grand Opening
ABINGDON, Va., April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the grand opening of The Meadows Sports Complex on Saturday, First Bank & Trust Company was recognized as a sponsor of the new, state-of-the-art athletic facilities.
First Bank & Trust Company contributed more than $45,000 in support of the landmark recreational facilities located at The Meadows. The bank's support includes a $40,000 sponsorship over five years and a $5,370 contribution to the Enhance Abingdon Foundation, which will assist in maintaining The Meadows.
In a statement ahead of Saturday's ribbon-cutting, First Bank & Trust Company's President & CEO, Mark Nelson said, "As the leading financial institution in Abingdon and Washington County, First Bank & Trust Company has a responsibility to support the current and future economic development efforts of the town and the county, where possible. This contribution represents our commitment to the continued growth and improvement of our local communities."
At Saturday's grand opening, Senior Regional Manager for Southwest Virginia, Brent Dyson, said, "Our leadership team has always been invested in bettering the lives of people within the communities that we serve. The Meadows Sports Complex will benefit the customers we serve in Abingdon and the surrounding communities by providing local citizens with top-notch recreational facilities and by advancing tourism opportunities, which bolster revenue for local businesses."
Saturday's opening ceremony featured comments from Abingdon's Mayor, Mr. Derek Webb and Food City's Vice President of Marketing, Kevin Stafford.
The highly anticipated athletic facility occupies 34 acres and includes four multi-purpose diamond fields, two regulation-size soccer fields and one half-size soccer field. Each of the three soccer fields are designed to serve as multi-use fields suitable for a variety of sports. The property also includes an ADA-accessible playground, a walking track, access to The Virginia Creeper Trail, picnic areas, public and family restrooms and lighted parking lots.
Numerous First Bank & Trust staff attended Saturday's event, including: Eric Moore, Chief Financial Officer; Brent Dyson, Senior Vice President & Southwest Virginia Regional Manager; Chad Taylor, Vice President & Branch Manager – West Abingdon Office; Wendy Mullins, Branch Operations Supervisor – West Abingdon Office; Kaitlyn Widner, Vice President – Marketing Officer; and Shelby Quesenberry, Marketing Coordinator.
About First Bank & Trust Company
First Bank & Trust Company, one of the top community banks in the United States, is a diversified financial services firm with more than thirty office locations throughout Southwest Virginia, Virginia's New River and Shenandoah Valleys and Northeast Tennessee. The bank's financial solutions include free checking products for personal and business accounts, savings, money market and time deposit accounts. Lending solutions are managed by mortgage, agricultural and commercial lending divisions. Comprehensive wealth management solutions are available through First Trust & Wealth Management.
For more information, visit www.firstbank.com.
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NEW YORK, April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Homology Medicines, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIXX) between June 10, 2019 and February 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 24, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Homology securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Homology class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4851 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 24, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Homology had overstated the efficacy and risk mitigation regarding HMI-102, which is in Phase I/II pheNIX clinical trial and a gene therapy for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) in adults; (2) accordingly, it was unlikely that Homology would be able to commercialize HMI-102 in its present form; and (3) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Homology class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4851 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onewheel takes over the Santa Monica pier this weekend as its first stop on the company's 2022 demo tour. The new Onewheel GT and Pint X boards will be available for a test ride free of charge for anyone ages 14 and older. Onewheel is one of the most rapidly growing boardsports and e-mobility options and has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years.
"If you've ever stepped on a Onewheel, you know it's an amazing experience," explained Chief Evangelist, Jack Mudd. " Onewheel's have the power to make your day better, get you where you're going, and find joy in the process. This Santa Monica demo is about sharing that experience with the people."
The Onewheel Demo event will be open Saturday, and Sunday from 11:00 am - to 6:00 pm and will feature DJs, games, giveaways, and fruta picada. The event is free and open to the public. Onewheel instructors will be on hand to teach people of all skill levels and athletic abilities to ride safely.
"The beauty is anyone, and everyone can hop on and get the hang of it in a couple of minutes. There's the perception that you need to be a boardsport enthusiast to ride a Onewheel." Says Mudd. "But the reality is, Onewheel makes life more magical and less stressful for thousands of people who have never been on a surfboard or snowboard in their life. It makes that feeling of flow more accessible than ever."
Onewheel is also teaming up with Meals on Onewheels Sunday from 9 am to 11:00 pm to do local outreach, collecting and distributing essential goods and food to unhoused neighbors in need. Meals on Onewheels has utilized grassroots community support and Onewheels to distribute over 3,000 meals to unhoused neighbors in communities across 15 cities since its inception in 2020.
Location:
Santa Monica Pier
Demo Hours:
Saturday, April 9th: 11am-6pm
Sunday, April 10th: 11am-6pm
Meals on Onewheels Outreach:
Sunday, April 10th: 9 am-11 am
For more information on the Onewheel Demo event on the Santa Monica Pier, visit the event page here.
About Future Motion, Inc
Founded in 2013, Future Motion is committed to designing and developing inspiring vehicles that include both elegant form and unprecedented function. Future Motion's products, Onewheel Pint, Pint X, and GT, exemplify its dedication to crafting products that bridge recreation and transportation. Future Motion designs not only the Onewheel product line but also all the subsystems that power it, including custom brushless motors, power electronics, and battery modules. Onewheel, which provides a riding experience similar to surfing but on paved or unpaved trails, is perfectly situated in Santa Cruz, where the mountains meet the sea. Its products are protected by over 89 issued patents in the US and worldwide.
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| 2022-04-09T21:18:23Z
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Capac couple sharing Mexican heritage with community through carryout restaurant
A Capac couples is sharing their Mexican heritage with the community through a new restaurant.
Deanna and Rubin Nino opened Nino's Mexican Carryout at 136 North Main St. in downtown Capac about three weeks ago. The menu features Mexican staples, such as tacos, enchiladas and wet burritos.
Deanna learned to cook Mexican food from Rubin's mother when they were first married. Rubin's entire family is Mexican-American. Black-and-white photos of his family are hung throughout the restaurant.
Rubin said Mexican food has always been a part of his heritage. Growing up in Capac, he always found Mexican food on his aunt's table when he came home from school. Deanna learned to cook food from her husband's heritage and shared that with their three children, especially at holidays.
Deanna said she has wanted to open a restaurant because she has always loved to cook. The couple had been looking for a place to open a restaurant for a few years when what used to be an old pharmacy in town became available.
"It was an idea and it just fell into place," she said.
Several people popped into the restaurant Friday afternoon to pick up their lunch orders. Annette Reynolds, a Mussey Township resident, said she appreciates having a new restaurant in town with food she can pick up while on her lunch break from Chrysler.
Capac had traditionally been lacking in restaurant options, so it was nice to have something new, she said.
"I love their food," she said.
Jake Richey, a former Capac resident who still works in the town, said he has eaten at their restaurant about three times a week. He also appreciated the variety the restaurant will bring to town.
"I love tacos," he said.
The couple closed on the building in April 2020 and have spent the past two years renovating the building. They have added a kitchen, updated the water system and done other building updates to transform the building into a restaurant.
Currently, the restaurant only serves carryout. Deanna Nino said they hope to renovate the building in the next year to be able to add indoor dining. She also hopes to add family-style dining to the menu soon.
The restaurant is open from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To order food, learn more or inquire about employment, call (810) 395-1515 or visit facebook.com/ninosmexicancarryout.
Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 or lfitzgeral@gannett.com.
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'It's a collaboration': Volunteers help build new community garden by Grace church
It was late Saturday morning, and Kevin Totty egged on a small crowd of volunteers gathered at Sixth and Union streets to erupt into cheers.
One duo was nearly finished assembling the metal exterior for a raised garden bed — one of several to be situated in the shape of a cross in an aged parking lot owned by Grace Episcopal Church — and the progress was a feat to celebrate.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! We have a winner getting a fabulous prize!” Totty announced jokingly, clapping his hands. Others laughed nearby. After a few moments, and a few screws away from finishing, Totty stepped in to help.
The moment was emblematic of the project they were there to complete. Totty summed it up a few minutes before
“We’re all working together. It’s a collaboration,” he said.
Nearby, a few piles of soil and stone awaited use to help the new spot for the church’s “Good News Garden” take shape. Jeanette Ettin, a worship leader at Grace and the garden’s coordinator, said they got a $20,000 grant from the church’s Diocese of Eastern Michigan to make it happen after previously having a garden on a different property.
All of it, they said, was to help continue past efforts in feeding those in need in the community.
“This year, I said, ‘You know, we have to do something,’ and I went to the vestry, and I said, ‘We have to have a place.’ … That’s why we ended up doing it this way,” Ettin said. “I was talking to Kevin and I said, ‘So, let’s do it on the church property.’”
“It is to do exactly what we’re doing: Building community,” she added. “Not just with each other, but churches of different kinds. It doesn’t even have to be a church. It can be any kind of community organization.”
Reflecting on a walkable community with fresh gardens
Ettin said the church also had another garden on a parishioner’s property in Ruby, where they planned to grow vine vegetables. At Sixth and Union, she said they anticipate growing tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes, beans, and potentially greens, turnips, rutabaga, and okra.
“Next year, it’ll probably be different,” Ettin said. She hoped to touch base with other existing community garden coordinators. “Then, everybody (will be) deciding what it is they’re going to grow.”
A paster with the #C4Yourself Church and program coordinator at the Community Foundation of St. Clair County, Totty talked about that, too — working with other gardens.
And he weaved in mentions of other partners Saturday, recounting the broader effort to feed residents in need and those who may live in a food desert.
There was the Community Foundation’s concept of delivering fresh food in a pop-up market. Then, there was working with other churches and pastors, as well as Michigan State University Extension to help provide information on the nutritional value of foods and recipes. There were also volunteers who helped distribute food to those without a vehicle or means to get to a food truck.
Totty said it was important to coordinate what they grow, so "people can walk through our community and get a fresh plate.”
“Jeanette had this vision about being able to bring those huge gardens to right here, a walkable community. That’s what Grace has right here,” Totty added. “You’ll notice, they’re building the garden right here. People will be able to come here. There will be fresh produce. There’ll be food for us, there will be a way that people can come in, and we’ll still be able to take those garden items out.”
Passing on the torch in feeding those in need
Who the garden will be named for — Lydia Speller, a rector at Grace Episcopal who died in 2021 — Totty said she also understood the mission.
“She passed the torch to all of us. Lydia had a dream of going ahead and keeping this market going,” Totty said.
The Good News effort had over 100 volunteers throughout the day Saturday, he said, helping assemble the garden. Most of them were from 15 to 20 different groups.
In past seasons, they said market efforts have fed dozens of families with hundreds of pounds of food every week.
It’d be a while before the new garden would yield anything, and in the meantime, Ettin said she worried about other things affecting the people they help, like how long supplemental food assistance that came with the pandemic would last. There also tends to be a two-week window, she said, between when a month’s assistance ends and the next month’s begins, adding, “That’s when families are bad off."
Totty said that gap will give them time to get things growing.
Ettin said they were lucky — it didn’t take much, and it came with plenty of benefits.
“This is a way of building community, getting community to be with each other, and being safe,” she said. “… And you only need a small piece of property.”
“I think that’s the strength of the garden,” Totty added. “It’s going to go ahead and fill from this point forward until December. We’ll still be addressing needs, collaborating with other organizations in this community, such as Seed and Soul and other places that feed our community.”
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 662-4090 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @Jackie20Smith.
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Recreational bowling: Four roll perfect games; Marthen, Heineman win doubles tourney
The Saturday Nite Bridge league at Port Huron Lanes featured two perfect games this past week. Carson Mills rolled his first 300 game and took high series of the week with a 771. Brian Hayes ran his total of perfect games to a dozen, and unlike the self-nominated hall-of-famer Mills, “B-Hayes” kept his 12th ball on the right side of the headpin.
John Galvin bowled his sixth 300 game and finished his Blue Water Mens league session at St. Clair River Lanes with a 743 series. Cameron Schomburg picked up his first 300 game and would end with a 739 series in Friday Wanna Bees at Port Huron Lanes.
Kurt Distelrath fired a 299 game in the Monday Big 12 league at St. Clair. Bob Pihyalic continued his strong stretch of recent bowling in Sunday Outcast with a 290 game and 724 series.
Terry Crampton cruised to high series and high game for the women with a 694 series and 266 game in Blue Water Mens. She would also toss a 633 series, with a 248 game, in Tuesday Classic at Strikers Entertainment Center. Amy Borowski was a strong second with a 675 series in the Don McIvor Memorial league. Borowski had games of 245 and 226.
Amanda Long and Rosann Brachel each had 651 series. Long’s was in Saturday Nite Bridge with games of 242 and 224. Brachel shot hers in 3-B4-1 at Port Huron Lanes and had games of 232 and 220. Georgie Wenckovsky put together a 641 in Saturday Hustlers at Colony Bowl. Annette Thompson had 633 in Friday Wanna Bees.
Three others topped 600, including Jessica Heilig 618, Karen Watzek 612, and Margy Christy 606. They were followed by Nikki Hollis 597, Alicia Vennettilli 587, Jennifer Ojczyk 585, Lelly Larsen 581, Jenny Klein 580 and Dawn Navarro 578.
Aaron Golubinski led the McIvor league with an outstanding 770 series that included a 289 game. Tom Morris was close behind with a 758 in that session. Brian Krauss paced 3-B4-1 with a 759. Cliff Crawford topped the Every Other Friday Misfits league at Bowl O Drome with a 756. Another league leader was Jim Burns Jr with a 749 in Friday Wanna Bees. The remainder of the best series were Jeff Meldrum 724, Bill Sendzik 721, Terry Thompson 719, Ed Crampton 718, Mark Chesney 717, Don Brunelle 717 and Justin Belkiewicz 714.
Cory Smith leads the rest of the high games with a 288 in the McIvor league. John Essenmacher pitched a 280 in Tuesday Classic. Other strong games were Cliff Crawford 279, Bill Sendzik 279, Brian Krauss 279, Jonny Cmarik 279, Justin Belkiewicz 277, and Jim Burns Jr 277.
Back to the women, others with games in the 220s were Jennifer Ojczyk 229, Jessica Badley 227, Makayla Schroeder 226, Alicia Vennettilli 226, Georgie Wenckovsky 224, Margy Christy 223, Jessica Heilig 223, Dawn Navarro 223 and Annette Thompson 221.
Brian Marthen and Bob Heineman won the Spring Senior Nonsenior Doubles tournament last Sunday at Bowl O Drome. Marthen led the duo to a #2 seed in the bracket finals as he rolled a 675 in qualifying. His final two games of 257 and 248 were a combined 141 pins over average.
Tammie Foltz and Shelby Washkevich were just three pins shy of taking the championship but still had an incredible run to finish second. They had qualified fifth with Washkevich leading the way at 130 pins over average for the three games and then knocked off three opponents in the bracket finals.
Mike Monahan and Zack Dudley were the top qualifying team led by Monahan’s tournament-high 729 series. They then made it to the semifinals. The other team making the final four was Ashley Smith and Ed Jacobs. The round of eight also included Rich Mansfield/Jeff Dettloff, Steve Jakubowski/Mark Chesney, Jennifer Wilkins/Brenda Bruehan and Stephanie Freeman/Chris Cole.
Other strong individual performances in qualifying included Matt Langolf, who had a 278 game and finished with a 710 series. Chuck Ouellette also had a 278 game, but did not finish with a 710 series (we’ll leave it at that). Jessica Badley’s 234 was high game for the women. Brenda Bruehan had high series with a 596 that included a 224 game. Terry Crampton had a 591 series.
Special Mention: Ricky Vennettilli picked up the 7-10 split in the Every Other Friday Misfits league at Bowl O Drome.
Upcoming Tournaments: The Match Game Singles scratch tournament will be at Port Huron Lanes April 23-24 with five games of qualifying on Saturday and the top 10 advancing to round robin finals consisting of 10 games on Sunday. Entry forms are at bowling centers or online entries can be submitted at phba.net.
Splits: 7-10: Ricky Vennettilli; 5-7: Bonny Campbell, Tamra Kulin; 4-7-10: Debbie Berube; 6-10: Jane Anne Demo-Pettigo; 5-7-10: Jeremy Ruetz; 2-7: Nancy Mullins, Mary Smith, Mike Mullins; 2-10: Jayce Bennert; 4-10: Julie Patterson; 2-4-8-10: Ric Lepine(2); 6-7: Pam Reid; 4-7-9: Rob Patterson
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The AP Interview: Zelenskyy seeks peace despite atrocities
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he is committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world, and he renewed his plea for more weapons ahead of an expected surge in fighting in the country’s east.
He made the comments in an interview with The Associated Press a day after at least 52 people were killed in a strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, and as evidence of civilian killings came to light after Russian troops failed to seize the capital where he has hunkered down, Kyiv.
“No one wants to negotiate with a person or people who tortured this nation. It’s all understandable. And as a man, as a father, I understand this very well,” Zelenskyy said. But “we don’t want to lose opportunities, if we have them, for a diplomatic solution.”
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Wearing the olive drab that has marked his transformation into a wartime leader, he looked visibly exhausted yet animated by a drive to persevere. He spoke to the AP inside the presidential office complex, where windows and hallways are protected by towers of sandbags and heavily armed soldiers.
“We have to fight, but fight for life. You can’t fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war,” Zelenskyy said.
Russian troops that withdrew from northern Ukraine are now regrouping for what is expected to be an intensified push to retake the eastern Donbas region, including the besieged port city of Mariupol that Ukrainian fighters are striving to defend.
The president said those defenders are tying up “a big part of the enemy forces,” characterizing the battle to hold Mariupol as “the heart of the war” right now.
“It’s beating. We’re fighting. We’re strong. And if it stops beating, we will be in a weaker position,” he said.
Zelenskyy said he is confident Ukrainians would accept peace despite the horrors they have witnessed in the more than six-week-long war.
Those included gruesome images of bodies of civilians found in yards, parks and city squares and buried in mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha after Russian troops withdrew. Ukrainian and Western leaders have accused Moscow of war crimes.
Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged. It also put the blame on Ukraine for the attack on the train station in Kramatorsk as thousands of people rushed to flee ahead of an expected Russian offensive.
Despite hopes for peace, Zelenskyy acknowledged that he must be “realistic” about the prospects for a swift resolution given that negotiations have so far been limited to low-level talks that do not include Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskyy displayed a palpable sense of resignation and frustration when asked whether the supplies of weapons and other equipment his country has received from the United States and other Western nations were enough to turn the tide of the war.
“Not yet,” he said, switching to English for emphasis. “Of course it’s not enough.”
Still, he noted that there has been increased support from Europe and said deliveries of U.S. weapons have been accelerating.
Just this week, neighboring Slovakia, a European Union member, donated its Soviet-era S-300 air defense system to Ukraine in response to Zelenskyy’s appeal to help “close the skies” to Russian warplanes and missiles.
Some of that support has come through visits by European leaders.
After meeting Zelenskyy in Kyiv earlier Saturday, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he expects more EU sanctions against Russia even as he defended his country’s opposition to cutting off deliveries of Russian natural gas.
The U.S., EU and United Kingdom responded to the images from Bucha with more sanctions, including ones targeting Putin’s adult daughters. While the EU went after the Russian energy sector for the first time by banning coal, it has so far failed to agree on cutting off the much more lucrative oil and natural gas that is funding Putin’s war chest. Europe relies on those supplies to generate electricity, fill fuel tanks and keep industry churning.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson also made an unannounced visit to meet Zelenskyy, with his office saying they discussed Britain’s “long-term support.”
In Kyiv on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented Ukraine’s leader with a questionnaire marking the first step for applying for EU membership. The head of the bloc’s executive arm said the process for completing the questionnaire could take weeks — an unusually fast turnaround — though securing membership would take far longer.
Zelenskyy turned introspective when asked what impact the pace of arms deliveries had for his people and whether more lives could have been saved if the help had come sooner.
“Very often we look for answers in someone else, but I often look for answers in myself. Did we do enough to get them?” he said of the weapons. “Did we do enough for these leaders to believe in us? Did we do enough?”
He paused and shook his head.
“Are we the best for this place and this time? Who knows? I don’t know. You question yourself,” he said.
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AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka contributed to this story.
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Baby formula shortage worsens, may take weeks to improve
(CNN) - A baby formula shortage in many parts of the United States is forcing retailers to ration their supplies.
Walgreens is limiting shoppers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction.
A recent review of supplies at 11,000 stores indicates that nearly 30% of popular baby formula brands may be sold out.
Cities like San Antonio and Minneapolis are reporting out-of-stock rates for certain formulas even higher than that, well above 50%.
Part of the problem stems from an Abbott Nutrition recall in mid-February for select lots of Similac and other formulas made in Sturgis, Michigan.
Manufacturers are ramping up production to make up the difference, but they admit it may take weeks for them to catch up.
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Off-duty police officer’s home, car riddled with bullets in ‘targeted’ shooting
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - Police in Iowa are investigating a shooting that involved one of their own officers.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department said officers responded to calls about multiple gunshots being fired in a Cherry Hill neighborhood late Friday night. Officials said several bullets struck an off-duty officer’s home, garage and take-home squad car.
KCRG reports there were no injuries in the shooting but officials are calling it a targeted incident toward the off-duty Cedar Rapids police officer.
Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said he viewed the “intentional violent act as an extremely serious incident.” Officials also said that they were actively working to find those responsible and to hold them accountable.
“It was deliberate. It was an act of intimidation and we will not tolerate it,” Jerman said, in a statement.
Police said anyone with tips or more information should call the Cedar Rapids Police Department at 319-286-5491.
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Rain and snow will end tonight, bringing some sun tomorrow.
Temperatures will get below freezing.
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 4:28 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
A chilly end to the week as temperatures today topped off in the 40s. We will see scattered rain and snow showers taper off as the evening progresses and winds will be a little gusty at times. Snow is expected to end around 4AM tonight, and there could be some additional accumulations in the upper elevations. Roads could also be a little slick at times.
Tomorrow we will see the cloud cover decrease throughout the day, landing on mostly sunny skies for the afternoon. Temperatures will be in the mid-50s.
Looking ahead at the rest of the week, things are going to be wet once again. Temperatures will be warming up, reaching the mid to low 70s by the middle of the week.
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JACKSON — Matt Fagan is a bit resigned to the reality of what’s ahead for the summer of 2022.
“Do I think it’s going to be bumper to bumper at times from Teton Village to the Yellowstone South Entrance? Yes,” said Fagan, the owner of Jackson-based guiding company Buffalo Roam Tours. “Do I think it’s going to be like that this year and the year after and the year after? Yeah.”
But faced with a summer of certain traffic, the result of expected visitation and planned construction projects on roadways in Teton County, Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, Fagan and other wildlife guides who spoke with the News&Guide aren’t particularly fazed.
For one, Jackson Hole has become increasingly congested in the past few years as visitation records have been broken year over year. And Fagan and people like Tenley Thompson, the general manager at Jackson Hole EcoTour Adventures, have seen traffic before.
“It’s always something,” Thompson said with a laugh. “We’ve run programs in years where half of the lower loop” — the bottom portion of the figure eight road in Yellowstone — “is on fire.”
“This certainly presents a challenge, but it’s not a particularly unique challenge,” Thompson said.
So like the animals they watch in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, wildlife guides are planning to adapt. Thompson sees opportunity: Exploring areas of the parks besides “the greatest hits.”
Fagan, meanwhile, is planning to leave early to beat the traffic.
“It’s not my first rodeo,” Fagan said.
Underpinning the expected adaptations is a slate of construction projects in the national parks and Teton County. Yellowstone National Park has just completed a $28 million renovation of the stretch of road from Tower-Roosevelt to Chittenden Road, a project that closed a stretch of road near Dunraven Pass for two years.
In coming years, it plans to spend another $103 million to complete three projects, aiming to condense delays into a few years rather than spreading it out over a longer time horizon. Those include replacing two 60-or-so-year-old bridges over the Yellowstone and Lewis rivers and repaving 22 miles of the Grand Loop Road between Old Faithful, the park’s iconic geyser, and West Thumb, the western stretch of Yellowstone Lake.
“While we always strive to execute projects in the least impacting way, the Old Faithful to West Thumb and Lewis River Bridge projects will seriously disrupt travel entering and exiting the park’s south entrance,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a press release. “Visitors should plan accordingly.”
Those projects come as Grand Teton National Park plans a major construction project of its own: Paving the 1.4-mile gravel section of Moose-Wilson Road, which connects Teton Village with the Moose entrance station. The more southerly park will also improve facilities surrounding its Granite Canyon entrance.
And, while that happens, Teton County is slated to pave the unpaved stretch of Spring Gulch Road.
That leaves Highway 89/26/191 as the main artery connecting Jackson to Yellowstone’s south entrance.
The national parks’ construction projects are also slated to span multiple years.
Jason Williams, the 15-year owner of Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris who sold the business this winter, said the Moose-Wilson Road closure, combined with the airport closure — planned for April 11 to June 27 — and possible Spring Gulch Road work, will likely pinch the southern stretches of the valley.
“That’ll probably be the hardest couple weeks. No Spring Gulch, no Moose-Wilson,” Williams said, adding that the Wyoming Department of Transportation may also be doing some work to prepare for its replacement of the Snake River bridge and intersection of Highway 22 and 390, projects set for 2023.
WYDOT Resident Engineer Bob Hammond wasn’t able to respond to a request for comment before press time.
Heather Overholser, Teton County’s Director of Public Works, and other public works officials were likewise out of office and couldn’t comment on plans for replacing Spring Gulch Road by Tuesday afternoon.
But Williams said the construction projects in Grand Teton and Yellowstone are necessary.
“The ecosystem is pretty dang healthy, but the infrastructure is not because the investment hasn’t kept up with the need for it over the years,” Williams said. “This is really a much-needed infusion into that infrastructure.”
Yellowstone, for example, estimated in 2018 that it had $586 million worth of deferred maintenance projects. Three projects completed since 2020 were supposed to reduce that number by $50 million. The three slated to be completed over the next few years are set to cut another $100-or-so million from that total.
The Yellowstone and Grand Teton work is being funded by the Great American Outdoors Act, a bipartisan bill that established the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund. That pot of federal cash is funded by revenue from energy development and aimed at addressing national parks’ maintenance needs.
“If we have to sit through a little bit of traffic or anything else so in the long run everybody has a better experience in the parks, that’s well worth it for us,” said Thompson, EcoTour Adventures’ general manager. “Nobody wants the construction, but everybody wants the results.”
Fagan, of Buffalo Roam, meanwhile, advised that people buckle up — and be ready to wait.
“Everybody just needs to take their time, take a few deep breaths and look out the window,” Fagan.
The views of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, he said, are “awesome.” And that’s true even in traffic.
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U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represents northern California, has joined other conservative Republicans in pressing Twitter for information on their handling of coverage of Hunter Biden’s international business deals in the homestretch of the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden is the son of U.S. President Joe Biden.
LaMalfa and 19 other congressional Republicans have written Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, regarding the social media giant’s restricting content and posts in 2020 regarding Hunter Biden’s business deals in the Ukraine, China and Kazakstan.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Twitter suspended the New York Post’s account for its coverage of a laptop purported to belong to Hunter Biden and allegations of potential influence peddling. Twitter users were also restricted from sharing the Post’s stories on the matter.
GOP lawmakers are criticizing social media platforms and traditional media outlets for restricting and pushing back against the Hunter Biden stories. They argue the moves were part of an establishment push against former U.S. President Donald Trump.
“When big tech and the media coordinate to remove the ability for the people to freely share content that is both accurate and timely, it can have a huge effect on public policy and elections. The behavior of Twitter in the fall of 2020 raises huge concerns about stifling breaking, accurate news because it was unhelpful to a candidate they preferred,” LaMalfa said in a statement. “Who at the company made the decision to censor the story? Were they directly or indirectly involved with the Biden campaign? Why does Twitter think it’s their business to censor the news, and was this censorship done with the purpose to sway the outcome of our election.”
Twitter, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube have restricted and banned a number of conservative and right-wing voices during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in the run up to the 2020 election and in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Twitter and Facebook banned Trump over his contentions the 2020 election was rigged.
The Biden administration has denied any wrongdoing by the president or Hunter Biden who forged international business deals while his father was U.S. vice president. A high-priced art sales of Hunter Biden’s paintings since Joe Biden took office in 2021 have also come under scrutiny.
House Republican Chair Elise Stefanik of New York was also one of the GOP lawmakers questioning Twitter’s election motivations.
“Big media and big tech deliberately covered up this story and mislead the public. Congress and the people deserve answers on how this factual story that potentially directly involves the President was hidden from the public,” said LaMalfa, who represents northern California areas near the Oregon border.
A Twitter representative declined comment.
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(CNN) -- When people took to the streets in Egypt in 2011, protesters chanted about freedom and social justice — but also bread. The cost of pantry staples had jumped because of the skyrocketing price of goods like wheat, stoking fury with President Hosni Mubarak.
Now, more than a decade after the Arab Spring, global food prices are soaring again. They had already reached their highest level on record earlier this year as the pandemic, poor weather and the climate crisis upended agriculture and threatened food security for millions of people. Then came Russia's war in Ukraine, making the situation much worse — while also triggering a spike in the cost of the other daily essential, fuel.
The combination could generate a wave of political instability, as people who were already frustrated with government leaders are pushed over the edge by rising costs.
"It is extremely worrisome," said Rabah Arezki, a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former chief economist at the African Development Bank.
Unrest in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Peru over the past week highlights the risks. In Sri Lanka, protests have erupted over shortages of gas and other basic goods. Double-digit inflation in Pakistan has eroded support for Prime Minister Imran Khan, forcing him from office. At least six people have died in recent anti-government protests in Peru sparked by rising fuel prices. But political conflict isn't expected to be limited to these countries.
"I don't think people have felt the full impact of rising prices just yet," said Hamish Kinnear, a Middle East and North Africa analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a global risk consultancy.
Lessons from the Arab Spring
In the run-up to the anti-government protests that became known as the Arab Spring — which began in Tunisia in late 2010 and spread through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 — food prices were climbing sharply. The Food Price Index from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization reached 106.7 in 2010 and jumped to 131.9 in 2011, then a record.
"Mohamed Bouazizi didn't set himself on fire because he couldn't blog or vote," an Emirati commentator wrote in January 2011, referring to the street vendor whose protest act helped launch the revolution in Tunisia and, ultimately, the Arab world. "People set themselves on fire because they can't stand seeing their family wither away slowly, not of sorrow, but of cold stark hunger."
Circumstances in individual countries differed, but the bigger picture was clear. Surging wheat prices were a major part of the problem.
The situation now is even worse than it was then. Global food prices have just hit a new record high. The FAO Food Price Index published Friday hit 159.3 in March, up almost 13% from February. The war in Ukraine, a major exporter of wheat, corn and vegetable oils, as well as harsh sanctions on Russia — a key producer of wheat and fertilizer — is expected to spur further price increases in the coming months.
"Forty percent of wheat and corn exports from Ukraine go to the Middle East and Africa, which are already grappling with hunger issues, and where further food shortages or price increases could stoke social unrest," Gilbert Houngbo, head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said last month.
Adding to the pain is the surge in energy prices. Global oil prices are almost 60% higher than they were a year ago. The cost of coal and natural gas has spiked, too.
Many governments are struggling to protect their citizens, but fragile economies that borrowed heavily to make it through the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic are most vulnerable. As growth slows, hurting their currencies and making it harder to keep up with debt payments, maintaining subsidies for food and fuel will be difficult, especially if prices keep climbing.
"We are now in a situation where countries are indebted," Arezki said. "As a result, they have no buffers to try to contain the tensions that will emerge from such high prices."
According to the World Bank, close to 60% of the poorest countries were "already in debt distress or at high risk of it" on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine.
Where tensions are simmering
Asia: In Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million, an economic and political crisis is already boiling over, with protesters taking to the streets in defiance of curfews and government ministers stepping down en masse.
Grappling with high debt levels and a weak economy reliant on tourism, Sri Lanka was forced to run down its reserves of foreign currency. That prevented the government from making payments for key imports such as energy, creating devastating shortages and forcing people to spend hours lining up for fuel.
Its leaders have also devalued its currency, the Sri Lankan rupee, as they try to secure a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. But that just made inflation worse at home. In January, it reached 14%, almost double the rate of price increases in the United States.
Pakistan's parliament issued a vote of no confidence in Khan on Sunday, ousting him from power and upending his government. While his political problems date back years, claims of economic mismanagement as the cost of food and fuel leaped, as well as the depletion of foreign exchange reserves, made matters worse.
"The extent of economic chaos has united opposition to Imran Khan," Kinnear of Verisk Maplecroft said.
Middle East and Africa: Experts are also watching for signs of political distress in other countries in the Middle East that are heavily dependent on food imports from the Black Sea region, and often provide generous subsidies to the public.
In Lebanon, where nearly three-quarters of the population was living in poverty last year as the result of a political and economic collapse, between 70% and 80% of imported wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine. Key grain silos were also destroyed during the 2020 explosion at the Beirut port.
And Egypt, the world's largest buyer of wheat, is already seeing enormous pressure on its huge subsidy program for bread. The country recently set a fixed price for unsubsidized bread after prices spiked, and is trying to secure wheat imports from countries like India and Argentina instead.
With an estimated 70% of the world's poor living in Africa, the continent will also be "very exposed" to rising food and energy prices, Arezki said.
Droughts and conflict in countries like Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Burkina Faso have created a food security crisis for more than a quarter of the continent's population, the International Committee of the Red Cross said this week. The situation risks getting worse in the coming months, it continued.
Political instability has already been building in parts of the continent. A series of coups have taken place in West and Central Africa since the start of 2021.
Europe: Even countries with more developed economies, which have greater buffers to shield citizens from painful price increases, won't have the tools to fully cushion the blow.
Thousands of protesters gathered in cities across Greece this week to demand higher wages to counter inflation, while France's presidential election is narrowing as far-right candidate Marine Le Pen plays up her plans to reduce the cost of living. President Emmanuel Macron's government said last month it was considering issuing food vouchers so that middle and low-income families could afford to eat.
— Jessie Yeung, Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi contributed reporting.
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Title sponsors Kauai Island Brewing Company and Salty Wahine presents Kauai Brewers Festival, Saturday, April 9, 2022, 2-6pm, at the Poipu Beach Athletic Club.
LIHUE, Kaua'i (KITV4) --The Kaua'i Brewers Festival is back! Kaua'i Island Brewing Company and Salty Wahine invite the community to taste amazing beers, bites, and enjoy games and entertainment.
The Kaua'i Brewers Festival takes place Saturday, April 9 from 2-6 p.m. at Poipu Beach Athletic Club.
This festival will feature over 20 brewers from across the State of Hawaii and continental U.S. with local food vendors to compliment the experience.
This festival is benefiting Kamāwaelualani, a local non-profit dedicated to the perpetuation of native Hawaiian culture through public arts and place-based learning.
General tickets are $75 and includes entry and brewers’ mug, beer and food tastings.
VIP tickets are $100 and includes 1 p.m. early entry and brewers’ mug, VIP parking, and beer and food tastings.
Tickets are available online until 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 9. After that they must be bought at the door.
Kamāwaelualani Corp. is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to cultural and ʻāina (land; that which feeds) protection, preservation, and perpetuation through public arts, and ʻāina-based learning opportunities. Learn more at www.kamawaelualani.org, www.moolelomurals.com.
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After nearly 10-years away, this local girl is home! In November 2021, Lia started at KITV as the weekend GMH anchor and a weekday reporter. The 2011 Kamehameha Kapālama graduate worked all across the country and even overseas before finding her way home.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Vice President Mike Pence arrive to a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 27, 2020. The White House issued a strategy to expand U.S. testing for the coronavirus on Monday, after enduring criticism that the outbreak has grown to nearly 1 million Americans in part because the government was slow to develop widespread testing to track and contain the disease. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(CNN) -- The State Department is unable to provide a complete list and accounting of gifts presented to former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and other officials during the final year of the Trump administration, according to a report published in the Federal Register.
The State Department's Office of Protocol said the Executive Office of the President did not send the department information about gifts received by Trump and others from foreign officials in 2020, according to the report.
The department has made attempts to collect the missing information from the National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Administration, but has been told that "potentially relevant records are not available" to the protocol office "under applicable access rules for retired records," the report says.
A footnote in the report does say that the lack of information available is complicated by the timing of the request from the State Department. It notes that the "Office of the Chief of Protocol did not submit the request for data to all reporting agencies prior to January 20, 2021 (at which time there was a change in administrations)."
A subsequent footnote in the report, though, does note a "lack of accurate recordkeeping pertaining to diplomatic gifts maintained by the Office of the Chief of Protocol's Gift Unit" between January 20, 2017, after Trump took office, and through the end of his term in January 2021.
CNN has reached out to spokespersons for Trump.
The Associated Press first reported on the findings of the report.
The report comes as the US Justice Department has begun investigating the handling of 15 boxes of White House records, including classified information, which were taken to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort after he left office.
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MANOA, O'ahu (KITV4) -- Hawaiian language theatre is making history with production to debut in ʻōlelo māhū.
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Department of Theatre and Dance and Kennedy Theatre continue to celebrate the expansion of hana keaka (Hawaiian theatre), which are plays performed primarily in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language).
The Hawaiian storytelling genre is flourishing rapidly and for the first time in Kennedy Theatre history, Hawaiian language productions have opened and will soon close out the theatre’s mainstage season.
The growth of Indigenous Hawaiian theatre inspired UH Mānoa graduate student Ākea Kahikina, a Hawaiian theatre master of fine arts (MFA) candidate, to write and direct comedic hana keaka, Hoʻoilina.
"To be able to see and hear it on stage, I think it’s really important for the audiences to feel like, ʻOh my gosh, yes!’ We can hear ʻōlelo in a story that’s about today, 21st century. And not necessarily only in the stories of yesteryear," Kahikina said.
WATCH below, live interview with Ākea Kahikina.
Hoʻoilina means legacy or inheritance
Set in pre-pandemic Hawai‘i upon the luxurious slopes of Lēʻahi, the story hones in on a Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) family anxiously poised for a will reading that will determine the fate of a huge inheritance from their beloved matriarch.
Just as the will is about to be read, a quirky stranger appears at the door, claiming her right to the hefty endowment. As chaos ensues, family secrets are revealed, causing them to question their own relationships, identity and future as Kānaka, while being insidiously constricted by the pressures of capitalism and cultural loss. The characters explore real-time issues such as what it takes to be considered Hawaiian.
Spotlighting ʻōlelo māhū
While most of the play is performed in Hawaiian, audiences will also hear performers speak in a multitude of languages such as Pidgin, English and what Kahikina dubs ʻōlelo māhū (Queer creole).
Kahikina's concept of the māhū dialect is one he claims is a descendant of ʻōlelo kake, a long-standing traditional form of garbling language to conceal information. Today, ʻōlelo māhū incorporates Pig Latin and is delivered in a style similar to the cadence of Pidgin.
“Putting that language in there is a way to honor my queer community, my māhū brothers and sisters that I’ve learned from,” Kahikina explained. “My partner, Kaʻiminaʻauao Cambern, he’s taught me everything that I put into the script.”
Ho'oilina is set to premiere April 15, 16, 22, and 23 at 7:30 p.m., and April 24 at 2 p.m.
Ticket prices for limited live audiences range from $5-$25.
Helping Kahikina bring the production to life are award-winning UH alumnus Jonah Bobilin (lighting design), Rick Greaver (sound design), Kara Nabarrete (scenic design, MFA candidate), Kaneikoliakawahineikaʻiukapuomua Baker (costume design, incoming MFA student), Iāsona Kaper (assistant director, MFA candidate), Kaipulaumakaniolono (dramaturge, MFA candidate) and UH Mānoa Hawaiian Theatre program founder Kumu Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker.
For more information about the show, visit the department’s website.
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(CNN) -- The UK is to send 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems to Ukraine, Downing Street announced Saturday, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid an in-person visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Johnson and Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer made separate visits to Zelensky on Saturday, the latest in a string of leaders to travel to the country during the ongoing Russian invasion.
A photograph tweeted by Ukraine's Embassy to the UK showed Johnson seated opposite Zelensky at a table in a pink and green stuccoed room. The post was captioned with the word "Surprise" and a winking face emoji.
The Press Service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said on its official Twitter account that the two leaders had held talks in Kyiv, posting several photographs of the pair's previously unannounced meeting.
Johnson posted on Twitter that his visit to Kyiv was "a show of our unwavering support for the people of Ukraine" and announced a new package of financial and military aid.
"Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv, achieving the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century," the UK PM said in a statement.
He praised Zelensky's "resolute leadership" and the "invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people," adding that the UK "stands unwaveringly with them in this ongoing fight ... we are in it for the long run."
During the press conference, Johnson said the UK will continue to intensify sanctions against Russia. Johnson also said Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions have dealt a "crushing blow" to his reputation and the Russian government.
"We will influence Russia's ability to use its energy resources," he added. "The war determines the vision of Ukraine's future, so our partners and I will supply Ukraine with equipment, technology, intelligence so that Ukraine never faces the horrors of invasion and blackmail."
Following the meeting, Downing Street said the UK government would provide armored vehicles and anti-ship missile systems, "in addition to the £100 million worth of high-grade military equipment" announced on Friday.
Zelensky and Nehammer's meeting was separate to the one with Johnson and happened earlier on Saturday, according to Zelensky's official Telegram channel.
While several other leaders have visited Ukraine in recent weeks, the trip by Nehammer is significant given his country's neutral status, which is enshrined in its constitution.
Austria is not part of NATO and does not supply weapons to Ukraine. It has, however, provided Ukraine with humanitarian aid and helmets and protection vests for civilian use, according to a statement from the Austrian Chancellery.
Nehammer said Saturday that while his country is militarily neutral, "We understand we have to help where injustice and war crimes take place."
According to his office, Nehammer was set to meet with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, before returning to Austria on Saturday evening.
Nehammer was also due to visit the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, which endured five weeks of near-constant firefights; after Russian forces withdrew from the town, the bodies of at least 20 civilians were found lying in one street, some with their hands tied.
Nehammer said Bucha was "a place of war crimes."
"We have to make those war crimes known to the UN, and international justice must begin investigating and fight these crimes," he said during a news conference with Zelensky.
The twin visits by Johnson and Nehammer came a day after top European Union officials made a trip to Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the bloc's top diplomat, visited Kyiv and Bucha on Friday, alongside Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.
During the visit, von der Leyen ceremoniously handed Zelensky an EU questionnaire to complete -- a symbolic, but important step towards Ukraine's membership of the bloc. Tweeting about the move, von der Leyen said: "We will accelerate this process as much as we can, while ensuring that all conditions are respected."
The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia visited Kyiv last month, at a time when it was still regularly targeted by Russian strikes. Like Johnson's visit on Saturday, that trip was kept secret until the three leaders were in the country, traveling on a train from eastern Ukraine.
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Justice Dept.: 4 men indicted for fentanyl conspiracy, overdose death
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Gray News) - Four Missouri men have been indicted for their role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in an overdose death, according to the Justice Department.
Dmitry Cattell, 22, Joseph Burgess, 21, Jordon Simmer, 20, and Kelton Hill, 22, were charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
The Justice Department reports the indictment was unsealed and made public following the arrests of all four defendants on Thursday. They remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing on April 12.
The federal indictment alleges that all four defendants have participated in a conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl since Sept. 12, 2019.
In addition to the drug-trafficking conspiracy, the indictment charges Cattell and Simmer with aiding and abetting each other to distribute fentanyl. The use of which caused the death of another person on May 18, 2020. The victim of the fatal overdose was not identified in court documents.
The Justice Department reports Cattell was also charged with two counts of distributing fentanyl, one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a gun. Cattell allegedly was in possession of a Taurus handgun on Nov. 10, 2020.
Simmer, Burgess, and Hill each were also charged with one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.
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Father of 4 young kids shot, killed in argument at gas station; gunman remains on loose
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/Gray News) - A family in Arizona is trying to put the pieces of their life back together after losing a loved one in a deadly shooting at a gas station.
Rene Sanchez lost his life last weekend after getting into an argument with another man while at a QuickTrip convenience store in Phoenix. Rene Sanchez was shot while he was walking away, his bother told Arizona’s Family.
Eddie Sanchez, Rene Sanchez’s brother, said the shooting took place in the afternoon, and the family remains heartbroken and wants justice. Rene Sanchez was also a father of four young children.
“We are missing that piece of the puzzle, and that is Rene,” Eddie Sanchez said. “It makes me sad that people like that don’t care about human life and people’s family it affects.”
The Phoenix Police Department released a picture and video from that afternoon’s shooting that showed an unidentified man leaving the scene on a bicycle. However, no arrests were immediately reported.
“To tell them [Rene’s kids] their dad won’t come home. To tell them he was murdered at a gas station. It’s just frustrating not to see him and know we won’t see him again,” Eddie Sanchez said.
Rene Sanchez was an electrician with the goal of starting his own business, according to his brother. But currently, the family is just waiting on updates on the case and wanting answers.
“It’ll be a big load off of our shoulders to find this person,” Eddie Sanchez said. “He will get caught eventually and pay for what he did.”
Eddie Sanchez said people will remember his brother, and the family has created a GoFundMe to help raise money for funeral expenses and the four kids and wife Rene Sanchez leaves behind.
Phoenix police urged those with any further information to contact authorities. There is a $2,000 reward.
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Justice Dept.: 4 men indicted for fentanyl conspiracy, overdose death
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Gray News) - Four Missouri men have been indicted for their role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in an overdose death, according to the Justice Department.
Dmitry Cattell, 22, Joseph Burgess, 21, Jordon Simmer, 20, and Kelton Hill, 22, were charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
The Justice Department reports the indictment was unsealed and made public following the arrests of all four defendants on Thursday. They remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing on April 12.
The federal indictment alleges that all four defendants have participated in a conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl since Sept. 12, 2019.
In addition to the drug-trafficking conspiracy, the indictment charges Cattell and Simmer with aiding and abetting each other to distribute fentanyl. The use of which caused the death of another person on May 18, 2020. The victim of the fatal overdose was not identified in court documents.
The Justice Department reports Cattell was also charged with two counts of distributing fentanyl, one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a gun. Cattell allegedly was in possession of a Taurus handgun on Nov. 10, 2020.
Simmer, Burgess, and Hill each were also charged with one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.
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Baby formula shortage worsens, may take weeks to improve
(CNN) - A baby formula shortage in many parts of the United States is forcing retailers to ration their supplies.
Walgreens is limiting shoppers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction.
A recent review of supplies at 11,000 stores indicates that nearly 30% of popular baby formula brands may be sold out.
Cities like San Antonio and Minneapolis are reporting out-of-stock rates for certain formulas even higher than that, well above 50%.
Part of the problem stems from an Abbott Nutrition recall in mid-February for select lots of Similac and other formulas made in Sturgis, Michigan.
Manufacturers are ramping up production to make up the difference, but they admit it may take weeks for them to catch up.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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LCCC Board of Trustees announces April board, committee meetings
CHEYENNE – The Laramie County Community College Board of Trustees will hold its regular business meeting on Wednesday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the College Community Center, Room 128.
Members of the public are welcome to attend in person. Attendees are recommended to practice social distancing while in attendance. The meeting will be broadcast virtually via the board’s YouTube Channel. The meeting agenda and broadcast link can be found at lccc.wy.edu/BoardMeeting.
Anyone that would like to provide public comment during the meeting may attend in person or submit a request to make a comment via Zoom by emailing president@lccc.wy.edu, before 5 p.m. April 20.
The facilities and finance committee will meet at 11 a.m. the same day in the LCCC Administration Building’s Petersen Board Room. For information about how to attend this committee meeting, call 307-778-1102.
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Father of 4 young kids shot, killed in argument at gas station; gunman remains on loose
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/Gray News) - A family in Arizona is trying to put the pieces of their life back together after losing a loved one in a deadly shooting at a gas station.
Rene Sanchez lost his life last weekend after getting into an argument with another man while at a QuikTrip convenience store in Phoenix. Rene Sanchez was shot while he was walking away, his bother told Arizona’s Family.
Eddie Sanchez, Rene Sanchez’s brother, said the shooting took place in the afternoon, and the family remains heartbroken and wants justice. Rene Sanchez was also a father of four young children.
“We are missing that piece of the puzzle, and that is Rene,” Eddie Sanchez said. “It makes me sad that people like that don’t care about human life and people’s family it affects.”
The Phoenix Police Department released a picture and video from that afternoon’s shooting that showed an unidentified man leaving the scene on a bicycle. However, no arrests were immediately reported.
“To tell them [Rene’s kids] their dad won’t come home. To tell them he was murdered at a gas station. It’s just frustrating not to see him and know we won’t see him again,” Eddie Sanchez said.
Rene Sanchez was an electrician with the goal of starting his own business, according to his brother. But currently, the family is just waiting on updates on the case and wanting answers.
“It’ll be a big load off of our shoulders to find this person,” Eddie Sanchez said. “He will get caught eventually and pay for what he did.”
Eddie Sanchez said people will remember his brother, and the family has created a GoFundMe to help raise money for funeral expenses and the four kids and wife Rene Sanchez leaves behind.
Phoenix police urged those with any further information to contact authorities. There is a $2,000 reward.
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Funeral services held for Tyre Sampson, teen killed on free-fall ride in Orlando
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Funeral services were held Saturday in St. Louis for a 14-year-old teenager who died last month at an Orlando theme park.
Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a free-fall ride at Icon Park.
The investigation into his cause of death continues, and on Saturday, it was time for his friends and family to lay him to rest as hundreds attended the services for Tyre.
“There’s a lot of love here. There’s a lot of support. It’s terrible; it’s a tragedy. It’s something no mother should ever have to go through,” said family friend Kelly Southhall.
According to his family, Tyre was 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds and on the path to greatness on the football field.
Reggie Rice, Tyre’s cousin, says he will always carry his younger cousin in his heart.
“He asked me every time we played football, ‘what do you want to do when I get older or who did I want to be like when I get old.’ I was like, I don’t know, ‘who do you want to be like?’ And he told me, ‘nobody, I’m going to be myself,’” Rice said.
Tyre’s friends and family said bigger than his physique was his larger-than-life personality.
“I would always tease him about the size of his shoes, and he would joke it off and laugh it off. I was like, ‘what size is your shoe?’ He would say 17 with a lot of pride,” Tyre’s former teacher Vida Weekly said.
Weekly also said Tyre was growing into a great young man and leader as he helped younger students at City Garden Montessori School.
She hopes his loss helps others heal and grow.
“I pray that somebody in this situation learns from this,” Weekly said.
Family lawyer and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called Tyre’s death “completely preventable.”
The teen’s death was captured on video, which Crump called the worst he has ever seen, except for the torture death of George Floyd.
The Orlando ride was billed as the tallest free-standing drop tower on earth, and it remains closed as investigators continue to figure out what exactly happened.
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Harrisonburg Little League has first Opening Day since 2018
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Harrisonburg Little League Association held its first Opening Day since 2018 Saturday at Purcell Park.
After being on hiatus for almost three years, kids were eager to “play ball.”
“It’s my favorite day of the year, it’s a day where we announce all the teams, they circle the field [...] sit out on the field and by the end of the ceremony, all 28 teams are out on the field it’s kind of pretty cool,” Dean Warlitner, president of Harrisonburg Little League said.
This is a special day for not only the kids, but parents and the Harrisonburg Little League association as well. After not being able to have an Opening Day for three years due to weather complications, and then COVID, players finally got to step into the batter’s box again.
“They’ve lost out on so much in the last two years with COVID and they’re more excited than any of us to get out here and start playing,” Warlitner said.
A new season brings new interest in America’s pastime. As COVID numbers go down, enrollment numbers have gone up for HLLA.
“We’re starting off very well, we normally have about 280 players we’re at about 340 so our registration numbers are up,” Warlitner said.
Opening Day offered something for everyone with sponsored giveaways, bounce houses, and former JMU softball player Kate Gordon, now Kate Short, throwing out the first pitch, the stands were packed with fans.
“Today is our biggest day of the year, we come out at 8 o’clock we have sponsors out here ... It’s been a great day and now the kids get to play the rest of the day,” Warlitner said.
There are still spots available on some teams. To check availability or register your child to play visit the HLLA website.
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Hope Distributed hosts health resources fair
ROCKINGHAM, Va. (WHSV) - Saturday morning, Hope Distributed, a food pantry, clothes and furniture store, hosted its first annual health resources fair.
Vendors came from across the Valley to talk with residents about resources in the area.
“We have about 11 organizations from around Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, all to do with health resources. We’ve got all kinds of different resources here for people to come out and ask questions and we have representatives from all of those organizations that can answer any questions and hand out resources to people that need them,” Evelyn Lewis, intern at Hope Distributed said.
Some of the organizations at Saturday’s event included Sentara RMH, Blue Ridge Free Clinic and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“The things we notice that a lot of our clients use either Medicare or Medicaid and might not be aware of the resources and the benefits they can get from those types of health insurances,” Lewis said.
Whether you have Medicare, Medicaid, any other type of insurance or none at all, today’s fair offered the resources available in the Valley to residents.
“That’s the great idea here is that they can come and pick stuff up, see how they can use their benefits and especially get different benefits like dental that they’re not aware that they can get,” Lewis said.
Hope Distributed will continue to monitor the community and their needs going forward to see how they can best serve them with future health resource fairs and events.
“We’d like to keep it going at least annually maybe even bi-annually if that becomes a need,” Lewis said. “We’re really just gonna keep watching the community and see what kind of needs we need to do if we can expand this or change the mission of it based on what people need.”
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RADNOR, Pa., April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Affirm Holdings, Inc. ("Affirm") (NASDAQ: AFRM). The action charges Affirm with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Affirm's materially misleading statements to the public, Affirm's investors have suffered significant losses.
Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
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Affirm describes itself as a "next generation platform for digital and mobile-first commerce." Through its platform, Affirm offers "buy now, pay later" or "BNPL" services to consumers. Affirm represents itself "a more flexible and transparent alternative to credit cards."
On February 12, 2021, Affirm issued a post-market press release announcing Affirm's fiscal year 2021 second quarter results. The press release quoted Max Levchin, Affirm's Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, who stated, in relevant part, that: Affirm's "mission has been to build honest financial products that improve lives"; "[w]e've aligned our success with the success of both sides of the commerce ecosystem, winning when our consumers . . . win"; and "we remain committed to empowering consumers to take control of their finances[.]"
Then, on December 16, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had launched an inquiry into Affirm's BNPL payment service, along with four other companies offering BNPL. The CFPB indicated that it was concerned about how BNPL leads to accumulating debt, regulatory arbitrage, and data harvesting, and is seeking data on the risks and benefits of the products. In a statement addressing BNPL services, the CFPB Director stated, "[t]he consumer gets the product immediately but gets the debt immediately too." Following this news, Affirm's stock price fell $11.74 per share, or 10.58%, to close at $99.24 per share on December 16, 2021.
Then, at approximately 1:15 p.m. on February 10, 2022, Affirm issued a tweet from its official Twitter account, wherein Affirm disclosed certain metrics from its second quarter 2022 financial results. The Tweet, which was published prior to Affirm's planned release of its financial results, portrayed a highly successful quarter, which included an increase in revenue of 77%. This caused Affirm's share price to spike nearly 10% in intra-day trading. Affirm later deleted the Tweet and released its full second quarter financial results ahead of schedule, which were lackluster, posting a loss of $0.57 per share, compared with analyst expectations of $0.37 per share. Following this news, Affirm's share price plummeted from an intra-day high of $83.57 per share on February 10, 2022, to close at $58.68 per share, or approximately 32%.
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Car crashes into Princeton barbershop
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 7:28 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Princeton Police are investigating after a car crashed through Royal Fades Barbershop Friday night, according to Mercer County Dispatch.
Dispatch confirmed a call came in just before 9:30pm Friday reporting the incident. The owner of the shop, Travis Francisco, said he tracked the driver down himself following the crash.
The exterior of the shop has since been patched up, but Francisco said it could be a struggle to track down the equipment needed to return to business.
“He destroyed you know, three of our chairs and three of the stations,” said Francisco. “All of the equipment was thrown from out stations. So you know, we have to locate how to get that style of equipment.”
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Funeral services held for Tyre Sampson, teen killed on free-fall ride in Orlando
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Funeral services were held Saturday in St. Louis for a 14-year-old teenager who died last month at an Orlando theme park.
Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a free-fall ride at Icon Park.
The investigation into his cause of death continues, and on Saturday, it was time for his friends and family to lay him to rest as hundreds attended the services for Tyre.
“There’s a lot of love here. There’s a lot of support. It’s terrible; it’s a tragedy. It’s something no mother should ever have to go through,” said family friend Kelly Southhall.
According to his family, Tyre was 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds and on the path to greatness on the football field.
Reggie Rice, Tyre’s cousin, says he will always carry his younger cousin in his heart.
“He asked me every time we played football, ‘what do you want to do when I get older or who did I want to be like when I get old.’ I was like, I don’t know, ‘who do you want to be like?’ And he told me, ‘nobody, I’m going to be myself,’” Rice said.
Tyre’s friends and family said bigger than his physique was his larger-than-life personality.
“I would always tease him about the size of his shoes, and he would joke it off and laugh it off. I was like, ‘what size is your shoe?’ He would say 17 with a lot of pride,” Tyre’s former teacher Vida Weekly said.
Weekly also said Tyre was growing into a great young man and leader as he helped younger students at City Garden Montessori School.
She hopes his loss helps others heal and grow.
“I pray that somebody in this situation learns from this,” Weekly said.
Family lawyer and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called Tyre’s death “completely preventable.”
The teen’s death was captured on video, which Crump called the worst he has ever seen, except for the torture death of George Floyd.
The Orlando ride was billed as the tallest free-standing drop tower on earth, and it remains closed as investigators continue to figure out what exactly happened.
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Pocahontas celebrates Mary Ferrell Day
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 7:33 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
POCAHONTAS, Va. (WVVA) - Saturday marked 2022′s Mary Ferrell Day in Pocahontas, as the well-known resident celebrated her 101st birthday.
The town’s mayor along with residents gathered outside Ferrell’s house for the celebration despite cold weather. Mayor Benjamin Gibson says he’s already excited for next year’s celebration.
“She’s a role model for all,” said Gibson. “Like she said last year, she’ll see you next year.”
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Chocolate Festival returns to Lewisburg, despite cold weather
LEWISBURG, W.Va. (WVVA) - The 14th annual Chocolate Festival returned to Lewisburg after a two year hiatus. Those involved say, they’re glad to see the festival make a comeback.
“The festival has been cancelled for two years, so we are back and ready for the sweetest day in Lewisburg and the merchants are ready. We have over 46-thousand tastings of chocolate,” said Erica Vaughan the Executive Director for United Way.
Thousands of people from all over showed up to get a taste of Lewisburg’s chocolate.
“I’m originally from New Jersey, my friends are from out of state. We came down to enjoy the chocolate and support local business today,” said George Crabtree a DJ from New Jersey.
The weather wasn’t ideal for those in attendance but that didn’t keep the chocolate lovers away.
“We are surprised that we sold out in 30 minutes, but also very excited that despite the very changing weather, the bipolar weather, we’ve had. It still brought a lot of people downtown,” said Mary Baldwin, Co-Owner for the Brier Garden.
The Chocolate Festival might seem like it’s all about the sweet treats, but the festival’s cause goes much deeper than simply offering people a good time.
“A lot of people don’t know that the Chocolate Festival is actually a fundraiser for the United Way, and so they come to the individual businesses and their not really the bakers of the chocolate. They do this as a way to bring people into Lewisburg, get some foot traffic on the streets in April and all the while we are benefiting the United Way, so it’s a great partnership,” said Baldwin.
More than forty merchants gave out chocolate and the United Way is excited for all of the community support.
For more information on the United Way and ways to help you can visit their website here. About Us | United Way of Greenbrier Valley (unitedwaygreenbrier.org)
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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Sofia Garcia Balland 1923-2022 Sofia Garcia Balland, aged 98, was relieved of her earthly duties and entered into her well earned rest and reward on April 4, 2022. Sofia was a beautiful, strong spirit who raised ten children and instilled in them a deep faith and love of Christ and a strong patriotic love of our great nation. During her spare time, which was rare and mainly late at night, Sofia was a poet and songwriter. She was also an expert baker of bread and tortillas. She was an unassuming and amazing woman! Sofia's longevity can in large part be attributed to the selfless loving care of her daughter, Kathy, who was her full-time caregiver for the last sixteen years. Sofia is survived by seven of her children, Louis A. (Joella), Bernie, Kathy, Phillip (Julie), Jeanne (Jos), David (Laurel) and Vincent (Amy). Always an overachiever, Sofia also leaves behind eighteen grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren. Sofia is preceded in death by her parents, Alfonso and Perpetua Garcia; her loving husband, Louis C. Balland and three beloved sons, Ernie C., Joseph, and Patrick. Sofia had sadly lost her siblings, Gertrude Esquibel, Flora Romero, Ernest Garcia, Domingo Garcia and Maria Padilla prior to her passing. Her little sister, Teresita Bercy Espinoza is her last remaining sibling and Della Garcia is her last remaining sister-in-law. Sofia will be missed beyond measure by those she left behind and joyfully embraced by those already preparing for her homecoming. Visitation will be Monday, April 11, 2022 from noon to 3:00 p.m. at Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home in Cheyenne. Vigil for the deceased will be recited on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral. A Funeral Liturgy will be held Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral followed by interment at Olivet Cemetery. A time of fellowship for family and friends will be held at St. Mary Cathedral's Hartmann Hall following burial. For those unable to attend, the Vigil for the deceased and Funeral Mass will be live-streamed at https://www.stmarycathedral.com/livestream. Services are under the care of Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home and condolences may be left at schradercares.com.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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Rance L. Tillman 1990-2022 Loss of our loving son and devoted bicyclist and adventurer, Rance L. Tillman, 31, of Cheyenne, Wyoming passed away on April 2, 2022. Rance was born August 25, 1990 in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Mayfair High School and was honorably discharged from the United States Army. He was an avid BMX bike rider, enjoyed painting and drawing, skate boarding, and collecting comic books and figurines. He moved to Cheyenne to live with his father and to work at the bicycle store and held various painting jobs while continuing his education at LCCC. He will be remembered as a loving, selfless and courageous brother. Rance is survived by his mother, father and twin sisters. His infectious spirit and loving kindness will be missed by his family, friends and all that knew him. Services will be held in California with interment to follow in the Riverside Veterans National Cemetery.
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Joe A. Trevino 1945-2022 Joe A. Trevino, 76, peacefully passed away on March 30, 2022, at Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was born at the Fort D. A. Russell post hospital on September 2, 1945, to Alicia S. (Silva) Trevino and Jose O. Trevino. Joe was a life-long resident of Cheyenne and member of the Catholic Church. He graduated from Cheyenne Central High School in 1964. A proud U.S. Navy Veteran he served both Active Duty and Reserves, retiring from the Reserves in 1990 as a Storekeeper First Class. Following his active-duty service, Joe returned home where he would eventually meet the love of his life and wife of over 46 years, Terri. Joe worked for APW Wyott and the Union Pacific Railroad before finding a rewarding career with the Department of Defense at F.E. Warren AFB. He retired as an Environmental Protection Specialist in 2019 with over 34 years of federal service. Joe was an accomplished scale modeler and built everything (aircraft, ships, cars and model trains). He loved railroading and aviation, passions his sons would inherit. Joe was often found chasing vintage steam locomotives in and around Wyoming. He was always ready to see planes in action and especially loved attending airshows and visiting airbases or aviation museums around the county. He was privileged to be given tours by both his sons on the naval ships they served on. Joe loved the ocean, photography and was a skilled handyman. His ultimate passion, however, was his family. Joe is survived by his wife, Terri (Teresa A. Thompson) Trevino; sons, Benjamin (Nicole) Trevino of Virginia Beach, VA and Jacob (Jillian) Trevino of Owasso, OK; daughter, Lisa Rudolph of Vancouver, WA; and step-son, Derick (Jill) Trevino of Cheyenne. He is also survived by sisters, Peggy (George) Stumpf and Esther (Larry) Neasloney both of Cheyenne; grandchildren, Joseph Trevino of Virginia Beach, VA, Bellamee and DesMarco Trevino of Owasso, OK, Alexander and Lavander Trevino of Vancouver, WA along with a great-grandson and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jose O. and Alicia S. Trevino; younger brother, Raul Trevino of Cheyenne; daughter-in-law, Jennifer Trevino of Cheyenne and nephew, Joey Trevino of Durante, OK. A Vigil for the Deceased will be at 6:00 p.m. on April 11th in the Lakeview Chapel at Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home. The Funeral Liturgy will be held at 10:30 a.m. on April 12th at Holy Trinity Catholic Church with Father Carl Gallinger as celebrant. Interment will follow immediately after the Funeral Liturgy at the Cheyenne National Cemetery. After internment there will be a Celebration of Life back at the Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in memory of "SK1 Joe Trevino, USN(Ret)" to the Gary Sinise Foundation at https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/donate or the United Services Organization (USO) at https://www.uso.org/donate/donate-in-honor . From his family, "We wish you Fair Winds and Following Seas. Rest Easy, Sailor." Condolences may be offered at www.schradercares.com.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph possible. * WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and Central Laramie County. * WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe location prior to the onset of winds. &&
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POWELL – Distrustful of the voting machines used across Wyoming and other parts of the country, a group of Park County residents is making a push to review the results of this year’s primary election by hand.
On Tuesday, a roomful of proponents asked Park County commissioners to allow them and other volunteers to effectively audit August’s election by hand-counting the votes after the ballots are processed by the machines.
South Fork resident Boone Tidwell, one of the group’s leaders, framed the request as a matter of constitutional rights and predicted some people won’t vote unless ballots are counted by hand.
“Whatever decision you make today, folks, we think will have consequences. Not only here in Park County, but on a state level, and possibly a national level,” Tidwell told commissioners. “There’s a lot of attention on this particular issue right here and what we’re doing here in front of you guys. So we’re asking you to please choose wisely.”
Commissioners postponed a decision to a later meeting, citing a need to get legal advice from Park County Attorney Bryan Skoric.
“We have to get some answers from the county attorney,” said Commission Chairman Dossie Overfield.
Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, who spoke via Zoom, recommended that commissioners consult with Skoric, suggesting that state law does not give the board the power to authorize a hand count. Members of the group, however, pushed back.
“Where in the Constitution does it give you the authority to deny us?” Powell resident and former Park County Republican Party Chairman Larry French pressed Buchanan.
“It’s not me sitting here saying that, ‘I forbid you to do it,’” the secretary responded in part. “I’m pointing out that you probably don’t have, in my opinion, just from looking at this, the statutory authority to do it.”
Tidwell then offered that “statute cannot trump my constitutional right.”
“It’s that simple,” he said, to applause from the crowd.
Commissioners, however, indicated they still have questions, including about how long a hand count might take, what impact it might have on their staff, and whether enough volunteers would show up and the legality of the effort.
Tuesday’s request stemmed from continuing concerns over the 2020 election, which Tidwell described as “the latest wreck.” The angst has played out on a national stage over the past two years, with former Republican President Donald Trump – who drew more than 76% of the votes in Park County, but less than 47% nationwide – claiming the election was “rigged” in favor of Democratic President Joe Biden.
A series of lawsuits and other attempts to challenge the results have been unsuccessful, and no widespread irregularities have been proven, but mistrust has persisted.
Dave McMillan of Cody, another of the group’s leaders and a Park County Republican Party precinct committeeman, said it’s not a partisan issue.
“There’s not a person I’ve talked to in my area, yet, that has told me they think the elections were fair in 2020,” McMillan told members of the Park County Democratic Party in February. “Nobody has any confidence in this.”
He and Tidwell had approached the party looking for support on a joint effort, but got some pushback from several local Democrats.
“I think that the only lack of integrity is actually in the imagination of those who are preaching lack of integrity,” Cody resident Paul Fees said at the Feb. 5 meeting.
The party members later passed a resolution stating that “the Park County Democrats have confidence in the integrity of the current election system.”
Meanwhile, the Park County Republican Party unanimously passed a resolution at its March 12 convention that calls for publicly observable hand counts of all election results.
The local GOP’s chairman, vice chairman, secretary and multiple precinct committee members attended Tuesday’s meeting in support of the proposal. Tidwell told commissioners that the debate over the validity of the machines won’t be resolved.
“If you are opposed to the voting machines, your preference is that we throw them in a ditch and light them on fire. And if you love the machines, you don’t want anybody to intrude in that environment,” Tidwell said Tuesday. “So we’re at an impasse.”
He said the plan to have all of the ballots run through the voting machines and then hand counted by volunteers was a compromise.
McMillan said the proposal “harms no one and satisfies the concerns of everyone.”
The proposal pitched to commissioners on Tuesday differed from the group’s original vision, which would have involved volunteers receiving and tabulating voters’ ballots before they went into the machine.
Tidwell said they altered the plans after hearing from people who said, “I don’t want you to know my vote.”
He also was clear in acknowledging that the results tabulated by the voting machines will be the official results.
“If our [hand] count comes out different than yours, we’re stuck with it [the machine count],” Tidwell said, “but we’re gonna have a whole lot more information and a whole lot more knowledge and be able to address that moving forward in the future.”
In his remarks to the commissioners and the group, Buchanan suggested that the whole hand count may have to wait until the law is changed. He said he’s repeatedly told people that if they want to return to paper ballots, it’s a policy decision that should be taken up with the Wyoming Legislature.
He also noted a statute that refers to votes being counted by machine, saying that, “Each individual vote shall be determined by the voting equipment and shall not be determined subjectively by human tabulation …”
However, Commissioner Scott Mangold noted that even under the group’s proposal the machines will still be doing the counting.
“We keep talking about statutes, but I think basically this is just sort of an experiment to start with,” Mangold said.
Commissioner Lee Livingston agreed, saying, “if you’re not submitting that as the official results, it’s quite possible that hand counting could be [done].”
“As long as we’re not stepping outside of that [the law], at this point in time, I don’t have a problem with looking at it,” Livingston said.
Overfield said the board needs to get a legal opinion from County Attorney Skoric.
Beyond the legalities, commissioners also had questions about the logistics.
As a test run, the hand count group enlisted the help of about 200 high schoolers in Powell, Cody and Meeteetse, who participated in a mock election a few weeks ago. The group then met at the Park County Library in Cody and calculated the results by hand. (Kanye West won a state Senate race in the Meeteetse area after being written in by a number of students, Tidwell said.)
In its first attempt at counting the 200 ballots, the group took an hour and 20 minutes, French said, but a second try took about 35 minutes. He indicated that a three-person team needed about a minute and a half per ballot.
At that pace – and assuming a similar turnout to the 2018 primary election, in which 8,341 voters participated – it would take more than 600 man hours to hand count all of the results. To get done by a state deadline of 10:30 p.m. on election night, it would take more than 150 volunteers.
By comparison, Park County had 117 election judges in the 2020 general election. Commissioner Joe Tilden questioned whether there would be enough volunteers to conduct the hand count, noting that a number of people who pledged to serve as election judges in 2020 backed out.
“That was before the latest wreck with the 2020 election, Mr. Tilden,” Tidwell said. “And you know, there are a whole lot of people that care now that didn’t care two years ago.”
Tidwell told the Democrats in February that “hundreds” of people would help with the effort.
While Tidwell said there would be zero cost to the county, Commissioner Lloyd Thiel noted that regular election workers would need to stay at the polling places later on election night to monitor the hand counting.
“Maybe there isn’t any more cost, but there’s a hell of a lot more work on these precincts for these election judges to do this experiment, if you will,” Thiel said. “I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just saying there’s definitely some inconvenience here in the county.”
Tidwell responded, “If it requires a little more time on our part, as a voter, as a judge, as a participant in that process, you owe it to this community to make sure that that is specifically correct.”
While expressing doubts about the legality of hand-counting the vote, Buchanan expressed full support for the group’s general aim of bolstering public confidence in the integrity and accuracy of their elections.
“... I don’t think anybody in the state disagrees that the more things we can do to give greater confidence in elections, the better,” he said. “Because … if people don’t believe in your elections, nothing else matters. It really doesn’t.”
Even before the 2020 election, Buchanan said his office began an audit effort in which it will take a statistically significant sample of ballots cast around the state and then compare them to the vote record generated by the voting machines.
“If those ballots check out, and we know that those actual ballots cast were correctly counted by the machine, then we have our 99-point-whatever [percent] confidence interval in our election,” Buchanan said.
In a Tuesday evening email to commissioners, Park County Democratic Party Chairman Jan Kliewer said he doesn’t want taxpayer dollars to be spent on the hand count and that he thinks the statewide audit planned by Buchanan “would go further to build trust than an experiment in one county.”
“My fear, however, is if the results of 61 lawsuits of voter fraud thrown out nationwide doesn’t inspire confidence, what will?” Kliewer wrote.
During the meeting, County Clerk Colleen Renner noted that the county conducts mandatory public testing of its voting machines ahead of the elections to show how the process works.
Renner said she’s only had two people show up during her eight years as clerk.
“That causes me to believe you’re not questioning it,” she said, as members of the crowd murmured objections. “So if you are questioning it, please come to the public testing.”
Commissioners didn’t set a date for their next discussion on the requested hand count. The primary election is Aug. 16.
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CHEYENNE – Members of Management Council have approved interim topics for legislative committees to address between this summer and the 67th Wyoming Legislature’s general session in January.
They spent eight hours on Friday listening to the chairpeople of 19 committees disclose what they believed to be the most urgent issues in the state, many of which were rolled over from the 2022 budget session. An additional select committee was also authorized until 2024 to address mental health and substance abuse, in an effort to monitor recently enacted legislation, treatment, reform and transitions in the field.
Outside of discussions on appropriate topics for the next interim, lawmakers considered changing the rules for public testimony. As it stands currently, any member of the public may submit a request to testify remotely until 5 p.m. the day prior to the committee meeting. Arguments were made both for making the deadline the day of or pushing it back to 48 hours prior, but ultimately no adjustment was made.
Joint Judiciary Committee
One of the first committees to come forward and present its proposals for interim study was the Joint Judiciary Committee. Cheyenne-based co-chairpersons Sen. Tara Nethercott and Rep. Jared Olsen, both Republicans, put forward a list of 10 topics.
Nearly every committee is responsible for reviewing agency reports and updates as topics, which left eight specialized issues for members of the Judiciary Committee to consider. Despite the list being large, Olsen told Management Council members he was confident they could work through them because they were smaller in scope. They decided based on stakeholder concerns, recent court opinions, legislation introduced in the previous session and criminal actions.
Priorities include: trespassing; review of recent court opinions; treatment courts and substance abuse issues; Office of Guardian ad Litem-Statutory references; custodians of criminal history records-safeguards; vulnerable persons and professions/sentence enhancement; safety of crosswalks; and state park rangers/retirement participation as law enforcement officers.
Safety of crosswalks is an issue throughout the state, but is especially close to home for Cheyenne legislators. A 13-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle and killed crossing the sidewalk on his way to Cheyenne’s McCormick Junior High in November, with a string of other pedestrians struck throughout the year.
“Priority number seven, safety of crosswalks, and enhancing the need for perhaps criminal sanctions associated with hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk or pedestrians in general,” Nethercott explained. “We’re seeing an increase of that type of activity across the state, and so there’s also a request from our constituents to review that particular topic.”
Joint Appropriations Committee
Another committee with a large scope of issues impacting residents was the Joint Appropriations Committee. From reviewing the fiscal data book to monitoring the allocation and expenditure of the American Rescue Plan Act funding, the co-chairs said they anticipated handling the billions of dollars the state is responsible for as usual.
The priority interim topics chosen among members of the committee were state employee compensation-enterprise technology services, state loan programs and streamlining the School Capital Construction Account. All are a continuation in one form or another of issues previously brought up by legislators and constituents, with state employee compensation directly correlated to raises approved in 2022 budget session.
“The revisions that we did make, they did not bring many of our state employees to market,” Sen. Drew Perkins, R-Casper, said. “It was well appreciated by state employees, but didn’t get us all the way where we where we ought to probably be.”
In addition to addressing compensation, Perkins said they are reviewing reserve balances and trying to find solutions for difficulties with the employee group insurance and self-employment health insurance program for state employees.
The committee will also partner with the Joint Education Interim Committee and the Select School Facilities Committee to receive a K-12 eternal cost adjustment proposal in October, as well as possibly develop legislation on state fund investments for school accounts. Separate from all three of those committees, the Joint Revenue Committee plans to investigate ideas for sustainable, long-term revenue sources for K-12 education. Members hope to identify one or two options to provide at least $50 million in revenue.
Joint Education Committee
Co-chairs of the Joint Education Interim Committee also shared their desire to find new funding sources and study expenditures in the system, but there were four other major priorities laid out for the Management Council. The first was education programs in primary grades, such as the K-3 reading assessment and intervention program. A bill meant to support students with reading disabilities was passed in the last session, but Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, said it is just a start.
“On literacy, we had a bill this last time that I think just scratched the surface,” he said. “We were introduced to this by the comments of the consultants we hired for recalibration, that we weren’t getting our money’s worth, and that what we were doing was not adequate to prepare many of the kids for the modern economy. That appears to be an accurate assessment.”
Other concerns brought forward were in regards to recruiting and retaining school district personnel; higher education funding, courses, scholarships and workforce development; K-12 education governance and the process to review school district decisions and punishments; and school choice.
Legislators debated for more than an hour on the importance of this year’s interim topics for the committee, not only at the funding model level for public schools and community colleges, but in keeping the institutions well supported.
Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee
After holding the large responsibility throughout the 2021 interim and 2022 budget session of handling redistricting, co-chairman Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne, said members of the committee will move away from strictly election issues during the upcoming interim. From priorities revolving around energy to pharmacy manager benefits, the only election issue was one update out of the seven proposals.
A considerable issue in the state the Corporations Committee hopes to tackle is solutions for workforce housing, including the sources of the problem, and the social and economic impacts created by it. Legislators voted down ay opportunity to build out new programs in the resort areas of Wyoming with American Rescue Plan dollars during the budget session because they said it was one-time funding.
One other priority that has received attention in the Capital City is liquor licenses. The Cheyenne City Council was awarded one retail liquor license due to growth in population, and there were initially 11 applicants hoping to add to the local economy with a new business. Both City Council members and Mayor Patrick Collins have argued the liquor laws are antiquated and negatively impacting entrepreneurs, tax revenues and economic growth.
“We’re really ready to look at different laws and see how we may get a fairer system for municipalities,” Zwonitzer said.
Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee
Since there a continuation of the Select Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use was approved, the Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee took on more topics outside of this realm. The top priorities presented were in addressing maternal health, behavioral health, organ donors and decedents, as well as aging.
Co-chair Rep. Sue Wilson, R-Cheyenne, said it was the first time in nearly a decade of serving in the Legislature that she saw maternal health addressed. Not only will the committee evaluate ways to improve pregnancy outcomes for mothers and children across the state, they will gather data on the number of babies born to substance-abusing mothers. This comes after a bill was brought forward, but ultimately rejected, to criminally punish pregnant women suffering from addiction.
Members also hope to look at the possibility of extending postpartum Medicaid coverage for mothers, because during the pandemic, it was extended to 12 months from 60 days, and positive results were seen.
“We are understanding from physicians that they’re seeing a lot of better results in terms of mental health and substance abuse issues,” she said. “That actually saved us money to have that.”
Overlapping priorities
There are 20 committees, in total, working together to find solutions and manage issues throughout Wyoming, and with it comes overlap. Even specialized topics such as blockchain technology, military affairs and tribal relations can’t be addressed by one group of the citizen Legislature, which is proven in amendments by the Management Council directing input or collaboration between lawmakers.
But out of overlapping priorities, it is clear the direction the 67th Wyoming Legislature is going.
Representatives and senators plan on investigating funding models for education, capital construction and energy; understanding how to recruit, retain and compensate the state workforce well; investing in energy and infrastructure; supporting land and water conservation efforts; restructuring tax systems; and ensuring residents are healthy and have access to medical care.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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Local school district holds public review for Spanish textbooks
CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 World Language Department is holding a secondary level textbook adoption for Spanish courses.
Public and district stakeholders are invited to participate in the adoption process by reviewing the prospective textbooks.
The prospective textbooks are available for 45-day public review and receipt of public comments. This will be held weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through April 22 at the LCSD1 Administration Building, 2810 House Ave., World Language Department office, room 352. They are also available for review at the Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave., on the second floor: Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Public comments will be collected through April 25.
For more information, contact LCSD1 Director of Instruction Steve Newton at 307-771-2123.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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WyHy Federal Credit Union to host free document shredding event
CHEYENNE – WyHy Federal Credit Union will host a free Document Destruction Day event on Saturday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to noon at 1715 Stillwater Ave.
To avoid identity theft, residents are advised to destroy all documents containing personal information, such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, PINs, passwords, home addresses or birth dates.
WyHy is partnering with Shred-it to securely shred documents on-site. Attendees can stay in their cars while Shred-it personnel safely dispose of their personal documents in the shred truck.
Participants may bring up to two bankers boxes of personal documents to be safely shredded at the branches.
Items that are eligible to be shredded include:
Account statements
Credit reports
Cancelled checks
Pay stubs
ATM receipts
Credit card and utility bills
Materials that will not be accepted include batteries, flammables, combustibles, electronic equipment (hard drives) and media materials (DVDs, CDs and tapes). Please do not include binder clips and metal items, thick folders or portfolios, sharp objects or cardboard tubes in with your documents to be shredded.
Residents do not need to be a member of WyHy to participate. For more information, call 800-442-2392 or visit WyHy.org.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby to host virtual panel discussion April 25
CHEYENNE – Are you interested in the impact of climate change on Wyoming’s energy economy? Shifting energy markets and climate are affecting Wyoming’s economy. Wyoming's energy economy must adapt while preparing for ongoing drought and climate uncertainty.
Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. It will hosting a panel discussion April 25 with University of Wyoming economists Robert Godby, Christelle Khalaf, Charles Mason and Jason Shogren, all specialists in Wyoming’s economy and energy, who will examine strategies for Wyoming’s energy future to continue and thrive.
The panelists will address:
What actions are needed for the energy economy to thrive during this time of change?
How can Wyoming government and communities prepare for and participate in a future energy economy and ensure community resiliency?
How can we support Wyoming communities while market forces respond to climate concerns?
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Residents displaced after Roanoke fire Friday night
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 2:34 PM EDT|Updated: 7 hours ago
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - An electrical fire has left residents of a home in the 2200 block of Garstland Drive NW displaced and being assisted by the American Red Cross.
According to Roanoke Fire-EMS, crews were dispatched late Friday night for a reported fire and found smoke leaving the building. The incident was then marked a working fire. The fire was found on the second floor of the home before being extinguished and under control in under twenty minutes.
A person was taken to the hospital for a non-fire related complaint.
The fire was deemed accidental with damages estimated at $65,000.
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Busking for Ukraine
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A group of Charlottesville musicians are playing music on the downtown mall to raise money for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. As of Saturday, April 9 they have raised close to $3,000.
The group has played for six weekends with the original goal of raising $1,500, in just a few hours they raised $1,300 on Saturday, April 9.
“We always get a good turn out and people are very generous, lots of twenty dollar bills,” musician and organizer Pete Marshall said.
Bailey Printing Inc. donated a sign for them to replace their previous home made poster. The group accepts donations of any size from people who pass by.
“When the war started with Ukraine I really wanted to do something, I didn’t want to just sit around and mope. So I organized - I know lots of old time musicians - so I tried to get something together. Everything’s been great,” Marshall said.
The group will continue playing on Saturdays around 1 p.m. on the downtown mall and invite anyone who wants to join them or stop by to listen.
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Fluvanna hosts small business fair to help economy bounce back
FLUVANNA COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The Fluvanna Leaders of Race and Diversity held a small business and vendors fair to promote economic development in the county. Since the start of the pandemic many small vendors in Fluvanna county say they have had a hard time growing their business. This fair helps to turn that around.
“It’s all about the exposure,” Herbert’s Wine Jelly’s Carolyn Herbert said.
Herbert has been working on expanding her business for years.
“We sell a variety of products, but it’s a little eclectic, because we actually hire guys that had mental health issues, and then were incarcerated,” Herbert said.
Without a brick and mortar location fairs like these give them a big push.
“We don’t have a storefront because our guys don’t want to be labeled at a storefront,” Herbert said.
Others like Sasha Morgan are just starting out
“This is my soft launch of my small business. I have always been a tinkerer. I’m an engineer by trade. So in college we had the opportunity to work with laser cutters and so i found a knack for woodworking and then I expanded it when I got home,” said Morgan.
They all set up shop in the county high school.
“We hosted this event to promote Fluvanna County and surrounding areas, small businesses, and so that everybody in the county could kind of come out and get a chance to see what Fluvanna has to offer,” said Deidre Creasy - Quirindoongo with the Fluvanna Leaders of Race and Diversity.
The vendors have the chance to promote themselves..
“It’s given me a lot of exposure. I’m able to meet and network with a lot of different people,” founder of Aerial Scent Candle Tonya Whitegray said.
And learn from each other too.
“I’ve learned a lot from the other small businesses in this area for people who have been around for a lot longer than I have their experiences and methods to promote my business and to better connect with customers,” Morgan said.
The fair is all about community.
“It will definitely promote economic development within the county, and it will also showcase and shine a light on the fabulous businesses that we have here,” Creasy - Quirindoongo said.
The Fluvanna Leaders of Race and Diversity says this is just the first of many events to come.
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High pressure brings cold weather through the night, frost possible
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - After our chilly day filled with snow showers, even in the mountain locations, it’s going to be cold again tonight, getting down into those low thirties.
This is one of those light frost potentials. If we can get those winds just light enough, could have a little bit of that. Even if we don’t get the frost, I think it’s a good idea to bring those plants and doors tonight just because it could cause some damage to those potted plants and hanging baskets.
The snow showers will linger into the mountains overnight, and then into the first part of our Sunday. By the afternoon, Sunday, I’m expecting most areas to turn partly to mostly sunny. We’ll kind of get rid of those snow showers in the mountain locations as that drier air begins to work in, but it will turn a bit breezy at times as we go through the day.
In the morning, waking up into the low thirties, heading into midday about 45 degrees and notice that increased sunshine as we go through the day winds at about 10 to 15 miles per hour, and we should get up to around 52 degrees tomorrow in Harrisonburg, just a little bit cooler to the west, around 47 degrees. Raphine will be around 54, and headed toward Staunton and Charlottesville climbing toward 60.
This really big area of high pressure that’s down across the Southeast -- this is the thing that’s gonna build in over the next couple of days. We get clockwise flow around this high. That means we’re gonna bring in winds out of the south and Southwest.
That’s where all the warmth has been over the past few days. We’ll get that moving in here, heading into Monday. So a quick warmup, we’ll get all that cool weather, push it back up towards the Northeast.
It’s going to stay dry for a few days and we’ll just get warmer and warmer, but notice some rain out to the west. This is our next cold front that will sweep across the country. Perhaps bringing a week again of stormy other down across the south. This could be week four of that, that they’ve had this severe weather across parts of the deep south.
Once that front gets here, there are still some questions as to whether we will get some storms out of it, but it does appear. We’ll get some rain coming up late Thursday heading into Friday. It’ll also cool down.
Those temperatures are down as we head into Easter weekend, so I’m not foreseeing any kind of flooding issues, but we’ll monitor that as we get a little closer.
It also brings some cooler weather. You can see that warmth moving in. Once that front comes in. All of that chilly weather that you see back to the west will enter just in time for Easter weekend at this point, staying cool for our Sunday in your seven-day forecast, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, that warm-up heads in with seventies, even maybe some eighties, head more to the east.
You might see a few showers by Thursday into Friday, and then by Saturday, we’ll start to cool back down with those highs in the sixties for Easter
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JMU Sports Roundup: Saturday, April 9
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 10:02 PM EDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Results from JMU sporting events on Saturday, April 9.
Lacrosse
James Madison 18, Elon 2
Softball
Hofstra 4, James Madison 3 (Game One)
Hofstra 6, James Madison 5 (Game Two)
Women’s Tennis
James Madison 6, Elon 1
Baseball
Charleston 10, James Madison 9
Men’s Tennis
Delaware 4, James Madison 3
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2022 was an epic night filled with a record-breaking 1,000 slimings on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT), live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. Hosted by actress Miranda Cosgrove and NFL superstar Rob Gronkowski, Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2022 featured: show-stopping music performances from Grammy® Award-winning musician and multiplatinum recording artist Kid Cudi, and chart-topping, multiple Grammy® Award-nominated rapper Jack Harlow; appearances from today's top stars; Nick's signature orange blimp which journeyed into the metaverse with celebrity avatars; and exciting surprises revealing fans' favorite tv shows, movies, music and more.
Highlights from Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2022 include:
- Special appearance from First Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden, speaking to the resilience of today's youngest generation, especially children of military members and veterans, and encouraging America's youth to keep growing, learning, and giving back to their communities;
- Medley performances from Kid Cudi of his new single "Stars in the Sky" and smash hit "Pursuit of Happiness" as well as Jack Harlow with his chart-topping hit "Industry Baby," and the latest singles from his upcoming album Come Home The Kids Miss You, "Nail Tech" and "First Class;"
- 1,000 outrageous slimings, including: University of Southern California Marching Band; Chance the Rapper and Westcott Elementary School in Chicago; Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Punta Cana; iconic landmarks across the U.S.; MrBeast; Charlie Puth; Dixie D'Amelio; the cast of Danger Force and Warped!; KCA hosts Miranda Cosgrove and Rob Gronkowski; and more;
- Exclusive teaser clips of animated action-adventure feature film, DC League of Super-Pets, presented by voice cast members Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson; and martial arts animated comedy film, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, presented by voice cast member Samuel L. Jackson;
- Live voting and Nick's signature orange blimp and its journey into the metaverse with celebrity avatars;
- Celebrity appearances from Olivia Rodrigo, Gabrielle Union, Heidi Klum, Terry Crews, Sofia Vergara, Chloe x Halle, Charlie Puth, Chance the Rapper, Charli D'Amelio, Dixie D'Amelio, Jace Norman, MrBeast, Joshua Bassett, Brie Bella, Nikki Bella, Jordan Fisher, Sabrina Carpenter, Sofia Carson, Josh Peck, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Isla Fisher, Peyton List, Xavier Woods, Ralph Macchio, Unspeakable, and Karl Jacobs;
- And appearances from Nickelodeon stars: That Girl Lay Lay, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (That Girl Lay Lay); Havan Flores, Dana Heath, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Luca Luhan, Michael D. Cohen and Cooper Barnes (Danger Force); Jerry Trainor, Laci Mosley, Nathan Kress and Jaidyn Triplett (iCarly); Kate Godfrey, Anton Starkman, Ariana Molkara, Christopher Martinez and Milan Carter (Warped!); Jules LeBlanc, Jayden Bartels and Isaiah Crews (Side Hustle); and Young Dylan (Tyler Perry's Young Dylan).
The following are Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2022 winners:
TELEVISION:
- FAVORITE KIDS TV SHOW
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series - FAVORITE FAMILY TV SHOW
iCarly - FAVORITE REALITY SHOW
America's Got Talent - FAVORITE CARTOON
SpongeBob SquarePants - FAVORITE FEMALE TV STAR (KIDS)
Olivia Rodrigo (Nini, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) - FAVORITE MALE TV STAR (KIDS)
Joshua Bassett (Ricky, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) - FAVORITE FEMALE TV STAR (FAMILY)
Miranda Cosgrove (Carly Shay, iCarly) - FAVORITE MALE TV STAR (FAMILY)
Tom Hiddleston (Loki, Marvel Studios' Loki)
FILM:
- FAVORITE MOVIE
Spider-Man: No Way Home - FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS
Zendaya (MJ, Spider-Man: No Way Home | Chani, Dune) - FAVORITE MOVIE ACTOR
Tom Holland (Peter Parker / Spider-Man, Spider-Man: No Way Home) - FAVORITE ANIMATED MOVIE
Disney's Encanto - FAVORITE VOICE FROM AN ANIMATED MOVIE
Scarlett Johansson (Ash, Sing 2)
MUSIC:
- FAVORITE ALBUM
"Happier Than Ever" – Billie Eilish - FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST
Ariana Grande - FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
Ed Sheeran - FAVORITE MUSIC GROUP
BTS - FAVORITE SONG
"Happier Than Ever" – Billie Eilish - FAVORITE MUSIC COLLABORATION
"Stay" – Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI - FAVORITE BREAKOUT ARTIST
Olivia Rodrigo - FAVORITE SOCIAL MUSIC STAR
Dixie D'Amelio - FAVORITE GLOBAL MUSIC STAR
Adele (UK)
OTHER CATEGORIES:
- FAVORITE FEMALE CREATOR
Charli D'Amelio - FAVORITE MALE CREATOR
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Woman faces Texas murder charge after self-induced abortion
(AP) - A 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after authorities said she caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S.
It’s unclear whether Lizelle Herrera is accused of having an abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion.
Herrera was arrested Thursday and remained jailed Saturday on a $500,000 bond in the Starr County jail in Rio Grande City, on the U.S.-Mexico border, sheriff’s Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement.
“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” Delgado said.
Delgado did not say under what law Herrera has been charged. He said no other information will be released until at least Monday because the case remains under investigation.
Texas law exempts her from a criminal homicide charge for aborting her own pregnancy, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck told The Associated Press.
“(Homicide) doesn’t apply to the murder of an unborn child if the conduct charged is ‘conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child,’” Vladeck said.
A 2021 state law that bans abortions in Texas for women who are as early as six weeks pregnant has sharply curtailed the number of abortions in the state. The law leaves enforcement to private citizens who can sue doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
The woman receiving the abortion is exempted from the law.
However, some states still have laws that criminalize self-induced abortions “and there have been a handful of prosecutions here and there over the years,” Vladeck said.
“It is murder in Texas to take steps that terminate a fetus, but when a medical provider does it, it can’t be prosecuted” due to U.S. Supreme Court rulings upholding the constitutionality of abortion, Vladeck said.
Lynn Paltrow, the executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women also noted the state law exemption.
“What’s a little mysterious in this case is, what crime has this woman been charged with?” Paltrow said. “There is no statute in Texas that, even on its face, authorizes the arrest of a woman for a self-managed abortion.”
Another Texas law prohibits doctors and clinics from prescribing abortion-inducing medications after the seventh week of pregnancy and prohibits delivery of the pills by mail.
Medication abortions are not considered self-induced under federal Food and Drug Administration regulations, Vladeck said.
“You can only receive the medication under medical supervision,” according to Vladeck. “I realize this sounds weird because you are taking the pill yourself, but it is under a providers’ at least theoretical care.”
In Rio Grande City on Saturday the abortion rights group Frontera Fund called for Herrera’s release.
“We don’t yet know all the details surrounding this tragic event,” said Rockie Gonzales, founder and board chair of of the organization.
“What we do know is that criminalizing pregnant people’s choices or pregnancy outcomes, which the state of Texas has done, takes away people’s autonomy over their own bodies, and leaves them with no safe options when they choose not to become a parent,” Gonzalez said.
Nancy Cárdenas Peña, Texas State Director for Policy and Advocacy for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, said in a statement that abortion should be available on the woman’s own terms where she feels most comfortable.
“Allowing criminal law to be used against people who have ended their own pregnancies serves no reasonable state purpose, but may cause great harm to young people, people with lower incomes, and communities of color, who are most likely to encounter or be reported to law enforcement,” Peña said.
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Miller reported from Oklahoma City and Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Associated Press reporter Juan Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.
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JMU football holds first spring scrimmage
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On Saturday, the Dukes took the practice field for the first spring scrimmage at Bridgeforth Stadium.
As James Madison prepares to move to the Sun Belt Conference, key players are battling some injuries while less experienced athletes are looking for breakthrough opportunities on the field.
Meanwhile, head coach Curt Cignetti is focused on a united team culture as the healthy players sharpen their skills for FBS Conference play.
“We’re halfway through the spring season and everyone who is on the field has to have the right mindset to keep improving,” said Cignetti.
According to Cignetti, the opening scrimmage looked slightly different without all of the starting players.
“With all the guys out it doesn’t quite flow as well as you might like,” he admitted. “The guys know what they have to do to play faster.”
The Dukes officially open their season in September when they face Middle Tennesee State at Bridgeforth Stadium.
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Woman faces Texas murder charge after self-induced abortion
(AP) - A 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after authorities said she caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S.
It’s unclear whether Lizelle Herrera is accused of having an abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion.
Herrera was arrested Thursday and remained jailed Saturday on a $500,000 bond in the Starr County jail in Rio Grande City, on the U.S.-Mexico border, sheriff’s Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement.
“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” Delgado said.
Delgado did not say under what law Herrera has been charged. He said no other information will be released until at least Monday because the case remains under investigation.
Texas law exempts her from a criminal homicide charge for aborting her own pregnancy, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck told The Associated Press.
“(Homicide) doesn’t apply to the murder of an unborn child if the conduct charged is ‘conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child,’” Vladeck said.
A 2021 state law that bans abortions in Texas for women who are as early as six weeks pregnant has sharply curtailed the number of abortions in the state. The law leaves enforcement to private citizens who can sue doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
The woman receiving the abortion is exempted from the law.
However, some states still have laws that criminalize self-induced abortions “and there have been a handful of prosecutions here and there over the years,” Vladeck said.
“It is murder in Texas to take steps that terminate a fetus, but when a medical provider does it, it can’t be prosecuted” due to U.S. Supreme Court rulings upholding the constitutionality of abortion, Vladeck said.
Lynn Paltrow, the executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women also noted the state law exemption.
“What’s a little mysterious in this case is, what crime has this woman been charged with?” Paltrow said. “There is no statute in Texas that, even on its face, authorizes the arrest of a woman for a self-managed abortion.”
Another Texas law prohibits doctors and clinics from prescribing abortion-inducing medications after the seventh week of pregnancy and prohibits delivery of the pills by mail.
Medication abortions are not considered self-induced under federal Food and Drug Administration regulations, Vladeck said.
“You can only receive the medication under medical supervision,” according to Vladeck. “I realize this sounds weird because you are taking the pill yourself, but it is under a providers’ at least theoretical care.”
In Rio Grande City on Saturday the abortion rights group Frontera Fund called for Herrera’s release.
“We don’t yet know all the details surrounding this tragic event,” said Rockie Gonzales, founder and board chair of of the organization.
“What we do know is that criminalizing pregnant people’s choices or pregnancy outcomes, which the state of Texas has done, takes away people’s autonomy over their own bodies, and leaves them with no safe options when they choose not to become a parent,” Gonzalez said.
Nancy Cárdenas Peña, Texas State Director for Policy and Advocacy for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, said in a statement that abortion should be available on the woman’s own terms where she feels most comfortable.
“Allowing criminal law to be used against people who have ended their own pregnancies serves no reasonable state purpose, but may cause great harm to young people, people with lower incomes, and communities of color, who are most likely to encounter or be reported to law enforcement,” Peña said.
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Miller reported from Oklahoma City and Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Associated Press reporter Juan Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.
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(CNN) -- While abortion rights advocates could secure several victories in US states in the coming days, they're sounding the alarm about an Oklahoma bill that would ban nearly all abortions that's likely to be signed into law. Here are some of this week's moves in state legislatures and by state leaders you may have missed.
Oklahoma sends near-total ban on abortion to governor
Oklahoma legislators passed a bill on Tuesday that would make performing an abortion illegal in the state, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency.
The bill heads to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has pledged to sign every piece of legislation limiting abortion that reaches his desk.
Senate Bill 612 would make performing an abortion or attempting to perform the procedure a felony punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or a maximum of 10 years in state prison, or both. The pregnant person who sought the abortion would not be criminally charged or convicted for seeking or obtaining the procedure .
This week, Oklahoma Republicans also got another step closer to passing the "Oklahoma Heartbeat Act," modeled after a Texas law, which bans abortions around six weeks of pregnancy and allows private citizens to take civil action against abortion providers to enforce the law. It's just one of two copy-cat Texas bills being considered by the Sooner State.
Those opposed to abortion cheered the bill's passage, while abortion rights advocates warned that the measure would create a crisis in the region as out-of-state patients, including a huge increase in the number of Texans seeking abortion, travel to Oklahoma.
Maryland governor vetoes bill expanding abortion access
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland on Friday vetoed a bill that would expand access to abortion in the state.
His veto sends the bill back to the legislature to consider his objections. Democrats, who control both the House of Delegates and state Senate, will need the support of three-fifths of both chambers to override Hogan's veto.
Hogan objected to the bill, saying in a letter, "As governor, I have upheld my commitment to take no action that would affect Maryland law where it concerns reproductive rights. With this action, I am reaffirming that commitment."
House Bill 937, titled the Abortion Care Access Act, would allow more health care professionals to perform an abortion procedure, rather than only a licensed physician, and set up a state program to train more and to diversify abortion providers.
The legislation would also require most health insurers and the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to cover abortion care services.
Missouri House passes broadly restrictive anti-abortion bill
The Missouri House, where Republicans have a more than 2-to-1 majority, passed on Wednesday a broad bill that would ban abortion drugs being sent via mail, defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state and allow family members to file wrongful death lawsuits in the rare cases of a live birth during or after an attempted abortion when the baby is injured or subsequently dies as a result of the abortion.
A provision in the legislation would also criminalize "trafficking abortion-inducing drugs," saying that "a person or entity commits the offense of trafficking abortion inducing drugs if such person or entity knowingly imports, exports, distributes, delivers, manufactures, produces, prescribes, administers, or dispenses" -- or attempts to do so -- "any medicine, drug, or any other substance to be used for the purpose of inducing an abortion ... on another person in violation of any state or federal law."
House Bill 2012 would enact a Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, under which a health care provider would be required to offer the same degree of life-saving care following an attempted abortion that a provider would offer a baby otherwise born at the same gestational age. Other states including Kentucky and Ohio have enacted similar legislation.
According to the bill, a person who commits sexual assault or domestic violence would not be permitted to file such lawsuits or be awarded damages, and neither would that person's household or family members.
The legislative package passed in a 91-37 vote without discussion on Wednesday, and now heads to the state Senate.
A Missouri Senate committee also on Wednesday held a hearing on eight abortion-related proposals, including a bill that would establish the Abolition of Abortion in Missouri Act.
Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping abortion bill
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky vetoed a sweeping bill Friday that would have banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricted access to medication abortion and made it more difficult for a minor to obtain an abortion in the state. The legislation does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
Beshear said in a veto letter signed Friday that House Bill 3 is "likely unconstitutional."
The bill, he said, "requires physicians performing nonsurgical procedures to maintain hospital admitting privileges in geographical proximity to the location where the procedure is performed. The Supreme Court has ruled such requirements unconstitutional as it makes it impossible for women, including a child who is a victim of rape or incest, to obtain a procedure in certain areas of the state."
The legislation places a number of restrictions on drugs used in a medication abortion, such as mifepristone. Under the bill, the drug could not be given to a patient without obtaining their "informed consent" at least 24 hours prior, which would include signing a document "created by the cabinet."
It would also amend the law that deals with minors obtaining abortions so that only an attending physician, and not an agent, can obtain written consent, and it would require that the consenting parent or legal guardian "has made a reasonable attempt to notify" any other parent with joint or physical custody at least 48 hours before providing consent.
Despite the governor's veto, the state's legislature can vote to override the veto next week. Republicans hold massive majorities in both chambers.
Michigan governor files lawsuit to protect abortion rights
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan on Thursday sued to challenge the state's nearly century-old abortion ban, which is not enforceable due to Roe v. Wade.
The lawsuit asks the state's Supreme Court to issue a decision on the constitutionality of abortion.
"We've got to take this current assault on women's rights seriously and use every tool we have to fight back. This is not just a theoretical risk. This is a real and present danger. And that's why I filed this lawsuit," Whitmer told "The Source with Kasie Hunt" on CNN+.
According to an official with Whitmer's office, if Roe v. Wade is overturned and the 1931 MIchigan abortion law goes into effect, the Wolverine State would have one of the most extreme abortion laws in the nation.
Nebraska 'trigger' bill banning abortion fails to advance
In a notable win for abortion rights advocates, Nebraska's unicameral legislature on Wednesday failed to advance a bill entitled the Nebraska Human Life Protection Act, which was aimed at banning abortions statewide should the US Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
Republican state Sen. Joni Albrecht's motion to end debate on the bill she introduced failed by a vote of 31-15, falling short of two votes needed. Lawmakers had debated the bill for about eight hours.
The bill, a so-called trigger abortion bill, would have gone into effect if the US Supreme Court were to overrule Roe v. Wade or if Congress were to enact a law giving states the authority to regulate abortion or if the Constitution were to be amended. It would have banned abortions without exceptions for rape and incest and would have created criminal penalties for physicians who violate the law.
"I'm proud of everyone who stood together to say this ban, and the way the bill was drafted, was wrong," Democratic state Sen. Megan Hunt said following the vote.
Colorado governor signs bill codifying abortion rights
As surrounding red states seek to restrict abortion, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed a bill into law Monday that codifies the right to an abortion in the state.
The Reproductive Health Equity Act states that "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion and to make decisions about how to exercise that right; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state."
The law also blocks local entities from enacting their own restrictions on abortion.
Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado saw an increase of more than 1,000% in Texas abortion patients after that state's six-week ban went into effect in September 2021 through the end of the year, compared with previous years, according to Planned Parenthood.
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A Hawaii man who to many, lived Aloha every day, is being remembered by friends and students. Pono Shim was also the CEO of the O'ahu Economic Development Board. He recently passed away from cancer. Pono was also a living kidney donor and teacher of aloha. That's right Diane, just like his Name Pono, his friends and students remember him as a righteous leader. In 2013, Pono Shim donated a kidney to Malcolm Lutu giving the former police officer a "Second Chance at Life." Lanai Tabura says Pono, was a friend and mentor, "He really touched people I think, on the Aloha side of it and bringing back Aloha, I think nowadays we’re going through so many different things, turmoils and hurdles and people have mental illness you name it the list goes on, He really was someone who taught you how to look at things different and use the word aloha and do things with good intent. " Cara Dote is at the Hear Hawaii Workshop at Iolani Palace learning about the Hawaiian culture. She also took a class with Pono Shim learning lessons that are still with her today. Cara Dote, Pono Shim Aloha Student, “The most important lesson is to live aloha everyday, breath aloha, live aloha, speak aloha and remember aloha in all your actions. Lanai Tabura says, he learned from Pono to live with positive energy for growth and change. “Pono was the guy who turned things around for me and taught me what aloha meant and how to live it." Pono Shim was a kumu and kahu to many. Friends and students have set up a Go Fund Me campaign called Malama Pono Sail Plan to Health and Healing, to help his family.
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Local players shine at Scott Brown Classic
21 area athletes participate
Published: Apr. 10, 2022 at 12:25 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
SHADY SPRING, W.Va. (WVVA) - Basketball players from our viewing area showed out at Shady Spring High School on Saturday.
Pikeview’s Anyah Brown won the MVP for the girl’s game following her 18-point and 7-rebound performance. Woodrow Wilson’s Olivia Ziolkowski led all scorers in that game with 25 points. Wyoming East’s Hannah Blankenship finished as the runner-up in the three-point contest.
On the boy’s side, James Monroe’s Shad Sauvage was the runner-up in the three-point contest and Greater Beckley Christian’s Kaden Smallwood finished in third. Wyoming East’s Tanner Whitten was the runner-up in the dunk contest.
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Man suspected of burying mom, sister in backyard arrested
LYONS, Ill. (AP) - A man suspected of concealing the deaths of his mother and sister has been arrested on felony charges nearly a year after their bodies were found buried in the backyard of their suburban Chicago house.
Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion said Thursday that 45-year-old Michael Lelko will be formally charged with two felony counts of concealment of a death. Herion said Lelko also could face federal charges in connection to his alleged cashing of his mother’s Social Security checks for years after she died.
In August, police discovered the bodies of 79-year-old Jean Lelko and 44-year-old Jennifer Lelko. Both bodies had been buried in plastic tubs that had been sealed with duct tape, according to the Associated Press. Police say Lelko told them his mother died in 2015 and his sister died in 2019.
Herion said charges were not filed for several months because the bodies were not positively identified until this year. Autopsies could not determine the cause of death for either woman.
Herion said Michael Lelko’s 41-year-old brother, John Lelko, remains the subject of an investigation, the AP reports. He could face obstruction charges because he initially told police that his mother and sister were alive and living elsewhere, even though he knew they were both dead.
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Man suspected of burying mom, sister in backyard arrested
LYONS, Ill. (AP) - A man suspected of concealing the deaths of his mother and sister has been arrested on felony charges nearly a year after their bodies were found buried in the backyard of their suburban Chicago house.
Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion said Thursday that 45-year-old Michael Lelko will be formally charged with two felony counts of concealment of a death. Herion said Lelko also could face federal charges in connection to his alleged cashing of his mother’s Social Security checks for years after she died.
In August, police discovered the bodies of 79-year-old Jean Lelko and 44-year-old Jennifer Lelko. Both bodies had been buried in plastic tubs that had been sealed with duct tape, according to the Associated Press. Police say Lelko told them his mother died in 2015 and his sister died in 2019.
Herion said charges were not filed for several months because the bodies were not positively identified until this year. Autopsies could not determine the cause of death for either woman.
Herion said Michael Lelko’s 41-year-old brother, John Lelko, remains the subject of an investigation, the AP reports. He could face obstruction charges because he initially told police that his mother and sister were alive and living elsewhere, even though he knew they were both dead.
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ROCK SPRINGS -- According to this evening’s Rock Springs Police Department press release, officers from the Rock Springs Police Department were attempting to arrest Rock Springs resident Robert Shalata for an outstanding felony warrant on Friday, April 8, 2022, when he barricaded himself in his residence.
As officers made attempts to communicate with Shalata, information was obtained that Shalata had barricaded himself inside the home and that he was armed.
The decision was made to activate a joint tactical response team with members from the Rock Springs Police Department, Green River Police Department and Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department. The Rock Springs Fire Department also responded, ready to provide medical treatment if needed. The Tactical Response Team used specialized equipment and tactics to safely place Shalata under arrest without any injuries.
The standoff between the suspect and officers lasted approximately six hours. The suspect, Robert Shalata was booked into Sweetwater County Detention Center on additional charges of Interference with Police Officer and Unlawful Entry Into An Occupied Structure. The Rock Springs Police Department thanks Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office, Green River Police Department and the Rock Springs Fire Department for their assistance in the matter.
The Rock Springs Police Department reminds the community that all persons are innocent until proven guilty.
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Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy.
“A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a day about a book being challenged at a library. And usually those calls would be for guidance on how to handle a challenge or for materials that support the value of the work being challenged,” Caldwell-Stone told The Associated Press. “Now, we’re getting three, four, five reports a day, many in need of support and some in need of a great deal of support.”
“We’re on the phone constantly,” she added.
Accounts of book bannings and attempted book bannings, along with threats against librarians, have soared over the past year and the ALA has included some numbers in its annual State of America’s Libraries Report, released Monday. The association found 729 challenges — affecting nearly 1,600 books — at public schools and libraries in 2021, more than double 2020′s figures and the highest since the ALA began compiling challenges more than 20 years ago.
The actual total for last year is likely much higher — the ALA collects data through media accounts and through cases it learns about from librarians and educators and other community members. Books preemptively pulled by librarians — out of fear of community protest or concern for their jobs — and challenges never reported by libraries are not included.
The number could well grow again in 2022, Caldwell-Stone said, as conservative-led school boards and legislatures enact more restrictions. Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill that would accelerate the process for removing books seen as “harmful to minors.”
“Nothing would surprise me,” Caldwell-Stone says.
The two most challenged books on the ALA’s top 10 list have been in the news often: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man. Both have been singled out by Republican officials.
Last fall in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin backed a local school board’s banning of the two books during his successful run for governor. Around the same time, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster supported a school board’s decision to remove “Gender Queer.”
In Florida recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy” upon signing a law that would force elementary schools to provide a searchable list of every book available in their libraries or used in instruction and allow parents, DeSantis said, “to blow the whistle.”
Kobabe and Evison noted during recent interviews an irony of their books being targeted: Neither set out to write a story for young people. But they gained a following among students with the help of the American Library Association, which has given each book an Alex Award for works “written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.”
“I think a big part of our books getting so much attention is that they’re award winners and ended up being purchased by libraries all over the country,” Kobabe said.
Others on the ALA list, virtually all cited for LGBTQ or racial themes, include Angie Thomas’ bestselling “The Hate U Give,” centered on a police shooting of a Black teen; George Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay” and Susan Kuklin’s “Beyond Magenta.” Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.”
The library association defines a “challenge” as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.” The ALA doesn’t keep a precise figure for how many books have actually been removed, but cases have come up routinely over the past year. Last December, a school district in San Antonio, Texas, pulled hundreds of library books to “ensure they did not have any obscene or vulgar material in them.”
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GRAPHIC: Russian aggression not limited to Ukraine alone, Zelenskyy says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia is targeting all of Europe with its invasion of Ukraine, and stopping Moscow’s aggression is essential for the security of all democracies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Russian forces prepared for battle in the east of his country.
Addressing the “free people of a brave country,” Zelenskyy said in a late night video message to Ukrainians that Russia’s war aim “was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone” and the “entire European project is a target.”
“That is why it is not just the moral duty of all democracies, all the forces of Europe, to support Ukraine’s desire for peace,” he said. “This is, in fact, a strategy of defense for every civilized state.”
His address came as civilians continued to flee eastern parts of the country before an expected onslaught and emergency workers searched for survivors in towns north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, that are no longer occupied by Russian forces.
Russia has pulled its troops from the northern part of the country and refocused on the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years and controlled some territory before the war, now in its 46th day.
Western military analysts said an arc of territory in eastern Ukraine was under assault, from Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city — in the north to Kherson in the south. Newly released Maxar Technologies satellite imagery collected Friday showed an 8-mile (13-kilometer) convoy of military vehicles headed south to the Donbas through the town of Velykyi Burluk.
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However, Western assessments expressed increasing confidence in the ability of Ukraine’s defenders to repel Russian assaults, portraying Russia’s troops as suffering from low morale and mounting casualties.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that the Russian military was seeking to respond to mounting losses by boosting troop numbers with personnel who have been discharged from military service since 2012.
In an update on Twitter, the ministry also said that the Russian military’s efforts to “generate more fighting power” also include trying to recruit from Trans-Dniester, a breakaway region in Moldova that borders Ukraine.
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Moldova took up arms in 1992 to establish Trans-Dniester, which is not internationally recognized and where Russia maintains some 1,500 troops.
Several European leaders have made efforts to show solidarity with battle-scarred Ukraine. In his video address, Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of Britain and Austria for their visits to Kyiv on Saturday and pledges of further support.
He also thanked the European Commission president and Canada’s prime minister for a global fundraising event that brought in more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) for the millions of Ukrainians who have fled their homes.
Zelenskyy repeated his call for a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas, which he called the sources of Russia’s “self-confidence and impunity.” Some European countries depend heavily on imported Russian energy.
“Freedom does not have time to wait,” Zelenskyy said. “When tyranny begins its aggression against everything that keeps the peace in Europe, action must be taken immediately.”
In an interview with The Associated Press inside his heavily guarded presidential office complex, Zelenskyy said he was committed to negotiating a diplomatic end to the war even though Russia has “tortured” Ukraine.
He also acknowledged that peace likely will not come quickly. Talks so far have not included Russian President Vladimir Putin or other top officials.
“We have to fight, but fight for life. You can’t fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war,” the president said.
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia forces of commiting war crimes against thousands of civilians during the invasion, including airstrikes on hospitals, a missile attack that killed 52 people at a train station Friday and shooting residents of towns in the north at close range.
Graphic evidence of civilian slayings emerged after Russian forces withdrew from Bucha, and firefighters were searching buildings in Borodyanka, another settlement outside Kyiv. Russia has denied engaging in war crimes and falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
Ukrainian authorities have said they expect to find more mass killings once they reach the southern port city of Mariupol, which is also in the Donbas and has been subjected to a monthlong blockade and intense fighting. The city’s location on the Sea of Azov is critical to establishing a land bridge from the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine eight years ago.
Ukrainian officials have pleaded with Western powers almost daily to send more arms and further punish Moscow with sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from the global financial system and a total EU embargo on Russian gas and oil.
During his visit Saturday, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he expects more EU sanctions against Russia, but defended his country’s opposition so far to cutting off deliveries of Russian gas.
A package of sanctions imposed this week “won’t be the last one,” the chancellor said, acknowledging that “as long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient.” Austria is militarily neutral and not a member of NATO.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit came a day after the U.K. pledged an additional 100 million pounds ($130 million) in high-grade military equipment. Johnson also confirmed further economic support, guaranteeing an additional $500 million in World Bank lending to Ukraine, taking Britain’s total loan guarantee to up to $1 billion.
In the interview with AP, Zelenskyy noted the increased support but expressed frustration when asked if weapons and equipment Ukraine has received from the West is sufficient to shift the war’s outcome.
“Not yet,” he said, switching to English for emphasis. “Of course it’s not enough.”
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy.
“A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a day about a book being challenged at a library. And usually those calls would be for guidance on how to handle a challenge or for materials that support the value of the work being challenged,” Caldwell-Stone told The Associated Press. “Now, we’re getting three, four, five reports a day, many in need of support and some in need of a great deal of support.”
“We’re on the phone constantly,” she added.
Accounts of book bannings and attempted book bannings, along with threats against librarians, have soared over the past year and the ALA has included some numbers in its annual State of America’s Libraries Report, released Monday. The association found 729 challenges — affecting nearly 1,600 books — at public schools and libraries in 2021, more than double 2020′s figures and the highest since the ALA began compiling challenges more than 20 years ago.
The actual total for last year is likely much higher — the ALA collects data through media accounts and through cases it learns about from librarians and educators and other community members. Books preemptively pulled by librarians — out of fear of community protest or concern for their jobs — and challenges never reported by libraries are not included.
The number could well grow again in 2022, Caldwell-Stone said, as conservative-led school boards and legislatures enact more restrictions. Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill that would accelerate the process for removing books seen as “harmful to minors.”
“Nothing would surprise me,” Caldwell-Stone says.
The two most challenged books on the ALA’s top 10 list have been in the news often: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man. Both have been singled out by Republican officials.
Last fall in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin backed a local school board’s banning of the two books during his successful run for governor. Around the same time, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster supported a school board’s decision to remove “Gender Queer.”
In Florida recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy” upon signing a law that would force elementary schools to provide a searchable list of every book available in their libraries or used in instruction and allow parents, DeSantis said, “to blow the whistle.”
Kobabe and Evison noted during recent interviews an irony of their books being targeted: Neither set out to write a story for young people. But they gained a following among students with the help of the American Library Association, which has given each book an Alex Award for works “written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.”
“I think a big part of our books getting so much attention is that they’re award winners and ended up being purchased by libraries all over the country,” Kobabe said.
Others on the ALA list, virtually all cited for LGBTQ or racial themes, include Angie Thomas’ bestselling “The Hate U Give,” centered on a police shooting of a Black teen; George Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay” and Susan Kuklin’s “Beyond Magenta.” Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.”
The library association defines a “challenge” as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.” The ALA doesn’t keep a precise figure for how many books have actually been removed, but cases have come up routinely over the past year. Last December, a school district in San Antonio, Texas, pulled hundreds of library books to “ensure they did not have any obscene or vulgar material in them.”
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GRAPHIC: Russian aggression not limited to Ukraine alone, Zelenskyy says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia is targeting all of Europe with its invasion of Ukraine, and stopping Moscow’s aggression is essential for the security of all democracies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Russian forces prepared for battle in the east of his country.
Addressing the “free people of a brave country,” Zelenskyy said in a late night video message to Ukrainians that Russia’s war aim “was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone” and the “entire European project is a target.”
“That is why it is not just the moral duty of all democracies, all the forces of Europe, to support Ukraine’s desire for peace,” he said. “This is, in fact, a strategy of defense for every civilized state.”
His address came as civilians continued to flee eastern parts of the country before an expected onslaught and emergency workers searched for survivors in towns north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, that are no longer occupied by Russian forces.
Russia has pulled its troops from the northern part of the country and refocused on the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years and controlled some territory before the war, now in its 46th day.
Western military analysts said an arc of territory in eastern Ukraine was under assault, from Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city — in the north to Kherson in the south. Newly released Maxar Technologies satellite imagery collected Friday showed an 8-mile (13-kilometer) convoy of military vehicles headed south to the Donbas through the town of Velykyi Burluk.
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However, Western assessments expressed increasing confidence in the ability of Ukraine’s defenders to repel Russian assaults, portraying Russia’s troops as suffering from low morale and mounting casualties.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that the Russian military was seeking to respond to mounting losses by boosting troop numbers with personnel who have been discharged from military service since 2012.
In an update on Twitter, the ministry also said that the Russian military’s efforts to “generate more fighting power” also include trying to recruit from Trans-Dniester, a breakaway region in Moldova that borders Ukraine.
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Moldova took up arms in 1992 to establish Trans-Dniester, which is not internationally recognized and where Russia maintains some 1,500 troops.
Several European leaders have made efforts to show solidarity with battle-scarred Ukraine. In his video address, Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of Britain and Austria for their visits to Kyiv on Saturday and pledges of further support.
He also thanked the European Commission president and Canada’s prime minister for a global fundraising event that brought in more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) for the millions of Ukrainians who have fled their homes.
Zelenskyy repeated his call for a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas, which he called the sources of Russia’s “self-confidence and impunity.” Some European countries depend heavily on imported Russian energy.
“Freedom does not have time to wait,” Zelenskyy said. “When tyranny begins its aggression against everything that keeps the peace in Europe, action must be taken immediately.”
In an interview with The Associated Press inside his heavily guarded presidential office complex, Zelenskyy said he was committed to negotiating a diplomatic end to the war even though Russia has “tortured” Ukraine.
He also acknowledged that peace likely will not come quickly. Talks so far have not included Russian President Vladimir Putin or other top officials.
“We have to fight, but fight for life. You can’t fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war,” the president said.
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia forces of commiting war crimes against thousands of civilians during the invasion, including airstrikes on hospitals, a missile attack that killed 52 people at a train station Friday and shooting residents of towns in the north at close range.
Graphic evidence of civilian slayings emerged after Russian forces withdrew from Bucha, and firefighters were searching buildings in Borodyanka, another settlement outside Kyiv. Russia has denied engaging in war crimes and falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
Ukrainian authorities have said they expect to find more mass killings once they reach the southern port city of Mariupol, which is also in the Donbas and has been subjected to a monthlong blockade and intense fighting. The city’s location on the Sea of Azov is critical to establishing a land bridge from the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine eight years ago.
Ukrainian officials have pleaded with Western powers almost daily to send more arms and further punish Moscow with sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from the global financial system and a total EU embargo on Russian gas and oil.
During his visit Saturday, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he expects more EU sanctions against Russia, but defended his country’s opposition so far to cutting off deliveries of Russian gas.
A package of sanctions imposed this week “won’t be the last one,” the chancellor said, acknowledging that “as long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient.” Austria is militarily neutral and not a member of NATO.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit came a day after the U.K. pledged an additional 100 million pounds ($130 million) in high-grade military equipment. Johnson also confirmed further economic support, guaranteeing an additional $500 million in World Bank lending to Ukraine, taking Britain’s total loan guarantee to up to $1 billion.
In the interview with AP, Zelenskyy noted the increased support but expressed frustration when asked if weapons and equipment Ukraine has received from the West is sufficient to shift the war’s outcome.
“Not yet,” he said, switching to English for emphasis. “Of course it’s not enough.”
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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-- Gannex is expected to complete the Phase II trial in 100 patients by the end of 2022.
-- Gannex intends to soon start a Phase III trial in China, the U.S. and European Union after the completion of the Phase II study in China.
-- An epidemiology study in China in 2010 showed that there were approximately 656,000 PBC patients in China including 440,000 in females over age 40. An epidemiology study in the U.S. indicated that there were approximately 120,000 PBC patients in the U.S. in 2014.
SHANGHAI, April 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gannex Pharma Co., Ltd. ("Gannex"), a wholly owned company of Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX:1672) announces today the first patient dosed in the Phase II clinical trial of ASC42 to treat patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC).
The Phase II study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05190523) consists of three ASC42 active treatment arms (5 mg, 10 mg and 15 mg) and one placebo control arm at the ratio of 1:1:1:1 and is expected to enroll a total of 100 patients who have an inadequate response to or are unable to tolerate Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA). The treatment duration is 12 weeks and the study is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
The protocol of Phase III clinical trial in 210 PBC patients was approved in November 2021 by China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). After the completion of the Phase II clinical trial, Gannex will soon initiate the Phase III trial after the communications with China NMPA in terms of drug registration related matters such as Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) and toxicology studies.
ASC42 is an in-house developed, novel non-steroidal, selective, potent Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist with best-in-class potential and global intellectual property. The data from the U.S. Phase I trial of ASC42 indicated there was no pruritus observed during 14-day treatment of the once-daily human therapeutic dose of 15 mg and FXR target engagement biomarker Fibroblast Growth Factor 19 (FGF19) increased 1,780% on Day 14 of treatment with 15 mg dose. Furthermore, mean low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) values remained within the normal range during 14-day, once daily treatment with 15 mg.
UDCA is the only drug which is approved in China for PBC and approximately 40% of PBC patients have an inadequate response to or are unable to tolerate UDCA[1]. Obeticholic Acid (OCA), which is not approved in China, is the only approved medicine in the U.S. for PBC patients who have an inadequate response to or are unable to tolerate UDCA. However, there are significantly increased pruritus rates and LDL-C levels in patients with OCA treatment. Absence of pruritus and mean LDL-C values within the normal range at the therapeutic dose makes ASC42 a potential best-in-class PBC drug candidate. Gannex intends to soon start a Phase III trial in China, the U.S. and European Union after the completion of the Phase II study in China.
An epidemiology study in China in 2010 showed that there were approximately 656,000 PBC patients in China including 440,000 in females over age 40[2]. An epidemiology study in the U.S. indicated that there were approximately 120,000 PBC patients in the U.S. in 2014[3].
Dr. Jinzi J. Wu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ascletis said, "We are excited ASC42 Phase II trial for PBC is on track. Once again, it demonstrated the execution excellence of our clinical team. We are working very hard to transform ourselves into a global R&D leader in hepatobiliary diseases."
[1] Lindor K D, Bowlus C L, Boyer J, et al. Primary Biliary Cholangitis: 2018 Practice Guidance from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases [J]. Hepatology 2019, 69(1): 394-419. DOI: 10.1002/hep.30145.
[2] Chinese Rheumatology Association (中华医学会风湿病学分会), "Recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of primary biliary cholangitis in China (2021)"(原发性胆汁性胆管炎诊疗规范(2021)) [J]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi. (中华内科杂志), 2021, 60(8): 709-15. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20210520-00360.
[3] Lu M, Zhou Y, Haller I V, et al. Increasing Prevalence of Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Reduced Mortality With Treatment [J]. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2018, 16(8): 1342-50 e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2017.12.033.
About Ascletis
Ascletis is an innovative R&D driven biotech listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1672.HK), a global platform covering the entire value chain from discovery and development to manufacturing and commercialization. Ascletis is committed to developing and commercializing innovative drugs in the areas of viral diseases, NASH/PBC, and cancer (oral cancer metabolic checkpoint and immune checkpoint inhibitors) to address unmet medical needs both in China and globally. Led by a management team with deep expertise and a proven track record, Ascletis targets those therapeutic areas with unmet medical needs from a global perspective, and efficiently advances the developments of pipelines with an aim of leading in global competition. To date, Ascletis has three marketed products and 20 robust R&D pipelines of drug candidates with global competitiveness, and is actively exploring new therapeutic areas.
1. Viral Diseases: (1) Hepatitis B Virus (functional cure): focus on breakthrough therapies for CHB functional cure with a subcutaneously-injected PD-L1 antibody – ASC22 and Pegasys® as cornerstone drugs. (2) COVID-19 pipeline: currently includes (i) ritonavir oral tablet (100 mg), an authorized product, (ii) ASC10, an oral RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor and (iii) ASC11, an oral 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLpro) inhibitor. (3) HIV/AIDS: ASC22, an immune therapy to restore HIV-specific immune responses and eventually lead to a functional cure of HIV-infected patients. (4) Hepatitis C: successfully launched an all-oral regimen of combining ASCLEVIR® and GANOVO® (RDV/DNV regimen).
2. Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis/Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Gannex, a wholly-owned company of Ascletis, is dedicated to the R&D and commercialization of new drugs in the field of NASH. Gannex has three clinical stage drug candidates against three different targets – FASN, THRβ and FXR, three fixed-dose combinations for NASH and one PBC program targeting FXR.
3. Cancer (oral cancer metabolic checkpoint and immune checkpoint inhibitors): a pipeline of oral inhibitors targeting FASN, which plays a key role in cancer lipid metabolism, and a pipeline of oral PD-L1 small molecule next generation immune checkpoint inhibitors.
4. Exploratory Indications: Acne: Following NASH and recurrent GBM, the third indication for ASC40 has been approved to enter Phase 2 clinical trial. For more information, please visit www.ascletis.com.
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In “All the Old Knives,” ex-lovers and spies Henry and Celia meet for dinner in an upscale California beach town. They reminisce, haltingly, but this is no ordinary get-together. Celia (Thandiwe Newton) left the job years ago and shed her ties to the CIA in favor of marriage and children; Henry (Chris Pine) is still on the job and he’s been tasked with investigating a deadly airline hijacking from nearly a decade back, when they were both based out of Vienna. Turns out, there was a leak that sabotaged their efforts for a better outcome. Over sips of wine, fine dining and subtle mutual interrogation, this reunion is meant to shed light on the mole’s identity. Who double-crossed whom?
Except for the fact that Henry’s casework centers on a plane besieged by terrorism, “All the Old Knives” feels designed to be watched on a plane. That’s not a dig; beach reads and in-flight movies are meant to be diverting, but not too taxing. Yet even by those standards, the film is listless.
The story is based on the short novel of the same name by Olen Steinhauer, who was inspired by the meal-between-exes premise of a 2010 two-hander that aired on PBS called “The Song of Lunch,” starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, who catch up years later to break bread and nurse their boozy recriminations. The intimacy’s the thing and the film spotlights a pair of actors who find disarming humor even in a dramatic setting that is both intoxicating and sometimes bordering on too much information. Steinhauer saw something there he could play with, added an espionage angle and was off to the races.
Celia has left her old life of intrigue for something more suburban and cozy in the quietly exquisite environs of Carmel-by-the-Sea, which the book describes as the kind of place “in which Miss Marple might find herself stumbling around, discovering corpses among antiques,” but what might have had some wit on the page becomes sodden and plodding in this screen adaptation from Steinhauer and director Janus Metz. There’s a glimmer of something sardonic when Henry first arrives at the restaurant, orders a James Bondian vodka martini and gives a barely exasperated look when he’s informed, “Sorry, we only serve wine.” He tells the barman: “Let’s try something cold.” White or rose? “Dry,” he replies ... dryly. Enjoy the moment, because the film abandons any opportunities for minor levity from that point forward.
Laurence Fishburne (as Henry’s current boss) and Jonathan Pryce (as Celia’s former boss) make brief appearances. Events from the day of the hijacking arrive in flashback, taking us away from the restaurant – a lovely space that is empty of people and visual interest – but the change of scenery doesn’t enliven things between Pine and Newton, who are left to do little more than inject some intensity into these underdeveloped characters. There’s a self-seriousness in the way they’ve been directed (they bring a more methodical energy to the table than Thompson and Rickman did in “A Song for Lunch”) that tends to suck all the tension from their spy vs. spy do-si-do. Scenes of the couple naked in bed back in Vienna lack eroticism and fail to convey anything meaningful about their head space in those moments.
And then there’s decision to make the hijackers Muslim, a tired, reductive narrative go-to the script does nothing to deepen or complicate. “All the Old Knives” settles for all the old tropes.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
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* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
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‘Elvis’ to make world premiere at Cannes Film Festival
“Elvis” is ready to rock the Cannes Film Festival.
The biopic about the King of Rock and Roll will make its world premiere next month at the annual festival in Cannes, Frances, organizers announced Tuesday.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the film stars Austin Butler as Elvis Presley; Tom Hanks as his controversial manager, Colonel Tom Parker; and Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Prescley.
Luhrmann, Butler, Hanks and DeJonge will attend the Cannes festival to introduce their movie, which arrives in United States theaters on June 24.
Tuesday’s announcement also featured the release of a new photo from the film showing Butler and Hanks as their characters.
“Elvis” explores the life and career of Presley and his complex relationship with Parker in a story that covers 20 years. The first trailer for the movie debuted in February, with Luhrmann and Butler speaking about the upcoming movie at a virtual event attended by the Daily News.
Butler said of Presley at the time, “He’s such an icon and he’s held up to a superhuman status, so to get to explore that for years now and learn why he was the way that he was and find the human within that icon, that was really just such a joy that I could do it for the rest of my life probably.”
The 2022 edition of the Cannes Film Festival takes place from May 17-28.
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Walk into Wyoming Wave Studios, and you’ll be met with a set of 10 rules printed and pinned to a vibrant yellow and blue wall.
Among them are “Come prepared,” “Clean up after yourself,” “Be Honest (with your producer, but most of all yourself)” and at number one on the list, “No, you can’t smoke weed in here.”
Other rules on the list echo similar standards, all of which, no matter how comedic the explanation, are in place for one simple reason: maintaining professionalism.
This isn’t a game, a joke or some one-off experiment. Co-owners Devante Anderson and Jacob Hrasky are building a headquarters for regional musicians to develop their careers, and they plan on sticking around.
“We had to take it to the next level,” Anderson said, while sitting behind the production board at Wyoming Wave. “I don’t want to say, ‘Hey, come to my studio,’ and there’s no professional value or no professional feel when I invite you in.
“This is not the time for you to come to my house and slack off or do whatever. You come to a professional place, you come handle your things in a professional manner.”
Mentors to the musicians
It’s the afternoon, and Anderson and Hrasky are rattling the ground floor beneath the Central Plaza Hotel with a new beat that, earlier that day, took Anderson about 30 minutes to construct. They’re both producers and audio engineers, making beats on their own and in collaboration.
They partnered up and opened Wyoming Wave in December, though the two have been scheming about it for years.
Just last fall, Anderson and Hrasky released their debut collaboration, “50/50,” under their hip-hop aliases VanteSlayedIt and Pocketbook Prophet. Their teamwork is evident as they lean over the Music Production Center – a small electronic box that allows them to manipulate any sounds they need, with drum pads and knobs to alter levels – and discuss the minute touches to make the track work.
They laid the groundwork to get this studio together, but it didn’t come easily. Neither of them had any idea how to start a business, so they began at square one, teaching themselves the basic business and marketing practices required to get their name out there.
Already, they have about 35 musicians that frequent the studio. The producers expect the same degree of respect from their musicians that they put forth.
“Rule number three is ‘Come prepared.’ It should only cost you $50 to record because it shouldn’t take me that long,” Anderson said. “At the same time, $50 an hour is a reasonable price. A lot of people tell me I should probably be charging $100 an hour because of quality.”
No-one is coming in to record until 3 p.m., but Anderson is adjusting the microphone in the booth. Hrasky is giving a brief tour of the one-room studio, where instruments sit against the far wall – bass and acoustic guitars, which Hrasky will play as a session musician, though each of them step in when needed.
Together, they joke that they should be charging for more than just recording and mixing services, as their days consist of more than just sitting behind the boards while musicians step in and out. They do their best to coach their clients and be transparent in how they’re producing the song. Some artists have real talent, but even the best will miss a note and fail to notice.
In a moment like this, the duo will step back and show the artist what went wrong. If the artist wants to re-record it, they’ll jump back to the section and go again.
Unfortunately, this isn’t as common a courtesy in the recording industry as one might think.
Treating musicians fairly is one of the pillars that Wyoming Wave rests on. Both Anderson and Hrasky, as well as other artists they record in their studio, have had their share of pitfalls trying to get their songs produced.
“I paid so much money in Colorado to have a couple of songs that I don’t even like to this day,” Hrasky said. “I can’t change it or fix it because that’s their policy. I didn’t know anything about them. I didn’t like anything to feel like it was being hidden from me.”
A push for professionalism creates a serious atmosphere where wasting time isn’t welcome. Though they may only be four solid months into a business, they try to carry themselves like veterans of the industry. They’ll take care of you if you take care of them (rule number six).
There are times when they have to play the role of teachers, making the extra effort to walk inexperienced musicians through each step of the process. Mainly, it’s things they wish a producer had told them when they were starting out, from how to enunciate or expand their vocals in a section, to sitting musicians down and explaining every aspect of the contract before they sign.
Both of them have experiences with not being paid after a show, hardly receiving royalties for their own song or actually losing money trying to fund their own gig.
“You’re leaving yourself a bad review,” Hrasky said, referring to studios that don’t respect their musicians. “You’re instantly setting yourself up for failure by not doing the one thing that you’re supposed to be doing.
“They’re trying to be mediocre just to get that money.”
In the last month, they’ve noticed more musicians migrating to them from northern Colorado recording studios. The majority of their clientele currently consists of rappers and hip-hop artists based in Cheyenne, but they’re looking to expand as much as they can.
Last weekend, after the most recent installment of the Battle of the Bands at The Lincoln Theatre, Hrasky approached the winners of the “Rock Band,” category, Laramie-based punk band Big Dill. They hadn’t cut a studio record since 2020, so he invited them to start working at Wyoming Wave.
Making their mark
It’s not lost on the producers what impact they can make on the city and its musicians. That’s why they don’t limit themselves to one genre. Having to produce a hip-hop track is much more easier than mixing, mastering and toying with all the instruments incorporated into a heavier rock track, but Anderson and Hrasky are willing to accept the challenge.
Plus, being flexible opens them up to more business and the potential to leave an even larger impact on the region.
Evidence of this comes in their upcoming debut show at The Louise event venue, the Wyo Music Showcase. The event is, to their knowledge, one of the first-ever rap/hip-hop shows to be held in Cheyenne.
The featured musicians are all artists that have started to record at Wyoming Wave over the past four months – rappers like Trey Wrks, 2une Godi, Compass, Young Fredrick, all of who have since earned a place on the board – a cork board of portraits pinned up near the entryway to the studio.
All of the rules pinned up in Wyoming Wave remain in effect for the musicians performing in the show. Everyone will have rehearsed at least five times, and all acts will be sober enough to give a good show.
In addition to 15-minute performances from each musician, there will also be food, drinks and a free raffle for the audience to participate in.
But the biggest relief has been the response from the community. Different businesses and organizations have reached out to give their support to Wyoming Wave, including Mary’s Mountain Cookies, who gifted them a batch of cookies with their logos designed in frosting.
“I never thought I was gonna get as much support for doing this. I just thought it was me against the world, baby. But no, I got some good colleagues,” Anderson said.
Possibly no one else is as excited for Anderson and Hrasky as the person hosting the showcase, Jazminn Jackson, owner of The Louise.
“Me and Vontae went to, I think, junior high and high school,” Jackson said. “I’ve known him for a while know. I knew that he did music, but I didn’t know that it was this big.”
When Wyoming Wave opened in December, Jackson was proud to meet them with flowers to celebrate. She’s big on supporting fellow businesses and growing the community in a new direction.
Wyoming Wave has plans to last long into the future and continue to develop their clientele and presence as a Front Range recording studio. The Louise will be right there alongside it, with Jackson planning to turn this kind of musical showcase into a monthly event.
In her view, there aren’t enough musicians getting the chance to express themselves around the city, and this event is a big step toward changing that. Jackson is particularly proud of the impact Wyoming Wave and this event will have within the local community.
“I’m just so proud of my people, of Black people doing it, making boss moves and going into their own business,” Jackson said. “I mainly wanted to host an event or collaborate with them, mainly to get the word out about music, but to also let it be known that we are out here.”
When it comes to doing something different, it’s best to refer to Wyoming Wave Studios rule number five: “Ideas are great, and I’ll consider them (but if you don’t know how to produce, STFU.)”
The Wyo Music Showcase will be held on April 23 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.
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‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’
”Saturday Night Live” has come a long way in representing women of color. But that doesn’t mean Robin Thede doesn’t deserve her own show. The multitalented comic returns for the third season of a series that only gets better with age. Thede and her small but mighty cast morph into a wide range of characters, including a catfished school teacher and an unflappable Mary Magdalene, in fast-paced, sharp sketches created by a writing team now led by Tracey Ashley. Together, they show how to make jokes about Black women’s hair without triggering an international incident. 11 p.m. ET Friday, HBO
‘Genesis: The Last Domino?’
The legendary band recently wrapped up a tour that will almost certainly be its last. So those who didn’t see them will have to settle for this behind-the-scenes documentary that originally aired last fall. The footage is from Genesis’ rehearsals for its last hurrah, which gives you a chance to see Phil Collins slowly, but surely get his voice back. Featured numbers include “Mama,” “Land of Confusion” and “Throwing It All Away.” 11 p.m. Friday, PBS
‘Would I Lie To You?’
This new series may technically be a game show but it’s really just an excuse for celebrities to show off their improv-comedy skills, sharing wild anecdotes that either really happened or are pure fiction. It’s an amusing exercise. Guests include Tony winner Santino Fontana and comedian Dulce Sloan. 8:30 p.m. Saturdays, CW
‘Return to Space’
This surprisingly dull documentary investigates public/private partnerships created to fund space exploration and, yes, that means there is way too much of financier Elon Musk in it (cut every inane comment he makes and “Return” would be a tight 90 minutes). Directed by “Free Solo” Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the doc is best when it focuses on astronauts and shows their work at the International Space Station. Lands Thursday, Netflix
‘All the Old Knives’
The CIA is involved, along with several beautiful European cities, but the vibe is less “Mission: Impossible” than John le Carre. While it’s not as complex or insightful as le Carre adaptations such as “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” it’s a slow-burning drama about spies who can no longer tell right from wrong. Chris Pine stars as an agent trying to figure out which of his colleagues is a turncoat, responsible for the deaths of dozens of innocents. He gets help – or does he? – from a former lover played by Thandiwe Newton. Debuts Friday, Amazon
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Cheyenne and Laramie County
The Passion Cantata “No Greater Love”
– April 10, 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Experience a retelling of the Passion story through music and word performed by the FUMC Church Orchestra and Chancel Choir. First United Methodist Church, 108 E. 18th St. 307-632-1410
Young Readers Book Party
– April 10, 1:15-2 p.m. Grades pre K-2. A celebration of reading with young readers that’s a little bit early literacy class, and a little bit more. The class will read and talk about books, sing, play and learn. This month’s themes are Bird Art and Family Storytelling Games. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Cowgirls of the West Luncheon
– April 11, 11:30 a.m. $25. Mr. James Fuller will be presenting a program on Women’s Suffrage in Wyoming, titled “Petticoat Government.” Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. Call 307-632-2814 by April 8.
Make it Mondays
– April 11, 1-5 p.m. Get crafty at the library every Monday! Participants will be making beautiful heart paper flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Craftastic Tuesdays
– April 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Get crafty on Tuesdays. Create and take home paper straw tulips set in plastic egg vases that will look perfect for the Easter season. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Tales Together
– April. 12, 14, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m. An in-person interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. Call to reserve a spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Burns Branch Library
– April 12, 10:15-11 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Seasons.” Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
We Drink and We Know Things
– April 12, 6 p.m. Monthly themed trivia night on the second Tuesday of each month. The theme is always a surprise so gather your team, drink some beers and show us what you know! Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
Paint and Plant
– April 12, 6-8 p.m. A teen class where you can paint a pot in your own creative way and then plant a seedling. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Yoga Together
– April 13, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Come and experience stories, stretching and fun with a special early literacy class. This month’s theme is “Splish Splash Ducky.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual Tales Together
– April 14, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. A virtual interactive early literacy class where young children will practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. RSVP at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Pine Bluffs Branch
– April 14, 10:15-10:45 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Feathered Friends.” Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Library for All
– April 14, 12:30-2:30 p.m. An event specifically geared toward adults with disabilities. International Bat Appreciation Day is in April and Library for All will be celebrating our furry, flying friends by having a bat-tastic day of fun! Special guest Mason Lee from the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute will talk about bat species in Wyoming and answer your bat-related questions. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Cheyenne ArtWalk
– April 14, 5-8 p.m. Cheyenne’s monthly celebration of artists and their work. During Artwalk, downtown art galleries, businesses and restaurants showcase a local or regional visual artist or musician, accompanied by light food and beverages. Multiple locations, downtown Cheyenne. 307-222-4091
Knights of the Turntable
– April 14, 6 p.m. A recurring vinyl record listening party with a new theme every month. Bring 15 minutes of vinyl to discuss, or just listen to the music. There is a prize for best presentation. This month’s theme is “I Thought This Would Be Cooler.” Downtown Vinyl, 1612 Capitol Ave. 307-632-3476
Brown Bag Book Club
– April 14, 6-7 p.m. Grade 4-6. Book Club will meet twice during the month of April. The club will chat about the book, do some crazy activities and enjoy a delicious treat. Participants can bring a “brown bag” meal, and drinks will be provided. Participants can pick up “Masterminds” by Gordon Korman from the second floor. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Open Jam Night
– April 14, 7-10 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its next Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc. and come jam with other local musicians! Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Storytime at Paul Smith Children’s Village
– April 15, 11-11:30. 18 months-5 years. Head over to the Paul Smith Children’s Village to participate in one of the library’s early literacy storytimes. Paul Smith Children’s Village at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 616 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6458
Emoji Eggs: A Craft for Teens
– April 15, 1-3 p.m. Teens will dye and decorate hard-boiled eggs to look like their favorite emoji. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Friday Matinee, Pine Bluffs
– April 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Spend your Friday afternoons at the Pine Bluffs Branch library to watch a matinee. Each week will feature a different movie. This week’s movie is “Hop” (PG). Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Crafty Family Challenge
– April 15, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Gather your family and meet in the Cottonwood Room for this extreme craft challenge. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring whatever materials you like. Sign your family up at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Friday Night Jazz
– April 15, 6 p.m. 21+. Bring some friends, grab a drink and food, and listen to some beautiful music by Jazztet in the relaxing Hathaway’s Lounge. Two-drink minimum required. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. 307-775-8400
Creation feat. Protohype @ The Lincoln
– April 15, 6-7 p.m. Kratos Productions presents CREATION. A night of heavy bass music sounds, dancing, lights, lasers, love and unity. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
WAR @ The Lincoln
– April 15, 8-11 p.m. The legendary band WAR is coming to Cheyenne. The long list of hits includes “Low Rider,” “The World Is A Ghetto,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” “The Cisco Kid” and many more. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cheyenne Audubon Field Trip
– April 16, 6-9 a.m. Free. A field trip to see sharp-tailed grouse on leks and other prairie birds north of Hillsdale. Call 307-343-2024 to register. The group will leave at 6 a.m. from the front parking lot at Pilot Truck Stop, 8020 Campstool Road. https://cheyenneaudubon.org/
Cheyenne Winter Farmers Market
– April 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. A seasonal indoor farmers market with live music where local vendors sell their produce, meats, cheeses, crafts, canned good and more. Cheyenne Depot, 121 W. 15th St. 307-222-9542
Saturday Morning Book Club
– April 16, 10-11 a.m. This month, the club will discuss “The Exiles” by Kristina Baker Kline, and offer coffee and treats. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Easter Egg Hunt at the Louise Event Venue
– April 16, ages 1-3 from 10-11 a.m., ages 4-6 from 12-1 p.m., and ages 7-10 from 2-3 p.m. Free. JazMinn’s Events & Decor presents an Easter egg hunt for younger children. There will also be treats provided by Kates Cookie Shed and photos with the Easter bunny, courtesy of AG Photography. Limited to 40 participants per age group. Sign up on signupgenius.com. Participants must bring their own basket. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th St. 307-220-1474
Laramie County Library Eggstravaganza
– April 16. It’s time for the yearly Eggstravaganza. This year, the library will be presenting egg-citing workshops for different age groups. Visit its calendar for a full list of events. Attendance for some events will be limited, so sign up at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual SaturD&D
– April 16, 1-3 p.m. Join the library’s teen Dungeons and Dragons online community and get started on creating a character today. Don’t have a Discord account yet? No problem. They offers Discord Communities for teens to interact, chat, and play online. To participate, you will need a phone, tablet or computer with internet connection and a Discord account. RSVP for the event at lclsonline.org/calendar/.
”Dutch Hop!” Documentary Film Screening
– April 16, 1-5 p.m. A screening of the documentary “Dutch Hop!” which focuses on the musical and dance traditions of the German-Russian community in Southeast Wyoming, Northern Colorado and Western Nebraska. The filmmakers, Chris Simon and Annie Hatch, will be present for a discussion of the film, followed by a performance and dance featuring Wayne Appelhans and the Dutch Hops from 2-5 p.m. Call John Chrysler at 307-256-2010 for more information. Pine Bluffs Historic High School, 607 Elm Street, Pine Bluffs. 307-630-5320
Glow in the Dark Dodgeball
– April 16, 12-8 p.m. 3rd Annual Glow in the Dark Dodgeball Tournament of Champions is an event that brings Laramie County community members together for friendly competition and to support a great cause. All proceeds earned from tournament registration go to Laramie County Grief Support Group to assist families that have lost a loved one. Event Center at Archer, 3801 Archer Parkway. 307-633-4670
Genealogy: Searching the Newly-Released 1950 Census
– April 16, 3-4:30 p.m. The eagerly-awaited 1950 U.S. Census has just been released and is available for family history researchers to find their families. We’ll show you why this is exciting for genealogists by doing a few demonstration searches in the 1950 census on Ancestry Library Edition and other genealogy databases. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Beer & Paint Night at Black Tooth
– April 16, 5-8 p.m. $40. Black Tooth’s first Beer and Painting Night event. Local artist Danielle Kirby will lead a class on a painting that could be random, funny or serious. All painting materials are provided by Black Tooth. Tickets include three beers. Black Tooth Brewing Co. 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
Easter Day Brunch
– April 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $40 for adults, $15 for children. Enjoy a brunch buffet for the whole family. Private rooms available for an additional fee. Visit www.themetdowntown.com for more information. The Metropolitan Downtown, 1701 Carey Ave. 307-432-0022
Easter Hoppy Hour at Danielmark’s
– April 17th, 1-6 p.m. Happy hour in honor of Easter. There will be ham, scalloped potatoes, deviled eggs, and chocolate cupcakes, plus all the “hops” you can fit in your tummy. Danielmark’s Brewing Co., 209 E. 18th St. 307-514-0411
Make it Mondays
– April 18, 1-5 p.m. Get crafty at the library every Monday! Participants will be making beautiful heart paper flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Coffee Connections at Burns Branch Library
– April 18, 2-4 p.m. Coffee Connections is the place to come for coffee and conversation with your friends and neighbors. On April 18, we will be showing the film “News of the World” (rated PG-13), starring Tom Hanks. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Craftastic Tuesdays
– April 19, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Get crafty on Tuesdays. Take home paper straw tulips set in plastic egg vases that will look perfect for the Easter season. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Tales Together
– April. 19-21, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m. An in-person interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. Call to reserve a spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Dinner and a Book Club
– April 19, 5:30-7 p.m. This month’s selection is “Look Again” by Lisa Scottoline. It’s a fast-paced thriller about a mother’s search for her son’s true identity. Join in for a lively discussion and bring a dish to share. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
National Poetry Month Celebration
– April 19, 7-8:30 p.m. Poetry lovers will hear poems read by local authors and have a chance to read their own poems, or one from a favorite poet. Presented in partnership with WyoPoets. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Cheyenne Audubon presents Sage-Grouse Update
– April 19, 7 p.m. Daly Edmunds, Audubon Rockies policy and outreach director, and Vicki Herren, retired Bureau of Land Management national sage-grouse coordinator, will present “Greater Sage-Grouse – The Largest Conservation Effort in U.S. History: The Ups and Downs.” A Zoom link will be available at https://cheyenneaudubon.org/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
STEAM Connections
– April 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Explore a STEAM challenge that promotes creativity, building and problem solving. This month’s STEAM discoveries are building bird nests and LEGO building challenge cards. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Virtual Tales Together
– April 21, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Join the Laramie County Library for a virtual interactive early literacy class where young children will practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. RSVP at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Pine Bluffs Branch
– April 21, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Join us for an interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Seasons.” Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Sit, Stay, Read! Read to a Therapy Dog
– April 21, 4-5 p.m. Everyone loves to hear a story, even our four-pawed friends. Visit the library and practice reading aloud to one of the community’s therapy dogs. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
BUZZ: Adult and Teen Spelling Bee
– April 21, 5-6:30 p.m. Visit the Burns Branch Library for this fun spelling competition, hosted by staff from the Burns and Pine Bluffs branch libraries. The competition’s words will be similar to the word lists used by schools and the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Sign up at either branch library or by calling 307-547-2249 or 307-245-3646. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Craft Night: Learn to Make Seed Paper
– April 21, 6-8 p.m. Adults. Celebrate Earth Day with the Seed Library of Laramie County and learn how to make seed paper for planting and gifting. RSVP for this event at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Classic Conversations: Lunch and Learn Series
– April 22, 12-1 p.m. Join Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra’s William Intrilligator, soprano vocalist Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, and bass-baritone vocalist Rhys Lloyd Talbot for an informal and entertaining discussion, including musical insights about the concert on April 23. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Movies at the Library, Burns Branch
– April 22, 1-3 p.m. Join the Burns Branch Library for a family friendly movie and some popcorn. This week’s movie is “The House with a Clock in Its Walls.” Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Friday Matinee, Pine Bluffs
– April 22, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Spend your Friday afternoons at the Pine Bluffs Branch library to watch a matinee. Each week will feature a different movie. This week’s movie is “Clifford the Big Red Dog” (PG). Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Cheyenne Gaming Convention
– April 22, 3 p.m.-midnight; April 23, 8 a.m.-midnight; April 24, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $50 for three day pass. A charity fundraising video game convention featuring DnD, video games, card games and board games. Red Lion Hotel and Conference Center, 204 W. Fox Farm Rd. 307-638-4466
Teen Craft Afternoons
– April 22, 3-5 p.m. Never know what to do with your hands? Not anymore! Visit craft afternoons and spend some time making unique crafts. Snacks will be provided. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Count on Planting with Paul Smith Children’s Village
– April 22, 4-5 p.m. Children and families. Like counting games? Enjoy planting? Then this event is for you! Go to the library and join special guests from the Paul Smith Children’s Village to play, learn and plant all in one spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Friday Night Jazz
– April 22, 6 p.m. 21+. Bring some friends, grab a drink and food, and listen to some beautiful music by Jazztet in the relaxing Hathaway’s Lounge. Two-drink minimum required. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. 307-775-8400
Comedy Night at The Metropolitan
– April 22, 7:30 p.m. $20. Laughter is good for the soul. Get your giggles on at this 90-minute comedy show featuring two awesome comedians. The Metropolitan Downtown, 1701 Carey Ave. 307-432-0022
The Samples @ The Lincoln
– April 22, 8-9 p.m. $25. Boulder, Colorado-based band, The Samples, will perform reggae infused rock/pop. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Yoga Together
– April 23, 10:15-10:45 a.m. 18 months to 5 years old. Experience stories, stretching and fun with a special early literacy class. This month’s theme is “Splish Splash Ducky.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual SaturD&D
– April 23, 1-3 p.m. Join the library’s teen Dungeons and Dragons online community and get started on creating a character today. Don’t have a Discord account yet? No problem. They offers Discord Communities for teens to interact, chat and play online. To participate, you will need a phone, tablet or computer with internet connection and a Discord account. RSVP for the event at lclsonline.org/calendar/.
Fur Ball presents Jurassic Bark
– April 23, 5-10 p.m. $110. The Fur Ball is Cheyenne’s pet-friendly gala, which raises money in support of the animals and programs at the Cheyenne Animal Shelter. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. 307-278-6195
CSO presents “A Time to Transcend”
– April 23, 7:30 p.m. $10-$50 for in person, $15 per household for livestream. This Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra concert will feature Jennifer Higdon’s “Blue Cathedral” and Brahms’ German Requiem to close the 2021-22 season. This evening will feature vocal soloists Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson and Rhys Lloyd Talbot, plus a large local choir. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-778-8561
Wyo Music Showcase
– April 23, doors at 7 p.m. $5, free entry 11 and under. A local rap showcase hosted by Wyoming Wave Recording Studio featuring Trey Wrks, 2une Godi, Compass, Alienation and more. There will also be a raffle. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th Street. 307-220-1474
Young Readers Book Party
– April 24, 1:15-2 p.m. Grades pre-K to 2. Join the library for a celebration of reading with young readers that’s a little bit early literacy class and a little bit more. The class will read and talk about books, sing, play and learn. This month’s themes are Bird Art and Family Storytelling Games. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Hausmusik 2: Wyoming Brass Quintet
– April 24, 2 p.m. Adults, $50; students, $25. CSO presents an afternoon with the Wyoming Brass Quintet in the beautiful new Blue Community Events Center at World Headquarters. The recital will be followed by a reception including light appetizers. Blue Federal Credit Union, 2401 E. Pershing Blvd. 307-778-8561
Speed Friending at Blacktooth Brewing Co.
– April 24, 6-9 p.m. $25. This speed friending event will be structured just like speed dating, but for anyone wanting to meet new people. Black Tooth knows it’s difficult to make the first move or initiate a new friend-date, so the team wants to facilitate those connections. Tickets include two beer tokens. Black Tooth Brewing Co. 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
Chicago at the Civic Center
– April 24, 7-10 p.m. $54+. The legendary rock band with horns, Chicago, is coming back to Cheyenne. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-778-8561
Ongoing
Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition
– Through Aug. 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Presented by the Wyoming State Museum, this exhibit compiles 66 different pieces of artwork from artists around the state of Wyoming. Wyoming State Capitol basement extension, 200 W. 24th St. 307-777-7220
41st Annual Western Spirit Art Show and Sale
– Through April 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Stephanie Hartshorn, artist and member of the American Impressionist Society, and Mark Vinich, co-founder of Clay Paper Scissors Gallery & Studios, have selected 232 unique pieces of art for this year’s art show. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
Art & Text: Artist as Storyteller
– Through May 17, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Enjoy visual stories and the written word created by K–12 students in Laramie County School District 1. Art is located throughout all three floors of the library. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
The Front Range
Canyon Concert Ballet presents “Snow White”
– May 7-8, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. $30-$40. This debut production brings to life the legendary fairy tale of Snow White. This production from new Artistic Director Michael Pappalardo will be complete with new sets, costumes and his exquisite choreographic style. Lincoln Center Performance Hall, 417 W. Magnolia St. 970-221-6730
”Black and White in Black and White” Exhibit
–Through May 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. $8. This new exhibit features striking photographs attributed to African American photographer John Johnson who took powerful, early 20th-century portraits of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska. Greeley History Museum, 714 9th St, Greeley, Colorado. 970-350-9220
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Boomerang Writer
Felipe de Jesús Franco has lived in Laramie for 15 years.
He works construction to support his four kids, ages 5, 6, 12 and 13. His wife, Ana Eleuterio, works as a cleaner. Life was normal for the family until an unexpected diagnosis in December changed their world.
That’s when Franco was sent to the emergency room with high blood pressure. After a series of tests, the husband and father learned he had very low functionality in his kidneys. They are now functioning at 19% capacity, meaning he will need a kidney transplant to ensure much of a life past his age of 37.
“It surprised everyone,” Eleuterio said in Spanish of her husband’s diagnosis. “It all happened so fast.”
The doctor gave Franco six to eight months to start the transplant process before symptoms of his failing organs would begin to set in. In the months since, his family has been working to break down the significant barriers to the life-saving health care he needs.
The hurdlesTo receive a kidney transplant, patients must be referred to an organ donation waiting list or find a living donor. Once approved, the transplant operation must be completed at a specialized transplant center. Because there isn’t such a facility in Wyoming, local patients are often referred to centers in Colorado or Nebraska, said University of Wyoming medical professor Danielle Bruns.
In the past year, 383 kidney transplants were performed in Colorado and 151 in Nebraska. The waiting lists for a transplant during this time period sat at 1,270 people in Colorado and 184 in Nebraska, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
“Basically, the way that they determine if you’re the next recipient is based on magical scores (like) how sick you are (or) how long you’ve been waiting, that are incredibly difficult decisions to make,” Bruns said.
Franco has a potential donor, but tests are needed to determine if the organ will be a match. Because he doesn’t have health insurance, his family must raise a whopping $250,000 for the operation he needs.
As Franco looked on during an interview at their Laramie home, Eleuterio explained that he didn’t initially want anyone outside the family to know about his diagnosis. The best his wife could do to raise money was sell tamales, and the couple realized they had no choice but to reach out to others for support.
“The truth is it’s really difficult,” Eleuterio said. “It’s a lot of money and we can’t do it on our own, so now we are asking for help from the community so we can find him a place that can help him.”
The family plans to hold a fundraiser at the Lincoln Community Center on Saturday. Eleuterio and some of her friends will prepare and sell a variety of Mexican foods, along with a dance, with all of the proceeds going toward Franco’s operation.
In March, they created a GoFundMe page to help the cause. As of Friday, 38 people had donated a total of $3,955 toward the $250,000 goal.
Front and center on the page is a photo of Franco with his kids, who are clearly a central part of his life. A cluster of bicycles sits outside their mobile home in Laramie, and the buzz of their television shows echoed throughout the inside.
In addition to being meticulous about his diet and self-care, Franco has been taking medications to regulate his blood pressure and prevent his kidneys from losing further function. He’s felt well enough to continue working, which helps bring a sense of normalcy to the family.
“If his kids don’t see him get up and go to work they get sad,” Eleuterio said, watching her daughter blow bubbles in the living room. “It scares them and they start to think horrible things … (like) he could die, so he needs to take care of himself.”
Life-altering change
Raising the initial chunk of money is only one part of the challenges that lay ahead.
“Transplant is the most affordable part of the process,” Bruns said. “Patients will be on life-long immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the (organ). The process is very, very difficult, and there’s a lot of checks to make sure patients will have those resources.”
Beyond financial considerations, Hispanic patients are 48% less likely to receive a live kidney donation than their white counterparts. The gap is even worse for Asian and Black patients, who have 58% and 73% lower odds respectively, according to a 2018 study reported by Reuters.
Though there isn’t one answer to why this disparity exists, Eleuterio explained that the hardships her husband faced may have contributed to his need to get the operation in the first place.
“As Mexicans, it costs us more to go to the doctor,” Eleuterio said. “Sometimes we can’t go to the doctor and we don’t realize what’s happening with our bodies, or we realize too late. That’s what happened with (Felipe).”
There are a variety of reasons someone may experience kidney failure, with the bottom line being that it’s “more common than it should be,” Bruns said.
These causes could be genetic or be related to chronic conditions such as hypertension or diabetes.
Eleuterio said that community members should seek to support one another when challenges like her family’s arise, especially because they could happen to anyone at any moment.
“We all help one another,” Eleuterio said. “It should be easy, because we never know when we are going to get sick, and it’s really difficult when someone doesn’t have insurance.”
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Laramie Valley.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
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LPD seeks dog that bit personLaramie police are searching for a dog that bit a person this past week.
Someone was bitten by a pit bull or boxer mix Monday afternoon, the Laramie Police Department says in a press release. The bit happened in the area of Sheridan and 13th streets.
The dog was roaming free and did not appear to have a collar, the PD reports. Locating the dog is important for rabies monitoring and vaccination verification.
If this is your dog or you have information about where this dog may be, police ask you to call the department’s Animal Control Unit at 307-721-5385 or the non-emergency dispatch line t 307-721-2526 and reference case No. 22-5272.
Animal Control reminds residents that animal bits can expose people to rabies and that all animal bites must be reported immediately.
Government exercises rights on North Platte waterMultiple years of drought have depleted reservoir storage and carryover to the point of the state initiating its priority on water rights diverting the research from the North Platte River and its tributaries upstream of Pathfinder Reservoir.
The North Platte River has been impacted by multiple years of drought that, combined with below average snowpack, shows April storage and runoff forecasts of about less than 1 million acre feet for the reaches of the river subject to administration. This is well below the 1.1 million acre-foot trigger to prompt a call on the water rights held by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
“The immediate effects of the priority administration would mainly affect those junior priority water rights held by some municipalities and industries and storage reservoirs that may divert or store water,” according to a press release announcing the move. “Letters have been sent to the municipalities and industries that may be affected by these administration activities.
“The letters inform the entities to review their water rights portfolio and determine if the water demand of their community will exceed their reliable water supply for the upcoming year.”
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CHEYENNE – More than a month after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a mother fleeing the country has been reunited with her daughter in Cheyenne.
Tamara Kochubei’s first week back in America since the COVID-19 pandemic started has been filled with mixed emotions. She braved the weeklong trek across Europe before departing from the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, last Friday, and accepted she might not have a home to return to.
She said coming to see her daughter, local paralegal Iryna Wiggam, was a rush of relief, but her heart is still with the people of Ukraine she left behind.
“She didn’t want to leave her home,” Wiggam translated for her mother. “She didn’t want to leave her job because she has lots of friends at work and colleagues, and even just people in her apartment complex. And she didn’t want to lock up her apartment and leave it, because who knows what happens later, and if she even has a home to go back to.”
Before she made the decision to leave, the Ukrainian citizen spent the entire first month of the invasion in her hometown of Cherkasy, a city in the central part of the former Soviet republic. She continued to work at the clinic as a family physician, interrupted by air raid sirens three to four times a shift. Although the city was at risk of bombing because it’s less than 130 miles south of Kyiv, it wasn’t actively under siege.
With things having been safer, she said this was one of the factors that impacted her decision to stay. Buses and trains were full of Ukrainians trying to leave the fighting zones, and Kochubei did not want to take the spot of someone in need.
“I’m not getting shot everyday, but people who are, they need to be able to leave,” she said.
It wasn’t until Wiggam arranged travel for her mother with family friends that she felt prepared to leave. If she didn’t take the opportunity to be with companions on the 13-hour shuttle to Poland, and then catch another daylong ride to Germany, she would have to do it alone in the future.
The ability to come to the U.S. was also made possible by the fact that Kochubei holds a tourist visa, which allows her to spend up to six months at a time here. Without it, she would not have been permitted to stay.
Wiggam said she was grateful this opportunity was available to them. She was always worried about her mother living alone after her father’s death, but the war exacerbated the feeling. There was no way to get to her if something went wrong.
“I can’t jump on the plane anymore because the airports in Ukraine are shut down,” she said.
Both agreed it was the best decision to come to Cheyenne, even with the feeling of grief following Kochubei’s departure. Now, they said, they have a sense of security.
“The best thing has probably been how quiet it is. Sirens are not going off, and you can actually sleep through the night without getting woken up by the siren that tells you that you have to get up and go to the shelter,” Kochubei said. “And just spending time with a kid with the grandkids and enjoying family has been the most favorite part.”
Another thing they both said they never expected to feel coming from the war was unity. It shines through one of the most difficult moments not only of their lives, but for all of the citizens of their nation. Wiggam said eastern and western Ukraine now realize they have more in common, which is the determination to be free from Russia. Whatever divisions or doubts were felt before have disappeared.
“In Ukraine, the new thing they say is ‘glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes,’” she said.
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Walmart has a message for truckers: Keep on trucking, do it for the company and potentially earn more money.
Amid a shortage of long-haul truck drivers and low unemployment as many workers change jobs across a variety of professions, the nation’s largest private employer said it will pay its truckers more than what it had been compensating them.
While this may make Walmart trucking jobs more competitive in the United States as a whole, it may not much affect the already difficult situation smaller trucking firms face in Wyoming, one such business owner told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. On top of rising inflation and accompanying increased employee costs, diesel prices also have surged in recent months.
On Thursday, Walmart announced that a starting driver could make as much as $110,000 in the first year of employment there. It would not provide a comparable figure for what such personnel could have earned in the first year starting a year ago.
“Walmart is one of the best places to drive, and Walmart benefits are among the best in the industry,” according to a company blog post.
The retailer has about 12,000 drivers in total.
“We plan to hire over 5,000 drivers total this year across the country,” a spokesperson wrote in response to WTE’s questions. Some of those new jobs will be in Wyoming, she confirmed.
“Previously, Walmart drivers could make an average of $87,500 in their first year of employment with the company,” the company representative wrote. Now, “the average pay for new drivers ranges from $95,000-$110,000” annually, according to another spokesperson who responded to questions by email Friday.
Besides the potential first-year salary that now could stretch into the six figures, there is “the potential to make even more down the road, based on factors like tenure and location,” the company said.
Currently, the retailer has 27 truck drivers in Wyoming, a spokesperson wrote.
Trucking locallyThe Wyoming Trucking Association noted that there are some 6,340 tractor-trailer drivers in the state, with an average annual salary of $50,200, according to Managing Director Sheila Foertsch. These figures come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2018, she added in an email Friday to the WTE.
As of last September, according to more recent BLS figures that may not be directly comparable to those Foertsch provided, in this state there were 3,490 truckers, whose average annual wage amounted to $61,412. These more-recent statistics do not include certain types of workers, such as sole proprietors and contractors, according to the agency’s Ric Wise. He is an economist, dealing with the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
Across the U.S., in general, American Trucking Associations reports that “demand for trucking freight services remains strong.” There’s a wrinkle, however.
“For-hire contract carriers are capacity constrained due to the driver and equipment markets. The spot market has been surging as these carriers can’t haul all of the freight they are asked to move,” ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said in a March 22 news release. The group noted that “trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy.”
Feehan Trucking in Mountain View likely won’t be hurt too much by Walmart’s pay increase, said owner Casey Wegener. He said he could not compete with such high salaries, nor with the starting bonuses of many thousands of dollars that some bigger trucking firms are offering.
“It does make it hard to compete,” given actions like Walmart’s, Wegener said by phone. “I do not blame a company doing what they need to do to get drivers. We are all short drivers.”
Feehan has eight trucks, which it uses to haul hazardous, overweight or over-height loads for the oil and gas industry. It only has three drivers currently, and could immediately put another two to work. A few months ago, it had enough business to have added five new truckers, if they were available.
In recent months, Feehan has raised hourly wages, which are now equivalent to about $30 an hour, and also started matching some of its workers’ contributions to their 401(k) retirement plans.
His company is not so much competing with national trucking firms, but rather offers unique circumstances that Walmart and other big firms may not be able to provide, Wegener said. Feehan’s truckers almost always can return home at night, unlike long-haul drivers for national retailers, and the employees also can easily live in the small town without having to travel far to start their on-the-job drives each workday.
“We have sort of a smaller hiring pool, but we will use social media advertisements and (newspaper) advertisements,” said Wegener, who separately is the secretary of the Wyoming Trucking Association. “I haven’t gotten any new drivers in two months.”
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Watching some of the political football being played in Alaska is prompting a profound sense of déjà vu.
With Wyoming and Alaska being the lowest-populated states in the union, both also are predominantly Republican and have lightning-rod members of Congress who bring national importance to states that otherwise normally wouldn’t register on the political Richter scale.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has been in the crosshairs of the far-right GOP and former President Donald Trump for her continued mission to hold Trump accountable for his influence in promoting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Lisa Murkowski, the U.S. senator from Alaska and former lone House member for The Last Frontier, also has raised some hackles for publicly holding Trump’s feet to the fire. She was one of just seven senators to vote to convict the former president after his second impeachment.
Alaska’s longtime lone U.S. House member, Rep. Don Young, recently died, ending an at-times-controversial legacy of service to the 49th state. I interviewed Young a handful of times, and clearly remember the first. He was quick to anger over some tough questions and had to be calmed by his wife to not walk out in a huff.
It’s fascinating to see the parallels between Alaska and Wyoming politics and the turmoil roiling through both states.
Before moving to the Cowboy State, I spent more than seven years as managing editor for a newspaper in the 49th state. That sleepy, small-town, home-grown newspaper was the Mat-Su Frontiersman in Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin’s hometown. I was there in 2008 to report on and experience what can only be described as the most wild, unpredictable and memorable political season I’ve covered in 30 years newspapering.
Now Palin, apparently tired of chasing the national media spotlight and watching her family crash and burn on reality television, wants to take Young’s place as Alaska’s next congresswoman.
It’s a good thing U.S. House seats are only two-year terms, because that’s apparently the limit of her working for the people before more selfish interests intervene. After she and McCain lost the election, she quit as Alaska’s governor mid-term to chase a national broadcasting contract with FOX News.
The day it all changedOutside the petty bickering of local politicians and a few stories that left readers muttering “only in Alaska” (like the time an off-duty Marine survived for a week lost on a glacier by killing and eating a porcupine with his bare hands), it was business as usual.
Then one morning in late August 2008, very early because Alaska is four hours behind Eastern time, I got the call. It came a whole three hours after putting that day’s paper to bed.
“You better get to the office,” the publisher said.
“Wait, what?” I groggily answered.
“Palin’s been picked as (Sen. John) McCain’s running mate,” she said. “We’ve got to go in.”
And that’s what started more than two months of what became some bizarre and surreal community journalism.
While I’ve covered stories that would turn some stomachs and cause disbelieving headshaking (like the insane woman who killed and ate her boyfriend or the woman who stabbed her sister to death at their father’s wake), Palin’s run as McCain’s running mate still tops the list.
As the hometown newspaper of suddenly the most famous and polarizing name in the country, who was then a total unknown outside Alaska, Wasilla became the center of the political universe for a time.
I’m sorry to say that some of the tabloid behavior most “respectable” journalists frown upon was all in play for reporters from some of the nation’s largest and most respected institutions. They would rip pages out of our archived editions and more than one was caught rooting through the Palin family trash.
The sideshowWhile Cheney and Murkowski are both squarely in the spotlight, it was a different animal for Palin. Who knows how much of the sideshow will follow through her run for the House.
In the weeks after Palin’s selection, the hyper-personal vetting of everything around her revealed her husband, Todd Palin, would insert himself into state issues and the day-to-day workings of government. He’d attend official meetings, was copied on emails detailing state business and liked acting the big man on campus because he was the governor’s husband.
While Todd Palin referred to himself as the state’s “First Dude,” I dubbed him Alaska’s Yoko Ono.
Who’s her running mate?With all the intense scrutiny of Palin, it got lost in the shuffle to a degree that she was McCain’s running mate, not the other way around.
If the entire Palin for VP circus has taught us anything it’s that politics can be amazingly entertaining.
And for the record: No, I could NOT see Russia from my house in Wasilla.
A parting shotJust a random-yet-related observation: Anyone else look at Lauren Boebert, the controversial conspiracy-embracing Colorado Republican, and see Palin 2.0?
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
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* WHERE...Laramie Valley.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
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This week, the bureaucrats at the city of Laramie showed their true colors by publishing a document titled “Laramie Rental Housing Code (LMC 8.80) Pre-Inspection Checklist.”
This checklist, which the City Manager’s Office is now requiring rental property owners to complete as they pay fees to register every rental unit, contains superfluous requirements that not only go far beyond the requirements of state law (which is not legal; city ordinances cannot expand the requirements of uniformly applicable state laws) but also ones not authorized by the ordinance recently passed by the City Council.
What’s more, as the title of the document indicates, the city apparently intends to perform intrusive, warrantless searches not only of every rental unit, but of other parts of every building containing one, despite prior claims that they will only inspect in response to complaints.
This summer and fall, expect rents in Laramie to increase by 10%-15% as the city attempts to impose this new regime, which — unless the courts enjoin it as they should — will cost Laramie tenants more than a quarter of a million dollars every year.
Rents also will jump due to a lack of supply as failure to satisfy every item on the checklist causes perfectly acceptable and habitable units, which fully conformed to building codes at the time of their construction, to be removed from the market.
This behavior violates City Council’s stated goal of making Laramie housing more affordable.
Let’s hope the courts act promptly to enjoin and then overturn the ordinance, which otherwise would harm tenants, smother business development and bloat city government by illegally overriding Wyoming’s rental property statute.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Laramie Valley.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Can you believe the meat price increases predicted by USDA Economic Research Service? It’s 15% for red meat and 11% for fish and eggs! That’s way more than the predicted 8% inflation rate, already the highest in four decades.
The obvious solution recommended by nutritionists is fresh vegetables. They contain all the nutrients required for healthy living and no saturated fats, cholesterol, hormones and antibiotics loaded in animal products. They do contain complex carbohydrates, fiber and essential vitamins and minerals. They offer vastly reduced risk of contracting heart disease, stroke, some cancers, diabetes and obesity.
Fresh vegetables are going up only 4.3%, way below the 8% inflation rate.
But there is more: A University of Michigan research report found that replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods would prevent more than 1.6 billion tons of greenhouse gasses by 2030, President Biden’s target date for a 50% reduction in emissions.
In an environmentally sustainable world, we need to replace meat and other animal products with vegetables, fruits and grains just as we replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.
This outrageous meat price increase may be our blessing in disguise.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Laramie Valley.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Putin shuts down independent media and the state media spreads only propaganda. They must call invasion and atrocities “fake news” or face imprisonment or death.
Officials who disagree disappear. People hear only the lies, conspiracy theories and twisted reasons (Putin) wants.
Without check or questioning, propaganda becomes reality to the people.
Putin created fake enemies to excuse his invasion and atrocities. He tortures and kills civilians. He and a few hoard wealth and take what they want.
Trump calls independent media “enemies of the people” and the truth “fake news.” Fox continues to lose any personalities who do not conform to his propaganda. Trump fired dozens of his people who did not suck up sufficiently — personal loyalty over truth.
He urged followers to attack protesters and led the chanting of, “Lock her up,” with no regard for evidence or due process (flagrantly misusing and destroying classified info himself). He courts neo-Nazis and other violent right extremists.
Trump lied about COVID. He misused National Guard troops, disrespected Gold Star families and showed no concern for troops. He made a mockery of the Bible and religion, spreading fear and hate instead of love.
He misused the office to enrich himself. He still claims the election was rigged, despite investigations, numerous recounts and scores of lawsuits that found no significant election irregularities.
His own party engaged in intimidation of election officials, attempts to throw out ballots and pressuring officials to “find” favorable ones, sending fake electors and (pushing for) voter suppression.
These are demonstrable facts.
The Republican Party has become extremist, anti-democracy, anti-rule-of-law that offers no solutions. They only list problems, blame Democrats and say they will fix everything with no plans or platform as to how they will do that.
There are a few with integrity to speak out and act with reason and respect for you and the Constitution. Will you be as brave and honest?
Will you protect democracy, truth and rule of law, or do you chose hatred, lies, conspiracy theories and rule by the self-interested few? Violence or understanding? Imposition of will or respect for all? Putin/Trump or democracy?
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Laramie Valley.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Do you really want an endorsement from a confirmed traitor? This is not just a run-of-the-mill traitor. This traitor (Donald Trump) organized a political coup to attack Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to overthrow our democracy.
Today this traitor embraces the war criminal Vladimir Putin. This guy gets “love letters” from North Korea. He was impeached for withholding $400 million in aid to Ukraine for a political favor.
Do you happen to remember that our two cowardly Wyoming senators betrayed America by voting to keep Trump in office? This traitor has thrown his own family members under the bus, and will again.
When looking for the definition of a bully, he is the model.
Granted, Wyoming has lots of Trump lovers who will vote for traitor. They have no interest in having democracy in America.
Well, maybe they do, but are too stupid to know what democracy looks like or what an authoritarian government is and what it does to its citizens.
Is becoming a member of the U.S. Congress worth selling yourself out to the likes of Donald Trump? Remember that in the end, the only thing any of us have is our good name!
It’s your choice. Embrace a traitor or stand for democracy. Win an election as a patriot or lose as a patriot. Become one of a rare breed of Republicans that puts America first.
You know a Republican patriot close to home to use as your model. What are you?
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I would like to pass on a few observations about the recent redistricting and the new city of Laramie wards.
On the state level, the residents of Wyoming expect very little, and the state Legislature delivered what was expected. They took too long to make a decision, some legislators practiced uncivilized discourse and they finally settled on a plan the governor let become law without his signature.
Their plan has the possibility of being challenged in court, which of course will cost taxpayers more money — all the time collecting their salaries, which comes from all the residents of Wyoming. An amazing return on our tax dollars.
On the local level, the redistricting process for the wards, in my opinion, wasn’t executed with any better results. It was stated at a recent City Council meeting that approving a map that would let Ward 1 have a population of 52% west of the railroad tracks would divide the city.
I said at that meeting that I disagreed with that viewpoint. I would like to thank Erin O’Doherty for the work she put in to creating that map. It is unfortunate that most of my current Ward 1 councilors voted against that version.
City Council did not get a lot of response from residents regarding this, and as a community I believe we will be worse off for not paying more attention.
I admit that I should have contacted my councilors earlier, but I’m not sure if that would have made a difference. I made my opinion known to the councilors at a recent City Council meeting that I believed dividing Ward 1 was a mistake.
Albany County Clerk Jackie Gonzalez and Mike Massie (who helped design the current ward system) also sent correspondence to the council against such a decision.
The west side and West Laramie community has now been divided down the middle at Snowy Range Road. Ward 1 stretches from the airport, south side of Snowy Range Road, southern half of the west side, south of town and further east than before. Ward 2 now has the northern side of Snowy Range, west side, West Laramie and a portion of north Laramie.
It has been mentioned that the community west of the tracks now has the possibility of having six councilors. Yes, there will be six councilors from Wards 1 and 2, but the likelihood of any of those councilors living west of the railroad tracks is unlikely.
The population in the new wards that reside west of the railroad tracks is the minority population of both wards. That will make it difficult for any candidate from this side of town who supports economic development, paved streets or any kind of benefit to this side of town hard to elect if the majority residents of our new wards who live east of the railroad track have a different viewpoint.
My friends and neighbors on the west side and West Laramie have long felt like the neglected stepchild in the Laramie family. The new wards will do nothing to change this.
The good news is that in 10 years, that version of City Council will get a chance to do this all over again. Who knows what boundaries they will choose then?
We have seen multiple development projects over the last couple of decades that have benefitted our community. They have mostly been east of the railroad tracks. The Recreation Center, senior high school, various elementary schools, water mains, sewer lines, etc.
To be fair, we did get some streets paved and better drainage around Linford school, and an upgraded airport. These upgrades to infrastructure were needed and long overdue.
There is still a lot more that needs to be done with infrastructure and economic development. That is true for all the wards, but especially for the new wards west of the railroad tracks.
Laramie is wonderful place to live, raise a family and own a business, and I have no doubt it will continue to grow and develop and maintain our status as the Gem City of the Plains. Every major capital improvement makes our community and city better regardless of location.
I would just like to suggest that this side of town is worthy of more consideration, even if we won’t have city councilors wholive on this side of town.
Klaus Halbsgut
Laramie
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Boomerang Writer
Tiger salamanders have been coexisting with the people of Laramie for a long time. Each spring when the amphibians come out of hibernation to migrate to Stink Lake in LaBonte Park, volunteers head out into rainy nights with headlamps and safety vests to help them make the crossing safely.
Still, many facts about salamanders and how to coexist with them remain a mystery for many Laramie residents, even those who may have the creatures living in their backyards.
On Saturday, the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute — the group that leads the migration efforts — held an event to teach the public why and how they should care for their amphibian neighbors.
“The salamanders aren’t as well known, (and) the migration isn’t as appreciated as it should be,” said Mason Lee, senior project coordinator for the Biodiversity Institute. “I wanted to increase education so people will love them and protect them into the future.”
Salamanders and newts make up about 9% of all amphibians, a group that is older than dinosaurs. Wyoming is home to only one species, the western tiger salamander, which has three subspecies in the region.
The Saturday event, called “Salamander Saturday,” was largely a success in spreading the word about the animals. Families, college students and adults filled the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center to learn about different aspects of amphibian research and to hear an educational presentation from herpetology Ph.D candidate Mel Torres.
“Amphibians are experiencing global population declines and extinctions,” Torres said.
One of the biggest threats to salamanders worldwide is habitat loss, which is worsened by climate change, Torres said. Salamanders have extremely sensitive skin and require healthy quantities of water in their environment in order to fully develop into adults. With bodies of water receding faster, the creatures aren’t given enough time to go through this development process.
More direct human threats to salamanders include habitat fragmentation, polluted runoff from pesticides and other chemicals, human introduction of fish into ponds and wildlife trade.
The creatures also are extremely susceptible to diseases that can decimate their populations.
Students and researchers at UW have been working to learn more about salamanders and other amphibians. This research could have important impacts on understanding how to manage the ecosystem, and even on areas such as human medicine.
Brett Addis spent time during the event teaching kids about research being conducted by the Rocky Mountain Amphibian Project. To monitor six “rare and cryptic” local amphibian species that are hard to find in the wild, he said researchers collect water samples from wetlands. Using a DNA filtering process, they can determine which species are spending their time in a certain area.
Another researcher, Rachel Arrick, demonstrated how scientists use radio telemetry equipment to track the behavior of the Wyoming toad, which are extinct in the wild. Captive species are outfitted with small belts that allow scientists to follow their progress once they get released into the wild.
There also were activities for kids, like a build your own salamander station and an opportunity to meet Tim and Tad, a pair of live salamanders cared for by scientists.
Because local tiger salamanders live in an area with a high human population, the importance of community buy-in toward their wellbeing is crucial, Lee said.
Residents may see salamanders trying to cross city streets to make it to LaBonte Park, especially around 9th and Canby streets. While normally people should never bother salamanders, it is OK to pick them up to help them with their migration, Torres said.
Before handling them, people should wash or sanitize their hands and rub them with dirt. Lotion, sunscreen or natural body oils can harm salamanders’ fragile skin, so this step is essential to ensure their wellbeing.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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The Cheyenne City Council. Photograph from the city's website.
Wyoming Board of Agriculture, 9 a.m., State Capitol Extension, 200 W. 24th St., Room W53/W54, and on Zoom. Agenda and login information online at http://agriculture.wy.gov/boa/agenda.
Cheyenne City Council, 6 p.m., Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 2101 O’Neil Ave., and online via Zoom. For online access information, visit www.cheyennecity.org/ecm.
Laramie County School District 2 Board of Trustees, 7 p.m., Pine Bluffs Junior-Senior High School, 502 Maple St., Pine Bluffs.
Tuesday
Wyoming Board of Agriculture, 8:30 a.m., State Capitol Extension, 200 W. 24th St., Room W53/W54, and on Zoom. Agenda and login information online at http://agriculture.wy.gov/boa/agenda.
Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board, 6 p.m., by Zoom only. Log in at https://tinyurl.com/cheyenne-hpb; Meeting ID: 863 7640 7097; Passcode: Historic.
Laramie County Planning Commission, 3:30 p.m., Commissioners’ Board Room, Historic Courthouse, 310 W. 19th St. Visit https://laramiecounty.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx to attend the meeting virtually and comment online.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
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Diana Arenas-Rocha was selected as Laramie County School District 1’s Student of the Week for the week of April 11. Courtesy
Parents’ names: Ma Del Rocio Rocha Ramirez and Ismael Arenas Rizo
Diana Arenas-Rocha was selected as Laramie County School District 1’s Student of the Week for the week of April 11.
She was nominated by the selection committee for emerging as a leader in her senior class and for displaying the HERD (honorable, enthusiastic, responsible and determined) values daily.
“Diana always does her work with honor and integrity,” AP U.S. history teacher Reagan Kaufman said. “I love her sense of humor and determination to do well in class. She is a great leader.”
Throughout her high school career, Arenas-Rocha has taken honors and Advanced Placement courses, along with maintaining a job.
During her time in the TV media production class at South, she created a public service announcement on the topic of sexual harassment.
“She created the scripts, did all the interviewing, filming and editing herself,” Assistant Principal Kristen Siegel said. “She took on this project, as she felt this was a very important topic that students needed to be informed about.”
As a first-generation United States citizen, Arenas-Rocha has learned English as a second language, and she is bilingual in both Spanish and English.
“Diana has overcome several obstacles throughout her life,” Siegel said. “She has done so with determination, hard work and a positive attitude.”
After graduation, she plans to attend the University of Wyoming and major in international studies, politics or law. She would one day like to work in the government.
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Museum Volunteers gets $11K from local cable operator
Spectrum has given Wyoming State Museum Volunteers a $11,000 digital education grant, as part of the cable operator’s five-year, $7 million funding for digital education in the U.S.
According to the company that also is known as Charter Communications, Spectrum and Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon presented the check to the WSMV organization on Thursday at the Wyoming State Museum. Spectrum said it also donated 10 laptops.
WSMV, which has received such funding before from the company, was described as recruiting “a volunteer corps primarily comprised of senior citizens.” It “provides opportunities for them to use their skills for community education and enrichment.”
The volunteer organization will use the Spectrum financial assist to expand its Digital Skills for Seniors course, which teaches how to use newer technology and the internet. In 2020, WSMV received $6,000 to help launch this training initiative.
Gordon called the partnership between Spectrum and the volunteers group “incredibly encouraging,” in a news release provided by Charter.
The new funding will in turn allow WSMV to expand its “cooperative partnership with the Wyoming State Museum in delivering much needed educational services to the local community,” said the group’s president, Evan Green.
Blue Federal Credit Union wins national marketing award
Blue Federal Credit Union has won a Credit Union National Association Diamond Award, the financial institution announced last week.
According to CUNA, this is “the most prestigious annual credit union marketing competition” and the award helps to highlight “outstanding results.”
The local credit union noted it has received about a dozen other awards in the past two years. These accolades recognized such things as it as “having upstanding ethics” and “responses to statewide crises,” Blue said.
Kylee Sara, business development manager at Blue, helped manage a team that won the recent award. She said the financial institution “beat out other organizations that were many times bigger than Blue with a lot more firepower.” It did this, she said, by “focusing on relationships” in doing business.
Milestones
The Wyoming Business Council has added a board member, while several other directors got additional terms, WBC announced last month. The new addition is Derek Smith of Gillette, whose new term ends on March 1, 2025. Gov. Mark Gordon had nominated Smith, whose appointment was confirmed by the state Senate.
Gordon himself is listed on the organization’s website as serving as its co-chair, along with Erin Moore with Gannett Peak Technical Services.
Smith works at Devon Energy and volunteers as the president of the Gillette Main Street board and as a public relations volunteer for Cheyenne Frontier Days. He has also been tapped for a partial term on the Wyoming Main Street Advisory Board.
Additionally at WBC, John Coyne III, Cindy Johnson, Chuck Kenyon and Kathy Tomassi were all reappointed for their second three-year terms to the board. Their tenures also expire on March 1, 2025.
n Robert J. Brockman, with Keyhole Land Company in Wheatland, was recently recognized by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers for 35 years of membership with the organization. Brockman is an agricultural professional who provides services for clients that may include farm and ranch management, rural appraisal and/or agricultural consulting.
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| 2022-04-10T11:53:13Z
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