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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Situated at 1200 North B St., the Salvation Army's Sacramento Center of Hope is located in a part of town where there is a lot of need for services.
Each Saturday, the center's Willow Clinic offers free medical care.
"We're certainly not a solution to the shortage of healthcare that people need, but we like to call ourselves a Band-Aid," said UC Davis student and undergraduate, co-manager Trami Nguyen.
The Willow Clinic is one of the many services offered by the Center of Hope, which also provides shelter for up to 140 people.
"They come in, become stabilized and move on to self-sufficiency, and getting to live life and live it abundantly," said Larry Carmichael, Sacramento Social Services Officer.
But those services come with a cost. With an annual budget of $10.6 million, the Salvation Army hopes to raise $400,000 in donations on Thursday's Big Day of Giving, a fundraising drive bringing more than 700 nonprofits together for a good cause.
"So $400,000 is a bite. But $400,000 equals more than three months of care for 140 individuals in this shelter," Carmichael said.
Veteran Mathew Kerr said the Salvation Army helped him stay off the street.
"The street out there, it’s hard. It would be so difficult without Salvation Army to give me at least the groundwork to continue upward in my life," Kerr said.
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SEATTLE — Editor's note: The above video originally aired September 18, 2020.
A Pierce County man and father of a child who was pepper-sprayed during a 2020 anti-racism protest filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Seattle and the Seattle police officers involved.
Avery and his son, seven years old at the time, identified as J.A., "decided to participate in a peaceful rally and protest" in downtown Seattle on May 30, 2020, five days after the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd.
The rally, located near the Westlake Mall, was an authorized demonstration by the city of Seattle, according to Avery's complaint.
The lawsuit said Avery and his son were joined at the rally by other family members and church members.
A "significant" police presence with officers in full riot gear was also at the rally. The document said the officers were assigned to protect people at the rally and the surrounding property.
At approximately 3 p.m., officers began to push into the crowd of people attending the rally after there was a verbal exchange between demonstrators and police, according to the suit. At that time Avery and his son were pepper-sprayed and J.A. "immediately felt like his face was on fire" and "was having difficulty breathing."
Avery and his son went to the hospital and were diagnosed with chemical burns.
The incident prompted 13,000 complaints to the Seattle Police Department's Office of Police Accountability.
In September 2020, the Office of Police Accountability said that body-worn video showed that the officer who used the pepper spray was targeting a woman who had grabbed another officer’s baton. When the woman ducked, some of the spray hit Avery and J.A.
"While the impact to the boy was an unfortunate result, he was not visible on the video at the time of the pepper-spraying and therefore could not have been seen by the supervisor," the office wrote in a press release.
The office found the use of pepper spray was in line with the police department's policy.
Avery's suit claims the city and the officers discriminated against Avery and his son because they are black and attended the rally.
"The use of noxious gases against individuals exercising their constitutional right to speak out about issues of inequity in support of members of a protected class constitutes a violation of the Washington Law Against Discrimination," the complaint stated.
The suit also alleges outrage and negligence by the officers, stating the officers pepper-sprayed J.A. "either intentionally or recklessly."
"Spraying a peaceful seven-year-old child in the face with a noxious gas is extreme and outrageous conduct," the complaint said.
The suit alleges officers were negligent when they "unjustifiably sprayed them with pepper spray" when they were meant to be protecting the demonstrators.
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SEATTLE — On Saturday morning in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the House Our Neighbors coalition launched signature-gathering on a petition for Initiative 135 (I-135). If passed, the proposed ballot measure would create a "Seattle Social Housing Developer" to obtain and operate publicly-owned, permanently affordable housing.
"While we have strong affordable housing mechanisms already in the city of Seattle, we know that they're not going to meet the scale of need," Tiffani McCoy, Campaign Co-Chair of I-135 and Advocacy Director at Real Change. "Not because there's no desire, just because most of them are ultimately financed through the federal government and there are very real limitations on that."
McCoy said they want to work in harmony with current non-profit partners and expand the availability of housing to include those that are making 0-120% AMI.
"Every year we're not addressing the affordability crisis in our city is another year more of our neighbors are pushed into homelessness," McCoy said. "That's an irrefutable fact. And it's another year when Black, brown and low-income communities are pushed out of the city, having to travel 30, 40, 50 minutes both ways to serve folks that are able to have the privilege to live in this city."
The "developer" would be a board made up of renters and professions in fields such as green development and urban planning.
"To have an opportunity for renters to dictate the conditions of their homes and determine how those homes are administrated, who's building them, and are we doing that in a way that is in alignment with what we know about wages, protecting workers and having quality, deeply affordable housing for everyone," said I-135 organizer Nikkita Oliver.
Plans for funding the proposal, along with more information about the specifics, can be found here.
The Housing Development Consortium released a statement this week opposing the measure, arguing that it "distracts funds and energy away from what our community should be focusing on – scaling up affordable housing for low-income people."
Campaigners say they believe it plays a different role.
"As a renter, most of us don't have control over the conditions of the housing we live in, what rents look like, how buildings are built, are they built by organized labor? Are they built by union workers?" Oliver said. "This particular initiative has the promise of renter-led housing which I think is powerful- to have an opportunity for renters to dictate the conditions of their homes and determine how those homes are administrated, who's building them, and are we doing that in a way that is in alignment with what we know about wages, protecting workers and having quality, deeply affordable housing for everyone."
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The first five recipients of the Haven Walker Music Scholarship were presented with their awards at a ceremony April 23.
This year’s scholarship recipients include 10th grade violinist Sadie Reber and 11th grade saxophonist Dulciana Armijo of Coconino High School (CHS) as well as Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA) 10th grader T’ien Kiim, who plays both drum and keyboard. CHS seniors Parker Hubbell, who plays clarinet, oboe and piano, and Tyler J. Sexton, who plays euphonium, trombone, piano, tuba, saxophone, trumpet and guitar, were the other recipients.
The scholarship was created in memory of Flagstaff musician Haven Walker. Its announcement described Walker as “an amazing musician, son, father and friend to all.”
“He was a staple for 20 years in the Flagstaff music scene, playing guitar, sarod and crossing many music genres,” it said. “His untimely passing has us mourning still, but his legacy will continue through this new scholarship fund.”
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Created by Walker’s parents, Bob and Pina Miller, in partnership with Flagstaff Music Festival, the scholarship is meant to help local high school students pursue a career in music by helping them pay for music lessons.
Each student received an award of $1,000, “based on financial need, talent and a demonstrated commitment to music,” according to a press release. Applications included a video performance of the students’ music, a personal essay and letters of recommendation.
The Millers’ hope is to expand the Haven Walker Music Scholarship fund to increase the number and amount of scholarships.
More about the scholarship, including ways to contribute, can be found at flagstaffmusicfestival.com.
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In what has become a home away from home for the Northern Arizona women's tennis team, the Lumberjacks made it six consecutive victories at the Phoenix Tennis Center to earn their third straight Big Sky Conference Championship with a 4-1 victory over Weber State.
Entering Saturday morning's match looking for both a bit of revenge and redemption from their lone Big Sky loss this season and their first since the 2019 season, the Lumberjacks fought their way to another early lead via the doubles point against the Weber State Wildcats before taking a trio of straight-set victories. The victory makes it three straight conference tournament titles, as well as NCAA Tournament appearances for Ewa Bogusz and the Lumberjacks, and the sixth conference tournament title in program history.
"They can be proud of themselves for all the work they have done. They knew what they wanted and they went after," said Lumberjacks coach Ewa Bogusz. "It's just so impressive how clean it was today. They stepped up in doubles, we played so smart. After we got that doubles point, I think they felt the momentum and just kept rolling with it. They were in the zone."
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After taking the doubles point, NAU's Gina Dittmann won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 1 singles and Elinor Beazley won 6-3, 6-4 at No. 4 to take a 3-0 lead.
Needing just one more match victory to win the title, Ava Neyestani at No. 5 and Sofia Markova won their first sets. Neyestani finished her match first, clinching the Lumberjacks' win, 6-4, 6-4, with a solid return game at the end. Markova was up 5-3 in the second set.
"I for sure felt the pressure. It's clinching conference, so it's obviously a very exciting moment, but I kind of just went into the point thinking this is it," Neyestani said. "You've hit this same return a million times in a row, just play the tennis you know how to play, and everything will work out."
Northern Arizona now awaits its NCAA Tournament fate on Monday at 3:30 p.m. as the field is announced on NCAA.com.
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CONWAY, Ark. — The COVID-19 pandemic has not been friendly to a lot of people, as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said they've noticed a recent uptick in prescription drug and opioid use during the pandemic.
"The broad shutdowns that we saw across the country-- one of the terrible side effects of that was that people felt isolated," said Arkansas Surgeon General and Emergency Room Doctor Greg Bledsoe.
He said that sense of isolation contributed to a rise in prescription medicine abuse.
"We seem to have an uptick of overdoses and suicide attempts," Bledsoe said.
It's a startling statistic that Jared Harper, Assistant Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. It's something that he sees every year, but especially during the pandemic.
"From October 2020 to October 2021, over 105,000 people have lost their lives due to overdoses," Harper said.
He mentioned that some cases of addiction begin when patients are prescribed medication during surgery recovery, where the patient begins to feel better, but the medicine stays in a cabinet.
That's something Harper said people should be very cautious about.
"Somebody could get their hands on it. Maybe it's a friend that comes and visits," Harper said.
Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane said just like in past years, more than 160 sites were set up Saturday to claim any unwanted and unused medications.
"We've been involved in this program in our states since 2010 and we have collected over 221 tons of prescription medications and safely destroyed them with the DEA," Lane said.
They've also seen the number of people getting rid of those unnecessary drugs continue to grow.
"The numbers to me is how good we're putting out that messaging, and how well that messaging is being read by the community," Lane said.
The state has nearly 300 permanent take back boxes that you can click here to find out more about.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — High school seniors from around the area are getting ready for graduation. As the final preparations are made, one group wanted to be sure seniors had portraits to capture the special occasion.
The Photographic Society of NWA (PSNWA) and volunteers gave back to the community on Saturday, April 30, by taking free senior portraits.
“It means a lot to me,” said senior Haydee Garcia.
PSNWA held their annual Help-Portrait NWA – part of the global movement, Help-Portrait. The movement brings together photographers, editors, makeup artists, and stylists as they give back to their community by taking pictures and giving them to those who participate.
“Getting professional portraits done can range anywhere, you know, from $500 to $1,500 and even up to $2,000,” said photographer Jason Harrison. “We’re probably saving each student hundreds of dollars at least.”
By providing the services to the seniors, PSNWA not only captures the smiles and memories of the seniors as they get ready for the next chapter in their lives but also helps bring confidence.
“It’s a big confidence boost, and I think, for a lot of the folks that we serve, this is sometimes one of their first or one of the few times they’ve had professional photos done and I think it gives them something to be proud of,” said Harrison.
PSNWA Development Chairperson, Suzanne Harmon echoed the statement saying, “this is important for self-confidence, for self-esteem for those students and it’s certainly a way for our photographers to give back to the community.”
Once the photos have been edited, students will receive their portrait gallery from Saturday’s session also free of charge.
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DALLAS — Two North Texas teenagers are dead after being involved in a Friday night car crash that also left three of their friends seriously injured.
Family members told WFAA that Crystal Pineda, 16, and Andres Pineda, 15, who are brother and sister, died in a two-vehicle crash that Dallas police responded to just after 9 p.m. in the 13900 block of Esperanza Road, near Spring Valley and Coit roads.
Crystal and Andres were on their way with three friends to get dinner, according to their cousin Nancy Pineda. When the crash happened, Pineda said the other car had crossed over the double-yellow lines and hit the teenagers' vehicle head-on.
"They were going literally just down the street to go get some tacos," Nancy Pineda said. "They were going for dinner, and they didn't make it."
On Saturday, family members and friends were out at the site of the crash, placing flowers, pictures and mementos in remembrance of Crystal and Andres.
Their stepmom, Daniela Martinez, was out there as well, saying that she found out about the crash when the kids' mom called her from the scene.
"I couldn't really understand what she was saying, so I just dropped everything that I was doing," Martinez said. "I didn't even know where the car accident happened, I just knew that I had to drive out here."
When she got there, Martinez said Crystal was already pronounced dead on the scene while Andres had been transported to a hospital. Martinez and her family later found out he died while in the hospital.
"I just wish all this were a nightmare," Martinez said. "They were so young. They had a life ahead of them. They were good kids."
Casandra Torres was best friends with Crystal, saying she was a really fun person to be around.
"Crystal, she was funny," Torres said. "She would be there for you whenever you needed her."
"Really smart, funny, caring, loving kids that didn't cause any problems," Nancy Pineda said about both Crystal and Andres.
Martinez said she hopes the man who hit their car comes forward soon.
"It hurts just to know that the guy... he just left," Martinez said. "He left them there hopeless. Lifeless. They were just kids. They were barely even alive. If he's out there, he could do it again. Next time, it could be somebody else's kids, somebody's mother, somebody's husband."
Saturday night, Dallas police released a video of the suspect who hit the Pinedas' car, showing a man in a green shirt driving a truck with the license plate number RHF3302.
"We need justice for those two little kids that had a whole future, a whole life, and now it's taken away by the person," Nancy Pineda said. "For him to come up and own his own responsibility because if he did it once, what shows you that he's not going to do it again."
The family set up a GoFundMe for Crystal and Andres Pineda's funeral arrangements that you can find here.
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MIDDLETON, Idaho — The Middleton Food Bank is known for giving to others, but at the moment the volunteers are the ones looking for a little extra help.
The Executive Director of the food bank, Joseph Dumoulin, said his crew helps around 1,000 people a month.
Started in 1972 by Patricia Sayre, Dumoulin took over the food bank about 18 years ago. Dumoulin said he got involved because he's retired and liked helping people.
However, running the food bank is no easy task. Dumoulin said he works seven days a week, getting up bright and early most of those days. He and another volunteer travel around the Treasure Valley collecting food from grocery stores, other local food banks and any place that's looking to donate food.
"The main thing is, to anybody that needs food, they can get food from us," Dumoulin said. "We give to people that live in their cars. We try to give them pop-top cans and stuff easy to eat stuff."
However, the Middleton Food Bank is limited on how much food they are able to give out, because they don't have electricity to power their fridges and freezers. Currently, they are keeping perishable foods and cold foods at volunteers' homes.
Dumoulin is looking for some monetary donations to help hire an electrician and wire their two storage units to get electricity.
"I think that if it wasn't for us, there would be a lot of hungry people in this town. There'd be a lot of people hurting for food," Dumoulin said.
Dumoulin said he and two other volunteers have to transport all the cold foods to the food bank on distribution days. He hopes getting the refrigerators running would help relieve some of their workloads.
Anyone looking to help donate can do so at the Clarity Bank in Middleton where the food bank has an account. People looking to donate should say the money is for "Middleton Food Bank."
People can also deliver the money to Dumoulin at the food bank on Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food bank is located right behind the Family Dollar Store.
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HOLLY SPRINGS • A banner reading "Graceland Too Forever" hangs above the front door of the antebellum home innumerable college students, Elvis fans and curious passersby stepped through during the nearly 23 years it was owned by Paul MacLeod, "the universe's, galaxy's, planet's, world's ultimate #1 Elvis fan."
What's left of MacLeod's fallen kingdom at 200 E. Gholson Avenue is now owned by lifelong Elvis fan Marie Underwood, 68, and her husband, Geoff, 67, of East Peoria, Illinois.
The couple purchased the building, and all the treasures within it, at an auction in 2015. They paid $5,500.
"We've been married for quite a while, but I never thought he loved me until the day he bought Graceland Too," Underwood said, laughing.
Her dream: To reopen the long-time shrine to the King of Rock ‘n Roll for an encore performance.
What remains after Graceland Too's tragic end
MacLeod's life ended tragically in July 2014 after he suffered a heart attack on the front porch of the house just days after shooting 28-year-old Dwight David Taylor dead in the front entrance.
The house that would become Graceland Too was built in 1853. MacLeod purchased the home in 1986 and Graceland Too opened to visitors on August 10, 1991.
Less than 40 minutes up the road from Oxford, Graceland Too became a late-night pilgrimage for Ole Miss students. Drawing the ire of neighbors, noisy visitors would come and go at all hours of the night.
Today, much of what made Graceland Too beloved by visitors remains — the Elvis "shrine room," countless photos and notes taped to the ceilings and a homemade electric chair on the back porch.
"Paul had stuff everywhere," Underwood said, opening a random storage chest filled with VHS tapes. "I've saved as much of Paul's stuff as I can.”
MacLeod's collection is largely comprised of paper — pictures, calendars, TV Guides paper-clipped to mark any and every mention of Elvis — displayed in a way that caught the eye. Coupled with his bizarre, exaggerated commentary throughout tours of his place, Graceland Too became a can't-miss roadside attraction.
Hundreds of poster prints of the same 1956 Detroit Times article still line the walls on the ground and upstairs levels of the house. They act as a sort of makeshift wallpaper.
Along with the house itself, Underwood also bought around 100 items from the auction of MacLeod's possessions.
Thrift store furniture and pieces from Underwood's collection are now mixed in with bits and pieces of MacLeod's — although she has about a hundredth of the stuff he did.
During cleanup, plenty of things have had to be discarded.
"I can't tell you how much we've thrown away," Underwood said. "And it broke my heart, too. Because this is this man's life. He thought he was really recording something. He thought he was saving something for posterity. And in a way, he kind of did."
A friendship between two Elvis fans
Marie Underwood first visited Graceland Too in 2007.
By her estimate, she returned around 50 times during MacLeod's life, stopping by every time she traveled to Tupelo or Memphis.
She liked MacLeod and considered him a friend.
"Him and I talked about Elvis," Underwood said. "That's why we got along. I understand he had kind of a foul mouth and said suggestive things and stuff, but he didn't do that to me."
"He'd grab people's hands and sing 'Love Me Tender' to them, but he'd sing 'U.S. Male' to me," she added with a chuckle.
When the museum first opened, it was something to be proud of. People visited from across the country. Elvis fans respected MacLeod, and so did the residents of Holly Springs, Underwood recalled.
"It just kind of deteriorated over the years," she said. "I could see it happening. Just in the seven years or so I knew him, it'd be a little bit worse. I could tell he was on hard times."
Despite the house's gradual decline, Underwood was amazed each time she visited.
Underwood would always stop by for Elvis's birthday on January 8, bringing MacLeod $50, a red velvet cake and a case of Coca-Cola, his favorite beverage.
"He was the only person besides my granddaughter that when he opened the door, his eyes just lit up when he seen me. He'd say, 'Oh, my Elvis friend's here,’” Underwood said. “"That just meant so much to me.”
With a laugh, she added, “Now I think it was the $50.”
The last time she saw MacLeod was in Feb. 2014, just five months before his death.
Graceland Too ... forever
Underwood purchased Graceland Too not because she saw any monetary value in it, but because of her personal history with it.
She and her husband knew the house was in poor shape, but that didn't phase her. From the moment Underwood knew the house would be sold, Graceland Too became something of an obsession for her.
She dreamed about the place every night for a year and a half — from the day she learned MacLeod died until the day of the auction.
"I went home and told my husband, 'Hey, we're going to buy Graceland Too and save it,’" Underwood said. "And his face turned white. He said, 'You're kidding, aren't you?'"
She wasn’t. Not once.
On top of the initial $5,500 plus taxes, the couple has spent thousands restoring bits and pieces of the home over the past few years. They've added a brand new concrete porch and sidewalk, cleaned up the yard and paid to have layers and layers of paint scraped off the windows.
Two of the 13 original concrete lions remain on the property, along with several ornate flower pots.
The house still needs some foundation work, and there's currently no running water or bathroom.
"There was nothing in this house that there wasn't something wrong with," Underwood said.
But even with its many issues, the place has brought her "more joy, friendship and peace" than she could've imagined.
Underwood said she would like to live at Graceland Too, just like MacLeod did, and keep it set up as a museum to their favorite musician. She’d even like to reopen it for tours one day, albeit during set hours of the day.
It would be a fitting tribute, not just to a king, but to a friend.
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TUPELO • "Graceland Too: The Building Elvis Never Left," a play based on the life and death of Paul MacLeod and Dwight David Taylor at Graceland Too in Holly Springs, will open at the New York Theater Festival this week.
The play was produced by two Memphis natives, Nicole Hughes and Maxx Reed. Written by Hughes, 31, and directed by Reed, 32, the opening performance is set for Monday night.
"Graceland Too" is the first play Hughes has written. A 10-year resident of New York, Hughes' previous work includes serving as an associate producer for the living history project "Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit With Marie Curie" and impact producer for the documentary "Coded Bias" on Netflix.
Reed, also a 10-year New York resident, trained in dance under Katie Smythe at New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis. He's performed in music videos, on television and on stage, including on Broadway in "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark." This play is Reed's first time directing a nonmusical or full-length piece of theater.
A chance encounter and connection through flowers
Hughes' play was inspired, in part, by a visit to Graceland Too in 2008.
During her freshman year at Auburn University, Hughes tagged along with a friend who attended Ole Miss. When they showed up around 3 a.m., MacLeod was ready to give them a tour.
"It was exactly what everyone always described it as," Hughes said. "It was weird and interesting and kind of frightening all at the same time. You just never knew what he was going to do. He was funny but also crude."
Hughes remembers her friend putting on a leather jacket and posing for a photo with a guitar — something only a newly-admitted lifetime member of Graceland Too had the opportunity to do.
Once a person had completed three $5 tours of MacLeod's collection, he gave them a lifetime membership card for free admittance in perpetuity and took their photo with the jacket and guitar to add to a wall of photos.
Fast-forward to 2014, when the MacLeod died. Hughes was in New York when she read about the news, taking note of the odd circumstances of his death.
"It's a story that's really stuck with me," Hughes said.
Even before that visit, Hughes felt a connection to Elvis which eventually led to feeling a deeper connection to the subject of her play.
Her great-uncle, Frank Hill, worked at the Memphis Funeral Home as a mortician and embalmed Elvis Presley when he died.
"It was always known growing up that we had flowers from Elvis' graveside because of that," Hughes said.
Her grandmother had them framed, and they were stored in her family's attic.
"At the end of the day, it's just flowers," Hughes said. "But when it's that close to celebrity, they're special."
During the process of producing the play, Marie Underwood, current owner of Graceland Too, told Hughes that MacLeod also had flowers he claimed to be from Elvis' gravesite.
"The thing is, with Paul, you never know what's real and what's not," Hughes said. "But I feel like even if it's not real, this idea that we're connected through these Elvis flowers, I just find fascinating."
From a script to the stage
Paul MacLeod and Graceland Too has been on Hughes' mind for years.
Recently, she talked with some fellow Memphians who hadn't even heard of Graceland Too and realized the story was slowly being forgotten.
Hughes was encouraged by friends to write the script and ultimately challenged herself to make it happen.
She wrote the script in a month, finishing it in Oct. 2021. She submitted it to the New York Theater Festival, not thinking it would be accepted.
"My whole motto with anything is 'Get through the no's to get to your yes,'" Hughes said.
She got to the "yes" a bit faster than anticipated.
The turnaround for the play's production has been quick. Hughes and Reed have had to take it from a script to the stage in around six months — conducting a table read, assembling a cast, having music produced and creating a set.
"I'm learning that theater takes community, and I couldn't have done it without the community that I have," Hughes said.
They started an Indiegogo fundraising campaign, and the play received about $9,000 in backing.
Historical fiction based on a true story
Only two people know what happened at Graceland Too on the night of July 15, 2014, and they died two days apart.
Graceland Too owner Paul MacLeod, 70, shot and killed Dwight David Taylor, 28, in a dispute that was reportedly over $10. MacLeod was found dead of a heart attack on the front porch less than two days later.
Hughes had to fill in gaps in the narrative, despite well-researched articles about MacLeod and Taylor's tragic end, like "Dwight and Paul Have Left The Building," on which the play is partially based.
As a result, the play is "historical fiction." It's based on real people but isn't meant to be a word-for-word retelling of the events.
The play is written in a way that allows the audience to decide who the "bad guy" is, if there even is a bad guy, Hughes said. Her intention isn't to portray either man as a villain.
"It doesn't do the judging for the audience," Hughes said.
Taylor's family has read the script, and while hesitant at first, came to enjoy the play because it honors Dwight, who was a talented musician and singer, outside of the unusual circumstances surrounding his death.
His family has written a letter to the audience that will be included in the program, and the play's producers will be encouraging the audience to make a donation to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Taylor's honor.
While real people are portrayed, the play also includes characters that are amalgamations of multiple people, Hughes said.
One of those characters is Suga, who Hughes likes to imagine as "the heart and soul of Holly Springs." The part of Suga is played by Toni Seawright, the first African American to be crowned Miss Mississippi in 1987.
And Neil Magnuson, who plays the role of Buddy, once visited Graceland Too and met MacLeod.
"We just sort of landed on the right people and they've been really generous with their time and their care with this material," Reed said.
Hughes describes the play as a "bluesy tragedy," and it does include plenty of blues music. She carefully selected Elvis tunes that were originally sung by Black blues artists, like Arthur Crudup and Big Mama Thornton, for the production.
Matt Wood, the play's music director, is also a Memphis native. He composed original blues music for "Graceland Too," which features blues music in the first act, followed by gospel in the second.
Depicting the authentic South
Multiple themes and topics are interweaved throughout the show, offering audiences an authentic look at the American South.
Naturally, the play addresses race, since Taylor was a Black man killed by MacLeod, a white man, towards the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"It's the kind of project that needs a Black voice," Reed said. "It's touchy subject matter pertaining to a lot of racial relations in the South."
As someone who is biracial, Reed feels he's in a unique position to be able to direct the piece.
A central question the play addresses is "What does it mean to live in the shadow of such enormous fame?"
In Tupelo and Memphis, you can't get out from under Elvis, Hughes said. There's just no way around it. But how does that affect the people living in those places?
"Go to Graceland now. Graceland is great," Hughes said. "But when you step outside the gates today, you don't want to be there. It's not a part of town you want to stay in. So why is that, and what is this disconnect between celebrity, fame, enormous wealth and what it does to a society?"
Reed hopes to showcase the "many different worlds" that exist for people living in the South.
"We're just trying to show the South in a more accurate way," Reed said. "Not shy away from things that we might need to work on in these areas that we're from, but also showcase the most beautiful parts of the South."
What's next for the 'Graceland Too' play
After the the festival performances, Hughes and Reed said they would like to see it performed in other locations as well. But more funding will be needed for the play to reach its next stage. Literally.
"Who wouldn't say they want to go to Broadway?" Hughes said. "But I just really want the story out there and told, whatever that means. Bigger audiences, more audiences. Bringing it down to Mississippi, Memphis. I don't really have a great answer at the moment, but I'm hoping this will lead to something."
In addition to the play, Hughes and Reed have also started a podcast series titled "The Making of 'Graceland Too: The Building Elvis Never Left,'" chronicling their journey self-producing the first production of the "Graceland Too" play.
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TUPELO • The Tupelo City Council is poised to make an 11th-hour decision on whether to opt out of medical cannabis cultivation and sales within city limits.
Although Tupelo officials adopted their guidelines for the legalized cultivation and sale of medicinal pot in early April, the agenda for their next meeting, set for Tuesday night, includes a request from Ward 3 Councilman Travis Beard to discuss “the matter of opting out of allowing the cultivation, processing, sale and/or distribution of medical cannabis and cannabis products.”
Tuesday is also the state’s deadline for municipalities to decide whether they will allow the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana.
Beard said he had gotten multiple calls from residents in his ward opposing medical cannabis in the city, which led him to decide to bring it to the council.
"I haven't had a single person contact me that was for medical marijuana," he said. "I had several calls that urged me to 'not let this happen' and people saying 'we don't need this in Tupelo.'"
Beard said there are too many uncertainties involved in the new industry, from not being sure there was medical benefit from cannabis to questions on what conditions qualify a person to get a subscription.
Though he said he was unsure his motion to opt out would get a second, noting he was "in the minority," Beard said he hoped for more discussion before the city moved forward with medical cannabis. He also noted that he believed there wouldn't be any hard feelings between the council if no second was given.
Ultimately, Beard said he wanted the decision to be up to the residents of Tupelo. If the council were to opt out, a residents could craft a petition and force a special election to opt back in.
"If people want to legalize (medical cannabis), I would like to see them vote on it," he said. "I don't feel comfortable making that decision for everyone when there is that option left on the table."
During the 2020 election, the voters passed a medical cannabis initiative by about 67% to establish the industry. It was later overturned by the state Supreme Court due to the state's antiqued petition process.
Council seems ready to move forward with medical marijuana
A majority of the Council told the Daily Journal that if the medical cannabis issue came to a vote, they would vote in favor of keeping the program.
Ward 5 Councilman Buddy Palmer said he was unsure if a motion to opt out of allowing either the growth or sale of medical marijuana would gain much traction.
“I don’t know how the Council feels,” he said. “(Beard) will make the motion, but I don’t know if he will get a second.”
Palmer said he opposes opting out.
"I believe in medical marijuana," he said. "I am for anything that can help people with illness and pain. Not one person called me to say not to vote for it."
Ward 7 Councilwoman Rosie Jones said she was in favor of medical cannabis, calling it a “great opportunity for the city to grow.”
“I definitely am voting for (cannabis),” she said. “I am a home health care worker, and a lot of my clients take a lot of medicines. I think medical marijuana will reduce the need for pain medication tremendously.”
Ward 4 Councilwoman Nettie Davis also said she was in favor of medical cannabis. She also said the city had multiple discussions on the topic and she was confident it would benefit the city.
“If we don’t get it, people will get (medical cannabis) from other areas,” she said. “Tupelo is usually the leader in taking advantage of new opportunities.”
Ward 6 Councilwoman Janet Gaston said because medical cannabis would be heavily regulated and help treat illnesses, she would vote against opting out.
“As long as it is monitored the way it is supposed to be and is done the way it was presented to me, the benefits outweigh any negatives,” she said.
Ward 1 Councilman Chad Mims said he too will vote in favor of allowing medical cannabis growth and sales, although he added that he looks forward to Tuesday night’s discussion of the issue.
“Based upon the information we were presented, I am supportive of medical marijuana,” he said. “Is there a perfect scenario where we have potential problems? Probably. But nothing is perfect. That is not to say I couldn’t have my mind changed, but that is the way I am leaning.”
Ward 2 Councilman Lynn Bryan did not respond to attempts to reach him.
The guidelines adopted by the council on April 5 largely follow the rules outlined by the state. The ordinance, which passed unanimously, details where medicinal pot growers and sellers can locate, how large their facilities may be, and sets permitting and licensing regulations.
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Five questions with ... Alex Dowell, who manages the Repository Grand Parade
Alex Dowell is passionate about what Stark County has to offer. She is the event manager with the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.
One of the biggest events she manages is one that all of Stark County knows and loves. Dowell is excited about overseeing the Canton Repository Grand Parade during the Pro Football Hall of Fame Week.
She grew up watching the parade and knows what makes it great. Dowell is grateful to be involved with one of Stark County’s longest held traditions and is ready to make the most of every minute.
She graduated from GlenOak High School and Kent State University. She spends a lot of her spare time experiencing the best of Stark County and hanging out with her best friend and nine-year-old dog, Barnaby.
Why did you want to work at the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce?
I started networking with the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce during my first big girl job with Key Bank.
I completed the Leadership Stark County program called, Spotlight for Young Professionals. This program opened my eyes to all that the chamber does for our community and all the locally owned small businesses in our area, too.
I am extremely passionate about Stark County; I love all that it brings to the table. Small town charm, a little bit of a city feel and even some backwoods country flare — it truly has it all. So, I decided to become more involved and do what I could to help Stark County thrive. Quick Connect luncheons, committees and boards, event planning, TIP clubs and much more.
Before I knew it, I felt like I had become a part of the chamber team without being hired on. So, when the opportunity presented itself for me to become an official team member, there was no hesitation at all. Especially when I found out the position was to help with the Enshrinement Festival. Another amazing branch of all the chamber does for our community!
As an event planner, what is the funnest and the hardest part of your job?
To be completely honest, most of my career I have been more involved with the marketing side of things. Building and creating content, designing graphics or logos, and developing campaigns to drive brands to the forefront of all the noise in today’s world.
Event planning has always been in my sphere of work but never my focus and I’m extremely happy to say that I think I have found my niche. Some of the best parts of my job are the people and the ability to be creative.
The girls on the events team at the chamber and all the sweet volunteers who help us do what we do every day. Cultivating ideas and then taking steps to make them happen in real life is extremely rewarding and we couldn’t do it without our people.
At the same time, this takes extreme organization skills and an eye for detail. There might even be a little bit of an unspoken pressure to make sure that these events come off seamless.
The chamber’s event girls are bright and passionate about what they do; a great amount of time is dedicated to planning these events and I think this all speaks volumes on our desire for them to be successful.
Over the years that you have been watching the Canton Repository Grand Parade, what has been your favorite part?
My family moved to Canton when I was 5 years old from Fairlawn. My dad, Doug Dowell, grew up in the area and my grandpa, Hal Dowell, even had a family medical practice on Logan Avenue — which is why my parents decided to move back.
When we did, my mom wanted to become involved in our community. I played on community sports teams, helped her at community events and joined the Girls Scouts which is what allowed me the opportunity to march in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton Repository Grand Parade.
I held a banner with my troop in front of a balloon. I wish I could say I remember what balloon or banner we held, but what I do remember is spinning. The crowd loves a good spinning banner!
The energy you feel when marching down Market Avenue in the parade is incredible. Everyone’s pride for Stark County is radiating off them! After that experience, my mom and I attended regularly. Early morning, coffee and donuts on a blanket — a tradition that couldn’t be missed.
When does the planning for each parade start and how many hours go into planning the parade each year?
As a pretty, regular attendee of the parade, I knew it was a big production. But truthfully, I had no clue.
Planning for the parade starts in January. At the start of the year, the event manager is reaching out to the community for support in orchestrating this epic parade.
We reach out to bands and performers from all over the country to come march and help represent the excitement of the Enshrinement Festival. The event manager is meeting with the committee and coordinating with the Hall of Fame to ensure enshrinees have all their needs met.
About 80% of my work week for seven months goes into parade planning. If I had to put a number on the hours of work, I’d say roughly 850 hours of planning. Don’t quote me though, math is not my strong suit!
This doesn’t even include the time of other members of our team who also help pull this event together. It’s a lot of work and many event managers before me have done an outstanding job.
My goal is to do my best in filling their shoes while still being able to put my own flare on one of Stark County’s longest traditions.
What does it mean to you on a personal level to work with the Stark County community?
Stark County is my home. It is where I grew up, it's where I’ve experienced my best blessings and all my biggest losses so far. It’s where most of my favorite people have come from. It has an incredibly special place in my heart.
So, it may sound cheesy when I say that getting to work with and for the Stark County community in planning and executing one if its biggest traditions is my dream job but it’s the absolute truth.
I am so grateful for this opportunity, and I plan to make the best of every minute of it.
Editor's note: Five questions with ... is a Sunday feature that showcases a member of the Stark County community. If you'd like to recommend someone to participate, send an email to newsroom@cantonrep.com.
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Gillette makes B-R prom extra special; Taunton wants parks: Our top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Our top story of the past week was about Bridgewater-Raynham, and how a little bad luck turned into some very good luck, when Gillette Stadium had to cancel their senior prom due to a Garth Brooks concert. The Class of 2022 got a special surprise out of that turn of events.
Other top stories included:
The latest Greater Taunton real estate report. Always a popular feature, this latest report taa closer look at the sale of a condominium in in Taunton's Somerset Gardens, and how its pricing history reflects the upheaval in local real estate over the years. See how the value of this home has leapt and fallen over the past 16 years, from the burst of the housing bubble to today's ultra-competitive market.
Voting in Taunton might look a little different for some residents. After a pandemic-related delay in releasing 2020 census data, voting ward and precinct lines are being redrawn in Taunton. This could mean new polling places for some residents. Check here to see if your ward has changed, or if your polling place will be different for the next election.
These are the top stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
Gillette Stadium makes prom extra special for B-R Class of 2022
It looked like bad news for the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School Class of 2022 when their May 20 prom at Gillette Stadium had to be canceled.
Garth Brooks is in town that weekend as part of his tour, and a second concert date of May 20 was added to the schedule.
Unlike Brooks, the Class of 2022 appears to have friends in high places, because Gillette Stadium is making sure that their prom will still happen, and that there will also be a special surprise for the students.
Friends in high places:B-R got bumped by a Garth Brooks concert — but Gillette is making prom even more special
Parking, swings and movies: Taunton wants recreation options
What type of recreation options would you like to see in the city?
Now is your opportunity to weigh in.
Taunton residents are being asked to take an online poll about preserving open spaces throughout the city, and how they would like to see those spaces used.
So far residents have weighed in on park improvements and outdoor spaces, and nearly 70% of respondents have said they'd like to see a movie theater in town again.
Learn how you can weigh in right here and make your voice heard.
Take the survey:More parking, more swings, more ... movies? Here are the recreation options Taunton wants
A (close to) homecoming for Taunton softball star Kelsey White
Former Taunton softball star Kelsey White was — almost — back in town recently.
She's playing for Villanova these days, but when her team came nearby for a softball game against Providence College, White drew quite the hometown fanbase.
More than 50 people, including the current Taunton varsity softball team and current coach Carrie Consalvi, former Taunton coach Dave Lewry, White’s former club teammates from the Rhode Island Thunder and family members showed up to watch her return to southern New England.
For both White and Villanova, it turned out to be a good showing.
Near homefield:A (close to) homecoming for Taunton softball star Kelsey White, now playing for Villanova
Raynham gym caters to young adults with disabilities
The Raynham Athletic Club is offering a new training and fitness program for developmentally disabled young adults, and for some, the program arrived just in the nick of time.
Amy Harrington, of Bridgewater, says her 29-year-old son Adam, who has Down syndrome, struggled during the COVID-19 shutdown when his regular routine of activities was canceled across the board.
Now, thanks to the RAC's new fitness program, the effort to rebuild his routine has taken a big leap forward.
Photos:New fitness program for disabled young adults offered at Raynham gym
Maintaining Taunton's fire stations
One of the city's fire stations, Central Fire Station, is one of the oldest continuously operating fire stations in the country. It's the main headquarters amongst Taunton’s five stations, only one of which had been built in the last century.
It's no secret that these older buildings need love and care to keep them going.
Also no secret: that maintenance comes at a cost.
Lt. Greg Galligan, a 39-year veteran of the Taunton Fire Department, and unofficial historian, stated that most of the windows inside the four pre-1900s stations are original to the buildings. Very few can open as most of them have become fixed to avoid further damage.
Replacing some of those windows will cost about $250,000; Gazette Reporter Daniel Schemer takes a look at the work that needs to be done, right here.
Keeping up our fire stations:Taunton has some of the oldest fire stations in the country. Fixing them comes at a cost.
Taunton Daily Gazette/Herald News copy editor and digital producer Kristina Fontes can be reached at kfontes@heraldnews.com. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette today.
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Star Trak: Watch a total lunar eclipse that begins the evening of May 15
A total eclipse of the moon lasting 85 minutes will be the highlight of May for skywatchers. In the Midwest, the full moon will rise on the evening of May 15-16 with the eclipse already beginning. Observers on the East Coast will see the entire eclipse in a dark sky. On the West Coast, the total eclipse will begin in evening twilight and continue in a dark sky.
Starting at 10:28 p.m. EDT May 15, the lunar surface will slowly turn dusky gray, and then an orange coloring will become noticeable, especially in a telescope. Totality will last from 11:29 p.m. to 12:54 a.m. Observers across the Americas will see most or all of the eclipse. For those in Europe and Africa, the eclipse will be a morning event with totality happening at dawn on May 16.
Planets
Jupiter and Venus will still be close as May begins after their conjunction in April. The two planets will be less than 1 degree apart when they rise at 4 a.m. Venus will be brighter, but Jupiter will still be brilliant. A low-power telescope will show both planets well, especially in early morning twilight.
Mars will rise just before 4 a.m. on May 1. Late in the month the Red Planet will pass less than 1 degree south of Jupiter. The two planets will rise together shortly before 3 a.m. on May 29 and will still be the same distance apart by 5 a.m., standing 25 degrees high in the eastern sky.
Saturn will rise around 3 a.m. local time on May 1. By month's end it will be visible by 1 a.m. in the constellation Capricornus. The yellow planet will be best in the hour before dawn, when it will be more than 20 degrees high in the southeast. Its rings will be tilted 12 degrees to our line of sight, the minimum tilt for this year.
Watch Mercury on early May evenings before it ends its best evening appearance this year for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere. On May 2 an hour after sunset, Mercury, the moon, and the Pleiades star cluster will be close together above the western horizon.
Meteor shower
This month Earth will encounter a stream of dust left behind in space by Comet Halley, causing the Eta Aquarid meteor shower that will peak before dawn on May 6. The shower will be active for a few days before and after the peak as well. The meteors will appear to come from a point called the radiant in the constellation Aquarius, which will rise in the east about three hours before dawn. The higher this point is above the horizon, the more meteors will be visible. The moon will not interfere with the display of meteors. Observers in the Northern Hemisphere may see 10 meteors per hour under good viewing conditions, because Aquarius will be close to the eastern horizon. Those watching in the Southern Hemisphere will see Aquarius much higher in the sky, and there may be as many as 50 meteors per hour at the peak.
Moon phases
The moon will be at first quarter on May 8, full on May 16 (with a total lunar eclipse), at last quarter on May 22, and new on May 30.
Hal Kibbey is a retired science writer for Indiana University and is an amateur astronomer. Email him at hkibbey@gmail.com.
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TUPELO • The Tupelo City Council is poised to make an 11th-hour decision on whether to opt out of medical cannabis cultivation and sales within city limits.
Although Tupelo officials adopted their guidelines for the legalized cultivation and sale of medicinal pot in early April, the agenda for their next meeting, set for Tuesday night, includes a request from Ward 3 Councilman Travis Beard to discuss “the matter of opting out of allowing the cultivation, processing, sale and/or distribution of medical cannabis and cannabis products.”
Tuesday is also the state’s deadline for municipalities to decide whether they will allow the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana.
Beard said he had gotten multiple calls from residents in his ward opposing medical cannabis in the city, which led him to decide to bring it to the council.
"I haven't had a single person contact me that was for medical marijuana," he said. "I had several calls that urged me to 'not let this happen' and people saying 'we don't need this in Tupelo.'"
Beard said there are too many uncertainties involved in the new industry, from not being sure there was medical benefit from cannabis to questions on what conditions qualify a person to get a subscription.
Though he said he was unsure his motion to opt out would get a second, noting he was "in the minority," Beard said he hoped for more discussion before the city moved forward with medical cannabis. He also noted that he believed there wouldn't be any hard feelings between the council if no second was given.
Ultimately, Beard said he wanted the decision to be up to the residents of Tupelo. If the council were to opt out, a residents could craft a petition and force a special election to opt back in.
"If people want to legalize (medical cannabis), I would like to see them vote on it," he said. "I don't feel comfortable making that decision for everyone when there is that option left on the table."
During the 2020 election, the voters passed a medical cannabis initiative by about 67% to establish the industry. It was later overturned by the state Supreme Court due to the state's antiqued petition process.
Council seems ready to move forward with medical marijuana
A majority of the Council told the Daily Journal that if the medical cannabis issue came to a vote, they would vote in favor of keeping the program.
Ward 5 Councilman Buddy Palmer said he was unsure if a motion to opt out of allowing either the growth or sale of medical marijuana would gain much traction.
“I don’t know how the Council feels,” he said. “(Beard) will make the motion, but I don’t know if he will get a second.”
Palmer said he opposes opting out.
"I believe in medical marijuana," he said. "I am for anything that can help people with illness and pain. Not one person called me to say not to vote for it."
Ward 7 Councilwoman Rosie Jones said she was in favor of medical cannabis, calling it a “great opportunity for the city to grow.”
“I definitely am voting for (cannabis),” she said. “I am a home health care worker, and a lot of my clients take a lot of medicines. I think medical marijuana will reduce the need for pain medication tremendously.”
Ward 4 Councilwoman Nettie Davis also said she was in favor of medical cannabis. She also said the city had multiple discussions on the topic and she was confident it would benefit the city.
“If we don’t get it, people will get (medical cannabis) from other areas,” she said. “Tupelo is usually the leader in taking advantage of new opportunities.”
Ward 6 Councilwoman Janet Gaston said because medical cannabis would be heavily regulated and help treat illnesses, she would vote against opting out.
“As long as it is monitored the way it is supposed to be and is done the way it was presented to me, the benefits outweigh any negatives,” she said.
Ward 1 Councilman Chad Mims said he too will vote in favor of allowing medical cannabis growth and sales, although he added that he looks forward to Tuesday night’s discussion of the issue.
“Based upon the information we were presented, I am supportive of medical marijuana,” he said. “Is there a perfect scenario where we have potential problems? Probably. But nothing is perfect. That is not to say I couldn’t have my mind changed, but that is the way I am leaning.”
Ward 2 Councilman Lynn Bryan did not respond to attempts to reach him.
The guidelines adopted by the council on April 5 largely follow the rules outlined by the state. The ordinance, which passed unanimously, details where medicinal pot growers and sellers can locate, how large their facilities may be, and sets permitting and licensing regulations.
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Community Remembrance Project explores effect of 'judicial complicity' in Greenville
They were sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and all were killed, lynched, in Greenville.
Remembering them is key not just to understanding the past, but to understanding the present and the future. That is the message of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County why the organization led a program to honor and to remember on Saturday.
The program, titled “Judicial Complicity in Greenville County,” served as a conduit for acknowledgement and for conversation about racially motivated lynchings that happened in Greenville. Organizers expressed hope that bringing the past to light, no matter how uncomfortable, may serve to create meaningful change in the future.
“The violence and the terror of lynching created a legacy that has not been adequately addressed in our community,” said Feliccia Smith, co-chair of the Community Remembrance Project. “And that legacy continues to sustain racial injustice and bias, and so the time is now; the time is now that we remember.”
Saturday’s program focused on three men.
Ira Johnson was hung from a tree in 1895 after a fight with a white man.
Robert Williams was kidnapped and murdered in 1881 after the husband and father of two children was accused of assaulting a white woman.
Willie Earle was killed by a mob of white men after being accused of killing a white cab driver.
None of these men ever had a chance to go to trial and none of their killers were ever brought to justice. The men are some of the 189 people identified by the Equal Justice Initiative as victims of lynching in South Carolina.
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Saturday’s Remembrance Project event told the stories of the men and explored the lasting legacy and the impact of their deaths through monologues presented by Glow Lyric Theatre, through a screening of the documentary film, “Remembering Willie Earle,” as well as a panel discussion with that film’s producers and a panel discussion with the Rev. Emanuel Flemming, attorney Osa Benson and Greenville Black history expert and advocate Ruth Ann Butler.
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The Community Remembrance Project works in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative, a national organization that has worked tirelessly to shed light and to provide research and to give attention to the victims of lynching and to the lasting impact of racial terror in the United States.
Among the efforts to shed light on the issue EJI has created a museum and a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama and has set about to collect soil samples from each site where a person was lynched.
The Community Remembrance Project is in the process of erecting markers at lynching sites in honor of the victims.
That is but a piece of the work, organizers said Saturday. The onus is on each person, no matter race or ethnicity, to examine themselves and to create change within their own mindsets and actions, they said.
“You know how we say those people ought to do something? We are those people,” Flemming said. “And this day and age, we have to make sure that we are allowing for the truth to be told.”
That’s why the work of the Community Remembrance Project is so important, organizers said.
“How can they make a difference if we’re not telling them about what’s happened and what is happening?” Flemming said. “That’s how reconciliation actually takes place. Once we own up to whatever it is. It is what it is. And what can we do collectively and individually to make a difference in this world that we say we love.”
Furthering the conversation Saturday was the screening of a film, “Remembering Willie Earle,” by Frank Carroll, Thomas Espy, Stevie Jefferis and Cassie Harding. The documentary presented the case of Earle, a 24-year-old Black man who was accused of killing cab driver, Thomas Brown, and was killed by a mob of over 30 white men in Greenville County in 1947.
The documentary wove a narrative fueled by the experience of AQ Johnson, who had grown up with Earle, and who lived with the impact of his friend’s lynching.
“It affected the community, and it affected my behavior because of what had taken place,” said Butler, who was interviewed in the film. “We need to be reminded.”
CRP will continue its mission of restorative truth telling with events in May and June. The work is hard, it is unending, but it is important, organizers said.
“It is important that we remember because there can be no reconciliation, there can be no healing without remembering and without acknowledging our collective past,” Smith said.
To find out more about the Community Remembrance Project’s efforts, visit www.remembranceprojectgvlsc.org.
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A crime scene closed down part of Times Square late Saturday night after a man was stabbed to death inside a busy restaurant.
Police said a fight broke out between two men inside the Dave & Buster's on 42nd Street around 10:45 p.m.
One of the men pulled out an unknown object and stabbed the 39-year-old victim in the chest, police said. He was taken to the hospital but did not survive.
A detective said one of the employees was able to give officers a clear description of the suspect that helped cops recognize the man and arrest him nearby.
The victim's identity had not been released by officials as of early Sunday morning.
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Sunday marks the comeback of the Five Boro Bike Tour, returning for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered many citywide events.
As many as 32,000 riders were projected to pedal the 40 miles of car-free streets across New York City, and riding the pavement in every borough.
The massive cycling event also means significant road closures throughout the city starting early Sunday morning, including the lower part of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Here's a full list of street closures:
Manhattan Portion:
- Greenwich Street between Battery Place and Morris Street
- Trinity Place between Morris Street and Liberty Street
- Church Street between Liberty Street and Canal Street
- Chambers Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Worth Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Canal Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue
- 6th Avenue between Franklin Street and West 59th Street
- West 59th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue
- Grand Army Plaza between West 59th Street and East Drive
- East Drive between Grand Army Plaza and Center Drive
- Center Drive between 5th Avenue and East Drive
- East Drive between Center Drive and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 110th Street and West 135th Street
- East / West 135th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Madison Avenue
- Madison Avenue between East 135th Street and East 138th Street
- Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-bound)
- Peter Minuit Plaza between State Street and South Street
- Whitehall Street between South Street and Water Street
- State Street between Whitehall Street and Battery Place
- Battery Place between State Street and West Street
- Morris Street between Broadway and Greenwich Street
- Albany Street between West Street and Greenwich Street
- Greenwich Street between Rector Street and Cedar Street
- West Broadway between Vesey Street and Barclay Street
- West Broadway between Murray Street and Warren Street
- Rector Street between Broadway and Greenwich Street
- Cedar Street between Broadway and Greenwich Street
- Liberty Street between Broadway and Greenwich Street
- Dey Street between Broadway and Church Street
- Vesey Street between West Street and West Broadway
- Barclay Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Warren Street between West Street and West Broadway
- Murray Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Duane Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Thomas Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Leonard Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Franklin Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- White Street between Broadway and West Broadway
- Walker Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue
- Lispenard Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue
Bronx Portion:
- 138th Street between Madison Avenue Bridge and 3rd Avenue
- 3rd Avenue between 138th Street and 3rd Avenue Bridge
- Rider Avenue between 138th Street and 137th Street
- 137th Street between Rider Avenue and 3rd Avenue
- 3rd Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-bound)
Manhattan Portion (Continued):
- Harlem River Drive / FDR Drive (Southbound) between 3rd Avenue Bridge and East 116th Street
- East 116th Street between FDR Drive and Pleasant Avenue
- Pleasant Avenue between East 116th Street and East 114th Street
- Harlem River Drive / FDR Drive (Southbound) between 116th Street and 63rd Street Exit
- East 63rd Street between FDR Drive (Southbound) and Queensboro Bridge Exit
- Queensboro Bridge Exit between East 63rd Street and East 60th Street
- Queensboro Bridge Upper Level (Manhattan-bound)
Queens Portion:
- 21st Street between Queens Plaza South and Hoyt Avenue North
- Queens Plaza South between 21st Street and Vernon Boulevard / Alternate Route
- Hoyt Avenue North between 21st Street and 19th Street
- 19th Street between Hoyt Avenue North and Ditmars Boulevard
- Ditmars Boulevard between 19th Street and Shore Boulevard
- Shore Boulevard between Ditmars Boulevard and Astoria Park South
- Astoria Park South between Shore Boulevard and14th Street
- 14th Street between Astoria Park South and 31st Avenue
- 31st Avenue between 14th Street and Vernon Boulevard
- Vernon Boulevard between 31st Avenue and 44th Drive
- 44th Drive between Vernon Boulevard and 11th Street
- 11th Street between 44th Drive and Pulaski Bridge
- Pulaski Bridge (Brooklyn-bound)
Brooklyn Portion:
- McGuiness Boulevard between Pulaski Bridge and Greenpoint Avenue
- Java Street between McGuinness Boulevard and Franklin Street
- Greenpoint Avenue between McGuinness Boulevard and Franklin Street
- Franklin Street between Java Street and North 14th Street
- Kent Avenue between North 14th Street and Williamsburg Street West
- Williamsburg Street West between Kent Avenue and Flushing Avenue
- Flushing Avenue between Williamsburg Street West and Navy Street
- North Elliot Place between Flushing Avenue and Park Avenue
- Navy Street between Flushing Avenue and York Street
- York Street between Navy Street and Gold Street
- Gold Street between York Street and Front Street
- Front Street between Gold Street and Old Fulton Street
- Old Fulton between Furman Street and Prospect Street
- Cadman Plaza West between Prospect Street and Tillary Street
- Tillary Street between Cadman Plaza West and Adams Street
- Brooklyn Bridge Promenade between Tillary Street and Centre Street
- Furman Street between Old Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue
- Atlantic Avenue between Furman Street and Columbia Street
- Columbia Street between Atlantic Avenue and BQE West Entrance Columbia Street
- BQE / Gowanus Expressway between BQE West Entrance Columbia Street and Verrazano
- Verrazano Bridge Lower Level (Staten Island-bound)
Staten Island Portion:
- Bay Street between New York Avenue and Hylan Boulevard
- Hylan Boulevard between Bay Street and Edgewater Street
- Edgewater Street/ Front Street between Hylan Boulevard and Hannah Street
- Hannah Street between Front Street and Bay Street
- Bay Street between Hannah Street and Richmond Terrace
- Richmond Terrace between Bay Street and Nicholas Street Wall Street between Richmond Terrace and Dead End
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Actor Kunal Nayyar is set to speak to the University of Portland’s graduating Class of 2022 at their commencement ceremony Sunday.
The Big Bang Theory star, who graduated from UP in 2003, will deliver the commencement address at the university’s first in-person graduation ceremony to take place since before the pandemic.
UP held virtual commencement ceremonies instead of in-person gatherings in 2020 and 2021.
Nayyar acted in UP theatre productions while studying for a bachelor’s in business administration. Now, he and his wife fund scholarships for the university’s students in performing and fine arts.
Sunday’s indoor event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. for graduates from the Pamplin School of Business and Shiley School of Engineering, and at 2 p.m. for graduates from the College of Arts & Sciences and School of Education.
Graduates-to-be and their families will gather at UP’s Chiles Center in North Portland. Both the morning and afternoon ceremonies will be livestreamed on UP’s website here.
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The Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition has entered the non-fungible token (NFT) market with an original NFT collection entitled “A Night in Flagstaff.” Featuring night sky scenes from Buffalo Park, the collection has been described as “70 images for $700 each from 7,000 feet.” The sale of NFTs from this collection launched on April 21 and proceeds will support the northern Arizona Eyes on Night Skies (EONS) research program.
NFTs are digital assets that employ blockchain technology to certify unique ownership of the asset. Essentially an art market, the NFT market hit $44 billion in 2021. According to the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition (FDSC), this collection makes Flagstaff “the first and only destination in the country to enter the NFT market.”
The NFTs within “A Night in Flagstaff” are digital images. Each is a 20-second exposure of the night sky as seen from Buffalo Park and show stars and dark skies less than two miles from city hall. The images were taken by FDSC President Chris Luginbuhl.
“We wanted to create a collection of images which conveyed our message that Flagstaff has a unique resource and a uniquely successful record in protecting that resource,” Luginbuhl said.
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In 2001, Flagstaff was designated as the first International Dark Sky City, and recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of that designation. The city remains a global example of dark sky conservation, Luginbuhl said, and these images, “embody the message that Flagstaff has a proof of concept and that dark skies are protectable.”
The idea for an NFT fundraiser came about through collaboration with Discover Flagstaff, said FDSC executive director Bonnie Stevens. “Trace Ward had the idea and introduced the notion of NFT’s to FDSC as a new marketing tool,” Stevens said. FDSC also sought guidance from Blake Rayfield, professor in Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke College of Business.
“A Night in Flagstaff” makes FDSC “one of the first” nonprofits to ever enter the NFT market, Rayfield said. As a fundraising tool, Rayfield explained that the sale of NFTs has some distinct advantages. The overhead cost of creating an NFT is much less compared to fundraising tactics like planning an event or dedicating a building. This creates a lower entry cost for would be philanthropists.
“If you want your name on a building, its millions of dollars,” Rayfield said. “With NFTs, it's possible that nonprofits do fundraising, but the people who donate funds get some kind of recognition in return.” Rayfield explained that the nature of blockchain technology means that those who purchase from “A Night in Flagstaff” will have their name associated with the collection in perpetuity.
As a fundraiser, its “brilliant,” said Rich Naden, the first to purchase an NFT from “A Night in Flagstaff.”
“For people like myself, that are always hungry for a new experience and an adventure, it got to me,” Naden said. “It's kind of nice to be bleeding edge on this sort of thing.” He also said the purchase of an NFT is something of an investment in cryptocurrency, though not a very “serious” one.
“Honestly, this really is a donation,” he said. “But at the same time, I think it's good that we diversify all our holdings, whether that turns out to be of investment quality. I'm just happy to be able to support a great cause and diversify at the same time.”
Naden purchased an NFT that depicts “the Milky Way and all of its glory,” with the streak of an airplane and a blinking satellite at the fringes.
“It captures the night sky, a little bit of humanity, and a little bit of a little bit of outer space,” Naden said. He plans on enlarging, printing the image, and hanging it in his office. “I thought it was all very cool and I’m happy to own it.” As of press time, three of the 70 NFTs from the collection have been sold.
The funds raised from the sale of “A Night in Flagstaff” are destined to support the EONS research, which involves “continuous readings of the night sky,” said researcher Ed Anderson. The research team has already established several monitoring units around town, and date from these units will help scientists understand light pollution and refine Flagstaff’s dark sky preservation policies.
The next step for EONS is to install a monitoring station at Babbitt Ranches. This ranch land is already “one of the darkest places in the state,” Stevens said. “It’s nestled among dark sky places like the city of Flagstaff, Grand Canyon National Park, Wupatki National Monument.” It’s hoped that this research will be instrumental in designating Babbitt Ranches as a dark sky preserve.
Their interest in dark sky preservation in many ways makes FDSC a conservation organization aimed at protecting and conserving a natural resource. NFTs, and the cryptocurrency they are traded with, don’t perfectly align with this mission. Recently, cryptocurrency trade has come under scrutiny for being extremely energy intensive. It all has to do with the amount of computing power needed to maintain the blockchain technology that cryptocurrency and NFTs are built on. In 2021, The New York Times reported that “the process of creating Bitcoin [a popular cryptocurrency] to spend or trade consumes around 91 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, more than is used by Finland, a nation of about 5.5 million.”
When the energy-intensive nature of cryptocurrency trading came in front of the FDSC board, “we wanted to make sure that that proceeding forward was compatible with the environmental mission of our organization,” Luginbuhl said. But not all cryptocurrency trade is made equal. Through consultation with Rayfield, the group identified a platform of trade known as Polygon that trades Ethereum cryptocurrency in a less energy intensive way.
“We felt comfortable that we were responsible to our overall environmental mission by moving forward with that particular constraint,” Luginbuhl said.
Those interested in purchasing an NFT from the “A Night in Flagstaff” collection may do so by creating an OpenSea account.
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Coconino girls soccer senior goalkeeper Alondra Carbajal-Pettry announced her commitment to NAIA Ottawa University in Kansas on Friday at Coconino High School. Her family, high school team and club team all gathered in the main gym to congratulate and support her as she signed her commitment letter.
Carbajal-Pettry said the family nature of the Ottawa program helped her make her official decision.
“If I’m going to leave home, I have to have another family waiting for me," she said.
Carbajal-Pettry got the opportunity to visit Ottawa University prior to making her decision and said the school’s facilities, soccer having its own field and the supportive environment were attractive lures.
“We are extremely proud. She has put in a lot of work; even when she doesn’t have practice, she is out there every day in the gym or at the soccer field. I mean she is practicing five or six days a week, so she puts in a lot of hard work," Carbajal-Pettry’s mom, Maggie Carbajal said.
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Her mom also noted that Ottawa has a good occupational therapy program which she plans on pursuing.
Three of Carbajal-Pettry’s coaches spoke, including Coconino head coach and Region Coach of the Year Isaiah Veale. Veale formerly coached at Oklahoma Wesleyan University and has coached against Ottawa University before.
“It’s a good university, the town that it’s in is a great little town, and it’s a place that I know Alondra will be able to shine not just athletically but academically, and in her social life," he said.
Veale said Alondra’s ability to excel comes from her attitude and the way she approaches the game. Her positive, inclusive and willing nature makes her team stronger.
Carbajal-Pettry played on the varsity squad all four years of her high school career and played in every game from her sophomore season on. She was the Panthers’ main goalkeeper her last two seasons, leading the team in minutes at the position in both years.
In her senior year she was named to the All-Region first team as a keeper. She was named to two All-Region second teams: as a goalie her junior season, and as a forward her sophomore season.
Carbajal-Pettry played in all 11 games her senior season, saving 109 shots and allowing just 29 goals. She had a 13-save game in a 4-2 win over No. 17 Tempe in the first game of her final season for Coconino.
Carbajal-Pettry’s recruiting process was a long one, and she said a lot of that was due to COVID. She had multiple offers and made visits to multiple schools.
“She’s a very good goalie and a lot of colleges recognize that. They’re always looking for a quality goalie to come in with the right attitude, the right mentality, the right athletic ability, and she offers the full package to these schools," Veale said.
Carbajal-Pettry said juggling school, club soccer, high school soccer and visits became a lot to handle and at one point she thought about quitting, though she said she is glad that she stuck with her recruiting process.
Carbajal-Pettry will be playing for head coach Candice Fabry at Ottawa. Fabry was named head coach in February after serving as associate head coach of the Kansas City Courage of the United Women’s Soccer League.
Carbajal-Pettry will be looking to bring her positive mindset and drive with her to the next level. She said she is most looking forward to “continuing to develop as a person and as a player.”
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On Monday, the Cocodona 250 race will send brave runners 250 miles on a meandering route that ends in Flagstaff. Those of us who volunteer will become inspired by the feats of strength to which we bear witness. As I contemplate the realities of endurance these runners face and the mind control it takes, I can’t help but compare it to dire situations of survival.
Over the past several years, I have become increasingly interested in the traits of those who survive in deadly situations. The latest book on survival I voraciously tore through was “Deep Survival,” by Laurence Gonzales. I learned of this book from a reference in “Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds,” Hillary Allen’s book on her horrendous fall in the Tromso Skyrace and arduous crawl back to racing.
In Gonzales’s book, he outlines many doctrines of those who live through dire circumstances. I found that many of them ring true of the mindsets of long-distance and ultra-runners (and walkers). While my running career hasn’t included 250-mile races, I’ve had a few experiences that might dip a toe into the experiences of such runners.
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The first of these is, “Take correct, decisive action. …Break down very large jobs into small, manageable tasks.” This doctrine reminds me of the skillset of compartmentalizing the actions needed to get the runner to the next aid station, the next mile or even sometimes the next telephone pole. This involves techniques such as scanning the body for signs of stress: “When was the last time I drank? Ate? Am I getting a blister? Are those cramps?”
The second is, “Play (sing, play mind games, recite poetry, count anything, do mathematical problems in your head). Counting becomes important too, and reciting poetry or even a mantra can calm the frantic mind.”
This doctrine reminds me of pulling the mind out of a negative spiral. When I hear questions such as, “Why am I doing this?” I think about running as a child — the fun and freedom in the movement — and recount powerful mantras.
Lastly, “Never give up. (Let nothing crush your spirit). Survivors are not easily frustrated. They are not discouraged by setbacks. They accept that the environment is constantly changing. Survivors have a clear reason for going on.”
This doctrine is one I have not yet mastered but aspire to. I’ve often found that my mind will set a false limit, and once I have reached it, I have been unable to break through it. Controlling the mind in this way is a skillset I continue to look for. I saw it last year in the Cocodona 250 runners I met while volunteering and spectating.
I urge you to travel the trails during the race, meet and cheer on these amazing athletes -- you’ll be glad you did. You might just learn something new.
Janel Lanphere has been running for 28 years and hopes to have 28 more with freshly perfected hips after bilateral labral tear surgeries.
Send your running stories and news to coordinating editor Julie Hammonds (runner@juliehammonds.com).
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No. 10 Flagstaff softball ended its season with a 13-3 loss at No. 7 Mingus Union in the first round of the 4A State Championship on Saturday.
The loss snapped a four-game win streak, including a 10-0 victory over Apache Junction on the play-in round three days earlier.
Flagstaff finished its season with a record of 12-7 (7-6 Grand Canyon) and will bring back several of its top players in the 2023 season.
Spartans 10, Redskins 0
No. 8 Northland Prep ended its regular season with a five-inning win over No. 12 St. Johns at home on Thursday.
Freshman Kianna Butler pitched a no-hitter, striking out 13 of 16 batters faced as the Spartans won via mercy rule.
Northland Prep won its final nine games of the season, including seven straight by mercy rule.
The Spartans (16-4, 8-0 Central) defended their region title, and will play in the first round of the 2A Conference playoffs on Friday against an opponent to be named later.
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Lancers 10, Eagles 1
No. 14 Flagstaff fell to No. 3 Salpointe Catholic in the playoffs for the second straight year, losing in the first round of the 4A State Championship in Tucson.
The Eagles held a 1-0 lead in the third inning, but Salpointe Catholic scored five in the fifth and ran away with the game from there.
Flagstaff finished the year with a record of 10-9 (5-7 Grand Canyon). Long-time manager Mike DoBosh announced his retirement at the end of the season.
Redskins 16, Spartans 1
No. 36 Northland Prep baseball ended its season with a road loss at No. 21 St. John's on Thursday.
The Spartans finished the season with a record of 5-14 (3-7 Central) but have no seniors on the roster, so they will look to improve with the same group of athletes next season.
Beach volleyball
Three Flagstaff-area teams will compete in the Division II Pairs State Championship in Queen Creek beginning Monday.
Coconino senior Elyce Palmer and junior Hope Williamson, the Panthers' No. 1 pair this season, will play against Trivium Prep on Monday. Flagstaff's No. 2 pair Macie Moseng and Haylee Gilleland will play against Canyon del Oro.
Flagstaff seniors Gracelyn Nez and Bridget Bond, the No. 1 pair that led the Eagles to a runner-up finish in the team state tournament, earned the No. 2 overall seed and a bye past Monday's match. They will play the winner of Notre Dame Prep and Seton Catholic.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A law enforcement officer shot and killed one of the people suspected of firing shots at a festival in Mississippi, a sheriff said late Saturday. Organizers said Sunday that, in response to the shootings, they canceled the final day of the Mississippi Mudbug Festival at the state fairgrounds in Jackson.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said several people were taken to local hospitals with unknown injuries after gunfire Saturday night.
He said an “officer-involved shooting investigation is underway stemming from this incident,” but did not provide additional details. He said the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called to assist.
Jones said two or three people exchanged gunfire at about 10 p.m. Saturday in and around a vehicle at a fairgrounds parking lot.
“During the course of the exchange, at least one of these individuals fired multiple rounds, multiple shots, toward the midway area of the event that was in progress,” Jones said. “We do not believe there was anybody else injured along the midway during the course of this gunfire.”
The second annual festival — a spring celebration of crawfish, live entertainment and amusement park rides — shut down after the shootings. Saturday’s headliner was Blue Oyster Cult, the rock band best known for classic hits like “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” and “Burnin’ For You.” A message seeking comment from the band’s representative wasn’t immediately returned.
The precise conditions of the wounded weren’t clear. Jones said two juveniles were detained for questioning, and authorities recovered a car, two rifles and a pistol from the scene.
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bailey Martin confirmed Sunday that MBI is investigating, as it does with most shootings of or by law enforcement officers in the state. She declined to name the agency for which the officer works.
Grammy-winning blues singer Bobby Rush was the headline performer scheduled for Sunday. The state Department of Agriculture and Commerce hosted the festival, and Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said people who bought advance tickets for Sunday will receive refunds. He said safety is a priority at the fairgrounds.
“I appreciate the rapid response from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and the Jackson Police Department,” Gipson said in a statement Sunday. “Their quick action in securing the scene prevented others from potentially being hurt.”
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A man was gunned down on a street in Queens late Saturday on the way to drop off a delivery order, police said.
Zhiwen Yan, 45, was traveling through Forest Hills when he was fatally shot in the chest around 9:30 p.m.
Cops responded to the intersection of 108th Street and 67 Drive after a 911 call reported shots fired in the area.
Police discovered the 45-year-old man unresponsive next to his bike. EMS units took Yan to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made and police have not released additional details regarding a possible suspect.
Investigators are looking into whether the shot that killed Yan was a "stray bullet."
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As COVID-19 ravaged New York City, virus-wary denizens locked out of indoor public places poured into the streets, sidewalks and parks. They dined with friends in outdoor sheds hastily erected by restaurants, and went to health classes, concerts and even therapy sessions on streets closed to traffic.
Now as the city continues on its path of recovery, the pandemic could be leaving a lasting imprint on how the city uses its roadways: More space for people and less room for cars.
Even though indoor dining has resumed in the city — no masks or vaccine cards required — outdoor dining decks, set up in former parking lanes, have never been more plentiful.
Meanwhile, the city is expanding its Open Streets program, which closes roadways to vehicles and opens them to pedestrians.
The expansion of the program — originally conceived as a way to give New Yorkers more space to exercise — is partly intended to increase foot traffic along struggling business corridors and give lower-income neighborhoods similar opportunities as higher-profile and wealthier enclaves.
“There have been a lot of closings of things during COVID. There are sections of blocks where there’s lots and lots of empty storefronts, and that’s depressing,” said Maura Harway, who lives in Manhattan's Upper West Side. “So anything that brings people back and helps the businesses and helps the neighborhood to feel alive and lively.”
New York's streets — once places where kids played stickball — were turned over nearly completely to vehicles in the automobile age, except for the occasional summer street fair.
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But for years, some city leaders have sought to “reinvent and repurpose the use of our streets,” said the city’s transportation commissioner, Ydanis Rodriguez, who wants more neighborhood promenades for outdoor gatherings or give safe spaces where parents can teach children how to roller blade, toss a ball or ride a bike.
“The message to all New Yorkers is that our space is their space — that our streets don’t belong to car owners only,” said the commissioner, who oversees both the Open Restaurants and Open Streets programs.
That rethinking began before the pandemic. Two decades ago, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg oversaw a major expansion of bike lanes and allowed bike rental stations to be set up on city streets. He championed pedestrian plazas like those in Herald Square and Times Square to keep cars out of pedestrian-heavy corridors. And his administration extended waterfront greenways and parks, especially in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Mayor Bill de Blasio followed his predecessor's lead and put more measures in place to control and slow vehicular traffic. He also pushed, like Bloomberg, for a system that would charge tolls to drive in a large swath of Manhattan.
Spurred by a traffic accident that killed a 15-year-old girl in the first days of his tenure, the current mayor, Eric Adams, vowed to continue “recapturing space for pedestrians.”
Among the legacies of the pandemic could be the remaking of the city’s food culture by permanently expanding it from the confines of indoor dining to eating en plein air, giving curbsides a bit of Parisian flair.
Before the pandemic, 1,200 establishments had permits to set up tables and chairs on sidewalks. But under the pandemic era’s emergency Open Restaurants program, more than 12,000 eateries and bars got permission to extend service into the streets.
New York City officials and restaurateurs alike say that the outdoor dining shacks helped lure diners back to restaurant tables and helped save the jobs of more than 100,000 workers.
Carmen Ortiz, who manages Il Violino, an Italian restaurant in the Upper West Side, is counting on the city’s efforts to boost pedestrian traffic to generate more customers after many months of hardship for restaurateurs and their employees.
Ortiz recently returned from a trip to Italy, where she saw lots of folks dining in the sunlight.
“But most of those dining outdoors, they were eating in the sidewalks,” she said. “I didn’t really notice that they were like in the middle of the street like here.”
For now, the city’s reimagining of outdoor dining remains in flux because of legal challenges by some community activists and residents who balk at the loss of parking spaces — at least 8,500 spaces in a city where real estate has always been a valuable commodity, whether it be for cars or otherwise.
Critics say the sheds attracted vermin and too many noisy patrons deep into the night — perhaps a sign of recovery for some but an annoyance for others.
“We now have the restaurants on the streets and on the sidewalks,” said Judith Burnett, whose apartment windows face Columbus Avenue, in an area lined with restaurants and again will soon be closed to traffic on Sundays.
While she called the initial move to help restaurants a “brilliant way to help people save their businesses,” she’s now ambivalent if things should stay that way. She doesn’t want traffic permanently slowed, including the buses she rides.
“It tangled up so much traffic,” Burnett said.
City officials say they took those complaints into account when developing new standards.
“Out of all the doom and gloom from the pandemic, one of the bright spots is that it allowed us to reimagine our relationship with the public space — and that’s everything from open restaurants to open streets,” said Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, the trade group for pubs and eateries.
He called outdoor dining a “natural progression,” accelerated by necessity and allow New Yorkers to “enjoy the city in a way they may not have prior to the pandemic.”
Harway, the Upper West Side resident, also called it progress.
“I never particularly liked to eat on the street in New York before the pandemic. It seemed noisy or dirty,” she said. “With everybody eating outdoors at all the restaurants now, it’s become more integrated into the life of the city — maybe that’s what it’s like in Paris or Madrid.”
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The Viola Awards celebrated its 14th year on Saturday night at the Orpheum Theater and named a new set of winners at the annual event.
This year’s Legacy Award went to the late Jim Babbitt, who died in the fall of 2021 after a lifetime of supporting arts, culture, and science in Flagstaff. An author of three books on the history of Flagstaff, Creative Flagstaff stated they were honored to recognize his lasting impact on the town.
2022 Viola Awards Winners
1. Excellence in Collaboration: Kyle & Gretta Miller: Serenade
2. Community Impact Individual: Carrie Dallas
3. Community Impact Organization: Tynkertopia
4. Excellence in Storytelling: Ash Davidson: Damnation Spring
5. Emerging Artist: Tyrrell Tapaha
6. Excellence in Performing Arts: Dark Sky Aerial: OMEN
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7. Excellence in Education: Dr. Louise Scott
8. Philanthropy Award: The Flinn Foundation
9. Excellence in Visual Art: Rebekah Nordstrom: One Hundred: the (un)Essential Series
10. Excellence in Music: iiwaa
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The National Science Foundation has awarded Portland Community College a $189,000 grant to go toward building a cybersecurity training program, the school announced April 15.
The NSF grant also comes from its GenCyber Program, which is intended to offer cybersecurity experiences for students in grades K-12, as well as teachers.
As more companies embrace digital and mobile practices, there is a growing need for cybersecurity experts in the workforce.
Next, PCC will help assemble a GenCyber Instructor Survival Kit for middle and high school cybersecurity and computer science teachers across the nation, to be uploaded to the CLARK Curriculum Library. According to PCC, this library is host to one of the largest compilations of cybersecurity curriculum, put together by top researchers and peer-reviewed by experts.
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The PCC project director for the program is Cara Tang.
PCC already partners with local K-12 districts for dual credits, completion programs and summer camps, among other services, and Tang said the NSF grant and cybersecurity program is a natural extension of these services.
“The project will ensure that GenCyber lessons and activities are available for cyber training camps as well as for K-12 teachers looking to teach cybersecurity in their classrooms,” Tang said. “There is a demonstrated need for a repository that provides K-12 cybersecurity teachers with resources created by the GenCyber community and beyond.”
PCC statements also said the college plans to partner with nonprofit SecureEd for the cybersecurity curriculum.
“PCC is committed to equitable student success and leadership in cybersecurity education,” Tang said.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart has described itself as a company that has turned ambition into opportunity throughout its history.
The latest example of that philosophy is a pilot program for existing workers to become truck drivers for the company’s enormous private fleet.
In late 2021, Walmart launched a 12-week training program for workers in other parts of the company to become certified truck drivers. In mid-March, the initial cohort of 17 students graduated with their commercial driver’s license (CDL) — a process that typically costs around $4,500 — and became full-fledged Walmart truck drivers.
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SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, Calif. — After being canceled this year, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is back on with help from the organizers of the San Joaquin Asparagus Festival.
The Noceti Group, which also hosts the San Joaquin Asparagus Festival, announced on social media Sunday that they couldn't let the festival be canceled.
"We heard the extremely sad news that the Gilroy Garlic Festival will not be holding their annual big Garlic festival. We just couldn’t let that happen," the San Joaquin Asparagus Festival wrote on social media.
Not much information was immediately available about the location and dates, but according to the social media post, more information will be announced soon.
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TURLOCK, Calif. — One person is dead and one person is injured after a shooting in Turlock early Sunday morning.
According to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 6600 block of South Mitchell Road and found a man with a gunshot wound who was pronounced dead at the scene.
A young person in the home had non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital. Their age was not specified in the news release.
There is no information about possible suspects and no one is in custody. Anyone with information can call Detective M. Silva at (209) 525-7091. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636 or by going to the website.
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Q. Something many people understandably find confusing are the standing rules of the U.S. Senate enabling the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to end debate and proceed to a vote, as compared to the simple majority required for a “reconciliation bill.” Please explain.
A. The filibuster refers to the ability of senators to hold the Senate floor in extended debate or use other measures to delay a bill coming to a vote. Senate rules enable the filibuster, because they have limited provisions to constrain senators’ direct involvement in the legislative process. However, paragraph two of Senate Rule XXII, which is known as the cloture rule, permits the Senate, by a vote of three-fifths of senators (usually 60 out of 100 senators), to impose a time limit on consideration of legislation, thereby enabling the Senate to end a filibuster.
Conversely, the Congressional Budget and Impound Control Act of 1974 established expedited procedures for budget reconciliation measures that limit debate and amendments, enabling a simple majority vote (51 out of 100 senators) for Senate passage. The law specifies a multi-step process for this optional budget enforcement tool Congress can use to change current law to make revenue and spending levels consistent with budget resolutions. Budget reconciliation bills can only be used once in a fiscal year to address spending, revenues and the debt limit in one bill, or separate bills for each objective.
Because of the fast-track procedures and lower vote threshold for considering reconciliation measures, reconciliation legislation has been used to try to enact policies that may not be able to obtain 60 votes in the Senate. Although its ability to be employed in such a way is limited, as only legislation changing spending or revenue can be included in budget reconciliation bills.
Some have called for the Senate to change its rules so a simple majority vote would be all that is needed to pass most legislation. However, removing the ability to filibuster legislation would minimize the Senate minority’s power to force further debate or compromise. Thus, the efforts would reduce incentive for the Senate to forge broad agreements and would likely increase divisiveness rather than efficiency.
The Senate is commonly referred to as the world’s most deliberative body and varies greatly from the structure and procedures that favor the majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate, as outlined in the Constitution, is to serve as a check and balance to the House of Representatives by limiting hurried decision-making to ensure careful consideration of a given proposal. We should be cautious not to tip the balance further for one side and erode minority rights in our carefully crafted representative republic.
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BOISE, Idaho — On April 26 the three Republican candidates for state superintendent of public Instruction debated in the KTVB studios.
Current Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra is running for a third term. She was first elected in 2014.
Branden Durst is a former state representative and senator. He represented Idaho Legislative District 18, in Boise, as a Democrat. He is now running as a Republican.
Debbie Critchfield was appointed to the State Board of Education in 2014. She spent seven years on the board, serving as president for the last two.
Idaho's 115 public school districts and 68 public charter schools educate more than 317,000 Idaho kids, according to the latest numbers from the State Department of Education.
The superintendent of public instruction is a statewide constitutional officer who runs the State Department of Education, which helps run the state's public school system. The superintendent oversees a department budget of more than $2 billion. The superintendent also has a seat as a voting member on the State Board of Education and the State Board of Land Commissioners.
You can watch the full debate here and on the KTVB YouTube channel.
This edition of Viewpoint focuses on the candidates' positions on state vs. local control, learning loss during the coronavirus pandemic and whether Critical Race Theory is being taught in Idaho schools.
Viewpoint airs Sunday mornings at 9 o'clock on KTVB right after Meet the Press.
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1922: Flagstaff wants progressive men. There will be a city election held on Monday, May 22. The people should elect progressive, wide-awake men who will push forward the interests of Flagstaff without delays. Flagstaff needs an additional water supply now. Delays are not only dangerous but hold back the whole city. We can't grow without this additional water supply. The progressive people want paving. The majority of people are willing to pay for it and so signified by signing up willingly. Flagstaff won't grow without progressive men at the helm of the city administration. The Sun is not advocating men, but measures. Select the right men, men who will do it now and vote for them with the understanding that they will do things now.
Decidedly wet, at Tuesday's noonday meeting of the Rotary Club of Flagstaff, Burt Campbell, chairman for the day, had requisitioned Mayor Sam F. Quay and Councilman Earl Slipper as speakers. Their subject was Flagstaff’s inadequate water supply and what to do about it. Mr. Quay said that very few people here realize the menace in our present inadequate water supply, a supply that is great enough following periods of more than usual precipitation, but which is likely at any time to be far short of our needs. When the water in the reservoir gets down to a certain level, part of the railroad supply is cut off, and at another level, still more of their supply is cut off. If the water reaches a still lower mark, the mills will be cut off. This unfortunate condition has existed for quite some time. The Flagstaff lumber company made plans four years ago to haul water from Lake Mary, anticipating a shortage of city water. Mr. Quay spoke of the sites such as the Switzer Canyon reservoir project, where, according to his investigations, a dam 50 feet high and 13,150 feet long would impound from 200 to 250 million gallons of water it would cost, including a 20-foot roadway on top, about a quarter as much as another reservoir like our larger one.
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1947: Now playing at the Orpheum Theater: A topflight six-gun thriller starring Charles Starrett and Lone Hand Texan with Smiley Burnette. Showings from 1:45 p.m. daily.
Next Thursday, May 8, at the Federated church auditorium, Fred W. Roberts, scouting executive for the Grand Canyon council, will present charters to Scout Troop 31 and Cub Pack 31. All interested persons are invited. The meeting will start at 8:00 o'clock.
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1972: Superior Court Judge J. Thomas Brooks and Lawrence Wren today noted May 1 and Law Day, saying the principles of the community should be defended and maintained in the community courts. The judges issued this statement of morality, integrity, law and order, and other cherished principles of our great heritage are battling for survival in many communities today.
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The law belongs to the people not just lawyers and judges, but it is only as strong as the respect people have for it. Law enforcement is not just a police problem, it is a community problem. We should be alarmed when some groups come under the guise of academic freedom and constitutional privilege, flood our college campuses with obscene four-letter-word campaigns and pornographic publications that violate all codes of ethics.
An estimated 7,000 families became eligible for food stamps today as Coconino County joined seven other counties in the federal state program. Under the food stamp program, individuals send checks or money orders to the state welfare department and receive stamps by return mail. The stamps are then traded at grocery stores and supermarkets for their face value in food. The state welfare board approved switching programs for the entire state in October to give welfare recipients and low-income families a wider variety of foods to choose from. The surplus commodities program involves distribution of free surplus food to the poor.
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1997: The magic school bus has explored the sea, probed outer space, ventured inside a human body and more. Wednesday afternoon, it traveled to Flagstaff to let children experience much of what Ms. Frizzle’s students do while going on zany, educational adventures with their beloved teacher as part of the PBS and book series. The colorful bus was in Flagstaff to promote reading and science, and give Flagstaff kids a taste of how learning can be big bunches of fun.
“Miss frizzle is so absolutely the perfect teacher,” said Joann Ryan, who became Ms. Frizzle for a day at the Howard Johnson on Butler Avenue.
She wore a red wig, and her bright blue dress and Birkenstocks were covered with material printed with hundreds of orange squid. The Flagstaff bus open its doors to about 1,000 kids, and most seemed please and quite happy. They checked out the displays of spiders, a crocodile head, rocks, video games and, of course, skeletons, porcupine quills, a bat, coral and more.
Flagstaff said long and loud Wednesday night how it feels about Harold Weller. The veteran conductor of the Flagstaff Symphony, making his last regular appearance with the orchestra, was greeted with a standing ovation by a large crowd in Northern Arizona University's Ardrey Auditorium as he prepared to lead a performance of Gustav Mahler’s resurrection Symphony. Two hours later, when a stunning performance of the great work was done, members of the orchestra, the master chorale of Flagstaff, the NAU chorale and the audience created another long moment of thundering tribute to the conductor. Wednesday's performance was marked by beautifully textured playing by the entire orchestra, particularly the strings led by concertmaster Louise Scott.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun.
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SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. – Neighbors in South Fort Myers were cleaning Saturday morning after a EF0 tornado spun through their neighborhood.
The tornado touched down in South Fort Myers Friday at 5pm near Winkler Road and Gladiolus Drive.
“We’ve never seen this much yard debris from any of the hurricanes or any of the storms,” David Seehaver said.
Seehaver and his wife lived on Popham Drive for 35 years and were shocked to see the aftermath of the tornado. He showed us the downed palm trees and debri that was left behind. Crews were out in the area to help clean it up.
“It started getting very dark and we went out onto the pool deck to bring in some chairs in and it started to rain lightly and al of a sudden the wind just started howling,” Seehavor said.
Just a block over, crews were repairing the roofs of several condos. Neighbors said they were shocked to see and feel the tornado and it seemed to only last a few minutes.
Cathy Lemay, lives nearby and said her condo wasn’t effected by the storm but her neighbors were. She said she’s glad no one was hurt.
“Very blessed. Nobody got hurt, that’s the most important thing. You can replace a roof and furniture but yea it’s great. Everybody is great here helping out.”
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — At first, Grace Boncimino thought it was the sound of someone yelling.
But then, she realized it was just the limpkins’ mating call.
“It’s their mating season and they don’t leave until their eggs are hatched and their babies are grown,” said Limpkin.
Boncimino said the limpkins made their first visit to her home off SW 4th place last year.
“We thought it was just going to be here and be gone and it was like not again tonight,” said Boncimino.
Neighbors said they are louder this year.
The bird starts calling around dusk and continues until six in the morning.
“You go back to sleep and then, later on, they wake you up again it’s a continuous all night,” said Wayne Dutton.
According to FWC, limpkins are a protected bird species, so even if you wanted to get rid of them there isn’t much you can do but wait it out.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s been 20 months since the Labor Day Wildfires roared through Oregon. It’s also been that long since Hwy 224 has been open.
On Sunday, ODOT opened the highway east of Estacada 20 miles east to Ripplebrook after clearing thousands of burned trees and conducting hours of rockfall mitigation.
“We can’t have the public or anyone getting in there because of the high danger,” Will Ewing, a maintenance manager in ODOT’s District 2 told KOIN 6 News earlier in April. “There’s still another six or seven rockfall areas we have to work on through this summer. This is not going to be the last of it.”
The highway is cratered in many areas under rockfall-prone cliffs. Rockfall mitigation will still cause single-lane closures throughout the summer.
The area past Ripplebrook has been a popular outdoor destination in the summer but returning to the point of becoming fully usable again will likely take around five years, said Ben Watts, the outdoor recreation program manager for the West region of the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Clackamas County residents won’t soon forget the devastating Beachie Creek and Lionshead complex fires.
Clackamas County Chair Tootie Smith was among those forced to evacuate. She stayed away for more than a month.
“What I saw was horrific and it was dangerous,” Smith told KOIN 6 News in February. She added the danger still remains on Highway 224.
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Some Broadway theaters are ending the policy of requiring customers to show proof of vaccination.
In a statement, the Broadway League said that beginning Sunday, the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters are extending the mask requirement at least through the end of May but many will no longer check for vaccination status.
The announcement recommended that theatergoers check individual theaters' websites for more information. An update on masking policies beginning for June will be issued in May.
Several shows including “Macbeth,” “Plaza Suite” and “The Music Man” have canceled performances in recent months after cast members tested positive for COVID-19.
In early March, New York Mayor Eric Adams made masks optional in schools and said indoor venues such as restaurants, theaters and gyms were no longer required to check vaccination status. Broadway theaters said they would check vaccination status at least through April 30.
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Former Reporter-Telegram Sports Editor Terry Williamson passed away Friday in Midland.
His family reported that he is “finally with his Jesus.”
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church. Visitation will take place from 6-8 p.m. at Nalley-Pickle and Welch Funeral Home.
Terry was an award-winning sports journalist and one of the legendary community newspapermen in Reporter-Telegram and West Texas history. More importantly, he was also a Christ-centered husband, father and grandfather.
He will be missed.
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Editor’s Note: The Reporter-Telegram will have more coverage later this week, including comments from those he worked with, those he covered and others in the community.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The death last month of a 24-year-old California police officer was caused by “fentanyl toxicity,” coroner's officials said.
De'Jon Packer, a rookie with the San Jose Police Department, was found unresponsive on March 13 during a welfare check at his Milpitas home.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s confirmed to NBC Bay Area on Saturday that Packer died of a drug overdose. The death remains under investigation by Milpitas police.
San Jose police Chief Anthony Mata said in a statement that his department is cooperating with the Milpitas investigation, adding, “This behavior is not something we condone.”
Mata said the police department has scheduled substance abuse prevention training for personnel and is offering emotional support services for officers.
“We need to be mindful of the fact that we are not immune to issues that plague society, in this case substance abuse,” Mata said. “Any allegation of illegal drug use by a San Jose Police officer is concerning. There are no free passes for police officers, and we will not make excuses."
Packer was a star running back at San Jose State University before becoming a police officer.
“We all loved DeJon Packer and we will miss his infectious smile,” SJSU football coach Brent Brennan said in a statement.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Christa Hall called everyone she could after seeing a mother duck frantic in the parking lot of Patrick's Furniture off of Preston Highway after the duck's 12 ducklings fell through a grated manhole.
She and a group of concerned strangers waited until Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) and Okolona Fire Department arrived and made a plan of action to save the ducklings.
"This shows there's still some good in the world," one woman said.
"This is a miracle," Hall told WHAS11 while holding the first duckling saved. She named the small yellow and brown baby bird "Lucky."
MSD pulled the grated cover off of the manhole with one of their trucks and Okolona firefighters quickly got to work. Firefighter Taylor McMahan climbed into the manhole, not much bigger than him, and started to retrieve ducklings.
When some of the ducklings were out of reach, McMahan would hold one of the saved siblings and use their quacks to draw out the other ducklings. At one point, McMahan pulled out his phone and pulled up duck calls.
After nearly two hours, the last of the ducklings was pulled from the manhole and all were returned to their nest in a small bush on one of the parking lot's medians. After all the trucks and cars had cleared, the mother duck ran across the parking lot and was reunited with the 12 ducklings, safe and sound.
"It was cold, but it was cool. Definitely cool," McMahan said afterwards. "It was nice to get them all out of there without them all running out on us."
Hall called the act of kindness by all of those involved a "blessing."
"It was heartwarming," she said. "They're amazing. Not only do they fight fires but they're here for other needs as well. Just amazing men."
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ATLANTA — The driver of the "pedal pub" in Midtown Atlanta Saturday night that crashed with more than a dozen people on board was arrested and charged with DUI, police said. They were also charged a business permit violation.
The "pedal pub" is an electric vehicle where up to 15 passengers pedal on a large-scale bike -- normally while consuming alcohol. The operator sits at the front and controls the vehicle.
It happened at West Peachtree Street and 14th Street around 6:30 p.m. As the peddlers were negotiating a turn, it toppled over, according to police.
Fifteen people were hurt and taken to the hospital, according to Atlanta Fire Battalion Chief Jason McClain. Two people suffered critical injuries and three were in serious condition, he said.
McClain added that due to the number of patients, they requested additional help. Police said none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One person is dead after a crash Saturday night on Garden Highway in Sacramento, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Around 9:15 p.m. officers responded to reports of a single-vehicle accident near the 1800 block of Garden Highway. A person in the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Sacramento Police Department's Major Collision Investigation Unit has taken over the investigation. No other information was available at this time.
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MOSCOW, Idaho —
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) presented the Bronze Star to U.S. Army veteran Michael S. Wells during a ceremony in Moscow for his heroic actions dons during a firefight in Iraq.
"The stories of Specialist Mike Wells' courage and bravery while under active enemy fire during Operation Goldwall are nothing short of awe-inspiring," Crapo said. "It has been a distinct honor for my staff and me to work with Mr. Wells to ensure his dutiful and heroic service has been properly recognized. I thank him for his service to our country and his continued efforts to support the veteran community in Moscow and throughout Idaho."
Wells received the Bronze Star specifically for his actions on April 20, 2008, where, according to his platoon leader, Captain Millard Stewart, he demonstrated “courage and superb marksmanship [that] ensured mission accomplishment and protection of his comrades during fierce and intense fighting.”
During the event, Crapo’s office also presented Wells with a surprise video from his former commanders congratulating him on the award.
The Bronze Star is a U.S. Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the Armed Forces who have distinguished themselves by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial fight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. It is the fourth-highest ranking award a service member can receive.
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JEROME, Idaho — A woman from Jerome died Saturday evening at the scene of a two-car collision at 300 W and 100 S roads, Idaho State Police said late Saturday.
The 55-year-old woman was driving east on 100 S in a Mazda 626 and a 19-year-old man, also from Jerome, was driving south on 300 W in a Dodge Durango, when ISP said the driver of the Mazda failed to yield to oncoming traffic, and was struck by the Dodge in the intersection, which is west of Jerome.
The crash occurred at 6:50 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the woman who died was not wearing a seat belt, and the driver and passenger in the Dodge were wearing seat belts.
The names of the people involved have not been released. The crash remains under investigation by ISP.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — All Portlanders are invited to remember the Mayor, J.E. “Bud” Clark during a free celebration of his life at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 15 in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Clark, who served as mayor from 1985 to 1992, passed away on Feb. 1 at the age of 90.
The event — which is being planned by family, friends, and former colleagues and employees — will include personal remembrances and performances by The Portland Youth Philharmonic, Pink Martini founder Thomas Lauderdale and Kathleen Saadat, the Mel Brown Quartet and the MarchFourth Marching Band among other personal remembrances. An “Ice Cream Social” complimentary provided by the local business Salt & Straw will follow the presentations.
“My dad would be so pleased that the citizens of Portland are coming together to celebrate his legacy — which by extension is celebrating his favorite city! He loved Portland deeply and showed through his actions how participation in community building is perhaps an individual’s most important act,” said Clark’s daughter Rachel.
A “Bud Clark’s City” volunteer downtown cleanup will be coordinated by the non-profit SOLVE and precede the event, is also intended as a call for civic recommitment.
“Deep inside our current challenges, Portland is still a good and caring city. We want all citizens to come to Pioneer Courthouse Square on that Sunday, not only to celebrate the life of one of Portland’s great mayors, but to come together to remember the Portland that once was and can be again,” said Jack McGowan, Mayor Clark’s former press secretary, who went on to direct SOLVE for many years. “This is our city, our present and future depends on us rolling up our collective sleeves and working together. This can be Bud’s and our legacy.”
Portland Tribune and its parent, Pamplin Media Group, are KOIN 6 News partners.
Clark, the owner of the Goose Hollow Inn, rocketed to international fame when he unexpectedly defeated Mayor Frank Ivancie at the May 1984 primary election with 54.7% of the vote. The concept of a tavern-owner-turned mayor led to an appearance on the Johnny Carson Show, numerous pieces in the New York Times, and coverage in many domestic and foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspapers and magazines.
But Clark also brought a business sensible to the City Council, focusing public financing during tough economic times while also backing economic and other development projects, including the Oregon Convention Center and expanding the downtown Transit Mall. As Police Commissioner, he supported community policing and famously fired Police Chief Jim Davis at the Fat City Cafe in Multnomah Village for challenging the analysis of his proposed Portland Police Bureau budget.
“I hope that all of Portland gets a proverbial shot in the arm from this memorial and will be emboldened to get out there now and be the best we all can be — as individuals, families, businesses, and neighborhoods: Coming together to honor my dad will remind us that we can make a difference. So, come one, come all, dressed as you please!” said Rachel, who manages the Goose Hollow Inn, which she owns with her brothers Nic and Jason.
Organizers include former mayoral employees McGowan, Chuck Duffy and Dan Steffey. Many event expenses are being donated and hard costs are being offset by individual and business supporters of the former mayor. An account to help cover “Celebrate Bud Clark” expenses has been established at US Bank. All surplus funds will be donated in Clark’s name to non-profits Meals on Wheels People and Portland Audubon Society.
To make a contribution, please send checks payable to: Charles P Duffy, “CBC,” P.O. Box 998, Beaverton, Oregon 97075
To learn more and register for the downtown cleanup, go to www.solveoregon.org.
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A man sitting inside a white Mercedes was found dead Saturday afternoon, shot in the head following an argument, police said.
Cops responded to the Upper West Side around 12:30 p.m. for reports of a shooting at West 102nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
The 27-year-old man was shot after what started as an argument in the middle of the day, police said.
No suspect description was immediately available, but police said the gunman fled the scene and no arrests were made several hours later.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Fire investigators are still working to determine the cause of a massive fire in Chinatown that caused extensive damage and hurt at least five firefighters.
The fire started in the back of a building on Chatham Square and caused the third and fourth floors to collapse. First reports of flames came in around 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
It took more than 170 firefighters to get the 5-alarm fire under control by 6 a.m.
The fire destroyed Dim Sum Palace and a number of apartments located above the restaurant.
Injuries to the five injured FDNY members were described as minor.
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FLAGSTAFF -- In a small enclave in northern Arizona where homes are nestled in the ponderosa pine forest and tourists delight in camping, hiking and cruising on ATVs, high winds are nothing new.
But when those winds ramped up and sent what was a small wildfire racing toward their homes, residents in the close-knit Girls Ranch neighborhood near Flagstaff faced a dilemma: quickly grab what they could and flee, or stay behind and try to ward off the towering, erratic flames.
Most of the property owners left. One couple stood their ground. Another raced to save animals on neighbors' properties.
The blaze that started Easter Sunday swept across vacant lots, scorched tree stumps and cast an orange glow on the parched landscape. Flames licked the corner of one woman's porch and destroyed two other homes, leaving a mosaic of charred land as the 30 square-mile fire neared full containment this weekend.
The blaze is one of many this spring that have forced panicked residents to make life-or-death, fight-or-flee snap decisions as wildfire season heats up in the U.S. West. Years of hotter and drier weather have the exacerbated blazes, leading them to frequently burn larger areas and for longer periods compared with previous decades.
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Some who live in Girls Ranch had just minutes to react.
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Polly Velie rushed out of a physical therapy appointment April 19 when she learned her home was in the evacuation zone. She sped through embers and thick smoke to find her husband hosing down the driveway. Her voice shrieked as she yelled above the smoke alarms going off throughout the house.
“Bill, we gotta go!” she told him.
But Bill Velie — who cut fire lines with a dozer in multiple states for years — was intent on staying. It's the same decision the couple made in 2010 when the Schultz Fire in the area forced evacuations. Polly Velie said she's never been more scared, but the choice wasn't difficult: “This is our house, and he's my husband.”
The couple watched neighbors load up horses and donkeys and haul them off. They saw burning tumbleweeds flying across a major highway, flames tear through an old stone house and a propane tank burst.
“Boy, that made her jump,” Bill Velie said. “Just like a bomb went off.”
Firefighters encouraged them at least a handful of times to leave, and they agreed to do so if the winds shifted. More than anything, Bill Velie reassured them he had things under control.
Bill Velie had thinned parts of the national forest on the other side of his property line, and he regularly mows the grass. They kept sprinklers running outside, and Bill Velie bladed the edge of the forest a few times where it looked like the fire was crawling toward neighbors' homes.
At night, the flames twinkled on the hill behind them like red stars in the sky.
“I’ve seen some exciting stuff, but not like this for a while,” he said. “Do I miss it? No.”
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Ali Taranto and her husband, Tim, own a house in the neighborhood. They saw news about the fire on a neighborhood Facebook page and drove from Winslow, where she works as a nurse about an hour away, to check on the 5-acre property.
Ali Taranto drove past the neighborhood's namesake Girls Ranch property, once a home for troubled girls, and saw parts of the white fence melted to the ground.
She checked on her neighbor, Marianne Leftwich, who said she was fine. But Taranto didn't hear from her for about an hour. Then, Leftwich's daughter called to say her mother was stuck in her house.
Taranto alerted emergency responders, she said, but dispatch told her she'd probably get to Leftwich before they could. Taranto found the woman semi-conscious and gasping for air, in need of help to evacuate, Taranto said.
“As a community in an emergency like this, all the systems were totally overwhelmed," Taranto said. “Thank God I got there and got her out in time.”
Taranto took Leftwich's dogs to a kennel, then returned to rescue a goat and a cow she saw roaming around nearby.
Other than some burned grass and brush, Taranto's property was unscathed.
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Harriet Young's house overlooks the neighborhood. She hired an arborist last year to remove dead trees and cut low-lying branches as a fire-prevention measure. She had pinkish gravel laid on the long driveway and around the front of her house.
Young believes it saved the home she and her late husband built in the 1990s. The wildfire burned all around it, sparing the house and the olive trees that her daughter wished hadn't survived.
“This was a miracle, that's all I got to say,” said Young's daughter, Stacey Aldstadt, who stayed with her mom for a few days after the fire swept through.
When they were allowed back home last Sunday, they had no heat or hot water. Young spent four days battling with propane companies to get it turned back on. Finally, she persuaded a former fire chief to come by and fix it.
Everyone here knows Young, the staunch Democrat who regularly hosts Christmas parties. She made call after call as the fire progressed and planned to stay home, based on what she'd heard.
But neighbor Jeanne Welnick saw the plume of smoke that seemed so distant grow and move toward their neighborhood, and urged Young to leave.
“I owe Jeanne a huge ‘thank you,’” Young said.
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The Welnicks initially bought the house behind Young's as a vacation property. The previous owners built it with wildfire in mind.
The 14-inch-thick exterior walls are concrete sandwiched by Styrofoam cells topped by a metal roof. Those walls are still standing.
The rest of the Victorian ranch-style home painted orange with green trim isn't.
Flames tore through, twisting strips of metal that creaked as the wind blew through. Shards of glass and nails shot out onto the driveway where the Welnicks wrote their names and the year they bought the house, 2004.
A cherub statue the Welnicks placed outside as a memorial to a child they lost to miscarriage looked down at the rubble. Two packages that were delivered to the walkway after the home burned held material for trellis arches the Welnicks planned to assemble over their vegetable garden. Unburned pavers and bags of sand sat off to the side of the garage, ready to be laid down.
At midday, a bell that was near the front door to welcome them home rang out, hidden among piles of debris.
Jeanne Welnick scanned the property, wondering which trees would survive. She grieved the loss of her paintings and a squash blossom necklace that was passed down through her husband's family. She kept it in a glass case.
“I’d like to look for that, but it’s probably not even there,” said Welnick, an artist.
Guitars and some sculptures made it out with them, through what Welnick described as a roaring train, dark, scary, like Armageddon.
In the aftermath, some neighbors struggled with the right words to say to those who lost their homes. Some offered food, clothes, a place to stay and set up fundraising accounts.
“They kept saying, ‘We love you so much, we love you so much,’” Welnick said. “And they do."
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An almost summer-like pattern will take shape this week across Alabama. Warm and sticky afternoons with hit-or-miss showers and storms will remain in the forecast for the next few days before a shot of cooler air moves in by the end of the week.
Tonight: As a stalled front lifts back to the north, a few isolated showers and storms can’t be ruled out, but drier air will likely prevail across most of Central Alabama tonight, limiting our rain chance. Temperatures drop into the low to mid 60s, with some patchy fog possible after midnight into Monday morning.
Monday: Additional scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely Monday, particularly Northwest of I-59.
Some storms in the afternoon and evening could produce small hail and wind gusts above 45 mph, but we don’t expect any storms that would necessarily meet “severe” criteria (1″ or larger hail and/or 58+mph wind gusts). Some stronger storms north of I-22 and I-59 could linger into the overnight hours.
Tuesday/Wednesday: The pattern of isolated to widely scattered storms continues through mid-week. Storm coverage may be a touch higher Tuesday than Wednesday, but any one spot on either day could see a heavy downpour. More spots than not miss out on rain, and instead get quite warm. Temperatures climb into the upper 80s in most locations. Some of our typical “hot spots” might make a run at 90°.
Thursday-Friday: Finally, a more potent upper air disturbance paired with a surface cold front will approach the state Thursday evening into Friday. This will increase storm chances from Thursday evening into Friday morning, and could support some stronger storms capable of strong winds and hail, although at this time, our overall confidence in any severe weather remains too low to warrant a Weather Aware. Thursday will remain warm, but the front moves through by Friday afternoon, bringing a cool end to the week along with storms. Friday’s high temperatures will struggle to get out of the 70s.
The Weekend: We finally get some cooler and drier weather Saturday, with highs again struggling to exceed 80°. We’ll tamp down the humidity a tad as well from Friday into Saturday. The cool-down will be short lived though, as temperatures again climb into the mid to upper 80s Sunday. For now, we’re keeping rain chances out of the forecast for the weekend, but we could have to introduce a slim chance for rain at some point over the weekend if moisture return is more aggressive than what we’re forecasting right now.
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ESTACADA, Ore. — A 19-mile stretch of Highway 224 reopened east of Estacada on Sunday for the first time since the region was devastated by wildfire in September 2020.
The Riverside Fire started on Sept. 8, 2020, and burned more than 138,000 acres in Clackamas County. The fire burned so close to Estacada and other nearby communities that residents were forced to evacuate their homes.
Since then, crews have spent the past 20 months clearing debris, replacing guardrails and highway signs, installing restraining mesh to hold back rockfalls and removing "tens of thousands of dead and dying danger trees" that posed a risk to highway commuters, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) said in a news release.
Despite the reopening, ODOT says there is still much more work that needs to be done along Highway 224.
That work includes removing loose rocks from steep hillsides, reseeding the area with native plants to reduce weeds, and patching potholes.
"This summer, visitors will encounter road closures of up to 20 minutes at varying locations, seven days a week, and will see trucks loaded with debris, rock scaling work and asphalt being repaired," the release from ODOT said.
The highway closure blocked the way to a number of recreation areas in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Some businesses that rely on outdoor tourism took a hit.
Luke Spencer and his wife have run Clackamas River Outfitters in downtown Estacada since 2015. They sell paddling products and offer rentals for outdoor water activities.
In an interview last January, Spencer told KGW business was good at the beginning of the pandemic but when Highway 224 closed, the number of customers dropped off dramatically.
"In the winter, we rely on the winter boating traffic to create revenue for business," Spencer said. "Without the availability of access to the river, those folks just aren’t coming out here. They are going to other rivers, which doesn’t bring them through Estacada and doesn’t bring them into our shop."
On Sunday, the U.S. Forest Service reopened the Hole in the Wall and Moore Creek boat access sites and Big Eddy day-use site, ODOT said, adding that all other Forest Service recreation facilities in the Clackamas River corridor will remain closed at least through the end of 2022.
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AZLE, Texas — A man has died after officers in Azle used "less lethal options" during an incident on Sunday morning, police said.
In a news release Sunday, police said they responded to the 700 block of Boyd Road, near Highway 199, around 7:30 a.m. in regards to a man with a knife who was reportedly making threats.
According to police, officers arrived and found the man with a knife. Police said the officers "attempted to deescalate the situation," but that the man refused and "advanced on officers."
In an attempt to stop the man, police said officers "deployed less lethal options." The department did not specify what the officers used against the man.
Police said the man was transported to a hospital, where he died. Details on how he died were not immediately released.
"Officers did not discharge their service weapons during the incident," the department said in the news release.
According to police, the department has asked the Texas Rangers to investigate.
The department did not immediately release information on the officers involved.
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FREER, Texas — A rattlesnake handler has died after he was bitten at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Freer.
Freer Police Chief Hector Doria confirmed to 3News that Eugene De Leon Sr. was bitten in the shoulder around 1 p.m. Saturday. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Corpus Christi but died Saturday night at approximately 9 p.m.
One of the organizers of the Rattlesnake Roundup said that De Leon was performing and handling rattlesnakes in front of a crowd at the time he was bitten.
The Freer Chamber of Commerce puts on the Rattlesnake Roundup, and it's the city's largest festival of the year.
De Leon's family wrote on Facebook that "he had a passion for snake handling" and that he was "doing what he loved doing."
3News will have more on this story on 3News at 5:30 p.m.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The Springdale Police Department (SPD) responded to a call about gunshots at the 3000 block of Butterfield Coach Rd. at approximately 6:52 a.m. on Sunday, May 1.
SPD says when they arrived at the scene, a female in her 30s was found face down with a gunshot wound to the head.
The female was determined deceased and she was not transported to a hospital.
A search warrant was held at the residence but there is no further information available at this time as the investigation continues.
Anyone who knows any information on this case is asked to contact the SPD at 479-751-4542 or the Criminal Investigation Division at 479-750-8139.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Fallen peace officers will be honored with a ceremony and vigil at the Texas State Capitol Sunday evening.
The Texas Peace Officers' Memorial Ceremony will honor those who have died in the line of duty. It will be held at the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial Monument on the grounds of the Texas Capitol.
The event will begin with a law enforcement procession along Congress Avenue at 6 p.m., leading into the south entrance and to the monument. There, the ceremony will take place, followed by a candlelight vigil.
Gov. Greg Abbott is set to deliver remarks at the ceremony. Abbott will also award a medal of honor to the family of each of the 62 officers being recognized.
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GASQUET, Calif — A truck that crashed on a remote highway spilled 2,000 gallons of hot asphalt binder in a Northern California forest last week and the driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI, authorities said.
The semi-truck had a damaged tire as it traveled on State Route 199 in Del Norte County on Tuesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The truck drifted off the road and struck a power pole, which fell into lanes near the town of Gasquet just south of the Oregon border, the highway patrol said.
The driver continued for another mile until the trailer overturned, spilling hot asphalt binder, which began seeping into the Smith River, SFGate reported Sunday.
“Asphalt binder turns into a solid substance once the temperature of the binder reaches about 100-125 degrees — which means when the material hit the cold river it turned into a solid,” Six Rivers National Forest said in a statement. “Although we are still concerned with possible harm done to natural resources, knowing more about the substance re-assures us the spread of liquid material in the river is minimal.”
State Route 199 was closed for hours during cleanup operations.
The 58-year-old truck driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and misdemeanor hit and run, SFGate reported.
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CLEMENTS, Calif. — One person was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded to the area of Highway 88 and Mackville Road in Clements at around 1:55 a.m. for reports of a person down in the area. They found a person who was pronounced dead on the scene.
Detectives are investigating the person's death. No additional information was available. Anyone with information can contact the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office at 209) 468-4400 (select Option 1) and refer to case #22-9524.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — At the corner of Elk Grove Florin Road and Bridalsmith Drive in South Sacramento, a memorial continues to grow in memory of Johnathan Saelee.
Saelee, a 22-year-old son, brother, nephew and friend, was hit by a car while biking home from a late-night shift at Panda Express last week. The driver fled the scene.
"He got dragged to the stop sign area," his sister, Monica Saelee, said
According to California Highway Patrol, Saelee was taken to a local hospital. He later died from his injuries.
"He was a very hardworking person and he was the type of person who would never set limits to himself," said Jasmine Alvarez, Saelee's girlfriend. "It's very unfair. He was so young and so healthy and it was so unexpected."
Family members said Saelee was ambitious, full of life, and enjoyed helping people in need.
"He was a big gamer person. He used to stream a lot, and he actually did a stream where whatever [proceeds] he got, he donated it to a charity — so he kind of gave back to the community," said Monica Saelee.
"[He was] a very fun and loving guy. You could tell he has lots of friends and everyone loved him," said his aunt Line Kao.
Saelee's family is still searching for answers and demanding accountability from the driver who fled the scene. CHP said the car that struck Saelee is a four-door white Ford pickup truck between model years 2008 to 2016 with a missing passenger-side mirror.
"This is not acceptable. They take him away from us so young. He was only 22. He has so much to live for and so much to give to all his friends and his family," Kao said. "Please, if you know anyone who did this to him, let us know. Call us. We just want justice, so this won't happen again to other kids."
Through heartache and turmoil, Saelee's family leans on one another, processing their grief one day at a time. They hope they'll soon be able to find justice for Johnathan.
Anyone who has any information about the crash is asked to contact CHP South Sacramento.
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BOISE, Idaho —
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
When COMPASS Principal Planner Carl Miller moved to the Treasure Valley, people would complain about the lack of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Now, there’s one in Meridian, near where In-N-Out Burger is considering an Idaho location.
There are many challenges with managing growth, but this is an example of the benefits that come with increased growth: The region has a population base to support certain stores and events. New 2022 COMPASS population estimates suggest the growth isn’t going to stop.
“We’ve seen our ebbs and flows and swings in the valley,” Miller said. “This is definitely a high-growth era.”
For Miller, the biggest surprise in COMPASS’s 2022 population estimates is the tremendous rate of growth.
Ada and Canyon counties grew 7.8% from 2020 to 2022, from 726,000 to over 781,000, an increase of about 55,000 people.
For context, if the growth rate continued at a little over 7%, the Treasure Valley’s population would double in a decade. Miller does not expect this to happen, however.
Remote work has become much more popular during the pandemic. As the job-driven pull to more dense, urban, coastal cities decreases, Boise could be seen as a desirable place for people to relocate because of the ample amenities and relatively lower cost of living, the Idaho Press previously reported.
“Last year was our second highest year that we’ve ever had for new homes being built,” Miller said.
The rapid growth is a far cry from the post-recession years. From 2009 to 2011, the area averaged about 1,800 new residential units for each of the three years, so about 5,400 total.
Last year alone, there were over 10,000 new residential units. In essence, twice as many residential units were added in 2021 than in those three years combined.
Housing is one of the biggest challenges cities in the Treasure Valley are wrestling with, Boise State University School of Public Service Associate Professor Krista Paulsen said.
Inventory and construction have not kept up with the influx of people, which puts a lot of pressure on the housing market, Paulsen said.
”You can see that cities are really trying to get in front of that, developing plans to generate the number of housing units that are needed to accommodate this growth,” Paulsen said. “But it’s a long process in terms of being able to do so.”
Plus, the growth in the last couple years has been “really substantial,” she said.
A big driver of the growth is Canyon County.
Canyon County is also bigger than the city of Boise, for the first time since around 1960, according to COMPASS. Population estimates are from every 10 years.
Miller said the area has become more popular.
“The cities in Canyon County, especially Nampa and Caldwell and Middleton, have really taken off over the last 10 years,” Miller said. “With a lot of the affordability of housing out there as well as a housing market that they provide that maybe Ada County doesn’t.”
Nampa has grown “very fast” in the last few years, said Rodney Ashby, Nampa’s director of planning and zoning.
Ashby, who moved to the valley around 2004, has seen the growth explode in front of him.
“They were building the Garrity Road improvements and it was all torn up, quite a bit smaller, of course,” Ashby said. “It’s kind of like seeing your kids grow. You don’t really notice how big it is until it’s happened.”
There are some benefits to growth, Ashby said. For example, funding sources like taxes allow for infrastructure improvements. The more taxpayers there are, the more the cost is spread out, Ashby said.
But there are also challenges. For example, Ashby’s staff in planning and zoning manages a record number of plats for subdivisions but there are only eight of them.
However, those challenges are likely to continue in the future.
“Over the next 30 years, we’re predicting by 2050, there will be about 1.1 million people in the Treasure Valley,” Miller said. “That’s still pretty healthy and robust growth, but it’s not anything like the 7.5%.”
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho —
Sunday morning, Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office, the Idaho Falls Police Department (IFPD), and Adventures With Purpose, a search and recovery dive team that helps families of missing people, located a vehicle in connection with the missing Idaho Falls teen, Matthew Jedediah “Jed” Hall.
The vehicle was found in the Snake River south of Johns Hole boat ramp at River Parkway and Highway 20, according to IFPD. The vehicle is a 2009 gray Nissan Versa hatchback and matched the license plates of the vehicle Hall was last seen driving on January 22, 2018, the same day he went missing.
The dive team and a local towing company removed the vehicle from the river. Human remains were found inside the vehicle.
Investigators have been in contact with the missing teen’s family and an identification process is in progress, according to IFPD.
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October will mark 10 years since Superstorm Sandy changed lives forever, but the ghosts of the storm's past have continued to haunt the Hoboken waterfront.
That's all changing this week when crews start work to remove over a dozen abandoned and sunken boats left sinking further into Weehawken Cove for nearly a decade.
Noelle Thurlow has been maneuvering around some of the abandoned boats since the storm. On Friday, her kayaking group took some photos before the vessels are gone for good.
"We don't need extra poluntants, giant boats in the water," Thurgow said.
Mayor Ravi Bhalla said the waterfront takeover started with a couple of boats but turned into a larger graveyard over the years. By the end of may, he said they'll finally be gone.
"What it does is it creates a public nuisance. You can't really use the cove as much and it degrades our quality of life," the mayor said.
Fourteen boats will be pulled from the cove starting this week thanks for grant funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration secured last year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a return to some normalcy, journalists, government officials and celebrities paraded down the red carpet Saturday night at the annual White House press corps gala even as the threat of COVID-19 loomed over the massive hotel ballroom.
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner,which the pandemic sidelined in 2020 and 2021, returned with Joe Biden as the first president in six years to accept an invitation. Donald Trump shunned the event while in office.
Comedy was also back with “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah as the headliner. Celebrities were reappearing as well: Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson walked the carpet as did Brooke Shields and Caitlyn Jenner. The event drew a large swath of government officials and other prominent figures.
Biden will be facing more than 2,600 attendees while he tries to strike a careful balance at a pivotal moment for the country. His administration is looking to turn the page on the pandemic even as the virus remains a threat nationally and close to home. Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive this week and Dr. Anthony Fauci skipped the dinner for health precautions.
After the recent Gridiron Club press dinner in Washington, dozens of attendees, including members of Congress and of Biden’s Cabinet and journalists, tested positive for COVID-19.
That raised questions about whether the 79-year-old Biden should attend Saturday’s dinner. The president planned to pass up the meal but turn up later for the program. He also planned to be masked when not speaking.
The White House has stressed the abundance of the antiviral pill Paxlovid, which has been shown to reduce by 90% severe outcomes from the virus among those at highest risk.
Still, press secretary Jen Psaki has said of Biden, “We want to be very clear that it is possible he could test positive for COVID, just like any American.”
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it was requiring same-day antigen testing for its dinner attendees even before the Gridiron outbreak. It then added a vaccination requirement.
The U.S. is experiencing a COVID-19 case spike from a highly contagious subvariant of omicron, with confirmed infections rising to about 44,000 per day, up from 26,000 a month ago.
Despite the latest wave of COVID-19 cases, virus deaths and hospitalizations are near, or at, pandemic lows, with the BA.2 variant proving less severe than earlier virus strains. Just over 300 people are dying in the U.S. each day from the virus, down from more than 2,600 daily earlier this year — with about 1,600 hospitalizations per day, declining from a peak of more than 21,000 daily in January.
Psaki said Biden’s decision to attend “does stand in stark contrast to his predecessor, who not only questioned the legitimacy of the press on a nearly daily basis, but also never attended the dinner.” Trump, who at times branded the media “the enemy of the people,” had gleefully boycotted the event as president.
In addition to the looming threat of the virus, Biden planned to take the mic as a massive and deadly invasion of Ukraine continued to unfold at the hands of Russian forces.
Biden mentioned the dinner during a speech this past week about Russia’s war on Ukraine, saying, “I’ve always had respect for the press, but I can’t tell you how much respect I have watching them in these zones where they’re under fire.”
“Imagine if we weren’t getting that information,” the president added. “It would be a different world.”
The correspondents’ dinner debuted in 1921. Three years later, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to attend and all have since, except Trump. Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon opted not to attend every year of their presidencies, however, and Ronald Reagan, then recovering from an assassination attempt, missed the 1981 installment — but called in from Camp David.
“The thing I think this shows is the restoration to the health of the relationship,” said Harold Holzer, author of the book “The Presidents vs. The Press” and the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York. “It’s still barbed, there are still tense moments. But that’s OK.”
After comedian Michelle Wolf’s sharp satire sparked controversy in 2018, the event the following year featured historian Ron Chernow. The return of celebrities this time recalls President Barack Obama’s administration, when the likes of George Clooney, Charlize Theron and Viola Davis attended.
As vice president in 2014, Biden appeared in a comedy video with the star of HBO’s “Veep,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which drew big laughs at the correspondents’ dinner. The White House director of speech writing, Vinay Reddy, and longtime Biden adviser Mike Donilon worked on Biden’s remarks for this year, the White House said, tapping material from a variety of people both inside and outside government.
Psaki already acknowledged trying to lower expectations, saying the speech was“not funny at all. Just kidding.” Presidential attempts at humor can be tricky, though.
At the 2011 dinner, Obama skewered an unamused Trump — in his presence — over Trump’s fictitious claims about the then-president’s birth certificate. Obama concluded by musing about Trump taking his job one day, saying, “He certainly would bring some change to the White House” as banquet hall screens flashed a parody image of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’s grand façade fitted with a Trump logo, golden columns, a digital clock and a sign proclaiming “Hotel, Casino, Golf Course, Presidential Suite.”
That turned out to be prophetic, since Trump of course succeeded Obama — though the overhauls he eventually brought to the presidency stopped short of affixing his name to the White House.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Activists marched through the city Sunday in recognition of May Day — an annual celebration of the working class where people around the world protest for human rights, better working conditions and job protections.
Rally-goers gathered downtown around 11 a.m. at the Battleship Oregon Memorial and then marched to the South Park Blocks. Organizers called for better pay, more egalitarian labor policies and better treatment of migrant
Just blocks away, a group of Starbucks employees, Amazon workers, migrant rights advocates, community organizers and union members rallied near the coffee chain’s U.S. Bank Plaza location at 555 SW Oak Street. Protesters waved signs, played music and gave speeches admonishing some corporations, like Starbucks, for what they called “union busting” behavior.
“We had representatives from Starbucks, from Amazon, we had postal service workers here, we had teamsters with UPS that were here today,” said Quentin Kanta with Starbucks Workers United. “Really just bridging all of the struggles in labor right now under the banner headline of new organizing.”
These rallies were in contrast to previous years’ destructive events during May Day celebrations.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) responded to Martin Luther King Park and a local hospital for a shooting incident Sunday, May 1, at approximately 4:48 p.m.
Police say the victim drove himself to the hospital with a reported gunshot wound in the abdomen. The severity of his condition is still unknown at this time.
Police responded to both locations and shortly after responded to a second shooting in the 5000 block of South 28th St. at around 5:53 p.m.
It is unclear if the shootings are connected and no arrests have been made at this time. No further information was provided.
Anyone with information on these shootings is asked to dial 911 or call FSPD at 479-709-5000.
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BOISE, Idaho —
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The Hercules C-130 aircraft descended to an altitude of 150 feet, releasing 3,000 gallons of water over a grassy landscape.
The water drop took place near the Boise Airport’s third runway, south of Gowen Field, and was part of a weeklong training involving four Air Force Reserve units, or wings, and federal agencies that work to support wildfire suppression efforts around the country. When fighting fires, the plane would drop fire retardant.
“We conduct this training annually because it gives us an opportunity to work with our military partners and ensure they are ready to be integrated into our fire suppression operations in a safe, effective, and seamless manner should the need arise in 2022,” said Kim Christensen, deputy assistant director for operations for the Forest Service at the National Interagency Fire Center, located in Boise.
The training is part of a series of events in May to prepare for fire season and is among a growing local and regional effort to mitigate wildfires.
MAFFS PLANES DEPLOYED ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS
The training is part of the Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems program, or MAFFS. The four Air Force Reserve wings participating are the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing, the 302nd Airlift Wing from Petersen Air Force Base, Colorado, the Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Airlift Wing, and the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing. Each wing has two of the Hercules C-130 planes, for a total of eight aircraft capable of transporting the fire retardant to where it is needed.
The MAFFS planes are only activated when all of the commercial airtankers that are part of the national airtanker fleet are “fully committed or not readily available,” according to a press release about the event.
Last year, all eight of the aircraft were activated during the second-busiest fire season in the program’s 49-year history, said Lt. Gen. Kirk Pierce, commander with the U.S. Air Forces Northern, in the release.
The need for MAFFS support tends to arise during peak fire season, Christensen said. This often happens during the second half of July through the first half of September, when there are multiple regions of the country experiencing “elevated fire activity,” she said. At that point, one or more of the MAFFS planes can be activated from a specific location to tamp down fires there.
A MAFFS operation includes one of the Hercules C-130 planes, as well as other support elements, such as a lead plane. It is easiest to base all of the MAFFS operations in the same location, and they can then increase or decrease the number of operations in that location, Christensen said.
The lead plane flies over an affected area to confirm the location where ground personnel are requesting the retardant drop, said a spokesperson at the event. Lead planes are smaller and more nimble than the C-130s, allowing them to assess conditions, such as wind speed or air pressure. Afterward, the lead plane and the C-130 plane do what is called a “show me” pass: the lead plane escorts the C-130 plane over the site where the retardant will be dropped. On the next pass, the lead plane leads the C-130 back to the target site to drop the retardant.
It is accepted that wildfires are increasing across the western U.S., said Lt. Col. Jesse Newberry, a pilot in the 302nd Airlift Wing. Many of the people who fight fires live in areas that are also at risk of wildfire, he said. A few years ago, he and others had to fight fires that threatened their own neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, he said.
“It’s a big deal,” Newberry said. “I wish it wasn’t so, right? We wish we didn’t have to do it. But yeah, it seems like it’s getting a little more significant.”
WILDFIRE IN IDAHO COULD IMPACT MORE PEOPLE
Idaho encompasses two geographic areas prone to wildfire: a high desert sage brush environment in the southern portion of the state, and a mountainous, timber-dominated landscape in northern part of the state, said Tony Piscopo, the city of Boise’s Wildlands Division chief.
Historically, Idaho's wildfires burned in areas without large populations, he said. But that could be changing with more people moving to the state, he said.
“As more people move in and move out into the (Wildland Urban Interface), I think you’re going to start seeing an increased number of folks affected by wildfire,” Piscopo said.
A Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, is the “zone of transition between unoccupied land and human development,” according to the U.S. Fire Administration.
In Boise, that interface is defined as north of Hill Road and north of East Warm Springs Avenue, Piscopo said, though there are pockets that are vulnerable to wildfire outside of those areas, he said.
Increasingly, high winds are the driving force behind where wildfires occur, and it is not always limited to a city’s designated WUI, Piscopo said. In the summer of 2021, 90 mile-per-hour winds tore through an area of Boulder, Colorado, outside of the city’s WUI, fueling a fire that impacted 1,600 homes, Piscopo said. That area does not typically see winds of that speed, he said.
Even calmer, less windy conditions can pose a threat with high temperatures in play, Piscopo said. Both scenarios create conditions that are hazardous to firefighters, he said.
CITY OF BOISE MAKING STRIDES TO PROTECT PEOPLE AND HOMES
There has been a push for entities at all levels to adopt fire mitigation strategies, Piscopo said. In 2018, the city of Boise and the Boise Fire Department formed a wildfire division to begin making strides toward better protecting people and homes from wildfires, Piscopo said.
The city has created a “WUI code” or a designation of how homes in the WUI can be built, including the types of building materials, he said.
The city works to reduce fuels on city lands through mowing and the removal of invasive species that could fuel fires, Piscopo said. There is also a plan in development to use controlled burning, also known as prescribed burning, to make areas less susceptible to wildfire, but that is likely a ways off, Piscopo said.
Homeowners and residents can access resources through the Ada Fire Adapted Community website (AdaFireAdapted.org), he said. One program is known as Code Red, which invites homeowners to sign up for emergency notifications. It is part of a larger program called “Ready, Set, Go!” which encourages homeowners to harden their home to wildfire, make an emergency evacuation plan, and evacuate if necessary.
Another program offered by the city is a free wildfire home safety evaluation for people living in the WUI to learn about reducing wildfire risk on their property, he said. This often includes reducing brush and ensuring there are not flammable fuels within five feet of the home, he said. Homeowners are eligible for a free chipping service for the flammable vegetation they gather from their property, he said.
Inspectors may also point homeowners toward fire resistant roofing and vent materials to better protect their home from a fire, he said.
However, even mitigation is not completely fail-safe, Piscopo said. This is because mitigation recommendations tend to accommodate for “normal” fire conditions, which don't always account for less common, wind-driven fires, such as what happened in Boulder last summer, Piscopo said.
But it is still important for residents to make an effort to mitigate risk where they are. It’s similar to flood risk — even if a resident lives in an area that is unlikely to flood, they should still take the precautions they can in case the extreme happens, he said.
BOISE’S HOME INSPECTIONS ARE NOT MANDATORY
In parts of California, people who live in designated WUIs are required to have a home inspection and follow the recommendations given to them to mitigate their wildfire risk each year. The city of Boise’s program is free to those in Boise’s WUI, but they are not required, Piscopo said.
One reason those kinds of inspections are required in parts of California is because those areas have burned before, and as a result, insurance companies want homeowners to do the inspection before they will provide insurance, he said.
Given that the city already is requiring homes being built in the WUI to be built to a certain standard, he does not foresee the city requiring wildfire related home inspections unless it was driven by insurance, he said.
“So hopefully, and I think the city is forward-thinking enough that we’re putting as many things out there for the homeowners and making them available, that they take us up on what we’re offering before anything would have to become mandatory,” he said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Overdose Program held a naloxone kit giveaway on Sunday hosted by the Criminal Justice Institute and the Arkansas Department of Human Services.
The giveaway took place at Dickey Stephens Park around 1:35 p.m. during the Arkansas Travelers game as organizers worked to 'Strike Out Opioid Abuse."
Those in attendance were able to visit stands from the two organizations as the booths handed out life-saving Narcan kits. Alongside the kits were instructions on how to use them in the event of an opioid overdose.
For more information on the Narcan kits, you can visit here.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Last year, May 1, 2021 marked the inaugural '501 Day'-- a gathering intended on highlighting and celebrating cities and towns within the area code.
Fast forward to now, and the 2nd annual 501 Festival is upon us, being celebrated in downtown Little Rock.
The free event spanned over two blocks on Main Street, featuring live music, vendors, apparel for sell, art, accessories, and hand-made goods.
The festival also featured food and fun for the whole family.
For Sharon Jackson and her family, it was a reason to get out of the house-- providing her with an opportunity to show her two kids the way of the community.
"We didn't have things like this. We had little community things but to bring the whole community in, it does make a big difference," Jackson said. "It teaches them to actually be a part of a community, to get out and know how to speak to everyone."
It was an exciting day for Jackson's two children, 9-year-old Christopher and 6-year-old Ericka.
Ericka may be younger, but she takes the lead when it comes to fun for the duo.
"I see a bunch of stuff that my brother would like to do. My brother would like to do everything," said Ericka.
They climbed and jumped on the bounce houses that were there for kids.
While the children had their fun adults like Broderick Bozeman, the founder of 501 Fest, ran up and down the blocks to ensure everything went according to plan.
"That's what makes this whole thing special. We have not had an event, or just a day, or anything to really celebrate what we have here in our city," Bozeman said. "This is kind of our first really good representation to do this, and just to show the city what we do here in our city."
Last year, he said there were around 2500 people in attendance and was hopeful about the turnout this year.
"Last year, on average the vendors did between $1,500 and $2,000 just being here. It's really good just for a one day event. I'd like for them to double their revenue this time. These are small businesses too," said Bozeman.
Fellow festival coordinator Dazzmin Murry felt the same.
She said 501 Fest has something for everybody, whether they're young or old.
"501 Day is the official celebration for the region. 501 is the area here. So, 501 Fest is just our way of celebrating every corner of 501. Something for all ages right here in our city," said Murry.
Aside from the bounce houses, Christopher and Ericka enjoyed making new friends, enjoying some good hotdogs and chips from a local food truck, and listening to the musical performances.
All in all, the festival was a success and one that Ericka called "the best day of [her] life."
Local businesses also took part in 501 Day, showing pride in their cities and their region in the following ways:
501 Day in North Little Rock:
- McCain Mall retailers providing 501 sales (participating retailers added to mall website.)
- Spend $25, get $5.01 off at The Popcorn Spot LLC.
- $501 reduction in real estate fees if you list your house for sale during May 2022 with Sara Lynn of iRealty NLR.
- Arkansas necklace giveaway and $5.01 off a jewelry purchase of $40 or more at Bang-Up Betty.
- $5.01 armband, unlimited rides, hotdog, chips, drink and snacks for $5.01 at Funland Amusement Park.
- $5.01 Green Fee on the tournament course only after 2 p.m. at Burns Park Golf Course.
The annual celebration even saw participation from larger businesses in the area, like McDonald's.
Local McDonalds celebrating 501 Day:
Central Arkansas McDonald’s restaurants in the 501 area code will give away free crispy chicken sandwiches on May 1 in honor of 501 Day! It’s a one-day deal available only through the McDonald’s app with no purchase necessary as local owner-operators celebrate their communities.
Community organizers are hoping to increase the visibility and traction of the festival through word of mouth and online platforms. You can find the festival through the following methods:
- Using the hashtag #Celebrate501.
- Searching on Instagram or Facebook for @Celebrate501.
- Using the 501 Day website-- Celebrate501.com.
Organizers encourage the public to use those platforms to speak on 501 Day and share what they love about central Arkansas year-round.
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FREER, Texas — A rattlesnake handler has died after he was bitten at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Freer.
Freer Police Chief Hector Doria confirmed to 3News that Eugene De Leon Sr. was bitten in the shoulder around 1 p.m. Saturday. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Corpus Christi but died Saturday night at approximately 9 p.m.
One of the organizers of the Rattlesnake Roundup said that De Leon was performing and handling rattlesnakes in front of a crowd at the time he was bitten.
The Freer Chamber of Commerce puts on the Rattlesnake Roundup, and it's the city's largest festival of the year.
De Leon had over 20 years of experience handling snakes. His family wrote on Facebook that "he had a passion for snake handling" and that he was "doing what he loved doing."
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DALLAS — It’s been nearly one month since the Dallas concert shooting, and police are still actively looking for the suspect.
There were 16 people shot, and one man died. One of the victims was shot in the hip -- and was nearly paralyzed.
“Not knowing what would happen next,” said Randy Davis, who was shot.
It’s hard to get the words out for the 24-year-old.
“My breath wasn’t there. I couldn’t talk…. breath taking,” said Davis.
At 24 years old, Davis’ life changed forever, and he’s now using a walker to get around.
He was shot at the Dallas trail rides on Cleveland Road a month ago during a massive concert.
“It curved it. It went up, and through…,” said Davis, as a bullet is now lodged in his spine.
“It hit my hip, it ruptured, it’s in my leg, and it curved around, and fractured five vertebrates in my spine,” said Davis.
It nearly paralyzing the father.
“As far as the bullet, it’s too close, it’s in my spine. They can’t perform surgery to get it out,” said Davis.
“It’s permanent, there is no feeling in my leg,” said Davis.
Now, he gets around with a walker, and the pain he's feeling is excruciating.
“I keep thinking about. The pain keeps me up,” said Davis.
The only thing Davis was thinking about is the good times with his son, Kyceon.
The 3-year-old is now at dad’s side, helping him.
“Not being able to spend time with him, like I really want to, play around,” said Davis.
And, his dreams of being a mechanic have been shattered.
“I was getting ready to enroll into mechanic school. But with a lot of bending, everything is on stop right now,” said Davis.
His mother, Tamisha Speace, is now also by his side, and she's feeling heartbroken.
“It’s something that you dread, as a mother to get a call about anything happening to your children,” said Speace.
They’re hoping someone will come forward with any information, because the 16 victims want justice.
“It’s a lot of trauma. There are times I question my own strength,” said Davis.
Dallas police are still looking for the suspect or suspects involved in the shooting.
The family has set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping it will help through Davis’ long road to recovery.
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PLANO, Texas — Watch the full story tonight on WFAA at 10 p.m.
The Mayo Clinic called me one day last month.
A representative from the Alix School of Medicine thought there was someone I should meet in Plano.
It turns out, he is an inspirational force of nature a lot of people should meet --even though his story starts with him dropping out of the 10th grade.
"I failed the ninth grade once online, by the way -- then I repeated it and passed it and dropped out," Adam Howard told me of his last visit to Frisco's Liberty High School.
By his own admission, Howard was a "chubby" kid with a curly mess of hair who found that the structure of a traditional education just wasn't working for him.
"My childhood was a catastrophe," Howard said. "I didn't have any identity. I didn't have any self-worth."
But, in Plano, he did find something he liked: a Taekwondo studio run by Master Eun Ig Lee.
"He was a little bit lost, sounds like it," Lee recalled of the day they met more than a decade ago. "He was a little bit chubby and a hair was kind of like..." Lee said while waiving his own hands over his head.
And it was at that studio, with Lee as his new father figure, that Howard's life began to change.
"And I was doing any task I could. Helping with the kicking pads, cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming the floor, whatever needed to be done," Howard recalled. "It wasn't just two hours a week or a hobby. It was all day, every day. I live, sleep, eat, and breathe I would dream about teaching. It's the source of motivation for my entire career."
Because his entire career had just gotten an unexpected resurrection.
He pursued his GED. He enrolled in Collin College, then UT Dallas for a degree in neuroscience. A Master's Degree at Brown University was next. But, he says his black belt in Taekwondo made him want even more.
"And I wanted to know the physics behind the techniques," he said. "I wanted to know the anatomy, the biokinetics between why our techniques are structured the way that they are."
If there is such a thing as a stereotypical high school dropout, Howard certainly didn't sound like one anymore.
"Helping them transform confusion into understanding and therefore dignity and autonomy and capacity," he said of his experience with Taekwondo and watching it offer the same metamorphosis for other students. "That was the magic for me. And I wanted to understand it better."
So, next he found himself on the road to Minnesota: the Mayo Clinic, to be exact. He was on his way to medical school. He graduates later this month from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. And he recently learned he will pursue his residency at his other dream school, Duke University.
The "chubby" high school dropout with a black belt in Taekwondo becomes a psychiatrist next month.
"So now I get to go live the dream. I was telling the program director I was beside myself in a stupor of happiness," he said of learning about the next leg of his educational journey. "And I just thanked her for the opportunity and for seeing worth in me that I don't know if I see in myself."
But Master Lee saw something.
"Very, very happy. I'm very proud of him, what he's doing," Lee said. "I know he's going to be next 60, 70 years he's going to change and help make this world much better."
"And Master Lee was my father figure. He raised me to be who I am," Howard said while also thanking his own parents for their financial and emotional support. "That saved my life. And it saved the life of so many kids," he said of the Taekwondo studio.
On that Saturday at the Plano Taekwondo studio he brought two of his fellow Mayo Clinic medical school students with him. In his Minnesota basement, he'd trained them in Taekwondo: to offer them what it gave him.
"The nurture is what brought me to that state from being an overweight 10th grade dropout," he said. "But it's also the nurture that can bring them to the fullness of their human potential through teaching. That's what it means to be a master."
"That's what Taekwondo is for," he said. "That's what medicine is for, in my opinion."
At that point during our interview, you could hear a toddler babbling in the background. Adam Howard is also a dad now, with quite a story of perseverance to tell Adam Jr. when he grows up.
"And I realized in psychiatry that's the work we did in Taekwondo," he said. "That was helping people understand themselves and helping them understand how to be their best selves. It was what I was put on this world to do. It was what I was trained to do."
"Really it is a blessing. I could not have contrived a way to do this with my own cleverness," he said of all the help and support he's received on his journey. "This is a blessing."
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) responded to Martin Luther King Park and a local hospital for a shooting incident Sunday, May 1, at approximately 4:48 p.m.
Police say the victim drove himself to the hospital with a reported gunshot wound in the abdomen. Police say he had to undergo surgery and is expected to recover.
Police responded to both locations and shortly after responded to a second shooting in the 5000 block of South 28th St. at around 5:53 p.m.
FSPD says the shootings are related but there is no threat to the public.
No further information was provided.
Anyone with information on these shootings is asked to dial 911 or call FSPD at 479-709-5000.
Stay with 5NEWS for updates on this developing story.
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ELK GROVE, Calif. — For the owner Elk Grove's latest eatery, Paris Banh Mi was the right decision at the right time.
“Everybody (who) sees me is like, 'You’re too young for this.' You’re not going to have a second chance. You have to take it. Nobody gives you a chance; you have to be the one to take it,” said Tina Do, co-owner and operator of Paris Banh Mi.
Elk Grove's newest shop specializes in one of the most popular sandwiches in the world, the Vietnamese Banh Mi. It's made with a fresh baguette and authentic ingredients, typically meat, pickled vegetables, chilies and fresh cilantro.
There's only a handful of Paris Banh Mi shops across the country, with Do's being the only one in California. Do, who is originally from Saigon, is a first-generation American, first-time business owner and the first in her family to open a business in the United States.
“I chose to leave the country to choose my own future...," she said.
Those decisions brought Do to Sacramento State University, where she learned how to cook and ultimately fell in love with it.
“I went to Sac State for Public Health and gradated in Public Health last year and ended up with a restaurant. It’s actually pretty funny,” Do said.
She said in the end, this is what she wanted to do and that learning to cook served as her bridge into the food industry where she cut her teeth in the business.
“I just feel like, this is for me. I love bakery, I love baking stuff and then I really love how to bring the food to other people,” she said.
The dream took about $700,000 to make a reality, building the entirety of Paris Banh Mi from the ground up.
“I just want to bring some Vietnam and the French to the store, so everybody knows more about my country too,” she said.
While the shop specializes in Banh Mi, there's also fresh-made pastries, coffee and Boba tea.
Do and her crew have been operating under their soft opening for about a month. The grand opening is planned for May 8, but her experience so far has her eager for what's ahead.
"I don't think it was going to be that busy. I don’t think a lot of people were going to love us, and then I’m really happy to see that actually I have more motivation to wake up in the morning," Do said.
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MOSCOW, Idaho — The body of a 19-year-old was identified by the Moscow Police Department in Paradise Creek near College Ave.
The body was identified around 11:30 a.m.
According to the MPD, no foul play is suspected in the 19-year-old's death. An investigation is currently underway.
This is a developing news story and we will provide more updates as we receive them.
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MERIDIAN, Idaho — When Killian McCarty was born thirteen years ago, his parents were elated. He was their first child, and all signs pointed to a healthy, happy baby boy.
"When Killiam was born, it was a typical pregnancy, everything was great and happy," said Tara McCarty, Killian's mom. "But, as time went on, we started noticing some missed milestones."
Killian was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, and for years, that's what his mom and dad thought he had.
However, years later, when he continued to regress and his condition worsened, they found out their son was misdiagnosed. It turns out, Killian never had CP.
"The doctor said 'it just doesn't make sense. You have a perfect birth story, you have no events in childhood, you have an abnormal MRI and regression of symptoms, I don't think you are looking at cerebral palsy,'" Tara McCarty said. "Killian is 10 at this time, and I'm thinking what have we been doing for the last 8 years?"
The McCarty's were given a new diagnosis. It was not the news they wanted to hear.
"We discovered it's one of the most rare leukodystrophies, there's only about 200 kids with this in the world," Tara McCarty said.
According to NORD, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Leukodystrophies are a group of rare, progressive, metabolic, and genetic diseases that affect the brain, spinal cord, and often the peripheral nerves.
Killian has Tubb4a leukodystrophy, one of about 50 types of leukodystrophies that cause a loss of myelin, the white fatty insulation that coats the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, which allow messages to be sent from the brain to the muscles. It can also cause atrophy of the basal ganglia and/or cerebellum, leading to movement impairments and difficulty talking and swallowing. It is a progressive disease, so sadly kids afflicted will continue to lose function as they get older.
"Leukodystrophy is a degenerative condition, and this is where I get emotional," said Tara McCarty holding back tears. "Things are going to continue to decline, and it is so rare there is no treatment or cure for it. You basically take things as they come. You have to come to terms with that grief."
Killian is working hard to combat the effects of this rare disease. He now uses a wheelchair full-time.
"He does five therapies a week, and we are typically downtown at St Luke's two or three times a month to see a specialist. He's had surgeries, x-rays. He now has a feeding tube, because swallowing is so difficult, and he was losing a lot of weight. Fine motor skills are becoming really hard for him," Tara McCarty said. "It's just hard, it's hard as a parent, and it's hard for him to understand that things may not get better. Hopefully, we can maintain where he is today.
Through all of the therapies and a recent debilitating surgery for scoliosis, Tara says Killian is the one that keeps everyone around him positive.
"He's just this pretty cool kid, he's cracking jokes with the doctors, he has the nurses laughing," Tara said. "Certainly, we have our days where we want to throw in the towel, and pull covers over our head, but it's not an option. It never is."
Despite all of his hurdles, Killian is one of the most active kids you'll ever meet. His mom says if there's a sport out there, he wants to try it!
"I love football, baseball, basketball, hockey... just pretty much any sport," Killian told us. "When I play sports, it's like I'm not in a wheelchair."
If Killian wants to try it, Tara finds a way to make it happen. She has had help from the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) and other adaptive sports organizations. He's tried skiing, hockey, sailing, fishing, skateboarding, hiking, you name it!
"If he's got a passion for it, we need to find ways to figure out how to make it work. We don't do anything small here, we go big or go home, " said Tara.
Killian says he's so grateful for his family, he has a younger sister and brother. His dad is so proud of him, and he says his mom is his biggest fan.
"I love that they are always around me when times get tough," said Killian. "Mom pushes me around, everywhere we go."
Like so many kids, Killian started to watch a lot of YouTube during the pandemic. He loves to watch spicy food challenges! He asked his mom if they could create a hot sauce together. So, Tara went to work!
"So, we did a lot of research on how to make hot sauce at home, and we learned how to ferment vegetables and peppers to make our own hot sauce," Tara told us.
"It's called Killian's Wheely Hot Sauce, and it's wheely hot!" said Killian with a big smile.
Killian loves to help his mom with all the steps that go along with making the sauce, it's one of the many projects they work on together. The family often gives the hot sauce to friends as gifts.
Tara is dedicated to finding a treatment and a cure for leukodystrophy. She has partnered with other moms around the world to raise awareness and money for research. While there is currently no cure for this type of leukodystrophy, significant advancements in research have been made. With awareness and funding, clinical studies and FDA approval could be just a few years away. Treatment in the form of gene therapy could halt the progression and improve the quality of life for kids suffering from Tubb4a leukodystrophy now.
"They have really great research going on, but because of the rareness of this, it's hard to get the funding to get to clinical trials and get to treatment. It's there, medical researchers are so close," said Tara. "I think the big thing for us is advocacy, to find something that can help our kids. Our goal is within Killian's lifetime to come up with a treatment and a cure."
Tara says her son is her hero, and her inspiration to keep pushing forward.
He doesn't give up on anything, he's going to try. If you tell him maybe we better not, or I don't think that you can, you better look out because he's going to prove you wrong.
Killian is well aware of what's ahead of him, but he never stops chasing his dreams. He has a special message for people who are reading this right now.
"Just go do stuff! Live life to the fullest."
For more information on Killian's type of leukodystrophy, and to donate to funding research visit www.h-abc.org.
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Shreveport teen shot while inside a home on Fairfield Avenue
Just after 2:20 p.m. Sunday, Shreveport Police Department was called to the corner of Erie Street and Fairfield Avenue for shots fired.
Upon arrival, officers located a 12 to 13-year-old female shot in the back. The victim was transported to nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Chief Wayne Smith said, "some vehicles appeared to be in a chase with each other and at some point or another here on this street (Erie Street) shots began to rang out from the vehicles. A bullet traveled west this direction and struck a house on this corner and a female inside this residence was struck."
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The suspects involved in this shooting are still at large. Smith said that two vehicles were involved one is believed to be a gold sedan and the second a silver sedan.
"They get shot inside their house on a Sunday afternoon," said neighbor Thomas Cochran. "We've got to take the city back."
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Calls for justice and reform rang out in Stockton as the families of migrant farm workers took to the streets.
Dozens of people gathered at City Hall to support migrant workers and demand immigration legalization, justice and action from the Biden administration.
Marchers walked several blocks and made their voices heard on May Day, which is also known as International Workers Day and Immigrant Rights Day. They urged Congress to create a path to citizenship for farm workers.
"It's a march for our human rights and also to demand our various communities more safety because a lot of crime (has been) affecting this community," said Luis Magana, march organizer.
He said the Biden administration hasn't addressed the issue of immigration like they said they would.
"We're demanding no lies," Magana said.
Other demands included increased safety for agricultural workers and putting an end to racism and violence.
"There is 10, 20 years of waiting for immigration reform. Meanwhile, our family is dying in Mexico, and we can't cross the border to see them, so we demand at least a permit to see our family," Magana said.
Ana Zenteno, of of the activists involved in the march, said farm workers need to be treated as humans regardless of their legal status. Nearly 75% of California's farm workers are undocumented, according to the Center for Farmworker Families.
"We really need these people. We need them to have good pay because they take advantage of the farm workers; they take advantage of them because they're illegals and they don't treat them right," Zenteno said. "We need these people because we need food on the table."
Zenteno said they'll keep advocating for change and reform until it finally happens.
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CARROLLTON, Texas — Hours before his death, Nic Nair was chasing storms -- and his dream.
“Storm chasing was his passion,” his mother, Kate Nair, said. “Broadcasting was his passion.”
That passion started as a child when Nic and his twin brother, Krishna, would sometimes watch The Weather Channel for hours.
“We’d pretend to be like a storm,” Krishna Nair said. “We’d like spin around pretending that we were tornadoes.”
Nic Nair, 20, grew up in Carrollton and graduated from Hebron High School, where he was president of the choir group. He was a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma, studying meteorology.
Last week, he and two other students, Gavin Short, 19, of Grayslake, Illinois, and Drake Brooks, 22, of Evansville, Indiana, were chasing storms along Interstate 35, near the Kansas-Oklahoma border.
“He said 'dad a group of us are going storm chasing,'” his father, KG Nair, said. “'But we don’t have a car. Is it ok if I take my car?'”
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Friday night at 11:30 p.m., the group’s SUV hydroplaned and was disabled in the outside lane when a semi slammed into them, killing all three. The driver of the semi-truck was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.
KG Nair said he got a message from a meteorologist around 3 a.m. that Nair and the group hadn’t returned from chasing.
“We were calling each hospital to find our son and to no avail,” he said.
Just before 6 a.m., two police officers came to the front door of their Carrollton home, sharing that Nic had been killed.
“We have our moments where we shed some tears, and it’s hard,” KG Nair said.
“It comes in waves,” Krishna Nair said. “It comes and goes.”
In a statement, OU’s College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences said, “We are deeply saddened and our sincerest condolences go out to all affected families and friends… Now, more than ever, we must come together in kindness and heartfelt support for one another.”
His family says Nic’s passion for weather, his energy and his compassion were as infectious as his smile, and his love for pets is why the family has two dogs now. He listened almost exclusively to DJ Illenium, who is scheduled to perform in Texas this month.
“He had mentioned that, 'I’m going to go to watch them.' He was working to make some extra money to go watch the show and it never happened,” his father said. “He’s seen half a life that he’s lived, but he’s lived it large, following his dream.”
“It was just nice to have someone to talk to and he was just there for a lot of people he touched,” his brother, Keane Nair, said.
Nic wanted to be a singing meteorologist, and he had his future and even classes for the next two years already planned out.
The family says it’s the small things they miss, remembering the times he’d spending watching storms roll by from the backyard and recording them on his phone and texts from college warning them of severe weather. His bond was tightest with his identical twin, Krishna.
“What’s the beautiful thing is as I get older, Nic will be – he will be getting older with me,” he said.
As a tribute, the National Weather Service in Norman released a weather balloon dedicated to Nair, Brooks and Short.
“Those three boys were happy doing what they were doing,” Kate Nair said. “They had had the best day.”
Keane was the last family member to speak to Nic, calling him just two hours before the crash.
“They just saw their first tornado all together,” he said. “They were like this is a huge milestone for them. I tell everyone this. I tell them this. He was just happy. That’s the best way God could have received him.”
“He says, 'I’m a storm chaser,'” his father said. “I tell him, 'No, you’re a dream chaser.'”
An online fundraising campaign was created to support the families of the three OU students.
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A new challenge is threatening the fishing industry along the South Coast.
New wastewater standards by the federal government are threatening seafood processors in Charleston, but the local processors and the International Port of Coos Bay are looking for answers.
The port and the West Coast Seafood Processors Association in partnership with local seafood processors recently received notice of award for grant funding to conduct a feasibility study intended to evaluate opportunities to construct a multi-user wastewater plant on port property in Charleston.
Margaret Barber, director of external affairs and business development for the port, said a new wastewater treatment plant is needed to keep the processors and to allow those businesses and perhaps others to expand in the Charleston area.
Barber said due to increased regulatory requirements in wastewater treatment and disposal, seafood processors throughout Oregon have been working to develop solutions to ensure compliance while keeping the costs associated with doing business manageable. To consolidate efforts and support the continued success of the industry, the Port and WCSPA have been working for the past year with local seafood processors to understand the challenges associated with regulatory compliance and develop a solution.
The Port submitted a grant application to Business Oregon through the Port Planning and Marketing program, requesting $50,000. WCSPA will provide matching funds of $25,000 to support the work.
"We are thrilled about the opportunity to work with the Port and Business Oregon on an issue of such critical importance to the seafood industry in Oregon,” stated Lori Steele, executive director of WCSPA, “This project demonstrates the Port's commitment to support and sustain our industry in southern Oregon, and for that we are very grateful."
The goals of the proposed multi-user facility will be to support the local and regional seafood processing industry by reducing capital and operational costs associated with treating wastewater from the individual processing facilities. Further, the project will create an opportunity to recover organic material and improve the sustainability of wastewater treatment, producing a treatment of the material that will allow it to be re-used as opposed to disposed of in a landfill.
“This project will lay the groundwork to construct a facility that will support the day-to-day operations of the entire commercial fishing industry on Oregon’s south coast,” Said John Burns, Port CEO, “Additionally, this project will serve as a demonstration for other coastal communities as a creative Public and Private Partnership solution to challenges facing the industry as a whole.”
The Port of Brookings Harbor recently received $3.5 million in federal funding to build a wastewater plant at its port. Oregon representatives fought for the funding, saying without it, Pacific Seafood would be forced to close in the Port of Brookings-Harbor.
Barber said the feasibility study will give the port an idea of the cost and preferred locations for a treatment plant. At that time, the port will begin looking for grant funding to pay for the facility.
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Reading is fundamental. It develops the brains of young children, provides a window into the world around them and helps them do better in all school subjects.
Yet, 800 million people around the world cannot read or write. And many families (and some schools) have no books for children to read.
With the idea of encouraging a love of reading, the Rotary Clubs and school districts of North Bend, Coos Bay, Reedsport, Bandon, Coquille, Myrtle Point and Powers, along with South Coast ESD and Southwestern Oregon Community College are partnering to help children on the South Coast get excited about books with the Gift of Literacy Program.
Modeled after the Springfield Gift of Literacy, this well-established, time-tested, award-winning program fosters a love of reading among young children. Through a multi-club Rotary District Grant matched by local clubs, every first-grader (over 600) in each of the club’s coastal communities are participating in this enriching six-month literacy program.
The Gift of Literacy Program will culminate in a festive celebration on Wednesday, May 11, at Southwestern Oregon Community College, when first-graders from the South Coast will be transported by bus to the college to attend an assembly and receive a cinch bag filled with fun swag … and a brand-new book!
The six selected books, chosen by Coos County librarians and educators, are a wonderful and diverse mix. Each first-grade classroom received a set of the books in November. Teachers or guest readers read the books in the classroom. Then each first-grade student chose his or her favorite title among the six hardbound books, which is what they will receive at the May 11 Gift of Literacy celebration.
The importance and enjoyment of reading will be reinforced with the acquisition of a library card. First-graders also will be introduced to a college campus, where they can get a glimpse of college life.
“All Rotarians are committed to promoting literacy, both in the United States and abroad,” said Southwestern President and local Rotarian Dr. Patty M. Scott, who helped organize the event. “We are proud to celebrate and promote literacy for our local first-grade students!”
The Rotary Clubs, ESD and the college would like to give a special thanks to First Community Credit Union for their generous support of the Gift of Literacy Program. For information, visit http://southcoastorgiftofliteracy.org/.
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Salisbury Zoo bidding farewell to its alligators and a swan
The Salisbury Zoo is losing three of its current residents.
The zoo said in a release its two American alligators and black-necked swan will be leaving for their new home in Minnesota.
Big, the alligator, is about 40 years old. She came to the Salisbury zoo in 1982 from a private owner and her exact birthdate is unknown.
Little, the other alligator, is 26 years old and came to the zoo in 1996 from St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park.
Both love to bask in the sun, enjoy some big fish or chicken and happily swim up to keepers for treats during a keeper chat, the zoo said.
"We all will miss their morning bellows and generally mild personalities, but are excited for them. Their new home is constructing a brand new custom alligator exhibit with a waterfall for them to lounge under and a river where they can swim," it said.
In the wild, alligators live to about 50 years old. Females reach lengths of more than 8 feet and males will grow to be longer than 11 feet.
Once alligators reach about 4 feet, their only predators are humans and other gators. Female alligators are fiercely defensive of their eggs and babies.
Ron, the black-neck swan, will also be moving with the alligators. He came to the Salisbury Zoo in 2011 from the Sacramento Zoo.
He has been a crowd and keeper favorite with his beautiful whistle as he has roamed along Beaver Dam Creek in the zoo.
This spring, zoo staff had to move him off the river and into the alligator exhibit to protect him from Avian Influenza. Staff will miss him as well but are excited for him to meet his potential new girlfriend.
The departures come even as the zoo recently welcomed two new residents, when its Andean bear gave birth in January to twin boys.
Last December, the zoo welcomed Ronzindi and Dweasel, 5-and-a-half-year-old spider monkey brothers who came from the Omaha Zoo.
Related: It's twins! Salisbury Zoo makes big announcement for Andean bear Chaska
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Wicomico Board of Education names 3 finalists for schools superintendent
Three finalists for the Wicomico County superintendent of schools were announced by the Wicomico County Board of Education on Friday, April 29.
The finalists, in alphabetical order, are Frederick L. Briggs, Eric L. Minus and Micah C. Stauffer. Each finalist is equally qualified for the role after having served in leadership roles in Maryland education, the school board's press release states.
Biographies
The following biographies have been provided by the Wicomico County Board of Education:
- Frederick L. Briggs has served as chief academic officer for Wicomico County public schools since 2017. Prior to that, he was the principal of James M. Bennett High, Mardela Middle and High, and Bennett Middle schools. He has also been an assistant principal, dean of students, math teacher and coach, all at Wicomico High School.
- Eric L. Minus is executive director of secondary schools for Baltimore County public schools in 2022, and prior to that the BCPS executive director of research and data analytics (2020-2022). Minus served in executive leadership positions in Montgomery County and Howard County public schools. He has served as a middle and high school principal and began his education career as a secondary science teacher in Newport News, Virginia, Public Schools.
- Micah C. Stauffer is chief finance and operations officer with Wicomico County public schools. Stauffer has served as the school system’s chief finance and operations officer since 2019, and prior to that was the director of secondary education (2014-2019). He has served as principal of Parkside High and Mardela Middle and High, and assistant principal of Mardela Middle and High and Wicomico Middle. He taught science and coached at Parkside High.
More:Wi-Hi biology educator named Wicomico Teacher of the Year
Voice your opinion
Next week, Board of Education Chairman Gene Malone will meet with each finalist for a recorded interview to be posted on https://www.wcboe.org/finalists.
The community will have the unique opportunity to review Briggs’, Minus’, and Stauffer’s interviews. Furthermore, a survey will go live from May 5-12, where community members can share their thoughts on each of the three finalists.
More:Wicomico County election: Who is running for county executive, council, school board, more
“We’re looking forward to hearing how each candidate answers the three questions in the video interview, and we’re glad to provide the entire community with the chance to watch the interviews and give input through a survey,” said Malone.
Outgoing Superintendent of Schools Donna Hanlin was initially appointed to the position of superintendent in 2016. She plans to retire June 30, after six years of service in Wicomico County education in this role.
Related:3 Eastern Shore superintendents are leaving their jobs — it's a nationwide trend
Related:Wicomico superintendent Donna Hanlin announces retirement plans for 2022
Before serving as superintendent, she worked in the district as the director of secondary education, a principal, school assistant principal, guidance counselor and teacher.
The board plans to appoint a new superintendent by late May or early June so that person may start work on July 1.
Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A Cape Coral woman is heartbroken after finding a beloved burrowing owl lying on its face near its burrow in her front yard.
Jo Lucarelli moved into her Cape Coral home on SE 23rd St. more than a year and a half ago. Upon arrival she noticed a burrowing owl making herself at home in the front yard.
“Saw that the burrowing owls were here and I was so excited, I called my kids because they were still up there and I’m like, they’re here!” Lucarelli said.
The first owl, Grace, was soon joined by “Hootie.” Jo said the pair began feeling like her pets that she admired from afar.
“Hootie and Grace, they were our family. I loved them,” Lucarelli said.
Last week, Jo says she went outside to snap a picture of the owls when she saw Grace lying flat on her face in the dirt near the burrow. She rushed the bird to the hospital where they began evaluating her for rat poisoning.
Grace died three days after being admitted to the hospital. Jo said veterinarians told her that Grace isn’t the only poisoning victim they’ve seen recently.
“CROW is saying there are 15 others who have died from that this season, that’s a lot,” said Lucarelli.
Pascha Donaldson is the President of Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife. She said people will try solving their rat problem by using poison. Since that’s a staple of a burrowing owl diet, eating a poisoned rat could carry deadly consequences.
“We’re very concerned, we always preach and I have to say preach, not to use rat poison,” said Donaldson. “Rodenticide is a horrible thing. It’s a horrible way to kill an animal.”
She said one of the things dying from the poison could be a solution to the rat problem.
“A family of owls would eat a thousand rats a year, let them be the exterminators,” said Donaldson.
Since Grace’s death, Jo said Hootie the owl grieved and left the burrow in her yard. She hopes to spread the word to stop using rat poising to solve your rodent problem.
“If you really care about these animals and I hope you do, stop using these poisons,” said Lucarelli.
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by: Austin Franklin Posted: May 2, 2022 / 05:55 AM CDT Updated: May 2, 2022 / 05:55 AM CDT SHARE BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Ascension St. Vincent’s Hospital has a new system to manage patients with heart failure. Dr. Alain Bouchard joined CBS 42 News to discuss the new system. Watch the full interview in the video player above.
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New equipment helps Midwest Industrial triple production at its Canton facility
CANTON – New equipment is allowing Midwest Industrial Supply to triple production at its facility on the southeast side of downtown.
A new production cell in the company's headquarters at 1101 Third St. SE can make three of Midwest's key products — EnviroKleen, MineKleen and EK35.
Midwest's products are used for dust control, soil stabilization, lubricating rails and deicing or anti-icing. Bob Vitale started the company in 1975, and now serves as chief executive officer while Steve Vitale, his son, is president.
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The new equipment is automated, which improves safety for handling raw materials used to make the compounds. Automation also reduces the number of steps needed to make the products, increasing efficiency and production.
The new equipment is a major step for the company, which plans to continue to invest in its manufacturing processes and capabilities, Steve Vitale said.
Midwest Industrial's 20 years of product development
The company has spent the past 20 years perfecting the compounds and obtaining patents, Bob Vitale said. Midwest has worked with its customers, as well as engineers, environmental scientists and independent testing agencies to develop formulas for its dust control and soil stabilization products.
Liquids made by Midwest Industrial help reduce the amount of dust created by heavy machinery traveling on gravel and dirt roads. Soil stabilization compounds help bind gravel or aggregate to create a stronger surface and reduce ruts and potholes.
Vitale started off selling products designed to reduce dust in mines, steel mills and power plants, as well as anti-icing chemicals for conveyor and railroad equipment. The company's products and customer base have broadened as Vitale helped customers apply technology to common problems, he said.
"A principle requirement is that we aren't going to create a problem bigger than problem we're trying to solve," Vitale said.
So Midwest has developed its products from eco-friendly compounds. Residents living near facilities that use Midwest Industrial compounds can breathe easier and the environment remains sustainable, Vitale said.
Midwest Industrial's international growth
Vitale started selling products to customers in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. As Midwest's product line broadened, the company began connecting with customers in other states and Canada.
The company now has production in Spain and sells to customers in Europe, Africa and Asia.
About 10% of the company's sales come from exports, Vitale said, adding that Midwest's success as an exporter will be recognized by the Small Business Administration.
The family-owned business has just under 100 employees, with about 55 working at its Canton facilities along Third Street SE and east of Madison Court SE. The company also has operations in Illinois, California, Texas and Georgia.
As with most companies in the area, Vitale said, Midwest is hiring workers.
Midwest customers are in industrial, construction, oil and gas, mining, military and railroad business segments.
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Beech Creek looks to bounce back from pandemic as its busiest season begins
WASHINGTON TWP. – The spring season will be an important indicator for Beech Creek Botanical Garden and Nature Center to see how it has bounced back from the coronavirus pandemic.
"We're getting kind of deeper and deeper into our busier season, so this spring will probably be the biggest tell financially what will really happen moving forward," Beech Creek Botanical Garden and Nature Center spokesperson Eric Ginanni said.
Like many organizations, the facility struggled when the pandemic halted in-person activities and programs.
Executive Director Melinda Carmichael wrote in a newsletter sent to members of the Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce in September 2020 that Beech Creek's revenue streams took a "huge hit" and the facility was on the verge of closing.
But creative fundraising strategies helped Beech Creek stay afloat.
"In certain areas, we saw growth while in other areas we had to develop new ideas, new tactics and whatnot," Ginanni said.
One of these changes was becoming more digitally focused, he said.
Beech Creek started an online gift basket fundraiser and also created a May Day fundraiser.
May Day – which gained popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries – is a holiday that celebrates the return of spring. Beech Creek has sold May Day flower baskets over the last two years. Giving someone a May Day basket is meant to be a gesture of good health.
Beech Creek will be offering Mother's Day flower baskets this year.
While the pandemic placed a financial strain on Beech Creek, it didn't create problems recruiting volunteers.
"We actually just had our volunteer orientation, and it turned out much better than anticipated," Ginanni said. "We had about 55-plus actually come to the orientation ... We're doing really well with volunteers, but we can always take more."
Similarly, Raptor Hallow Sanctuary has not had issues finding volunteers.
Raptor Hallow Executive Director Josh Kuszmaul said the organization – which provides sanctuary for birds of prey, reptiles and other mammals – has experienced growth since moving to Beech Creek in 2021.
The operation was previously housed in Salem.
"We were doing just a lot of outreach programs," Kuszmaul said. "Our animals weren't on exhibit for the public to walk through and view them. So being at Beech Creek allows us to get our conservation messaging out there more."
He believes the pandemic made many people realize the importance of spending time outdoors and led to the increase in interest.
"(With) us being out in nature, what a great opportunity for people to explore nature," he said.
Raptor Hallow will begin offering a wildlife show this summer. Kuszmaul described it as a scripted program that will focus animals and their different adaptations. The sanctuary will also host animal encounters, which allow visitors to help train the animals.
Meanwhile, Beech Creek is gearing up for its annual Art in Bloom event, which runs May 2 through June 5. The program features outdoor artwork crafted by Ohio artists, along with thousands of flowers.
Reach Paige at 330-580-8577 or pmbennett@gannett.com, or on Twitter at @paigembenn.
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Artisphere returns to Greenville. Here's what to know if you're interested in going
The 2022 Artisphere festival runs May 6-8 to bring a variety of visual, performing and culinary arts to downtown Greenville.
Admission is free and booths will set up along Main Street from Wardlaw Street to Court Street near City Hall.
Art classes, live music and a yoga session are part of this year's offerings.
Favorites like Kidsphere, chalk artist David Zinn and interactive exhibits will return along with the Culinary Arts Cafe.
Two new features for 2022 are an "arts and drafts" exhibit and a student-teacher exhibit from the Fine Arts Center.
Parking is available at the downtown garages for an all-day special event rate of $6.
Streets will close at 4 a.m. Thursday for setup.
Here's what else you should know about the festival.
Arts and Drafts at Artisphere
- 14 local craft beer offerings are to be enjoyed as artists turn large canvases into original artwork
- Ninja Picasso of Greenville paints all weekend
- Gus Cutty of Asheville, North Carolina, will paint Friday and Saturday
- Cloud Cruiser of Atlanta will paint Saturday and Sunday
- Participating breweries include Brewery 85, Hi Wire, Steel Hands and Catawba Brewing
Fine Arts Center Student-Teacher Exhibit at Artisphere
- The exhibit features work from students and teachers in the school's pre-professional art-training program
- It will showcase work of six teachers and at least three students
Kidsphere at Artisphere
- Kidsphere will have an arts-and-crafts location near Main and Broad streets as well as a music location near Main and Court streets in front of City Hall
- At the arts station, children create masks, hats and unique art with recycled materials
- Wearable art parades take place Friday at 3:30 p.m., Saturday at 12:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., and Sunday at 2:45 p.m
- At the music station, DRUM Percussion Studio will lead interactive sessions
Culinary Arts Cafe at Artisphere
- The Culinary Arts Cafe features food from students in Greenville County Schools' culinary program at the school district's career center
- Greenville restaurants participating include The Burrow, Persis Indian Grill, Barberitos, and Society Sandwich Bar and Social Club
Artisphere music schedule
This year’s music lineup consists of local groups like the Carolina Bronze Handbell Ensemble and regional acts like The Jamie Wright Band, Aztec Sun and The High Divers
► Friday
Main stage
- 12 p.m.: Mojo Max
- 2 p.m.: Yes Chef
- 4 p.m.: Jeff Thompson Trio
- 6:30 p.m.: Aztec Sun
Local performing arts stage
- 1 p.m.: Carolina Bronze Handbell Ensemble
- 3 p.m.: Centre Stage
- 5 p.m.: Fine Arts Center Depts. of Theatre
- 7 p.m.: Furman Faculty Jazz Quartet
► Saturday
Main stage
- 10 a.m.: Maddy and Kev
- 12 p.m.: Trapfire Brothers
- 2 p.m.: Vilai Harrington and the Hamptones
- 4 p.m.: Whitehall
- 6:30 p.m.: Ali McGuirk
Local performing arts stage
- 9 a.m.: Soul Yoga
- 11 a.m.: Greenville Theatre
- 1 p.m.: Greenville Textile Heritage Band
- 3 p.m.: South Carolina Children's Theatre
- 5 p.m.: Fine Arts Center - Jazz
- 7 p.m.: Glow Lyric Theatre
► Sunday
Main stage
- 12 p.m.: Brooks Dixon Band
- 2 p.m.: The Jamie Wright Band
- 4 p.m.: The High Divers
Local performing arts stage
- 11 a.m.: Fine Arts Center-Classical
- 1 p.m.: The Palmetto Statemen
- 3 p.m.: Vocal Matrix Chorus
- 5 p.m.: DTG Performance Chorus
Demonstrations and art classes
Several demonstrations and free classes take place each day of the festival, including some take-home offerings to keep the creativity flowing. Read full descriptions and sign up at artisphere.org. Space and materials are limited, so registration is required.
► Friday
- Wheel throwing
- Watercolor
- Hammered copper earrings
- Installation art: Metamorphosis
- Printmaking
- Installation art: Knitfiti/weaving
► Saturday
- Needlefelting
- Printmaking
- Hammered copper earrings
- Macrame plant hanger
- Quilling
- Installation art: Knitfiti/weaving
- Paper collage
- Clay sculpting
- Wheel throwing
- Installation art: Metamorphosis
► Sunday
- Hammered brass pendant
- Needle felting
- Installation art: Knitfiti/weaving
- Printmaking
- Wheel throwing
- Installation art: Metamorphosis
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– Caitlin Herrington, local reporter and lover of alliteration, covers government and growth in the Golden Strip. Get in touch with her at cherrington@greenvillenews.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @GVLnewsCat.
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A man in his 20s was seriously hurt when a driver hit him as he crossed a Lower East Side street early Monday, authorities said.
The man was crossing East Houston at First Avenue around 2:45 a.m. when cops say a driver, possibly behind the wheel of a Camaro, swerved in an effort to avoid him. The driver hit the pedestrian anyway, then careened into a Honda.
It wasn't clear if the Honda was parked or at a red light when it was hit. Two people in the vehicles were taken to a hospital for complaints of pain, but they weren't believed to have suffered serious injuries.
The pedestrian was stabilized after being taken to Bellevue, but no update on his condition or details on his injuries were immediately available.
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A federal labor board on Monday will count ballots cast by warehouse workers in a second Amazon union election on Staten Island.
The National Labor Relations Board is overseeing the election and expects to finish tallying the votes by Monday evening.
A separate election held last month gave a nascent group of organizers known as the Amazon Labor Union a surprise victory when workers at a different Staten Island facility voted in favor of unionizing. That was a first for Amazon in the U.S.
But it’s unclear whether the ALU can replicate its success. There are fewer workers eligible to vote this time around — about 1,500 compared with 8,300 — and turnover at the facility is high. There are also fewer organizers involved in the latest election than the one before it.
The same obstacles that plagued the effort the first time, including Amazon’s aggressive anti-union tactics, are at play again. In the lead-up to the election, Amazon continued to hold mandatory meetings to persuade its workers to reject the union effort, posted anti-union flyers and launched a website urging workers to “vote NO.”
“Right now, the ALU is trying to come between our relationship with you,” a post on the website reads. “They think they can do a better job advocating for you than you are doing for yourself.”
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement its employees choice whether or not they want to join a union. But “as a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” Nantel said. “Our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making Amazon a great place to work.”
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A second labor win could give workers in other Amazon facilities — and at other companies — the motivation they need to launch similar efforts. It could also cement the power and influence of the ALU.
However, a union loss could mute some of the recent labor celebrations and raise questions about whether the first victory was just a fluke.
Regardless of the outcome, it's bound to be a tough road ahead for the ALU. Amazon has disputed the first election, arguing in a filing with the NLRB that the vote was tainted by organizers and by the board’s regional office in Brooklyn that oversaw the election. The company says it wants a redo election, but pro-union experts believe it’s an effort to delay contract negotiations and potentially blunt some of the organizing momentum.
Meanwhile, the final outcome of a separate union election in Bessemer, Alabama, is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. Hearings to review those ballots are expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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Alligator sightings in Florida are on the rise during mating season
Alligator sightings are on the rise in Florida.
They have been seen in neighborhoods, on golf courses, and near local lakes and ponds.
So why are we having more close-up encounters with these reptiles? It's alligator mating season.
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When is alligator mating season?
The courtship between alligators begins in early April, while the official mating season occurs during the months of May and June, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Female alligators deposit their eggs in late June or early July, FWC notes, and the eggs hatch around August or September each year.
FWC states that alligators tend to become more active during the warmer months when the temperatures are between 82 and 92 degrees.
According to wildlife officials, the reptiles are most active between dusk and dawn.
How many alligators are in Florida?
Florida has about 1.3 million alligators, according to data from the FWC.
American alligators are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Alligators can be harvested through Florida's harvesting program. The statewide alligator hunting season begins August 15 and ends November 1. Hunters must have a permit in order to participate.
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More:Injured 10-foot-8 alligator captured near 15th tee at Pelican Pointe Golf & Country Club
Recent close-up encounters with alligators
» A large alligator was spotted walking through a neighborhood in Venice near Harrington Lake on Easter Sunday. The alligator was estimated to be at least 10-foot long.
» Trappers removed an injured 10-foot-8 alligator from a pond at the Pelican Pointe Golf & Country Club. The 300-pound male gator has lived on or near the course for at least a year.
» A woman and her foursome were playing golf at the Stoneybrook Golf Club when she spotted a large alligator crossing the fairway. The alligator went right past the golf ball in the middle of the fairway and just kept going.
» An alligator has a new home after it showed up uninvited at the front door of an apartment complex in Town Center in Palm Coast. The caller originally reported the gator was in the driveway, but the animal made its way up the driveway at some point and was hanging around the front door of the residence.
» Cape Coral police helped capture an unwanted guest from a neighborhood in the early hours of Easter Sunday morning — a 10-foot-alligator. Officers were able to safely relocate the gator.
» An alligator running loose wreaked havoc in Naples. The reptile was spotted at a nearby Taco Bell. The gator then began to move toward a nearby Target store one block over, said Michelle Batten, spokesperson for the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
How to report nuisance alligators
According to the FWC, it is rare for an alligator to seriously injure a human. Officials recommend that if you come in contact with an alligator, keep your distance and do not feed it.
A toll-free Nuisance Alligator Hotline (866-392-4286) is available for those who have seen or are concerned about an alligator in their area.
Victoria Brown is a digital producer for USA TODAY Network's Florida region. Contact Victoria at vbrown1@gannett.com
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With owls dropping from trees and orphaned fox pups, spring is busy for animal rescuers
All of the animals that need help from these wildlife rescuers present challenges, but perhaps none bring greater difficulties than great horned owls.
In springtime, these fuzzy babies with the big eyes sometimes fall from their nests. Sitting helplessly on the ground, hungry and unable to fly or hunt for food, the lucky ones are discovered by well-meaning humans who get them help.
In what's developing as another busy spring, the staff at the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island has already returned three owls to their nests with two more waiting in the wings, so to speak. It's seldom easy. The baby owls have voracious appetites, each eating about 25 mice a day, as they're nursed along. And returning them to mom may mean climbing 50 feet up a tree.
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Animals brought to the Wildlife Clinic of RI this spring
Spring is the busiest time of year for the nonprofit organization, which runs the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island, in Saunderstown. The clinic has already received more than 300 injured or orphaned babies this season, a list that includes foxes, a coyote, bats, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, turtles and birds.
"The spring really begins the wild baby season here in Rhode Island," says Kristin Fletcher, executive director. "It's really just the start of our season, even though it's already going hot and heavy."
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Springtime is busy for a couple of reasons. It's when animal babies are born and also when humans get outside more. Animal dens are often discovered or disrupted by people doing yard work. Sometimes animals will have built a den in the backyard brush pile or even the family fire pit.
"We get burnt bunnies every year," Fletcher says.
The clinic sees plenty of bunnies, according to Fletcher, but it doesn't see many coyotes. In late April, a coyote pup was discovered on the side of a busy road in Smithfield and brought to the clinic. At about two weeks old, her eyes were just starting to open and she required bottle feeding.
"My assumption is something happened with mom and this little girl got dropped," Fletcher says.
The goal is to return rescued animals to the wild
Since the goal with all of the rescued animals is returning them to the wild, the rehabilitators limit human contact and also try to pair the animals with members of the same species. Fletcher says, "We try to replace some sense of normalcy for the animals as soon as possible."
Putting the injured or orphaned babies with their species is sometimes easy, as it was with the fox siblings rescued his spring. Since the clinic doesn't have any other coyotes, it moved the puppy Thursday to a wildlife center on Cape Cod, where it's being paired with another rescued coyote pup to form an adoptive family.
"They're raised together, and they're released together," Fletcher says.
Last year, the association treated 6,000 animals. Most receive care at the clinic, but the organization also works with 30 to 40 trained and licensed rehabilitators around Rhode Island who take critters into their homes.
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Last fall, Fletcher took in nearly two dozen brown and silver-haired bats, keeping them in the garage of her Portsmouth home through the winter. Not all rescued animals survive, but Fletcher's effort has been a real success story. She started with 23 bats and now has 26. Three babies were born and survived.
"There is no illicit bat sex going on in my garage," Fletcher says, noting the bats were already pregnant when she took them in.
The bats will be released later this spring, when their food supply of insects improves. Soon the bats will be sharing the night sky of Rhode Island with the baby owls.
Meanwhile, the two remaining owls — one found in Barrington, the other in Hope Valley — are practically eating their foster parents out of house and clinic. Between them, the hungry babies can gulp down a box of frozen mice a day at a price of $30 per box.
As the organization says in a Facebook post, "It takes a lot to care for these babies and get them back to their parents."
If you find a wild animal that needs help
Here's what the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island says you should do if you find an animal that seems to need help: If you have found what you think is an injured or orphaned wild animal, please contact us at (401) 294-6363 before taking action so we can assess the situation with you in real time. Not all circumstances require intervention or may require special instructions.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Brain tumors, a subject that gets real serious real fast. But, there's a new attitude in the medical community producing a new level of hope.
Brain tumors have long been associated with the word curse, but there's a new word: nowadays.
“You know nowadays when it comes to comes to brain tumors, it's not the doom and gloom,” Dr. Ali Krischt said, director of the CHI St. Vincent Neuroscience Center.
Dr. Krischt has spent is career fighting tumors — all types.
“It could be inside the brain tissue, it could be on the surface of the brain or sometimes it even could be coming from somewhere else in the body to the brain,” Dr. Krischt said.
No matter the type, there is confidence because of nowadays.
“Nowadays, compared to like 40 or 50 years ago, we're way advanced,” Dr. Krischt said. “We can, in detail, know exactly where the tumor is and we can map it.”
Even with aggressive tumors inside brain tissue, there's a positive nowadays message.
“We follow these patients very closely and we network with all the radiational oncologists and the oncologists in the state,” Dr. Krischt said.
“So that if the tumor is trying to come back, we will know before the patient knows,” he said.
Dr. Krischt may seem low key and kindly, but he is aggressive.
“Kind of aggressive approach to deal with aggressive tumors pays off in a large number of patients,” he said.
A word the doctor never utters: inoperable.
“We don't look at it in this way,” he said. “We never give up on a patient. If there is a way, we can safely remove it and we're gonna chase it.”
And nowadays, tumors are no longer simply benign or malignant — it's a spectrum.
“But there is no tumor, at least in our clinic and our program, that goes untreated,” Dr. Krischt said.
This attitude you look for in case you face the challenge of a tumor.
“Because sometimes, you may sweat it for no reason” Dr. Krischt said.
Anxiety is no longer accepted in a brain tumor waiting room. The power of nowadays.
“We do not give up on patients that's for sure,” Dr. Krischt said.
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Baseball has sprung: 3 best-selling offerings at Jackie Robinson Ballpark (and more)
Mark Harper
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Daytona Tortugas have debuted more than new players in their distinctive blue and green uniforms this month.
Angela Ford, food and beverage manager for the team, said the Jackie Robinson Ballpark concessions stand features several new and improved offerings.
Top 3 best-sellers
First, though, she shared a list of the three go-tos on the menu. These should come as no surprise.
- Hot dogs — Since the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the "dachshund sandwich," later shortened to "hot dog," became a staple of American culture. That same year, hot dogs became "standard fare" at ballparks, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.
- Cheeseburgers — In addition to being on the daily menu, cheeseburgers will be part of what's offered every Wednesday home game during Belly Buster Night. All-you-can-eat hot dogs, Marco's Pizza and popcorn are also part of the deal, which, along with a general-admission ticket, costs $14 in advance or $16 at the gate.
- Beer — Thirsty Thursdays will be back. Draft beer and fountain sodas start at $1 on Thursday home games. Also, Friday Night Happy Hours will include live music, tastings and drink specials from local breweries.
She said the team sells about double the number of hot dogs rather than cheeseburgers.
New, improved nachos
Ford plugged a few other new or improved menu items, including:
- Nachos that go beyond chips, cheese and jalapeños.
- A "Family Fun Pack," with four hot dogs, four fountain drinks and two popcorns for $20.
- The "Shell-Yeah Picnic," an all-you-can eat smorgasbord including hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue sandwiches on Tuesdays.
- A new pulled-pork box with fries.
- Neighbor's Ice Cream, including vanilla and Superman flavors as well as the Shelldon's Delight, a mint ice cream with Blue Oreo cookies.
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Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch: 'Ukrainians, freedom need to prevail'
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine dominates world news, Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, will speak today at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville about the crisis and the role of American diplomacy in world affairs.
In addition to serving as ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch also was U.S. ambassador to Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and filled roles for the State Department in Canada, Russia, Somalia and the United Kingdom.
Yovanovitch is the child of refugees from World War II-era Europe, a fluent Russian speaker and earned a bachelor's degree in history and Russian studies from Princeton University and a master's degree from the National Defense University.
Yovanovitch spoke exclusively with Knox News Executive Editor Joel Christopher in advance of her appearance as part of the Ashe Lecture Series of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. This Q&A has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Joel Christopher: Thank you again for taking time to speak with me. We're looking forward to having you here in Knoxville. Tell me, and this sounds like a simple question, but I think it's an important one, why Americans should be concerned about what's happening in Eastern Europe?
Marie Yovanovitch: So I know it seems very, very far away, and it is, but the world is a much smaller place than it used to be. What happens in a capital halfway around the world really does affect us here. I think during COVID we learned the words "supply chain," if we hadn't known them before, and what happens in one country can affect the economy of another or it can affect the supply of goods that we we rely on. The war that Russia chose to prosecute against Ukraine, I think we're seeing the effects in terms of energy prices and if we haven't seen it in grain prices and I think probably in a lot of other areas, as well. So that's the most obvious way.
Another reason why this is so important, and I'm going to take you back to the time after World War II. World War II, of course, was a devastating war – there was so much death and destruction that the world's countries came together and said we can't have that happen again. So the U.S. worked with allies, but also with the Soviet Union, and we created institutions like the United Nations and we had agreements and we came up with the principles that guided how nations would work together.
So importantly, there was the sanctity of borders: You can't just cross the border and take a hunk of a country and the principle of sovereignty, that countries get to decide how they rule themselves but they also get to decide their own foreign policy.
So there were a number of those principles and over time other organizations, not just on the political side, but on the security side, like NATO, and economic institutions, that helped us keep the world more secure and more prosperous and more free for the last 70-plus years.
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So when Russia, fast-forwarding to today, attacks a sovereign country and says that country has no right to exist, the people of that country are not their own people, they're just "little Russians," which is the word they use for the Ukrainians in the Russian language, that is an attack not just on Ukraine, but on the international system.
And if Russia succeeds in Ukraine – and I hope that with the help of the U.S. and the rest of the West that it won't – but if Russia succeeds in Ukraine we can expect Russia to keep going.
And I say that for two reasons.
Just look what Russia has done over the last two decades. It attacked Georgia in 2008 and took two provinces, and at the time the West criticized Russia but did not deploy any sanctions. In 2014, Russia seized Crimea and annexed it illegally and then also start a war in the east, in the Donbas, which it has continued for the last eight years. And the U.S. criticized Russia, took a couple other steps like expelling it from the G-8, which is now the G-7, and deployed a number of sanctions, which I do actually think that those sanctions kept Russia from moving further into Ukraine at the time.
But I think Russia felt that it could absorb the pain of those sanctions and it kept Ukraine off-balance for eight years with a hot war in the middle of Europe in which several people died a week on the Ukrainian side. It didn't make U.S. headlines but it was a real hot war in the middle of Europe. And now Russia is trying again and we saw them go for all of Ukraine. Now they've redirected themselves, rearmed, reorganized and repositioned in the Donbas.
Unless Ukraine succeeds, unless we deter Russia sufficiently, Russia will keep on going. You'll recall right before the war started (Russian President Vladimir) Putin actually noted that it was not just Ukraine, it was other countries of the former Soviet Union that Putin was interested in bringing back into the fold of Mother Russia.
This is why it matters to Americans. If Russia and other autocracies are able to turn the world into a world where might makes right, it will be a much less stable and secure world. It will be less prosperous and it will be less free. And that will directly impact every American.
Christopher: There's a consensus that the NATO deployment to the alliance's nations that border the region is a clear warning that NATO is untouchable and that Putin would not risk that conflict. Are you confident that's the case, that he won't make some sort of grab at some part of NATO, even if it's just a limited one, to test our resolve?
Yovanovitch: I think Putin has his hands full right now, for one thing.
Christopher: I should've framed that better – I'm thinking about in future years.
Yovanovitch: I think it depends on how we handle this crisis. I think one of the calculations that Putin made when he embarked upon this war is that he thought that the West was weak, that Biden would not be able to rally the allies to come together and push back on Russia and support Ukraine and that NATO had become an organization that wouldn't stand up for itself and wouldn't stand up for the allies that are front-line states with Russia and Belarus and Ukraine. I think that's a big miscalculation on Putin's part.
But we need to keep on being strong. We can't lose focus. We need to keep on pushing back and making clear that NATO is inviolable and there will be a huge price to pay if Putin tries to attack.
At this point I would hope that Russia would not take a gamble on attacking NATO, but war is dangerous and mistakes happen. An errant missile could fly into NATO territory, and then what happens?
So the possibilities of mistakes or miscalculations are always present, and that is a real concern.
Christopher: You bring up a key point that the Western resolve has to match Russia's. There is some segment of Americans who have a hesitancy, it seems, to cross certain lines with Russia. You've even heard people even say we provoked the invasion by our expansion of NATO and that we risk a wider European war if we respond too aggressively to Putin. What do you say to that perspective?
Yovanovitch: So I was in Russia in the early 1990s, I was there from '93 to '96, and then worked in the State Department on Russian affairs at the end of the decade. My recollection of that time is that we were working really closely with Russia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 to bring Russia into the fold of the world community.
We expand the G-8 to include Russia even though Russia was not the eighth-largest economy in the world, but we wanted Russia to be part of the club of nations. And we provided a lot of assistance to Russia, provided a lot of high-level attention. The president of the United States, in my time, traveled to Russia once a year. That's a lot of executive time from our leader. Cabinet members would meet with their counterparts. We had a very high-level and deep relationship with Russia throughout the 1990s.
NATO established the NATO-Russia Founding Act back in 1997 to establish what the relationship between NATO and Russia would be. There were regular meetings. Some people were even talking about Russia joining NATO.
So when I hear that this is all our fault somehow, that's not the way I remember it, and I think there's some revisionism going on.
The other thing I think we need to remember is that we, of course as Americans, look at everything through our lens. What did we do, what didn't we do, and we are always the most important actor in our own story, understandably.
But other countries have agency. I mean it's almost insulting to Russia to say it was all us and they're just reacting – I don't think so. Russia had agency, the Russian people had agency, and so did Russia's leaders.
When Putin came in, he took Russia in a very, very different direction in 2001. And we are now seeing the results.
I can't imagine if NATO had closed up shop in the 1990s or had said to the countries that wanted to join NATO, sorry, we're not going to do that, that Russia is substantially a different country than it is now.
Putin has made very clear what his world view is. His legacy is that he wants to recreate the Russian Empire. I don't think that has anything to do with NATO.
The last thing I would say is that several weeks ago we heard from the Ukrainians as they were negotiating that on the table was that Ukraine would be a non-nuclear neutral country, in other words not joining NATO. And Russia didn't jump at that. Russia just continued the war with a little pause to regroup, and now it is attacking again.
Christopher: You spoke about some of the economic impact and Putin has said, in essence, the West will fold because we can't bear the economic costs of opposing his aggression. Americans certainly react strongly and negatively to disruptions to their economic well-being. So he touched on some truth — you can see that at the gas pumps or the grocery store. What do you say to Americans who don't care about a conflict in Eastern Europe that ignoring short-term pocketbook pain will pay far more important future dividends?
Yovanovitch: Sometimes that's a hard argument to make, but it is an important argument to make, and I think that's where leadership is important. That this is about our way of life and our future economy and our ability to conduct that economy in the way that we would like.
It's not just for the president, it's for all of our leaders, whether they are in Congress, whether they are in state government, to make that argument, to put it forward. That's why we love having a free press. Newspapers such as yours can explain to people why this is important
Christopher: You've said in previous interviews and you said speaking with me that Putin is a bully, that if he isn't met with strength he's going to keep going. That escalation, I think, is what makes people fearful. He certainly has shown that he's willing to cross lines. You can imagine scenarios where that escalation starts costing more and more for the Western alliance. If he tests that resolve, are you suggesting we have to go all in no matter what the circumstances are to stop him?
Yovanovitch: You made the point, but I'd just like to foot-stomp it. Putin is the one who is escalating. He is the one who invaded Georgia, who invaded Ukraine and 2014 and invaded Ukraine in 2022, and is raining terror on the Ukrainian people.
I mean, in no way can this be right.
I think the first thing to remember is that Putin is escalating. The second thing I say is that nobody wants a broader war. Nobody.
I think the Biden administration is navigating this very narrow lane of how do you deter Russia, support Ukraine, reinforce the allies and not somehow inadvertently do something that would broaden the war?
So there is risk in us doing what we are doing and pushing back on Putin. No question about it.
But there is also risk and I would also argue there is greater risk in allowing Putin to get away with it. That's what we did in 2008, that's what we did in 2014, and we cannot do that in 2022.
Christopher: Do you think we're going to see wider provocations, or there is some sanity in what Russia is willing to do?
Yovanovitch: Fiona Hill, the great Russia expert, has said don't think, 'Oh, no, he wouldn't ever.' So I think that's how I'll answer that question.
Putin is testing not just Ukraine, he's testing the West.
Christopher: You've said everyone has their own part to play in our democracy. How is supporting Ukraine right now in the best interests of the average American, and what should people do to support Ukraine?
Yovanovitch: Americans are the most generous people in the world. Support our government in continuing to provide assistance to the Ukrainian people, whether it's security assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance.
One of the things that we can do is keep on focusing on Ukraine because this is not something that's going to be resolved in days and weeks and months. It's probably going to be years. I don't need to tell you this, our attention span can sometimes be short, we move on to the next crisis. This is one we need to keep on focusing.
This is not just a regional war, it is a war that has international, global implications. We need to see the right outcomes: the Ukrainians, democracy, freedom, needs to prevail, period, paragraph.
If you go
Ashe Lecture Series: Marie Yovanovitch
When: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday
Where: Student Union Pilot Company Ballroom, Room 272A, University of Tennessee campus, 1502 Cumberland Ave.
Parking: Guests may park in the Vol Hall Garage on White Avenue at no charge be requesting a parking voucher from staff at the event.
Cost: Free, and open to the public.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Some groups of Portlanders are calling on Starbucks and Amazon to improve employee rights and wages.
A crowd marched and gathered around the U.S. Bancorp tower in downtown Portland for International Workers' Day on Sunday, May 1.
The May Day demonstration included representation from local groups of Starbucks and Amazon employees working to unionize.
"We deserve better," said Nicole Horn, a worker for Amazon, who said wages are inadequate for those doing the hardest labor. "The bosses will just keep getting richer and we'll just keep getting poorer."
The new union Starbucks Workers United hosted the rally in solidarity with Amazon workers.
"Workers are standing up everywhere and it's important to support them everywhere," said Quentin Canta of the Starbucks union.
A speaker at the event said Oregon's first Starbucks union election would take place May 17. The crowd cheered at that announcement.
"It's a big moment in labor [resurgence] and we're just working to build on that in Portland," Canta said.
"The labor movement is being revitalized in this country," Horn agreed.
Demands for better pay and work-life balance are happening across the board. CNBC reported in March that 44% of employees are looking for different work.
In January, 4.3 million people quit their jobs, joining the record 48 million who quit in 2021. Most left to pursue better pay and treatment elsewhere.
"There's strength in numbers," Horn said. "The only way we're going to get it is if we come together in one voice and demand it."
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – A 33-year-old Naples man was killed in a crash on Golden Gate Boulevard E near Everglades Boulevard in Collier County Sunday night, authorities said.
Around 7:30 p.m. the man was headed east on Golden Gate Blvd when he crashed into the back of an SUV that was driving ahead of him, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).
The crash caused the man’s car to veer off the road and overturn, troopers said. The 33-year-old was thrown from the car in the crash, an incident report shows. He was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Investigators said he was not wearing a seatbelt.
A 31-year-old Naples woman and an 11-year-old girl were in the other car that was hit. The two of them received minor injuries.
Golden Gate Boulevard was shut down in the area for hours Sunday night.
No further details were immediately available. FHP is continuing to investigate the crash.
Count on NBC2 to bring you the latest information as it is released.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. – The City of Cape Coral has updated the watering schedule to once a week, due to an abnormally dry season and irrigation water usage exceeding supplies.
The new schedule went into effect at midnight on Monday, May 2nd.
“The water issue mentioned to me about reducing it to one day a week, I’m totally in agreement with it,” said Cape Coral resident, Mona Hawes.
The watering days and hours depend on the last number of the home address:
- Addresses ending in 0: Monday from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 1: Friday from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 2: Thursday from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 3: Wednesday from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 4: Sunday from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 5: Saturday from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 6: Thursday from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 7: Wednesday from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 8: Sunday 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- Addresses ending in 9: Saturday 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
The following irrigation water use restrictions also take effect Monday:
- For properties or developments up to and including five acres in size that have an irrigation system that simultaneously irrigates multiple properties with different watering times including, but not limited to, duplexes, multi-family units, compound use, and mixed-use units, watering is allowed on Mondays from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- For properties or developments more than five acres in size that have an irrigation system that simultaneously irrigates multiple properties with different watering times including, but not limited to, multi-family, compound use, and mixed-use units, watering is allowed on Mondays from 12 a.m. to 8 a.m.
- Watering of new lawns and landscaping during a 45-day establishment period is permitted on any day of the week from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m.
Hand watering is allowed at any time.
The City of Cape Coral will be increasing enforcement activity to address illegal watering.
“Water is essential for the human life,” Hawes said. “Without water we cannot survive so to reduce that, just the reduction of water I think is very essential. grass is not as important as human life.”
The City began pumping from the Charlotte County Reservoir on Friday and is currently working on multiple irrigation supply improvements.
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – One person was injured after a fire tore through a Lehigh Acres home Friday, officials said.
The blaze started in a bedroom of the home at 4503 6th Street around 7:45 p.m., according to Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District.
Investigators said the flames spread to the kitchen and living room area of the home leaving the residence unlivable.
Firefighters responded to the home and doused the blaze Friday evening.
One person was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
The American Red Cross later responded to the scene to help the family of three that was displaced by the fire.
The investigation has been turned over to the Bureau of Fire, Arson, & Explosives.
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Get ready for higher property tax bills: Monroe County assessments up by a record $1.9B
Upswing expected to bring higher tax bills next year
Home values in Monroe County have risen 15% in the past year, but some homeowners are seeing sharply higher increases, which will mean bigger property tax bills next year.
County Assessor Judy Sharp said higher home sales prices and construction of the new hospital pushed the value of all property in Monroe County to nearly $14.6 billion.
That’s up nearly $1.9 billion, the highest one-year increase by far, though about $900 million of the increase came from the new hospital. Sharp said even without the hospital, the increase would have been a record.
The assessor’s office last week sent out the annual Notice of Assessment of Land and Improvements, also called Form 11, which tells people how much the value of their land and buildings has changed in the past year.
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The increase in values of residential properties reflects low supply and high demand.
“It was the … crazy sales that we’ve seen,” she said.
While the total value of residential properties has risen 15%, the value changes for individual homes can fluctuate wildly from one part of the county to another or even from one neighborhood to another, depending on the sales in that area or whether owners have made improvements such as adding a basement or porch.
Sales contribute to the changes in assessment of other homes in their vicinity: For example, a home near the country club saw its assessed value rise nearly 21% in the past year, even though the owner had not made any significant improvements to it. Sharp said homes in the area simply sold for much more than their previous assessed value. When that happens, the value of all homes in the neighborhood rises — even if the owners don’t so much as replace a shingle.
The assessed value of that same home near the country club has more than doubled since 2018: Its value that year was about $56,000. This year its value is $119,000.
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Homes in some areas appreciate much more slowly: For example, the home of Mayor John Hamilton was assessed at $359,000 in 2018, up just $19,400 or 5.4%, since 2012. During that same span, the value of the home of Monroe County Commissioner Penny Githens rose by $139,000, or 56%.
Significant value changes especially affect inexpensive homes because of the way Indiana calculates deductions: For example, the owner of a home assessed at $50,000 may get deductions of $37,000, or 74% of the home. That means the net tax liability, or the home value on which the property is taxed is only $13,000. However, if this home doubles in value, deductions reduce the taxable amount only by 64%, leaving a much higher net tax liability: $37,750.
That also translates into much higher tax bills. Whereas the owner of a home assessed at $50,000 might pay an annual property tax of $269, the owner of a home assessed at $100,000 would pay $741 annually. In other words, while the home value has increased by a factor of two, the tax on it has increased by a factor of 2.75.
Sharp said she understands property tax increases of hundreds of dollars can create some challenges for people, especially older people on fixed incomes, but she said she and her employees are appraisers following state law.
“The market is doing it,” she said. “I have to do what the market does, by law.”
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While the Monroe County Treasurer’s Office recently sent out tax bills, the assessments mailed last week deal with tax bills for next year.
Kathy Bridwell, a 71-year-old retiree, said she and her husband, John, have lived in their home on the city’s north side since 1978, and have never seen their property tax jump as much as this year. Their annual tax bill, about $2,400, rose by $400. It has gone up more than $730 since 2019.
Bridwell, a South Bend native who worked as a daycare provider, said she and her husband can absorb the higher taxes because they get income from Social Security and a pension that her husband earned from his work on an oil tanker. In addition, she said, the couple live frugally and remain cautious about COVID-19, therefore not going out much.
Nonetheless, she said, she worries those sharp increases are going to continue for several years.
“That’s going to be a problem,” she said.
Heather Groves, a local Realtor with Sterling Real Estate and president of the Bloomington MLS, said the lack of housing in Monroe County, especially affordable housing, has pushed up sales prices, with buyers often paying above asking.
She said recently, she has seen those dynamics play out especially in the area southeast of the Indiana University campus. Some homes on South Dunn last year had already seen assessed value increases nearing 20%.
Groves said Bloomington continues to see housing demand from people who want to move here for retirement and people who decide to stay after completing their studies at IU. In addition, large employers such as drug maker Catalent continue to add jobs, which also brings more people to the city and county.
People who are looking for inexpensive homes are going to have a tough time, she said, as the market has very little availability for less than $200,000, and the homes available at that price are not in good shape.
Kristen Weida, executive vice president of the Bloomington Board of Realtors, said some prospective buyers also are getting outbid by cash offers.
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That means people who are qualified for a $275,000 loan really have to look for a property where the asking price is $250,000 or lower, because the sales price likely will exceed the asking price.
Weida also said if interest rates continue to rise, demand should be somewhat reduced. A few months ago, first-time homebuyers often saw mortgages below their former rent payments. That difference has largely disappeared. If rates rise more, Weida said some renters will choose to continue to rent rather than buy.
However, the Indiana Association of Realtors said in a news release recently supplies across the state remain very low, and correcting the gaps between supply and demand “will take years.”
Residential real estate, at nearly $9.5 billion, accounts for about two-thirds of the value of all property in the county. Commercial property, at about $3.8 billion, is the second-biggest category, at 26%. Nearly $1.6 billion worth of property is owned by the government or exempt, meaning not taxed.
You can find a tax bill estimator here: tinyurl.com/yewyndzx.
Boris Ladwig is the city government reporter for The Herald-Times. Contact him at bladwig@heraldt.com.
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