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GAS TRACKER: Prices in the area nearing $4 a gallon again Apr 22, 2022 Apr 22, 2022 Updated 25 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Here's the latest as of April 22. Gas prices IA/MN Infogram Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save More From KIMT News 3 Coronavirus Pfizer asks US to allow COVID shots for kids ages 5 to 11 Updated Dec 2, 2021 Local 2 hospitalized after early-morning crash on Highway 14 in Dodge Co. Updated Dec 2, 2021 Iowa Charles City man sentenced for attempted break-in Updated Dec 2, 2021 Archive Rochester Splash Pad Secures Funding Updated Dec 2, 2021 Freeborn/Mower counties Second guilty plea in crash that killed a Freeborn County teen Updated Dec 2, 2021 Iowa Rockford resident recalls events of weekend building fire Updated Dec 2, 2021 Recommended for you
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It's Your Business: Cook building homes shows work is where the home is
The recent announcement that Cook Group Inc. is going to build 300 homes in Lawrence, Orange and Owen counties reflects the need for reasonably priced housing for the growing number of Cook workers in the area. A company building housing for its workers is not unknown. Indeed, America has a long history of big business building so-called “company towns” to house their workers.
My great-grandmother, in her hard-working youth, lived in Pullman, Illinois, now a neighborhood of Chicago, built by the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. in the 1880s. She worked as a sleeping car cleaner and paid her rent in Pullman dollars. Another notable company town is Gary, Indiana, founded in 1906 by U.S. Steel and named after the founding chairman, Elbert Henry Gary.
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We might also consider university towns in much the same way. The town of Bloomington was established in 1818 and grew alongside Indiana University, founded in 1820. Monroe County’s housing reflects the needs of the university’s students, with a 50/40 split between owning and renting. Interestingly, it is not that far apart from the nationwide split of 57/32 (and for those who are wondering where the missing percentage points are, those go to vacant or seasonal housing).
Cook isn’t building a new town, but they are ensuring that the talent they attract to their company will have housing available to them. In just the past three months, the Bloomington Metropolitan Area has added 2,000 jobs in the region. And some of those new workers may well need or want to move closer to their jobs rather than commuting. Or they may want to stop “remote working” and move closer to their employers.
Notably, the counties chosen by Cook to build those 300 homes are tilted, as we would expect, toward owning one’s home rather than renting. Lawrence has the biggest home-owning preference, with a 71/18 split, with 15,110 of its housing being owner occupied, compared with 3,858 being rented. Orange County, with its hotels, casinos and recreational focus, is still majority home owners (65%), but with a pretty significant 21% of its housing being rented. Owen County, the third county to benefit from Cook-built housing, tilts owner, with 67%, but doesn’t neglect those who need to rent, with 19% of its housing being occupied by renters and the remaining 4% of its housing being used for seasonal or recreational use.
Earlier:It's Your Business: Sustaining southern Indiana's defense and agricultural economies
Interestingly, Owen County tops Lawrence and Orange with the number of homes or units available for seasonal use, with nearly 500 such homes in that category. Lawrence and Orange counties have fewer than 300 such properties. Perhaps some of those seasonal properties are being renovated as year-round homes to help in the attraction of workers.
Note: Data used for this article were provided by the U.S. Census Bureau’s just released 2020 American Community Survey and the Department of Workforce Development’s 2022 Current Employment Monthly Statistics. You can follow us @IUibrc.
Carol Rogers is co-director of Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business.
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Crashes at Dillman Road and Old Ind. 37 have persisted. Could a roundabout fix the issue?
Following years of traffic collisions, the Dillman Road and South Old Ind. 37 intersection could be made safer for drivers in the next few years.
The Monroe County Board of Commissioners approved a traffic assessment, priced at $32,000, for the intersection during its Wednesday meeting. The assessment will identify changes that could help highway officials reduce traffic accidents at the intersection.
According to highway director Lisa Ridge, an area that has more than five crashes a year is considered dangerous. In 2021, six traffic collisions were reported at this intersection.
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The intersection is a two-way stop, with drivers on South Old Ind. 37 (South Walnut Street extended) having clear passage in both directions, while drivers on East and West Dillman Road have to stop and wait for an opening to cross or turn onto the dominant road. The intersection is just east of South Ind. 37 and near various businesses including Hoosier Disposal, Bloomington Speedway Mulch & More and Monroe County Tire & Supply.
Challenges with the intersection
Due to the surrounding businesses, Ridge noted trucks often use this intersection. Because area is hilly and Old Ind. 37 curves just south of Dillman, a driver's sight distance is limited, especially for those on Dillman.
Speeding has been a notable issue in the rural setting, which makes its hilly surroundings more dangerous. If another vehicle is speeding on Old Ind. 37, the incline makes it more difficult for large trucks coming from the west on Dillman to try to get out of its way.
Ridge said improvements to this intersection have been on the county's to-do list for a while. The highway department receives an annual report compiling where the most vehicular accidents have happened within the last three years. This annual report, as well as the highway department's road safety audit with Purdue's Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program, has led to the Dillman intersection receiving some low-cost improvements, such as rumble strips and a flashing beacon.
While these changes initially resulted in minor safety improvements, drivers soon went back to their old habits, Ridge said. The issues of speeding and limited sight lines have persisted.
"We've pretty well exhausted everything we can at this point for how we can improve it, so now the next step is seeing what alternatives are out there," Ridge said.
Seeking a long-term fix
This new assessment, conducted by civil engineering and surveying company USI Consultants, will attempt to find a long-term solution. It will include traffic data collection, crash analysis, evaluation of design criteria and project cost estimates. The assessment is slated to be completed within six to eight months.
There are multiple options to improve the area, such as a roundabout, which was previously suggested by the Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program as a higher-cost option.
"We're getting more used to roundabouts. That's going to be an engineering call. But I think it's definitely a possibility," Ridge said.
Highway department employees could also flatten the nearby hill for better sight distance.
Ridge is now looking into funding for the project, such as possible grants through the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Construction likely would not start until 2026.
Contact Rachel Smith at rksmith@heraldt.com or @RachelSmithNews on Twitter.
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'Taking time to heal': Journal Star high school sports reporter on temporary leave
The Journal Star will be without a familiar face — for a few months, at least.
High school sports reporter Adam Duvall is scheduled to undergo open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve on Friday.
Duvall, 36, is expected to be hospitalized for a week and then return home to rehabilitate for three months. He is slated to return to covering sports in late July.
"I promise I'm not ignoring your scores or performances," Duvall wrote on his social media. "I'm just taking time to heal and be with family. I'll be back this fall."
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Duvall is a graduate of Bradley University and worked for the Journal Star in various capacities off and on since 2006. He was rehired as a full-time reporter in August of 2021.
The native of Chillicothe and graduate of Illinois Valley Central lives in Elmwood with his wife, Erin, and children, Owen, 7, and Ellie, 1.
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Wes Huett is Journal Star sports editor. Email him at whuett@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @WesHuett.
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Authorities say a Long Island man has been arrested for shooting a minor accused of knocking on the man's door overnight.
Police arrested the Laurel man for shooting the boy with a shotgun, hitting the juvenile in the arm.
The 64-year-old fired the shot through a glass door at the back of his house after the kid had repeatedly knocked on the front and back doors of the home and run away, police say.
Emergency responders treated the boy at the scene and took him to a nearby hospital.
Officials arrested the homeowner on assault charges.
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Florida manatee deaths top 500 already this year
Manatee deaths just crossed the 500 mark this year. That macabre milestone puts the Sunshine State almost half-way to last year's darkest year on record for the threatened species.
But in what might offer some hope: this year's death rate is not nearly as bad as last year's at this time, when 673 sea cows had died by mid-April. Last year, 1,101 manatees perished, most from starvation.
At least 158 fewer manatees have died so far this year during the same Jan. 1 to April 15 period, compared to last year, according to the most recent stats from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
But biologists say the herd, already thinned by an estimated 10% last year, continues to be under threat.
"Environmental conditions in portions of the Indian River Lagoon remain a concern," warns the FWC'S most recent update on the ongoing manatee die-offs.
This year's 515 deaths are 201 more than the five-year average for manatee deaths in Florida of 314 deaths at this stage of the year.
Where is it the worst? In Brevard County.
This year's death toll includes 314 deaths (61%) in Brevard County, 45 of which were reported from March 15 to April 15.
Researchers attribute the unusual die-off to starvation because of a lack of seagrasses in the Indian River Lagoon, most of which is in Brevard County. State biologists say this has been man-made famine.
Decades of pollution from septic tanks, sewage spills, too much fertilizer and poor stormwater management set the lagoon on a collision course with the laws of nature, ecologists say. All the nitrogen and phosphorus those sources delivered fueled excess algae growth that blocked sunlight from seagrass — manatees' main diet — and otherwise choked out other marine life.
In a way, manatees have been lucky this year. A La Niña climate pattern of cooler waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean resulted in warmer-than-usual winters in Florida, saving some manatees from dying from the stress of cold.
But with the year less than a third over and the death toll almost at half of last year's record 1,101 deaths, biologists and conservationists fear what could this year's winter could bring. La Niña is expected to be over, and there are already so many malnourished manatees.
To help nourish them, FWC and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this past winter embarked on a pilot program that fed manatees at the cold water discharge area at Florida Power & Light Co.'s power plant in Port St. John.
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The effort was prompted as the death toll rose, and island outcroppings in Brevard became mass manatee graves. State biologists could not keep up.
The death toll grew so bad that in April 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the die-off an Unusual Mortality Event. That designation frees up federal funding for further investigations and response.
2022 manatee deaths in Florida
This year's 515 manatee deaths in Florida incudes 314 deaths (61%) in Brevard County. The breakdown of the causes of those Brevard manatees deaths was as follows, according to FWC statistics:
- Not Necropsied — 229
- Natural — 69
- Perinatal — 6
- Undetermined — 5
- Watercraft — 3
- Flood Gate/Canal Lock — 0
- Other Human — 2
- Cold Stress — 0
Source: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
If you see a sick or injured manatee
Call FWC’s Wildlife Alert toll-free number: 1-888-404-FWCC (1-888-404-3922) or #FWC or *FWC on a cellphone if you see a sick, injured, dead or tagged manatee.
Jim Waymer is an environment reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Waymer at 321-261-5903 or jwaymer@floridatoday.com. Or find him on Twitter: @JWayEnviro or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jim.waymer
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HOOVER, Ala. (WHNT) — Huntsville businessman and former prisoner of war Mike Durant has faced heavy criticism in recent days for not committing to debating his rivals in Alabama’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate.
On Thursday night in Hoover, that changed as News 19 spoke with the frontrunner during a meet-and-greet hosted by the conservative group, “Local Alabama.”
“We’re fine with debates,” Durant said. “We’ve got a schedule that was laid out, but if we could fit it in, we’d be glad to do it…it’s not scheduled right now, but my team is in conversations with everybody that wants to do it.”
With just 32 days until the Alabama primary election, candidates in the race continue their campaigns, airing ads and making appearances across the state. Durant, though a notable figure in ads, has made very few in-person appearances up to this point in the election.
According to AL.com, Durant has garnered a lot of support during his campaign and raised the most money. Though that hasn’t shielded him from criticism from his opponents – U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and former Business Council of Alabama President and CEO Katie Britt – who have both agreed to participate in a televised debate organized by the Alabama Republican Party.
Britt, though, says her commitment to debate on stage is conditional on Durant’s participation.
Campaign finance reports show the Durant campaign fundraising has reached a total of $7.3 million, but $6.8 of that was loaned by Durant himself.
“You know, I got in late because I had a company, and I wanted to make sure that was taken care of before I committed to this,” said Durant. “I’m not a politician. I didn’t have the knowledge about fundraising – and getting in late puts you a bit behind on the power curve, so I had to put skin in the game.”
If elected, Durant promises to prioritize a secure southern border, energy independence and a strong military.
The Durant campaign has yet to officially commit to a debate with his GOP opponents. Durant says moving forward he intends to travel the state, make more appearances, and meet with voters.
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CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A Chilton County Schools lunchroom manager has been told she must repay over $23,000 after a payroll mistake caused her to be overpaid for about six years.
Christie Payne recently received a letter from Chilton County Schools outlining the alleged overpayment.
“A review of financial records reveals that you were overpaid by the Chilton County Board of Education,” the letter said.
The letter, signed by Superintendent Jason Griffin, said that the overpayment totals $23,465.40 and began during the 2016-2017 school year.
“The employee went from assistant manager to manager,” the letter said. “The employee should have started at step 0 or the manager schedule but was given years of experience as an assistant.”
Every month “this is not taken care of,” the letter said, $254 will be added to the total amount Payne owes.
The letter outlines three options for repaying the money. Payne can pay $325.91 monthly for 72 months, $3,910.90 annually for the next six years, or pay in one lump sum.
The letter said that if Payne objects to the overpayment or wants to propose another repayment schedule, she must do so in seven days upon receipt of the letter, which was dated April 12 but was mailed to Payne’s home address.
Payne has not taken the request to repay the money lightly. She said she was shocked when she received the letter.
“I had no idea this was happening,” she said. “Now I have seven days to fix a six-year mistake made by the payroll department.”
Payne has been in touch with representatives from the Alabama Education Association about the issue, according to district director Tracy LeSieur. AEA is working to gather more information and evaluate the situation, LeSieur said Friday morning.
Chilton County Schools Superintendent Jason Griffin refused to answer questions about the issue Thursday evening.
“Due to employee privacy issues, Chilton County Schools will not be commenting on your inquiry,” Griffin said in an e-mail.
You can read the full letter sent to Christie Payne below.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — UAB Medicine and the Alabama Department of Public Health held a Q&A session Friday morning to discuss a recent outbreak of hepatitis in children in the state.
Dr. Karen Landers, Dr. Markus Buchfellner and Dr. Henry Shiau led the discussion regarding a new adenovirus strain that may be linked to the outbreak.
ADPH released a statement Tuesday that announced nine children, all under the age of 10, had tested positive for hepatitis despite not having any underlying health issues before. Some of the children have developed severe symptoms even liver failure.
You can watch the full Q&A session in the video player above.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures.
“Where the Waters Come Together” opens on Friday, with an opening reception from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives on our relationships to rivers and oceans, with work from Native artists responding to fundamental questions around cultural buoyancy, biodiversity protection, food sources and material necessities. It also addresses the realities of the colonial reshaping of traditional access to waterways and shorelines.
“Where the Waters Come Together” features the artwork of Greg Archuleta (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Sean Gallagher (Inupiaq), Lehuauakea (Kanaka Maoli / Native Hawaiian), Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation), Andrew Michael (Yupik/Inupiaq/Polish), Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos), and Shirod Younker (Enrolled with Coquille Indian Tribe).
Native artists across the country are responding to social and environmental issues, drawing increased attention to Native perspectives in shifting a national narrative of invisibility.
Clear in all of this work are our essential relationships to land-base. Through this lens, Native artists in the exhibition employ several mediums, including two and three-dimensional works, installations, and multi-media works, moving fluidly between contemporary and traditional practices.
“This exhibition and related community programming is an opportunity to highlight the cultural traditions and creative artistry of nationally acclaimed Native artists who reside in the Portland Metro area, inclusive of members of local tribes as well as those who are part of the broader Indigenous diaspora. It is our hope that the Center becomes a welcoming place to exchange stories and strengthen relations throughout the region as well as throughout the nation,” says Barbara Mumby-Huerta, Vice President of Programs and Partnerships for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
The public is also invited to attend the Open House at the Center on Saturday, April 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. which will include refreshments, an artist talk, interactive art activities, traditional storytelling, dance and music.
OPENING NIGHT EVENT – FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022
WHERE: Center for Native Arts and Cultures, 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
4:00pm: Doors open for exhibition viewing
6:00pm: Networking + light refreshments
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Friday is Earth Day and what better way to enjoy this weekend’s warm, sunny weather than a bike ride around Portland. Biketown is offering free rides for trips under an hour from April 22-24.
Despite the free ride, Biketown said “Remember, it’s not the Wild West, so please park responsibly and keep bikes within the service area. Penalties still apply.”
Over the last year, 22 new stations using recycled material have been installed. The bike-share program is expected to expand even further into North and East Portland.
In the spirit of sustainability, Biketown said some of the older bikes are getting a second go-around up in Canada.
Those planning to take a spin around the Rose City can download the BIKETOWN app.
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Former Shreveport Police officer arrested in connection with use of force incident
A former officer with the Shreveport Police Department has been arrested in connection with a use of force encounter.
Raheem Roque allegedly committed policy violations during a use of force encounter in late January 2022.
He was an officer with Shreveport Police Department for three years, starting his career in Feb. 2019.
Following a review of the incident by the supervisor, it was forwarded to the Violent Crimes Unit.
Chief Wayne Smith set a hearing to terminate Roque; however, he resigned prior to the hearing.
On April 21, Detectives obtained a warrant for Roque, charging him with one count of Malfeasance. His bond was set at $10,000.
He surrendered himself to authorities and was booked in the Caddo Parish Correctional Center.
More:One guilty, one not guilty in the 2019 murder of a Shreveport police officer
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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Appeals court rules in favor of new hospice offering service in Sarasota County
SARASOTA COUNTY – Continuum Care of Sarasota, a multi-state hospice program that started seeing patients last summer, received good news Wednesday, when the Second District Court of Appeal affirmed a decision by a state agency granting it the right to operate in Sarasota County.
The approval, called a certificate of need, had been challenged by Tidewell Hospice, which had been the sole provider of end-of-life services in Sarasota County for 42 years.
“We are pleased by the ruling,” Continuum CEO Sam Stern said in a prepared statement. “The Second DCA ruling brings to a close Tidewell's attempt to maintain its monopoly status in Sarasota County.”
Related: New hospice to open in Sarasota County, offer specialty programs
And: Florida-based health care systems merge to create Empath Health
Tidewell Hospice merged with Empath Health in May 2021, and provides a variety of services in 13 Florida counties to more than 14,000 people a day, including hospice, home health, palliative care, private duty, all-inclusive elder care, HIV and sexual health care and grief services.
In a prepared statement, Jonathan Fleece, president and CEO of Tidewell Hospice and president of Empath Health, said “Tidewell Hospice is honored to be the only not-for-profit hospice in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties.
“We’ve had the privilege of caring for these communities for more than 40 years.”
Continuum started accepting patients in July 2021 based on a decision by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration and became Medicare certified in August.
Continuum Care of Sarasota Executive Director Casey Cuthbert-Allman said the hospice currently has about 150 admissions.
“We’ve been so warmly received,” she said Thursday. “It’s been an incredible privilege to work down here, with so many people who want a different option.”
In addition to traditional hospice services, Continuum Care offers specialty programs such as music therapy, equine therapy and virtual reality.
Tidewell provides similar services
Continuum is waiting on an appeals court ruling on a state certificate of need approval for its operation in Manatee County.
“We expect the judge to have a ruling in the next month or two,” Cuthbert-Allman said.
Will Continuum Care of Sarasota operate in Charlotte and DeSoto?
The company has also filed letters of intent to file for approval to operate in both Charlotte and DeSoto counties, which would mirror the existing footprint for Tidewell Hospice, which continued to operate under that name after the May, 2021 merger of Empath Health and Stratum Health System.
Stratum was created in 2015 as a not-for-profit health care network to support Tidewell Hospice.
Fleece noted, “Florida has a certificate of need process for hospices and that process has played itself out in Sarasota County.
“As far as any future letters of intent or proceedings in other parts of our service area, we will continue to respond in ways we feel are best for the residents of the communities we serve,” he added.
Continuum Care, which started in California, also serves patients in Broward County, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Cuthbert-Allman noted that in addition to novel approaches such as music therapy and equine therapy, Continuum offers more frequent visits from hospice caregivers to patients.
Nurses visit a patient a minimum of five times a week. While hospice aides visit five times a week, music therapists, chaplains and social support personnel may also visit patients weekly.
“Our visit frequency is much higher than what the standard had been here,” Cuthbert-Allman said. “What I have found is the more eyes you lay on a patient and family, the more proactive you can be.”
Tidewell Hospice has more than 1,200 employees and nearly 1,200 volunteers caring for more than 10,000 patients and families each year. In addition to the expert, compassionate clinical care provided by tis teams, it too has specially trained volunteers and certified colleagues provide specialized veterans services; pet, music, art, massage and aroma therapies; virtual reality; Reiki; and other complementary therapies that improve patients’ quality of life.
In a prepared statement Cuthbert-Allman said Continuum Care’s specialty programs, which also includes use of virtual reality headsets, have been embraced by the community.
“The focus of Continuum Care is to treat the entire patient, including physical, psychological and psychosocial-spiritual,” she said in the statement. “Not every person has the same life experience, so we can’t expect everyone’s end of life journey to be the same.”
Earle Kimel primarily covers south Sarasota County for the Herald-Tribune and can be reached at earle.kimel@heraldtribune.com. Support local journalism with a digital subscription to the Herald-Tribune.
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Sarasota bicyclist critically injured after truck failed to stop, officials said
Melissa Pérez-Carrillo
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
A Sarasota bicyclist was critically injured by a truck who passed a stop sign on Thursday.
A 40-year-old Ellenton man driving a Ford truck crashed into a 46-year-old Sarasota man riding a bicycle on the intersection of Colonial Drive and Clark Road at 12:36 p.m., according to a report released by the Florida Highway Patrol.
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The truck was turning right at a stop sign but failed to yield to the bicyclist that was crossing, officials said.
The driver was given a ticket for failing to yield at a stop sign and causing great bodily injury or death. The bicyclist was taken to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — The Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) issued a Precautionary Boil Water Notice Advisory for Lehigh Acres system customers Friday.
A scheduled shutdown at 1297 Woodward Court required the shutdown area to expand due to a valve failure.
According to FGUA, approximately 300 customers residing on Woodward Court from Beth Stacy to Westminster Street N., including Broad Street N., Vineyard Street, Westley Street, Westminster Street W., Broad Street W., and Sunshine Way may have experienced low pressure or no water.
Services have reportedly been restored as of 10:30 a.m. Samples from the customer’s homes will be collected and taken to a Florida Department of Health-certified laboratory.
The FGUA advised customers that all water used for drinking and cooking be boiled.
For more information or updates, FGUA customers can contact the FGUA Lehigh Acres Utility Systems Customer Service Office at 239-368-1615 or visit the FGUA web site at www.fgua.com.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – ‘The Office’ star Brian Baumgartner is expected to make a celebrity appearance at Hammond Stadium on April 29.
Baumgartner who played ‘Kevin Malone’ on NBC’s hit show will be signing autographs for fans at the baseball field during Friday’s game, according to a release from the Mighty Mussels.
The Mighty Mussels will be in the midst of a six-game series against the Clearwater Threshers during Baumgartner’s visit.
‘The Office’ night is one of several events the Might Mussels will be hosting throughout the rest of April.
Here is a list of promotions for the Mighty Mussels six-game opening homestand at Hammond Stadium:
Tuesday, April 26 (first pitch at 7 p.m.)
- Two for Tuesday: BOGOs on beer, soda and hotdogs
Wednesday, April 27 (first pitch at 7 p.m.)
- Bark in the Park: Dogs are welcome (leash required)
- Guaranteed Win Night: Fans get a free ticket to the next day’s game if the Mussels don’t win
- Dollar Dog Night: Hotdogs cost $1
- Ladies Night: Women get 2-for-1 deals on seltzer and wine
- Silver Sluggers: Club members 55+ receive free tickets and free parking
- Reading Program Night: Students who completed the Mussels Reading Challenge get a free ticket
Thursday, April 28 (first pitch at 7 p.m.)
- Halfway to Halloween Night: Wear your costumes to compete in a costume contest
- FGCU Night: All students, alumni, faculty and staff with valid IDs can buy tickets for $5
- College Night: Students with valid college IDs can purchase $5 tickets
- Miracle Throwback Night: Players will wear retro Miracle jerseys
- $1 and $2 Beer Night: 12-ounce cans are $1 and draft beers are $2
Friday, April 29 (first pitch at 7 p.m.)
- Brian Baumgartner Appearance: Actor from The Office will sign autographs during the game
- Fireworks Friday: Postgame fireworks spectacular after the ninth inning
- Lee County Night: All Lee County government employees get free tickets
- Wicked Dolphin Happy Hour: BOGO drinks at the Salty Crab/Wicked Dolphin Bar
Saturday, April 30 (first pitch at 7 p.m.)
- Beerfest: Beer aficionados can purchase $30 tickets that include game entrance and unlimited samples from more than 50 beers
- Star Wars Night: Fans can compete in a costume contest, participate in photo ops and enjoy themed music
- Animal Cruelty Awareness Night: Join the Lee County Sheriff’s Office to raise awareness and fight animal cruelty
- Guaranteed Win Night: Fans get a free ticket to the next day’s game if the Mussels don’t win
- Post-Game Fireworks; Postgame fireworks spectacular after the ninth inning
- Bucket Hat Giveaway: First 500 fans receive a Mighty Mussels bucket hat
Sunday, May 1 (first pitch at 1 p.m.)
- Sunday Brunch: Enjoy an all-you-can-eat ballpark brunch for $15
- Kids Club Sunday: Club members 14 and under get free tickets and a T-shirt
- Kids Catch on the Field: Children can play catch from noon to 12:30 p.m.
- Kids Run the Bases: Children can run bases after the game
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An "arsenal" of ghost guns was discovered at the home of a Brooklyn man, accused of buying gun parts worth thousands and constructing the untraceable firearms.
County prosecutors say the man had four assault weapons, five handguns and four rifles completing assembled and stashed in his Bushwick apartment when authorities executed a search warrant on April 6.
Dexter Taylor, 51, was arraigned Friday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on a 37-count indictment. Attorney information for the man was not immediately known.
“This defendant allegedly acquired a massive arsenal of homemade ghost guns that are as real and dangerous as traditional firearms," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.
Ghost Guns
In addition to the 13 completed firearms, officials found rifle and pistol magazines, casings, bullet primers and gunpower "to build ammunition and various tools commonly used to build firearms."
Police investigators determined Taylor ordered "ghost gun kits" from online sellers and had them shipped to his Brooklyn apartment, according to prosecutors.
"By assembling guns from kits, unfinished parts, or 3D printed components, those who possess ghost guns evade critically important background checks and registration requirements, and because they have no serial number they are untraceable," Gonzalez added.
State and federal officials have targeted these type of guns turning up at crime scenes in increasing numbers, including in the Bronx where police believe a suspect used a ghost gun in the slaying of a 16-year-old honor student.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled a new rule to change the definition of a firearm and will require federal firearms dealers to add serial numbers to ghost guns that come their way.
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ARKANSAS, USA — With spring cleaning underway, many people are looking to get rid of some personal items by selling them online.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is warning residents of online scams and is giving tips to help keep consumers safe while selling their items online.
Rutledge warns sellers to be watchful of scams when using Facebook Marketplace. Rutledge says Con artists will use every trick in the book to steal money from sellers. One of the tricks scammers use is sending a fraudulent check for an amount significantly higher than the asking price "to cover shipping charges." The check then bounces and leaves the seller with the responsibility of paying the bank back.
“Con artists always find opportunities to steal from hard-working Arkansans,” said Rutledge. “Follow my tips so you don’t fall prey to their traps and lose your items and your money.”
Rutledge offers tips so you don't become a scam victim and lose your items and your money.
Here are some tips to keep consumers safe while selling online:
- Be wary of messages from buyers using fake profiles.
- Do not accept overpayment for your items—especially in a counterfeit cashier’s check.
- Determine if you will ship your item or prefer a local buyer.
- Meet in a safe place. Take precautions when allowing buyers to pick up items from your home.
- Contact your local law enforcement agency to see if it offers a safe exchange location.
- Do not give verification codes from Google to any potential buyer.
You can visit the Facebook Help Center for helpful selling tips.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature has passed a bill to dissolve a private government controlled by Disney that provides municipal-like services for its 27,000 acres (nearly 11,000 hectares) in the Sunshine State.
The proposal, pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, has largely been seen as retribution for Disney’s criticism of a new state law that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay,” which bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
The entertainment giant has not commented publicly on the proposal to dissolve its government, which has been in operation for 55 years.
WHAT DOES THE BILL DO?
The bill passed by the Legislature on Thursday would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the Disney government is known, as well as a handful of other similar districts by June 2023.
The measure does allow for the districts to be reestablished, leaving an avenue for Disney and lawmakers to renegotiate their deal between now and June 2023.
“By doing it this early, we have until next June or July to this put together, so we’re actually giving ourselves more time to be thoughtful,” said Republican Senate President Wilton Simpson. “I don’t know how the end will come, but I know that this is a very worthy process that we’re taking and I think whatever comes out of it will be better than what we have today.”
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The bill now awaits the governor’s expected signature.
Although details are far from clear, the proposal could have huge tax implications for Disney. Democratic state lawmakers who oppose the bill also have warned that it could result in homeowners getting hit with big tax bills if they have to absorb costs the company used to pay.
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, whose county is partially home to Disney World, said it would be “catastrophic for our budget” if the county had to assume the costs for public safety at the theme park resort. Reedy Creek currently reimburses the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for public safety costs.
“If that district goes away, and they no longer pay for those public safety costs, and it then has to fall to the county’s other budgets, that is a net sum loss to the rest of the taxpayers of Orange County,” Demings said.
WHY DOES DISNEY HAVE ITS OWN GOVERNMENT IN FLORIDA?
The company sold the idea to Florida lawmakers in 1967 as part of its plans to build an expansive East Coast theme park that would include a futuristic city.
The city never materialized, but Walt Disney World nevertheless became an entertainment juggernaut in Orlando, while still retaining governmental powers that have allowed it to decide what and how to build and to issue bonds and provide services such as zoning, fire protection and utilities.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the Disney government is known, has been allowed to build its own roads, run its own wastewater treatment plants, operate its own fire department, set its own building codes and inspect Disney buildings for safety.
The district had $169 million in revenues and $178 million in expenditures in the current budget year.
Disney is a major political player in Florida, as well as the rest of the country. The Walt Disney Co. and its affiliates made more than $20 million in political contributions to both Republicans and Democrats in the 2020 campaign cycle, the most recent year for which figures are available, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks such spending.
That same year, Disney-related entities funneled $10.5 million to the America First Action committee, which supports Republican former President Donald Trump. Disney also contributed $1.2 million to support President Joe Biden’s campaign.
In response to the gender instruction law, Disney announced it was suspending political donations in the state and would support organizations that oppose it.
WHY ELIMINATE THE GOVERNMENT NOW?
DeSantis has railed against Disney after the company’s public opposition to the gender instruction law.
This week, as lawmakers were returning to the Capitol for a special legislative session focused on congressional redistricting, DeSantis issued a proclamation allowing them to also take up legislation eliminating the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
For the governor, the attack on Disney is his latest salvo in a culture war waged over policies involving race, gender and the coronavirus, battles that have made him one of the most popular GOP politicians in the country and a likely 2024 presidential candidate.
“If Disney wants to pick a fight, they chose the wrong guy” the governor wrote in a fundraising email. “As Governor, I was elected to put the people of Florida first, and I will not allow a woke corporation based in California to run our state.”
Republican Rep. Randy Fine, sponsor of the bill to scrap the district, said it is time for a change.
“You kick the hornet’s nest, things come up. And I will say this: You got me on one thing — this bill does target one company. It targets the Walt Disney Co.,” Fine said. “You want to know why? Because they are the only company in the state that has ever been granted the right to govern themselves.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Céline Sciamma’s “Petite Maman” runs a mere 72 minutes and yet packs in a lifetime of enchantment. It is, she says, “a pocket film you can take home.”
The film, which opened in theaters Friday, is the French writer-director’s follow-up to her 2019 award-winning love story “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” Whereas that film took a specific 18th period setting, “Petite Maman” is more contemporary yet still out of time.
It’s told largely from the perspective of 8-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz), whose grandmother has just died. While her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), wrestles with grief and her father (Stéphane Varupenne) cleans out her grandmother’s house, Nelly is left to explore her surroundings. In the woods behind the house, she meets a girl who looks exactly like her (played by Sanz’s twin sister, Gabrielle). With the gentle spell of a fairy tale, it becomes clear that this is Nelly’s mother as a child. Where did she come from? “From the path behind you,” she answers.
“It’s short to watch but it’s not short to live,” Sciamma said smiling in a recent interview over Zoom from her apartment in Paris.
On a spring afternoon with light pouring through the windows, Sciamma reflected on “Petite Maman,” her fifth and in some ways most personal film, one set in the Paris suburb Sciamma grew up in, Cergy-Pontoise.
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AP: There isn’t a lot that “Petite Maman” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” have in common, but they’re both centered on two characters who connect outside of daily life, free of the baggage of their roles, whether its mother and daughter, or artist and subject.
SCIAMMA: My films have kind of always had the same structure. It’s always about one character exploring the world. It’s a few days out of society. It can happen because you’re on an island. It can happen because you’re on a holiday. It can happen because you just moved somewhere. It can happen because you’re traveling in time. It’s a moment, an opportunity to transform. Now, I see film even more as an opportunity to transform myself, and to transform the people watching.
AP: Your films seem to pull out not just tropes but traditional frameworks of conflict. There’s still the possibility of wonder and change, but it’s not happening through a clash. Is that conscious?
SCIAMMA: Yes, because it’s very counterintuitive to get rid of formal conflict. Especially with a story like that where there’s natural conflict because of this time paradox. “Petite Maman” is a timeless film. We don’t know when it’s set. There’s no time traveling machine. It’s a high concept, meeting your parents as a kid. It’s like a mythology. You can explore it. It’s not that conflict is unfolding and I’m censoring it. It feels like avoiding it makes me work more, think more, explore more. It comes quite naturally now, I must say. I don’t have to fight a lot. I’m taking that road deliberately. It’s like when you know a drug will work really well.
AP: What sent you back to childhood in the first place? Was there something brewing in you that reflected back on your beginnings?
SCIAMMA: My personal question was: If I met my mother as a kid, would she be my sister? That’s a very particular question. I tried to expand the film around it, including in casting. The two lead performers, the mother and the daughter, are played by sisters. I decided to shoot in my hometown not because of the vibes. Of course you’re going to get the vibes. But I know this place very well. Those woods are not even really beautiful. We came up with a lot of leaves from elsewhere to get the colors we wanted. The forest is the most democratic nature you can put on screen. Not everybody knows about the sea, the beach or the mountains. But the forest. That’s why it’s the setting of most fairy tales.
AP: Were you thinking about your own relationship with your mother?
SCIAMMA: It’s very linked to my own personal life. Even the house in the film — it’s studio built — and it’s a synthesis of both my grandmother’s houses. The character of the grandmother is based on my own maternal grandmother and she wears her old clothing and stuff. It was the first time I was working with ghosts.
AP: You made this film during the pandemic. How did that inform it?
SCIAMMA: The pandemic made the film more urgent. I started writing the film just before the first lockdown in France just after I got back from the release of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” I wrote the first five scenes and then lockdown didn’t happen for two months. When I went back again and the first scene was a kid saying goodbye to several women in a nursing home. The situation that the film is looking at — somebody is emptying the house of someone they couldn’t say goodbye to — felt strongly connected. It meant the film could be needed, could be helpful.
AP: It’s an uncommonly authentic depiction of childhood. Did you find it easy to get into that frame of mind?
SCIAMMA: It’s just that I take children seriously enough to write them as they’d want to be. I don’t think I write these characters differently if they’re adults or kids. It’s about the level of curiosity. My films are always about someone gazing obsessively about things. That’s why I love to work with kids, because it’s a given. You don’t have to put in perspective why a kid would gaze so much at things. Everyone knows it’s survival. Nobody’s saying it like that, but it is. It’s a great tension for cinema.
AP: Why do you think gazing is so foundational to your films? They are often about who’s looking and how they’re seeing.
SCIAMMA: So far, that’s what I’ve been looking for. I’m really interested to go in another direction. I could be really interested in having a film with multiple characters’ point of view. I would like to try that. I’m feeling curious.
AP: Maybe it’s a masculine way of thinking but many filmmakers who try to follow up an international success like “Portrait” with something grand and expensive. You made a tender, small film in the woods of your hometown.
SCIAMMA: My definition of success is that you can do what you want, at least for a moment. And that’s exactly what I wanted to do. I hope everyone does that, what they really want. I actually feel less pressure. I did something I really care about and now it’s living its own life. I could retire! (laughs) But there are so many things to do.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Film Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Martin Scorsese dedicated to film preservation, is launching a virtual theater to stream classic films free of charge.
The film organization announced Friday that the Film Foundation Restoration Screening Roomwill launch May 9 with the presentation of “I Know Where I’m Going!,” Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Scotland-set romance, recently restored by the Film Foundation and the British Film Institute’s National Archive.
The screening room will present films in a live-event manner, with movies playing at a specific time and accompanied by introductions and conversations. “I Know Where I’m Going!” will be available for a 24-hour window.
“We’re looking forward to making these beautiful restorations available to a wide audience,” Scorsese, Film Foundation founder and chair, said in a statement. “Many of these presentations will feature restorations that are rarely seen, with myself and other filmmakers sharing why these films are important, how they have impacted our lives, and why it’s crucial that they be preserved.”
“I Know Where I’m Going!” will be introduced by Scorsese and feature a conversation with Tilda Swinton, filmmaker Joanna Hogg, director Kevin Macdonald and Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s longtime editor. Schoonmaker was married to Powell before his death in 1990, and has since worked tirelessly to preserve his work. Powell and Pressburger, known as the Archers, made the much-admired classics “The Red Shoes,” “A Matter of Life and Death,” “Black Narcissus” and “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.”
Screenings will run on the second Monday of each month, with future selections to include Federico Fellini’s “La Strada,” Marlon Brando’s “One-Eyed Jacks,” G. Aravindan’s “Kummatty,” Jonas Mekas’ “Lost Lost Lost,” John Huston’s “Moulin Rouge,” Sarah Maldoror’s “Sambizanga” and a film noir double feature of Edgar G. Ulmer’s “Detour” and Arthur D. Ripley’s “The Chase.” Scorsese and Kent Jones, the filmmaker and critic, are curating the platform.
Scorsese started the Film Foundation in 1990. Since then, it has helped restore 925 films. Its World Cinema Project has restored 47 films from 27 countries.
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MADRID (AP) — A leading Spanish museum said Friday it’s confident that U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting once taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum, and not to descendants of the family.
In a statement Friday, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum said that despite a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that returned the case to lower courts, it was sure those courts would once again rule that Spanish law, rather than California law, should prevail.
That would mean the painting, Camille Pissaro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” should remain in the hands of the Madrid museum where it now hangs. The painting has been estimated to be worth more than $30 million.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday to return the case to the Courts of Appeal kept alive San Diego resident David Cassirer’s hopes of getting back the streetscape that belonged to his great-grandmother.
U.S. lower courts have previously concluded that Spanish property law and not California law should ultimately govern the case and that under Spanish law, the museum was the rightful owner of the painting, which the family believed for over half a century had been lost or destroyed.
The Courts of Appeal will now decide whether California state law, rather than federal law, might hold precedence over Spanish law. This could overturn earlier rulings.
The Thyssen museum said that Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor had commented during the hearing that the next ruling would probably be again in the Spanish museum’s favor.
Cassirer’s great-grandmother, Lilly Cassirer, a German Jew, had owned the 1897 oil painting. After the Nazis came to power, Cassirer and her husband fled Germany. In 1939, in order to get visas to leave, she surrendered the Pissarro painting to the Nazis.
The painting changed hands a number of times after that.
In 1958, Lilly Cassirer reached a monetary settlement with the German government worth about 232,000 euros ($250,000) today, but she didn’t give up rights to try to pursue the painting if it turned up.
Rather than being lost or destroyed, the painting had traveled to the United States, where it spent 25 years in the hands of different collectors before being purchased in 1976 by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza of Lugano, Switzerland. He owned it until the 1990s, when he sold much of his art collection to Spain.
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LONDON (AP) — The Earl and Countess of Wessex have postponed the Grenada leg of a Caribbean tour amid controversy surrounding the crown’s continuing role in Britain’s former colonies in the region.
Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife, Sophie, announced the change of plans on the eve of a seven-day trip to the region to celebrate the queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne. They will go ahead with plans to visit the island nations of St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda starting Friday, Buckingham Palace said.
The royal couple still plan to visit Grenada at a later date. The change was made after consultations with the Grenadine government and the governor general, the queen’s representative on the island.
The decision comes as Caribbean nations debate their relationship with the British crown. Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were sharply criticized last month for being “tone deaf” and perpetuating images of Britain’s colonial rule during a tour of Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
Though many people welcomed the royals, they were also greeted by protesters demanding an apology for Britain’s role in the enslavement of millions of Africans and reparations for the damage caused by slavery.
During a speech in Jamaica, William expressed his “profound sorrow” for slavery but stopped short of offering an apology.
William also recognized the changing nature of the connections between Britain and its former colonies and said it was up to the people of these nations to decide whether to continue their links to the crown.
“We support with pride and respect your decisions about your future,” William said during a speech in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. “Relationships evolve. Friendship endures.”
The Earl and Countess of Wessex were likely to face similar calls for a British apology during a visit to Grenada, where activists had requested an audience with the royal couple.
The itinerary for the remainder of their trip is decidedly non-political.
In Antigua and Barbuda, Edward and Sophie will hear about the importance of sport in the community and attend a reception for local artisans and non-profit organizations.
While visiting Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Edward will meet athletes training for the Commonwealth Games and Sophie will speak to women in leadership roles about the community’s response to the eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano.
In Saint Lucia, the couple plan to visit the Pigeon Island National Landmark and the Sulphur Springs, a dormant volcano whose mud baths are a tourist attraction. They will also attend a service to mark the queen’s 70-year reign.
The royals are visiting the three nations as representatives of Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrates the 70th anniversary of her reign this year. During those seven decades she has been the head of state for the United Kingdom and 14 “realms” that were once colonies of the British Empire and are now independent countries.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Baptist Health Foundation’s annual Wine, Women & Shoes fundraiser is happening April 28 at 5:30 p.m. at The Club.
The foundation supports the five Brookwood Baptist Health hospitals and Brookwood’s Freestanding Emergency Department through philanthropic initiatives.
Learn more about the fundraising event in the interview above.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service is battling a commercial building fire in the 3500 block of Avenue B Friday afternoon.
According to BFRS, all employees have been evacuated from the one-story building and there have been injuries reported.
An “unknown chemical” is present inside the building and a hazmat crew has also been deployed to the area as well.
BFRS says that all residents living within a two-block radius of the building have also been evacuated from the area. Authorities are advising divers to avoid the area at all costs.
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A recent standout gallery in New York City, co-curated by award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg and singer-songwriter Debbie Harry, celebrates woman who've made an impact in media through art and activism alike.
The Morrison Hotel Galley hosted an estimated 125 people at the opening of "WOMEN WHO ROCK," which took place on International Women's Day.
“For Women’s Day, we’re trying to showcase all the female musicians that we admire and who’ve paved the way,” Morrison Hotel Gallery Director Marcelle Murdock said.
The showcase features over 100 images of prominent figures such as Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks and Lauryn Hill, in addition to highlighting the work of many female photographers, including Ebet Roberts, Amalie Rothschild and Charlyn Zlotnik.
“We always try to equally represent female and male photographers, and we’ve taken on a lot more female photographers over the past couple years,” Murdock said.
While only some photos from this display are currently up to view at the Morrison Hotel Gallery, all photos are still available for purchase.
The gallery’s upcoming photography exhibition titled “No Vacancy: A Tribute to Hotel Chelsea and Sunset Marquis” premieres on Thursday, April 28 and features the work of more female photographers.
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2022 Gaston Sports Hall of Fame: Woods finds 'sweet spot' in hoops after early setbacks
When Nicole Woods first started playing basketball, she had hopes of playing professionally.
Woods did so, but her greatest contribution to the sport she loves has come as a coach. Now in her late 30s, she reminisces on a journey that started with career-threatening injuries and is overtaken with joy at what it has become.
A basketball standout at Hunter Huss and Belmont Abbey, Woods is part of the Gaston County Sports Hall of Fame’s 2022 induction class.
"I think I'm still in a little bit of disbelief about it," said Woods, who just finished her ninth season as an assistant coach on the Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team. "It's just an awesome honor."
Woods admits she questioned whether it could happen at all, this after two major knee surgeries limited her freshman and sophomore years of high school basketball to a single game.
Yet, in many ways, the adversity led Woods to moments of reflection that both enhanced the rest of her playing career while also helping her as a coach.
"It's amazing how things can change in your life," said Woods, a 2002 Hunter Huss High School and 2006 Belmont Abbey College graduate. "Before I got to high school, I thought I was going to play in the pros. A lot changed when I got hurt my first two years.
"But it also made me realize how much I loved basketball."
Nov. 1, 1998 and a pickup game was the start of her story.
"We were going to have a little pickup game on Sunday afternoon to get ready for tryouts the next day," Woods said. "And I got a piece of a shot and I kind of turned and I'll never forget hearing the sound of a rubber band popping in my right knee — and I was in the worst pain of my life.
"But I worked my tail off to get ready to play again and made it through tryouts my sophomore year and then we're playing at South Meck. I was having a really good game and the next thing you know, a girl kneed me and it was the other knee."
How much was Woods questioned about her career goal at that point?
"I'll never forget my late grandmother, Mildred Cooper, asking me, 'Don't you want to just knit the quilt with me? You don't have to play this game that's causing you so much pain,'" Woods remembers. "But I wanted to play. Ironically, I never got hurt again after those two ACLs."
Woods also remembers the time away from basketball due to injury rehabilitation and the lessons it taught her about patience.
"It made me a realist," said Woods, who went on to earn All-Gazette honors at Huss. "When I had a chance to play in college, I wanted to go somewhere where I could play. I had been the water girl for two years at Huss. So I wanted to play.
"I ended up choosing Belmont Abbey because it was the best place for me. It's something I tell the kids now when I recruit. I say, 'You need to go somewhere where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated.' And Belmont Abbey was on me from day one."
Woods chose Belmont Abbey despite receiving a preferred walk-on offer from Huss graduate and 2005 Gaston County Sports Hall of Fame inductee Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell at the University of North Carolina.
"I remember at the State Games up in Raleigh and we're sitting there getting ready to play and I was telling this lady, 'You should stick around and watch us play this game,'" Woods said. "And we were down 16 in the third quarter and came back and won.
"Next thing I know I'm getting mail from Belmont Abbey. I'm like, 'I'm not going to Belmont Abbey, it's right down the road.' What I didn't realize was that Missy Tiber was the lady I was talking to before that game and she was head coach at Belmont Abbey."
But even going to the Abbey wasn't all smooth sailing for Woods.
Not only was Woods added to a veteran team, she was — by her own admission — not prepared for the increase in work ethic she needed to become a college standout.
"That first year at Belmont Abbey was one of the worst years of my life," Woods said. "I hadn't worked out that summer and thought I'd come to school and play right away. But I learned. At that time, I was naive and a tad lazy and had the attitude that I was doing them a favor by coming to Belmont Abbey.
"That attitude is the reason why I never give up on kids I recruit now because Lord knows coach Tiber should've given up on me."
Running five days a week with Tiber and Abbey assistant coach Adrienne Harlow — both of whom had marathon running experience — helped improve Woods' conditioning. So did changing her diet.
But the biggest change came when a teammate got injured early in her junior year.
"Our point guard Kychelle Collins (from Bessemer City) had gotten a concussion and was out for a game," Woods said. "And coach Tiber looks at me and says, 'Alright Woods, you're starting at the point.'"
Though she'd never played point guard previously at any other level, Woods had 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists on that Jan. 6, 2005 night against Erskine. It is the school's first and so far only triple-double in its history.
She also finished the season averaging 18.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 8.1 assists to earn all-conference honors for a 22-8 team. And her assist average ranked fourth in the nation in NCAA Division II women's basketball.
The next season, Tiber left for another head coaching job, and Woods had to change her playing style again for new coach Katie Pate.
Pushed by Pate to score more, Woods averaged 24.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists to earn conference player of the year honors.
"At the end of the day, choosing Belmont Abbey College was the best decision I've ever made other than giving my life to Christ," said Woods, whose No. 21 Crusaders' jersey was honored by the school in December 2013. "It was exactly what I needed on the court and off the court."
After a year working for local businessman Doug Smith while also working as an assistant coach for Jan Wiggins at Huss, Woods played one year professionally for the Nottingham Wildcats in the English professional women's basketball league before choosing a different career path.
Tiber was hired at NCAA Division I Southern Illinois and was seeking a graduate assistant. "Missy Tiber tricked me," Woods says now with a chuckle. "When I came back from playing overseas, I was running a Boys and Girls Club at (Charlotte's) Quail Hollow Middle School.
"Missy heard that I was going to grad school and she had just got hired at SIU-Carbondale. She said, 'I just got this job, I need a grad assistant and I want somebody who knows my system. I'll get you a free degree and if you still want to coach, I'll help or you can go on about your way.'
"I was thinking I would be there two years and go back to the Boys and Girls Club. I think she knew that if I got into coaching and saw how I could help these young women, that I would want to stay in coaching. And she was right."
After Southern Illinois, Woods worked as an assistant coach at Stetson before her mother, Karen Cooper, had a heart scare in 2013.
"There ain't nothing like your mom getting sick to put things in perspective and I wanted to come back to the area," Woods said. "Luckily for me, my boss now, (Charlotte 49ers' head coach) Cara Consuegra, was looking for people with local ties. And when she asked around, she got my name. I didn't even tell my mom and I flew in, interviewed for the job and the next day she called and offered me the job.
"It's hard to believe it's been almost a decade."
With Charlotte, Woods has helped recruit and develop players for Consuegra's program. This season, the 49ers became the second conference tournament champion in school history and third team to make the NCAA tournament. Charlotte finished with a 22-10 overall record after losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Indiana.
"I am one of the few assistant coaches that has no desire to be a head coach at all," Woods said. "For me, the reason I coach is for the players. And when you're the head coach, there's just so many other things that you have to deal with other than the team that you're there to deal with.
"So I never want to do anything that will take me away from my relationship with the players. I tell Cara all the time that my job is to make us conference champs, go to the NCAA tournament and make her coach of the year."
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Fire damages office building on Park Marina Drive
The cause of a fire that damaged the Outrigger Building and closed Park Marina Drive for several hours is under the investigation, the Redding Fire Department said.
The fire was reported around 9:30 p.m. Thursday and took about two hours to contain, authorities said.
Park Marina Drive was closed in both directions and didn’t reopen until around 4 o’clock Friday morning.
Most of the fire damage occurred on the second floor of the two-story building, but there was extensive water damage to the entire buildings, authorities said. There are offices on the first floor of the building.
Nobody was inside the building at the time of the fire and there were no injuries, authorities said.
David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He’s part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 1-530-225-8219. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today.
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Empty classrooms, quiet hallways: California’s rural far north grapples with declining enrollment
When Cheryl Kolb was growing up in Quincy, a picturesque Gold Rush town in the northern Sierra, kids would while away their days exploring the forests, swimming in the Feather River and getting milkshakes at the Polka Dot.
Now, those trails and swimming holes are a lot quieter. Quincy High School, the largest high school in Plumas County, only had 301 students last year in grades 7-12 – fewer than half its enrollment when Kolb was a student there in the 1980s.
“It’s been pretty hard to see all these families leave because I love it here,” said Kolb, who’s lived in Quincy most of her life and has raised her three children there. “I’d prefer to stay here forever, but I guess if there was another disaster, another big fire, I’d have to consider leaving, too.”
Even as the overall population in California’s rural north has remained steady or even grown over the past two decades, the number of children enrolled in public schools such as those in Quincy has shrunk. From the Pacific Coast to the inland mountains and valleys, dozens of schools have seen steep drops in enrollment.
Fires, finances behind flood of people leaving for other counties, states
Faced with voracious wildfires that strike almost annually, unsteady local economies and an ever-escalating cost of living, families are fleeing to other counties and other states.
Charter schools have siphoned away thousands of students, and as the pandemic wears on, more families are opting to homeschool their children rather than submit them to mask and vaccine mandates.
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That’s left schools in towns like Quincy and Dunsmuir and Alturas with empty classrooms and difficult choices. Because school funding in California is based on attendance, rural schools receive less money every year that enrollment drops.
That forces them to lay off staff, a painful process in towns where jobs are scarce and everyone knows one another, or cut popular amenities like after-school programs and science labs. Closing schools is rarely an option because the district may only have one school serving a massive geographic area.
These factors all combine to strain rural districts even further, often resulting in cuts that make schools even less attractive to prospective families. But the situation is not new, said Tim Taylor, executive director of the Small School Districts’ Association.
“Declining enrollment has been a challenge in rural areas for decades. Now that L.A. Unified has declining enrollment, everyone is saying, wow, this is really a problem,” Taylor said. “What we know is that it’s a heavy load, and the pressure falls on the superintendent.”
Statewide, enrollment had held steady over the past decade, until it plummeted during the pandemic, triggering the state Wednesday to form a task force to study its origins. But in many parts of rural Northern California, enrollment has been inching downward for two decades or more. Since 1999-20, schools in the rural north state have lost 5.02% of their enrollment. Some have lost far more.
Some rural districts in the region have seen enrollment drop by more than 60% over the past 20 years. Although they’re all facing the same challenges, each school has its own story and unique reasons for declining enrollment. Golden Feather Elementary District in Butte County, where enrollment has dropped by 76% over the past 20 years, was ravaged by the Camp Fire in 2018, only to be threatened again by the Dixie Fire in 2021.
Orick, in the redwoods of northern Humboldt County, has seen its population plummet as its six sawmills closed, one by one, leaving the K-8 Orick School with only 21 students last year. In the early 1990s, Orick School had almost 80 students. Schools in some counties, such as Trinity, Humboldt and Mendocino, have seen their attendance fluctuate based on the vagaries of the cannabis industry, which currently is flagging.
Soaring cost of living, charter schools siphon students away
Sebastopol, in Sonoma County, has not been decimated by wildfires or unemployment. But, situated amid bucolic apple orchards and vineyards in the North Bay, it has been subject to a soaring cost of living. The average home price last month was $1.3 million, according to Realtor.com, and rents jumped by more than 50% last year. It’s not unusual for families to pay more than $3,000 a month to rent a small house – a major hurdle in an area that’s primarily agricultural.
Sonoma County also has a plethora of charter and private schools, and families can easily send their children to schools in districts other than the one in which they reside. The result is that Sebastopol Union School District has to fight to attract and retain students, which is not always easy in an area that is rapidly changing. In 2000, the K-eight district had more than 1,200 students. Now it’s hovering at 400.
“It’s a depressing situation. The smaller you get, the fewer options you have, so it’s exponential,” said Superintendent Linda Irving. “I try to bring the board, unions and community together. That helps.”
Rio Dell Elementary, a TK-eight district in Humboldt County, has been hit hard by COVID – and COVID regulations, said Superintendent Angela Johnson. The area has the highest COVID rate in the county, according to the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, but school closures, mask mandates and vaccine requirements have also taken a toll, leading many frustrated families to pull their children from the local public school and homeschool them.
Often when the students return to school, they’re behind their classmates academically and need extra help catching up, placing a further burden on the 290-student, mostly low-income district, Johnson said. She dreads any further COVID requirements from Sacramento.
“We’re closely watching to see what the Legislature does with vaccine mandates. It’s going to be crucial in rural communities like ours,” she said.
Attendance a challenge at one school near Redding
Enrollment at Happy Valley Union Elementary, near Redding, hasn’t slipped nearly as much as other rural schools. The K-8 district in the upper Sacramento Valley only had 34% fewer students last year than it did 20 years ago, compared with the estimated 50% drop many districts have suffered. But attendance has been a challenge. Early in the school year, roughly 13% of students were absent daily, largely due to COVID restrictions that have led families to keep their children at home, said Superintendent Shelly Craig.
Still, Craig is grateful for the supportive community in Happy Valley, an unincorporated area in Shasta County surrounded by farms and ranches.
“Our schools are at the center of our close-knit community. Several students are second and third-generation students. Until last year, when several teachers and staff members retired, the majority of our teachers had served in the community for decades,” Craig said. “Our students and staff are part of a school family.”
That strong sense of community is one asset that small towns can offer prospective families and young people looking to settle down, said Ann Schulte, head of civic engagement at Chico State University and an education professor who works closely with rural districts.
But if those towns want families and young people to stay, they need to listen more closely to what young people want.
“Plenty of people who grew up in small towns want to move back and settle there and raise kids,” she said. “But there has to be more there than just their grandparents. There has to be ‘a good cup of coffee and a place to hear music.’ There has to be some culture and economic opportunity.”
Shasta, Siskiyou school leaders join counties in North State Together
In response to declining enrollment and other issues facing rural youth, school leaders in Shasta, Tehama, Siskiyou, Modoc and Trinity counties, with help from the McConnell Foundation, launched an organization called North State Together, which brings together schools, local businesses, families, tribal groups and others to strengthen local schools and improve outcomes for students.
Schulte is optimistic that these towns will revitalize, and more families will decide to stay and raise their children there.
“People are suddenly paying attention to what’s happening in rural areas, and they’re realizing these are beautiful, undervalued places that have a lot to offer,” she said.
In Plumas County, longtime Quincy resident Kolb is hopeful that her community will be spared another disaster like the Dixie fire, which roared perilously close to Quincy last summer, and life will return to normal post-pandemic. Ultimately, she said, Quincy and towns like it are wonderful places to grow up, settle down and raise kids.
“I loved growing up here. It was safe, it was fun. Our parents never knew where we were, and that was OK,” said Kolb, who works at the Quincy Chamber of Commerce. “It was an awesome place to be. It still is.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A 40-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing a child who knew him, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.
Nelson Aaron Lopez-Morales was found guilty of first-degree oral sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.
Officials said in July 2019, Lopez-Morales sexually assaulted a girl under the age of 10. The child reportedly told a family member of the abuse on the same day, and later told officials of past abuse.
“The child showed incredible strength and bravery facing her abuser and testifying about what she endured,” said Deputy District Attorney Meisel.
Lopez-Morales was ordered to register as a sex offender and undergo sex offender treatment.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Their contributions to the community span decades, but their impact will be ageless.
The 2022 Ageless Awards kicked off Thursday to recognize people with at least 75 years of life experience. The event was hosted by Portland’s famous drag queen Darcelle.
“I hope that people will remember that older adults are 1/4 of the population of our state,” said Keren Wilson, Founder and CEO of the Ageless Awards. “They’re everywhere. They’re our mothers, our aunts, our grandmothers, our sisters. We need them.”
Oregon wine pioneer and community activist Susan Sokol Blosser is one of this year’s honorees.
Sokol Blosser has managed Sokol Blosser Winery over the past 30 years as it’s grown to be one of Oregon’s largest wineries. The winery distributes both nationally and internationally.
Portland International Airport was also recognized as an age friendly business as it has provided a welcoming environment to people of all ages.
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Spring is definitely here: Pick your own tulips in Exeter
EXETER — The tulips are blooming!
Is there a surer sign that winter has loosed its icy grip on the Ocean State and that spring has sprung with gusto?
Starting this weekend, you can decide for yourself up close with the colorful blossoms at Wicked Tulips Flower Farm in Exeter.
But you'd better move quickly — before early afternoon Friday, tickets for Saturday's opening day of the farm's pick-your-own operation had sold out.
This year will be the second since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that Wicked Tulips has been open for a few weeks in the spring for people to pick tulips.
The exact schedule is determined by Mother Nature, and the farm announced this week that the 2022 season is opening this weekend.
If you go...
Location
400 Hog House Hill Rd., Exeter
Hours
The farm is open every day, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., until the blooms fade, which is usually in late May.
Cost
Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children age 5 to 17. Younger children are free. Adult tickets include 10 pick-your-own tulips; tulips are not included with child tickets. Additional tulips are $1 each.
Tickets must be purchased online at the farm's website, https://wickedtulips.com. No tickets are sold at the farm.
Visitors can wrap their own tulips, or the farm will wrap them in exchange for a charitable donation.
Accessibility
The farm has handicap-accessible parking and is accessible, but warns that, because it is a farm, maneuvering can be difficult.
Pets
Pets are not allowed on the farm and are not allowed to be left in vehicles unattended. Service animals are welcomed.
Photos
Visitors are welcome to take photos – but some limits, such as no drones, are listed on the website.
Food and drink
Picnic tables are provided for visitors.
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State Supreme Court denies AG attempt to halt parole of 3 men convicted of murder
PROVIDENCE — The state Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by the attorney general to halt the parole of three men convicted of murder as teenagers who under a new law are seeking release after 20 years.
The court’s written decision didn’t address the merits of the attorney general’s request but merely approved a lower court’s decision to allow the parole process to move forward for the three men.
Weeks ago Superior Court Judge Stephen Nugent ordered the release of Joao Neves, Pablo Ortega and Keith Nunes under the Youthful Offenders Act, a law passed last year so offenders serving long sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 22 would have a chance to seek release after 20 years.
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A state prosecutor had argued the men weren’t eligible for release because they still faced consecutive prison sentences for lesser crimes. And he said the state would be irreparably harmed if plans for their release – unanimously approved by the state Parole Board – continued to proceed.
Nugent, while acknowledging the gravity of the men’s crimes, emphasized that each had received the Parole Board’s support and concluded that the harm the men would suffer if their release plans stopped outweighed any potential harm to the state.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island took up the men’s case.
Attorney Lynette Labinger, one of the volunteer lawyers for the ACLU, said Friday that under the state’s interpretation of the law, virtually no offender would ever qualify for release and that wasn’t the General Assembly’s intent.
“The notion of this law was that particularly young people – whose brains aren’t well developed, are much more prone to peer pressure, [and] lack impulse control – that they are more likely to change if given an earlier chance.”
The men’s release is not imminent. Two are awaiting beds at mandated treatment facilities as part of the conditions of their supervised release. A third is seeking approval to be paroled to another state.
Convictions of Neves, Nunes, Ortega
Neves, now 39, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of John Cumiskey on Jan. 15, 1999, during a mugging. The Parole Board agreed to release Neves in August 2021 to begin serving “his next consecutive sentence” — a 10-year term for a series of muggings.
Nunes, 41, was 18 when he got into an argument and fired a handgun into a crowd on South Water Street in 1999, killing 36-year-old Mark D. Pierce. Nunes was sentenced to serve life plus 10 years.
Ortega, 39, was 19 in 2001 when he fatally shot shopkeeper Franklin Mercado as he and two other teenagers attempted to rob a convenience store. He received a life sentence plus five years for conspiracy.
Email Tom Mooney at: tmooney@providencejournal.com
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An exclusive video obtained by NBC New York shows thieves as they work together to steal half a million dollars in diamond rings.
Police say two women and a man entered a jewelry store in the Diamond District on April 7, each of them carrying an umbrella. They allegedly used the umbrellas and cardboard to signal to each other and coordinate the time to strike.
As a 33-year-old store employee stepped away into a back room, police say one of the women removed 112 white and yellow gold diamond rings and placed them into her bag.
Surveillance captured the moment a woman in a purple and white tie-dye sweater grabbed the box of rings valued at over $450,000.
For the first time, the group of thieves has been linked with pickpockets in Brooklyn. NBC New York has also obtained a video of the team stealing a phone and cash from an unsuspecting victim.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – United Way of Lee County has lengthened the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Intent to Apply, Risk Assessment and Application deadlines to 5 p.m. May 6.
The extension allows applicants an additional two weeks to complete the Intent to Apply and Risk Assessment, and an additional week for the programmatic application.
During this time, United Way’s Director of Grants and Contracts Dan Campbell will be available to assist interested agencies with questions regarding their application process.
The Lee Board of County Commissioners issued over $16 million in ARPA funding to United Way to assist local nonprofit agencies while expanding social services.
The partnership provides organizations within Lee County the opportunity to apply for funding to aid individuals in the community who were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For additional information, you can visit www.UnitedWayLee.org/ARPA or email [email protected]
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Deltona man wins $1M in Florida Lottery's new scratch-off game '500X THE CASH'
Katie Kustura
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
A Deltona man opted for a one-time, lump-sum payout of $820,000 after winning a $1 million prize in a Florida Lottery scratch-off game.
Richard Locklin, 59, bought his "500X THE CASH" scratch-off ticket from an Orlando Wawa, 4100 E. Colonial Drive, lottery officials said in a release Friday. For selling the winning ticket, the retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission.
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The top prize available in the new $50 scratch-off game is $25 million, the biggest-ever prize on a scratch-off according to the release.
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A food delivery worker is back on his bike this week with a warning after a group of attackers cornered him in the lobby of a New York City apartment building for a pistol-whip robbery.
Omar Guerra doesn't work for the typical delivery apps like DoorDash or Uber Eats – he works for a Chinese restaurant that takes food orders the old school way: by phone.
That means he carries a lot of cash, making him the perfect target the kind of attack that police say happened last Thursday.
While dropping off a takeout order in Inwood, around 6:30 p.m., four unidentified suspects ambushed Guerrra. Police say they punched and kicked him, taking nearly $300 in cash and leaving him badly beaten.
Guerra said one in the group, wearing a grey sweater and black mask, pistol-whipped him, while the others stole his cash. He also believes his attackers were the ones who put in the delivery order.
Guerra is one of more than 65,000 food delivery workers in the city. Starting Friday, new protections for New York City app delivery workers go into effect.
Workers will be able to set the distance they’re willing to travel for an order, and before a worker accepts a job, the apps must let them know the address, distance, pay and tip.
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"My workers see this all the time. And what they’re asking is like: NYPD has to do their part and take this very seriously>
The protections do not apply to Guerra, who says he has no choice but to keep making deliveries – while carrying the fear of another attack.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Homeowners and renters in Washington County whose primary residence was destroyed by the severe storms and tornadoes on March 30, 2022, could be eligible for disaster financial assistance.
The assistance is being provided through the State of Arkansas Individual Assistance program and applications can be submitted starting Monday, April 25 through Friday, May 6, 2022.
Homeowners and renters in Washington County must first apply for assistance through the Small Business Administration in order to be eligible for state disaster funds.
Assistance may include:
- Home repairs
- Cleaning
- Household debris removal
- Personal property repair
Second homes, vacation homes, sheds, vehicles, businesses, and outbuildings are not eligible for assistance.
Application Requirements:
- Address of the damaged home
- Insurance information
- Social security number
- Detailed damage information
- Phone number
- E-mail address
Residents can apply by calling 1-888-683-2336. The hotline's hours of operations are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Brockton Fair, a beloved 148-year-old tradition, won't return — here's why
BROCKTON — The Brockton Fair, a city staple since 1874, isn't just cancelled for the third year in a row. It's not coming back.
"I would say the fair is probably done for good," said Chris Carney, whose family owns the 45-acre West Side fairgrounds.
Carney says he plans to pull permits in the next two weeks to demolish the grandstand. That will be the first physical sign of the passing of a Brockton institution.
"Vandals have ruined it," Carney said of the grandstand.
Pandemic concerns led the Carneys to cancel the 2020 and 2021 fairs. The family recently announced on the Fair's website that the 2022 edition is also cancelled.
Every summer, for nearly 150 years, people from throughout the region flocked to Brockton over a two-week period to play games, enjoy rides, eat greasy and fried finger foods, visit animal exhibits and watch the demolition derby.
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What's next for the property?
Speculation about what comes next for the property, which has been simmering for years, will no doubt again become a hot topic of conversation around the city. In the past, the Carneys had eyed building a casino there in partnership with gambling mogul Neil Bluhm. That effort appears to have hit a dead end, most recently with the September 2019 rejection of the bid by the state's Gaming Commission.
Carney said his family is weighing its options and talking to city leaders about possibilities.
"Something good for the city," is how Carney described where he wanted to land.
Mayor Robert Sullivan also said that the future of the "premier property" is bright.
“It is a key parcel in the heart of our city. The City is working closely with the Carney family to ensure that whatever future development is located there will continue to move Brockton forward as a vibrant place to live, work and visit,” the mayor said via text message on Friday.
The fairgrounds are in Ward 1. City Councilor Thomas Minichiello, who represents the area, said it's bittersweet that the Fair era has ended.
"In the heyday of the Brockton Fair, it was a fun place," Minichiello said Friday. "Now it seems like there's people going to the fair who don't have the best of intentions."
The Ward 1 councilor said he sees lots of potential for the property. While he said it will be up to the Carneys, as owners of the property, to make the decision, Minichiello ran through uses he would support, including a youth sports center like the Bridgewater Dome, a convention center, a hotel, or any use that would bring "decent-paying jobs" to the site.
"I'm all for some creativity," he said.
The site currently is home to truck-driving school classes. On Thursday afternoon, orange cones were set out for students to practice with two box trucks from Parker Professional Driving School. The parcel is also used as parking for Brockton Public Schools busses.
It's fallen to Carney, son of family patriarch George, to wind down iconic businesses in both Brockton and Raynham. George Carney ran the Fair since 1957. Raynham Park, a greyhound-racing destination for generations, is being retooled for online betting and warehouse space. In November 2021, Carney supervised the demolition of the park's grandstands. At its height, the track employed 1,200 people, and evening reservations at the track's swanky restaurant were a two-month wait.
The Brockton Fair would typically run 10 or 11 days, overlapping with July 4 celebrations, during which the Brockton Fair would host a memorable fireworks show.
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Timeline highlights
1874: Brockton Agricultural Society holds first fair in October.
1895: First balloon show, spurring an annual attraction.
1907: An estimated 3,000 automobiles gathered at the fair, the most ever assembled in one place in the U.S. up to that time.
1912: President Taft visits fair.
1918: Fair canceled due to influenza epidemic.
1919: Night shows begin to include fireworks.
1943: Fair canceled due to war.
1957: George Carney takes over.
1965: Stunt car accident at fair injures eight.
1990: Residents call for end of fair because of violence.
2015: Brockton voters narrowly approve a $650 million proposal to bring a hotel and casino to the Brockton Fairgrounds.
2019: State Gaming Commission rejects casino plan.
2020, 2021 and 2022: Fair cancelled because of COVID epidemic
2022: Chris Carney confirms Fair will not return
Source: Enterprise archives
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FLORIDA TODAY Show: New restaurants popping up across Space Coast
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This week on the Florida Today Show, host Rob Landers talks with Food Editor Suzy Fleming Leonard about her story on 25 restaurants and bars that have opened in the early part of 2022. The conversation also flows into talk of robot waiters, credit card fees and bundt cakes.
Read more:
Here are 25-plus new restaurants to try across the Space Coast, plus a few coming soon
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Rob Landers is a veteran multimedia journalist for the USA Today Network of Florida. Contact Landers at 321-242-3627 or rlanders@gannett.com. Twitter: @ByRobLanders
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NAPLES, Fla. — The Southwest Florida man is back home in Naples after a long journey with his Ukrainian fiancè.
The couple landed in Fort Myers early Sunday, just in time for Easter.
“There was no way I was leaving Ukraine without her,” said Chris Clark.
They were in Kyiv when the first bombs dropped. The journey was a long one, they traveled through multiple countries. The couple said at one time, they hit three different continents in 24 hours.
“Right now it’s day by day,” Clark said.
They have been trying to wind down and catch up on sleep, but it’s been hard to forget the horrors.
“Both of us are still a little traumatized,” said Clark. “We were on the beach down by the pier and we kept hearing planes taking off and she said to me, ‘I hear planes, I think of war.’ So I still get that too whenever you hear a jet.”
So far, Lena Oltnamizina loves Southwest Florida.
“Naples is like a fairytale, I have never seen such beauty,” said Oltnamizina through google translate.
Clark left his job in Clearwater, Florida, and headed to Ukraine about seven months ago.
While in Ukraine, Clark met the love of his life in a small pub in Kyiv. Her name is Lena.
“It was just like one of those Tom Hanks movies ya know? Their eyes met and he said they just knew,” said Marcia Clark, Chris’ mom.
Now, the couple’s epic love story turned into an escape from war.
“They were there in Kyiv when the first bombs fell,” said Clark.
Their journey started once they fled to Poland. Their next stops included: Germany, France, and Barcelona, Spain.
The couple is currently in Spain and plans to go to Mexico City sometime this week, then Tijuana, then San Diego, with a final destination of Southwest Florida.
“I started feeling that break down and I thought ‘no just keep going’ because there’s a lot more to this journey,” said Clark.
Chris’ mom can’t wait to hug her son and meet his new fiance. She hopes to see them in the next few weeks.
“She’s probably not going to have clothing, friends, or family… but we’ll be her family, she just doesn’t know us yet,” said Clark.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Caloosa Sound Amphitheater hosted a soft opening on Friday.
People were able to listen to people speak on stage by hosts of the Edison Awards, as well as listen to the music of up and coming artists.
17-year-old Collin Roberts of Fort Myers made history as the venue’s first live performance.
“This is a fantastic addition. I cannot wait for all the other artists that get to have the wonderful experience and privilege of playing there,” said Roberts.
The City of Fort Myers said the project has been five years in the making, costing $3.54 million dollars to complete.
Crews are working on finishing the landscaping surrounding the venue and will soon open for public performances.
Count on NBC2 for updates on an official opening date.
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A 20-year-old woman shot six times in Brooklyn late last month as she sat in a parked car with her cousins eating dinner, was finally released from the hospital, one day after hundreds mourned the 12-year-old killed in the drive-by barrage.
A college student who works two jobs, Jenna Ellis had taken her two cousins -- 12-year-old Kade Lewin and 8-year-old Kylie -- out to dinner on March 31.
That night, around 8 p.m., Ellis pulled over near East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush. That's where men exited a sedan, and numerous shots were fired.
"As we were almost done eating, and picking up garbage - that's when the car came by and shot it up," Ellis told NBC New York. "I was shot in my stomach, my right breast and my cheek."
Ellis didn't initially realize she'd been hurt. She rushed around to the back seat and scooped up the youngest, who was unhurt, and placed her behind a nearby tree. When she went back for Kade, he wasn't moving.
"The hardest is I am not going to see him again. He was my cousin, my little brother, my best friend," Ellis said.
Ellis couldn't attend Lewin's funeral service on Wednesday. Instead, she was struck in the hospital where she was still being treated for her injuries. She has undergo two surgeries to
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Hundreds filled the pews for the services for Kade Lewin at New Life Tabernacle on Avenue D in East Flatbush.
"He was a star and delighted everyone. Wherever the child went, a light of love joined, and happiness was left behind," said his aunt, Jennifer Ellis.
In one of the most heart-wrenching scenes, Lewin's 7th grade classmates from Brooklyn Science and Engineer Academy gave their final goodbyes to their friend.
"He made everyone's life happier. Happier than it was before they came upon him," the school's principal, Angela DeFilippis, said. "But we know that his story is not one memory. His story is not his death — it's his life."
It is believed that Lewin, who was struck in the head and chest while sitting in the passenger seat, was not the intended target of the shooting. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, according to senior police officials.
Kade’s mother, Suzette Lewin, and aunt told NBC New York that they arrived at the scene before police, and Suzette Lewin cradled her baby for the final time.
In the weeks that have followed, Ellis said she's been dealing with survivor's guilt, and has asked "why wouldn't it be me?"
She said she doesn't understand why there have been no arrests when other recent high-profile crimes have been solved in a matter of days.
"For me to just look on the news and see all the police commissioners and all the people on their microphones at their press conferences say 'ok, we caught this person, we caught these people,' I want to hear that about my cousin. I want to see the suspects, I want to see what they look like, I want to see them in court," Ellis said.
A law enforcement source said detectives are working under the theory that the shooting is a case of mistaken identity.
The five suspects took off in a black Infiniti sedan with Connecticut license plates, as well as another black sedan. No arrests have been made in the case.
An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With many people looking to get outdoors and enjoy the fresh air for Earth Day, KOIN 6 News has put together a list of some of the best hiking spots to enjoy near Portland.
With sunshine and mid-sixty temperatures forecasted for the next few days, this weekend may be the perfect opportunity for locals and tourists alike to get out of the house and celebrate the scenic beauty of Portland.
In alphabetical order, here is a list of the top 10 hiking spots within a short driving distance of the Rose City.
Top 10 hiking spots near Portland
1. Angel’s Rest Lookout
- Location: Corbett, OR
- Distance: 4.8 miles
- Hiking Time: Approximately 3 hours
- Difficulty: Intermediate
Located just off I-84 and Historic Columbia River Highway, the Angel’s Rest Trail offers nearly 360 views of the Columbia River Gorge as a reward for the intense trek. This steep and popular trail is just less than an hour drive from Portland, and although the rocky route is challenging, hikers claim the view is worth it.
2. Multnomah Falls (Columbia River Gorge)
- Location: Corbett, OR
- Distance: 2.4 miles
- Hiking Time: 1.5 hours
- Difficulty: Moderately difficult
Only a 35-minute drive from Portland, the Multnomah Falls trail offers jaw-dropping views of Oregon’s tallest and most famous waterfall, with three drops including the upper falls, main falls and the lower falls. Located in Corbett just off I-84, the trail is also close to Wahkeena Loop — a challenging, six-mile hike with even more views for waterfall lovers.
3. Marquam Trail to Council Crest Hike
- Location: Portland, OR
- Distance: 5.8 miles
- Hiking Time: 1.5 hours
- Difficulty: Moderate
Located within the city limits, the hike from the Marquam Nature Park Shelter Trailhead to the summit of Council Crest offers travelers great views and elevations without the commute. This hike may be best suited for adult travelers though, as there several street crossings along the trail.
4. Mount Tabor Blue Loop Trail
- Location: Portland, OR
- Distance: 2 miles
- Hiking Time: 50 minutes
- Difficulty: Easy
Whether residents are looking to walk or ride through the scenic route, the Mount Tabor Blue Loop is home to three beautiful reservoirs and is a relatively easy option for those looking to get outdoors within the city limits.
5. Pittock Mansion Lower Macleay Park Hike
- Location: Portland, OR
- Distance: 5.5 miles
- Hiking Time: 2 hours
- Difficulty: Moderate
This popular Portland trail begins at the Lower Macleay Park Trailhead and ends at the historic Pittock Mansion featuring panoramic views of the city and Mt. Hood. The lush and winding route between the two destinations touts the mysterious Stone House, which has become a major draw for tourists.
6. Latourell Falls Loop
- Location: Corbett, OR
- Distance: 2.4 miles
- Hiking Time:
- Difficulty: Easy
As one of the closest major Columbia River Gorge waterfalls to Portland, the Latourell Falls Loop is just a short 45-minute drive from the city. Although travelers can see the lower falls near the trailhead entrance, the loop winds up Latourell Creek to reveal the scenic upper falls before traveling back down past the highway bridge and the base of the waterfall.
7. Ramona Falls Loop at Mount Hood
- Location: Rhododendron, OR
- Distance: 7 miles
- Hiking Time: 3 hours
- Difficulty: Moderate
While the Ramona Falls Trailhead connects hikers to several destinations including the Sandy River, Ramona Falls, and Pacific Crest Trail, these three hikes can be combined to create a loop through the wilderness of Mount Hood. Although the falls are nearly and an hour and a half drive from Portland, most people who travel there say this spot has it all.
8. Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain
- Location: Government Camp, OR
- Distance: 9 miles
- Hiking Time: 4 hours
- Difficulty: Hard
For the most daring and experienced hikers, the journey to Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain via the Mirror Lake Trail features picturesque views of Mount Hood, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens and Mount Jefferson. The challenging hike is extremely popular among backpackers and nature watchers.
9. Trail of Ten Falls, Silver Falls State Park
- Location: Mehama, OR
- Distance: 7.5 miles
- Hiking Time: 3 hours
- Difficulty: Moderate
As the largest state park in Oregon, Silver Falls State Park offers hikers 10 separate waterfalls to admire over the course of the large loop. Although the hike is beautiful and not over strenuous, travelers should leave their furry four-legged friends at home, as dogs are not permitted.
10. Tryon Creek Outer Loop Hike
- Location: Portland, OR
- Distance: 5.7 miles
- Hiking Time: Moderate
Tucked away beneath the brush of the city’s southwest hills, Tryon Creek State Natural Area stretches from Portland to Lake Oswego. While the heavily wooded outer loop is great for hikers, the nature park is also home to 22 other trails which have become popular places for locals to hike, bike, birdwatch and ride horses.
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LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Governor Ron Desantis may have dealt a big blow to Disney by taking away their special privileges, but as he aimed to punish Mickey Mouse, many Lee County residents fear his new law to strip special districts of their power could impact districts like Lee County’s Mosquito Control.
State lawmakers said only six other districts are impacted. Think of special districts as a skyscraper.
They all fall under the same category, but every district has different powers. Disney is in the penthouse with its broad powers from the state.
A few floors down is Florida’s 67 school districts which also have certain powers.
The South Florida Water Management and Fire Districts are located there too.
Then, all the way down here at the bottom with the least influence and power is mosquito control.
Walt Disney himself said in 1968 that everything about his dreamland may change from time to time moving forward, but one change Walt Disney wasn’t expecting was to have his governmental powers he bargained for taken away.
FGCU Political Science Professor Dr. Peter Bergerson predicted the political ramifications at issue are an untold story yet.
A story Dr. Bergerson frames as two competing political elites that are involved in a tug of war overpower.
Some fear that power could be taken away from many of Florida’s special districts like Lee County Mosquito Control, formed in 1958.
Eric Jackson represents the district and said the one mission is to control mosquitos and protect public health.
The governor’s new law said six districts formed before 1968 are impacted. None of them are in SWFL.
Documents show the mosquito control district re-organized in 1998 which Jackson said means the Lee Mosquito control is not impacted by the governor’s new law.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A local animal advocacy and rescue group plans to protest outside Lee County Domestic Animal Services on Saturday while the shelter holds its annual adoption event.
Urgent Dogs and Cats of Lee County said they want it to be easier for them and other groups to know if an animal is at risk of being put down so they can save it.
“The dogs are the victims when they’re not able to be pulled because other dogs are not adopted. The dogs pay with their life at Lee County Domestic Animal Services,” said Maranda Wyatt, co-founder of Urgent Dogs and Cats of Lee County.
Wyatt with her co-founder Melisa York, said they want better answers for where animals end up before euthanasia is an option.
“We have to be able to know where these dogs went so that people can adopt them and get them out of these rescues so the rescues can pull more dogs,” Wyatt said.
Lee County Officials told NBC2 they routinely respond to requests from this group, adding they are required to be transparent about its animals.
“LCDAS must follow the county ordinance and serve its role in keeping the public safe. LCDAS is required to take in stray animals regardless of whether they may be suitable for adoption, including those that are mortally injured, terminally ill, or severely traumatized. LCDAS evaluates every animal it takes in, but not all are found to be adoptable.”
The county posts its monthly intake numbers online, reporting that in January and February 2022, the shelter assisted more than 500 animals each month. Of those, more than 150 had to be euthanized in those two months for various reasons.
“LCDAS also does field investigations with bite cases, cruelty and hoarding. This, unfortunately, leaves the department with having to make difficult decisions concerning both the welfare of the animals and public safety. With that being said, LCDAS euthanasia rates have steadily decreased during the past six years,” said Lee County Officials.
“We are proud to partner with more than 60 rescues and shelters around the State of Florida to assist us in ensuring the best outcome for both the pets and the community. If you look at the statistics reported to the University of Florida, we are at the state average for live release and are, in fact, above many counties for live outcomes. As an agency, we will continue to do what is in the best interest of the animals and residents of Lee County.”
“What we need is for Lee County to tell the general public where the dogs went. Who pulled the dogs,” said Wyatt.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Community reaction is heating up on the streets of Lake Oswego after a judge announced a ruling on public access to the lake this week.
There are two phases of this lawsuit. The first phase happened on Tuesday when a judge decided that Oswego Lake falls under the “public trust doctrine,” meaning the public has the right to access it.
However, this doesn’t apply just yet — because the City of Lake Oswego has a resolution in place that still blocks public access. The resolution says the city didn’t build their parks for safe lake access, so they don’t want to be held liable, therefore the public can’t get in the water.
Phase 2 of the trial will be fighting over that resolution. That doesn’t come until late July.
Meanwhile, people are weighing in with their thoughts on if the public should have access to Oswego Lake or leave it to the private landowners.
Many told KOIN 6 News they’d love to simply take their canoe or paddleboard for a dip.
“I look at this location and I think, ‘Oh, that’s really nice,’ but I don’t know anyone who has a home on the lake so I will never have that opportunity,” Emily Flood, a Lake Oswego community member, said. “I can see both sides — I can understand that if you’re spending all that money on a home, you want to benefit from that privacy. But also, water should be accessible to everyone.”
That’s the argument Mark Kramer and Todd Prager are making in their lawsuit. The two men are suing the City of Lake Oswego, the State of Oregon and Lake Oswego Corporation for public access to Oswego Lake.
According to their attorney, Nadia Dahab, Kramer is an avid kayaker while Prager loves to swim. Both men are activists involved in public rights issues outdoors.
Lake Oswego Corporation General Manager Jeff Ward, who speaks for the landowners along the lake, says his shareholders’ biggest concern is safety.
“We are not on the side of the plaintiffs. We are on the side of the defendants,” Ward said. “You know, you see a lot of people on social media saying, ‘I’m gonna go throw my powerboat in the lake and I’m gonna race it around,’ and things like that… There’s no place to put a powerboat in the lake.”
According to Dahab, however, the Clackamas County judge’s ruling earlier this week “acknowledges that our state’s natural resources can’t be privatized.”
“They must be protected for public use,” Dahab explained. She also reminded people that there is still some time to go until phase two of the trial — so you can’t go into the lake quite yet.
The second part of the trial will begin on July 17, where a jury will have to decide if the city’s rule that says the public can’t get in the water because it’s unsafe is “reasonable” or whether it’s arbitrary and doesn’t apply.
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SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. — The woman who went missing in the Estero Bay Preserve late Friday has been found alive.
She was found in one of the deepest, marshiest locations in the preserve, according to authorities. First responders are currently with her. She is also alert and conscious.
Right now, all options are currently being explored to get her out safely.
Authorities used drones, helicopters, and UTVs to help with the search.
The search area is 11,381 acres.
This is an active investigation.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Chrysanthius Lathan is not mincing words when it comes to the person — or people — behind the killing of her cousin, 44-year-old father Jeremy Gurtner.
"There's a special place in hell for people who take people's lives," Lathan said. "I don't know who was involved but whoever was involved is a sick individual. I don't care what lifestyle someone lives, no one deserves their life to be taken away."
Especially not Jeremy. Family described him as a man of many talents.
"He's inarguably one of the smartest people I know," Lathan said. "He could do anything he put his mind to. He could fix anything from a Walkman to a car alternator. He could fix or do anything. He could cook, draw. He was handsome."
Authorities tell KGW that on April 8 somebody found the 44-year-old's body in the Columbia River Slough near Northeast 105th and Alderwood, in the shadow of I-205. Detectives are not saying much other than that Jeremy died of homicidal violence, and when his body was found he had been dead for anywhere from four days to two weeks.
"It's extremely surprising, very surprising because we'd never think this would happen," said Emanuel Price Jackson, another one of Jeremy's cousins. "We all want the same answers, It's not important for just myself but for my family, his mom and sisters, all of our uncles and cousins. We want to know what happened."
Along with answers, Jeremy's family wants justice, starting with an arrest.
"It's important that this person is found before someone else has to go through what we're going through right now," Lathan said.
CrimeStoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $2,500 for information that leads to an arrest in the case.
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CLARK COUNTY, Wash. — The Salmon Creek Little League is in full swing this spring. But at the same time, it is suffering the loss of some important equipment to maintain its ball fields.
The nonprofit organization had its riding mower stolen, along with a push mower. The equipment was stolen from storage containers at the ball fields behind Gaiser Middle School on Northeast 99th Street in Clark County.
Melanie Heaton is a softball coach and on the leadership team for the league. She said replacing the riding mower would cost more than $8,000.
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“We have just shy of 400 kids that play softball and baseball out here, which is huge, so we rely on this equipment," said Heaton. "We use it to get these fields prepped all over for these kids to play, and I don't know how we're gonna do it now.”
The league now has new, tougher locks on the containers where the riding mower and push mower were stored.
So who broke in and took them? Thanks to neighbors' security cameras, there are clues. Video shows a black Dodge Ram pickup truck pulling a black trailer, in the time frame the gear was stolen. The same with pictures taken just after 7 a.m. on April 12, the day they were stolen. They show a man and woman connected to the truck.
A neighbor notified the Heatons that morning, who got there just after the black truck left.
“So, it's really frustrating ... but at the same time, if it wasn't for our community and people watching out for our fields and our containers, we wouldn't have had any clue,” sad Heaton.
Heaton’s family is all involved in the little league. She has a daughter who plays softball, and a son who plays baseball and helps his father maintain the fields.
Nine-year-old Jaxon enjoys the game, but also enjoys helping his dad work the ball fields.
“And it's really difficult now because now we have to take our own lawnmower down here and do it,” said Jaxon.
That's a lot of slow mowing, and not sustainable. But $8,000 to replace the riding mower is money Salmon Creek Little League doesn't have it.
“I'm really frustrated because I feel like not only did they hurt a nonprofit organization that's ran strictly by volunteers, but they stole from these kids,” said Heaton.
Now everyone hopes either the gear gets returned or, as Jaxon put it, “We catch the jerks and then we get our lawnmower back hopefully, because they are very expensive.”
If you have any information about the theft, call the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — About eight months after crews contracted by the city of Portland cleared a long-standing homeless camp around Laurelhurst Park, the encampment has all but returned to its former footprint.
KGW met Scott on Friday morning as he was cleaning the area outside of his tent at the edge of the Southeast Portland park.
"I've been here off and on probably over a year now," Scott said.
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In that year span, Scott said that he's had to move several times. August of 2021 was the last time that the city did a comprehensive sweep of the Laurelhurst camps, though officials say that crews are routinely in the area to remove trash and debris.
"I've been here three different times when they were clearing it," Scott said. "They keep running us off and we come right back."
Scott isn't alone. He's there with dozens of other campers, many of whom were likely evicted from a spot elsewhere in the city before returning here.
"It's been kind of steady, but it got distinctly more in the last week," said Alan Comnes, who lives near the park. He wants the city to clear it again due to safety concerns.
"I'm fortunate enough to live near the park, but I walk through and I see the needles, I see people who are so strung out to they couldn't make it in a tent for the night," he said.
For Scott, the sweeps brought him here, and the sweeps made him leave the last time. He knows that there are neighbors who don't want him camped around the park, but he sees it as an improvement over camping right in front of someone's house.
"We're not all bad ... just like anybody else — some are good, some aren't," he said.
The city of Portland is aware of the new camps at Laurelhurst. On Friday morning, staff from Rapid Response Bio Team — Portland's contracted street cleanup company — were on-site cleaning as workers posted lime green eviction notices, warning campers that they had 72 hours to pack up and leave.
"If that's all it is, they'll just come back," Comnes said.
Comnes thinks more needs to be done rather than just move campers — giving them a space to shelter where they can be safe and get services, whether at an indoor shelter or a place they can pitch a tent.
As Scott prepares to clear out his campsite again, he's not sure where he'll end up.
"Where else is there to go, that's just it, where else is there to go?" Scott said. "I don't know, I'm open to suggestions."
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon's best known and largest city grew 5% between 2016 and 2021, slightly more than the state overall at 4.7%.
However, Portland's population declined slightly at the end of that five-year span, falling by 0.9% in 2021 to 658,773, according to certified estimates as of July 1, prepared by Portland State University's Population Research Center.
Migration toward the suburbs and so-called "Zoom towns" may have contributed to slowing growth in the urban center recently. Oregon cities with 5,000 or more residents in 2021 that enjoyed the most growth of late were led by Estacada, King City, Happy Valley, Redmond and Madras, which all grew by 23% or more since 2016.
See statewide population growth numbers at the Portland Business Journal
Nestled in the woods along the Clackamas River, Estacada lies just a 45-minute drive from downtown Portland, within striking distance for commuters to the city, especially infrequent ones. It grew by an astounding 58.9% from 3,155 in 2016 to 5,014 in 2021, just barely breaking into the 5,000-plus club.
King City, even closer to Portland in Washington County, was established as a planned community for adults 50 years and older by the Tualatin Development Co. in the late 1960s. As Oregon's population continues to age, communities attracting retirees could expand. King City did so by 46.9% between 2016 and 2021, reaching a population of 5,184.
It's the end of an era for Happy Valley. This suburban juggernaut in Clackamas County has had a humongous growth steak, topping the Business Journal's list of the fastest-growing Oregon cities since 2008. Its population nearly doubled in a decade from 14,330 in 2011 to 25,738 last year.
Central Oregon is a haven for Zoom towns, where Redmond and Madras are more affordable options in the vicinity of Bend, which grew from 76,925 in 2011 to 100,922 last year. This growth has priced out many of those drawn to the area, as reporter Jonathan Bach wrote about last May.
Only four cities of 5,000 or more residents lost population in the past five years. The southern Oregon town of Talent dropped by 9% due to a tragic wildfire in the fall of 2020. Coos Bay on the Southern Coast, La Grande in eastern Oregon and Corvallis in the mid-Willamette Valley also declined by 3.7%, 1.1% and 0.9%, respectively.
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SEATTLE — President Joe Biden visited Washington for the first time since he was elected.
During his visit Friday, Biden gave remarks on green energy, signed an executive order and discussed efforts to lower health care and energy costs for families.
Biden began his day in Seward Park, where he made a case for his agenda to address the climate crisis, according to the White House. The president spoke about safeguarding the nation's forests and bolstering resilience to threats like wildfires.
Biden used the visit to Seattle to sign an executive order at Seward Park aimed at protecting old-growth forests. The order requires the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service to identify threats to older trees, such as wildfire and climate change, and develop policies to safeguard them.
“I’m signing the executive order to conserve our forests that do so much to protect us,” Biden said during remarks at Seward Park.
The president then traveled to Green River College, where he talked about his recent actions to lower costs for families. Biden also called on Congress to pass his plan to lower healthcare and energy costs.
In a letter, Green River College President Suzanne Johnson said the college was selected as part of Biden's tour because of the career and technical programs it offers, such as its nursing program, which support workforce development in the region.
Biden was joined by Gov. Jay Inslee, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, and Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell during his appearances in Seattle.
Afterward, Biden will depart from Sea-Tac Airport for Wilmington, Deleware.
Traffic impacts:
Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson warned drivers to expect “intermittent heavy congestion due to temporary closures of the freeway system” in the Seattle area on Friday due to Biden’s visit.
For security purposes, the specifics of Biden's travel plans are not being shared. However, traffic impacts and delays affected both Interstate 90 and Interstate 5 during his visit.
Biden departed from Sea-Tac Airport around 4:30 on Friday, meaning traffic will likely be backed up in the area through the evening. Air traffic will be stalled for a short time after the president departs.
The president was scheduled to leave around 2 p.m. on Friday but was delayed.
A suspicious package was located in a vehicle near the airport, delaying the president's departure even further. Secret Service protocol was activated, forcing Air Force 1 to move further into the airfield and Sea-Tac.
After an investigation, the package turned out to be a rice cooker.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — President Biden’s visit to Portland on Thursday lined up with an ongoing climate action protest led by local teens. Sunrise Movement PDX is fighting to stop ODOT’s planned expansion of Interstate 5. With the president's stated focus on infrastructure and the environment, protesters who attend the bi-monthly rallies hope their message resonates with him.
“We are telling Biden to fulfill his climate promises and telling him to be a climate leader,” said protester Danny Cage.
A New York Times article featuring the efforts of the youth-led Sunrise Movement made it feel to many protestors like they were gaining momentum for their cause.
“It's really important that the youth are heard on this issue,” said Jacob Glass, who also attended Thursday's demonstration. “We're the ones facing this climate crisis head-on. We're the future of this planet and this freeway expansion is really harmful.”
During his visit, President Biden spoke about roads and bridges and why he's prioritizing making them better and safer, especially in case of a large earthquake. The teens said his concerns should go beyond that, and focus more on public transit and renewable energy.
“Work like this is important, climate change is important, this is our future,” said Glass. “Elected officials need to be bold enough to act on it and also to care.”
Cassie Wilson, 23, lives in Clackamas County. She co-founded Sunrise Rural Oregon after the 2020 wildfires. She shared her experiences with climate change during the protest.
“The entirety of [Clackamas] County was under some sort of evacuation order and it was terrifying,” said Wilson. “Ever since then we've only seen more and more and more impacts from climate change already happening on a local level.”
It's unclear whether President Biden heard the teens' message, or if he'll advise against moving forward with the I-5 expansion. But for Wilson and others, the climate fight as they see it will last a lifetime.
“It's hard to plan your future when you don't know what that future looks like,” said Wilson.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A driver was stopped at a roundabout on 47th Terrace and Vincennes Boulevard on Thursday.
He told Cape Coral Police a man walking came up and snatched glasses off of his face and took off running.
Cape Coral Police said this all started when the suspect asked the driver if they had a problem with him while walking by.
Andrea Yanes works at Duval Street restaurant right across from where this all went down.
“It would be scary if someone reaches to the inside of your car. I’m like what the hell don’t touch my stuff. Don’t get close to me,” said Yanes.
The victim told police they tried moving the truck to avoid the man, but it wasn’t enough. The man reached in and snatched the Zenni brand frames and took off, leaving the driver practically blind.
The victim said the suspect was a white man with a scruffy beard and a backpack.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It’s no secret Portland’s restaurants have been struggling for the past few years, with a pandemic and crime leading to empty downtown office buildings and declining tourism – especially in Portland’s Old Town.
Now a beloved restaurant owner who’s survived it all is facing an even bigger problem — costly surgery that could shut his doors for good.
KOIN 6 News talked to some of the regulars who said if the restaurant wasn’t here, it would be “really sad.”
Chef Naji Bouhmid owns Kasbah’s Moroccan Café on the corner of NW Second and Davis.
“People, like offices people, they come to me when they’re hungry and tourists when they’ve been walking all day,” Bouhmid said.
KOIN 6 News was told Bouhmid has worked alongside some of the best cooks in the world, prepared meals for foreign dignitaries and celebrities and has cooked for the Peace Corps in Morocco.
20 years later, one of those volunteers walked into Kasbah’s and recognized Bouhmid almost instantly.
“When she saw me she had tears in her eye. Now she’s the recruiter for Peace Corps here in Portland,” Bouhmid said.
Bouhmid opened Kasbah’s in 2016. Like other restaurants, Kasbah’s experienced troubles during the pandemic.
“I started doing good by 2019, then the pandemic changed everything,” Bouhmid said.
The restaurant also hasn’t been a stranger to the unprecedented crime in Old Town, as their windows have been shattered twice this year.
Bouhmid said it he spent $1,300 to replace the windows and another $500 went towards fixing the door after someone jammed metal in it.
But he’s made it through, and runs this place by himself from taking orders to washing dishes.
Now, it’s become too much and he needs surgery on his wrist.
“I overused my wrist that’s the thing,” Bouhmid explained.
But a costly surgery and recovery time would ensure that Bouhmid would have to close the doors to Kasbah’s permanently.
Bouhmid’s friends created a GoFundMe to help raise money for the surgery and operating costs at Kasbah’s.
Regardless of the situation, Bouhmid knows what motivates him.
“You know sometime I think ‘oh I need to stop doing it’ but then you see someone you didn’t see for too long, it like gives you happiness inside,” Bouhmid said.
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The much-anticipated Battery Bluff park in the Presidio opens to the public today.
The 6-acre site features gardens, picnic tables and a majestic view of the Golden Gate, and marks the second of three sections to be opened around the restored site at what was once Doyle Drive.
Seven acres of tidal marsh opened at Quartermaster Reach in December of 2020. The final 14-acre park atop the Presidio Parkway tunnels, Presidio Tunnel Tops, is set to open in July.
"Yes, I'm wearing heels in a park," joked Mayor London Breed at a clear sunny day at the site yesterday, in front of the old batteries. "I'm in awe of this view, and the magic of what I feel today."
"People come from all over the world to experience the best that San Francisco has to offer. They come for the sheer beauty, access to green and open space, and to visit some of the best urban parks in the country," Breed said. "Now, everyone will have more to look forward to and greater access to this national park with the historic renovation of Battery Bluff."
Built in 1936 as a New Deal project, the original Doyle Drive connected San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, but by the 1990s it was deemed both an eyesore and one of the most dangerous stretches of road in the city. Before it was finally torn down, federal highway officials gave it a safety rating of 2 out of 100. The park project to restore the site has taken numerous agencies and more than 30 years. The park was designed by late landscape architect Michael Painter.
Four historic gun battery sites, Slaughter, Baldwin, Sherwood and Blaney, are now on view at the site for the first time since the construction of Doyle Drive began in 1936. Built between 1899 and 1902, the batteries were part of the U.S. Army’s coastal defense system around the Golden Gate to protect San Francisco Bay.
"We are so grateful for the collaborative efforts of countless public servants and community members working together over decades to reimagine San Francisco’s northern waterfront," said Jean Fraser, CEO of the Presidio Trust, in a statement. "Thanks to that work, the Trust was able to create more park amenities for the enjoyment of all visitors. We look forward to unveiling the final gem, the Presidio Tunnel Tops, later this year."
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Controversial concrete recycling plant on hold for Titusville
Plans to build a concrete recycling plant in Titusville are on hold pending an environmental review.
The proposed plant faced major pushback from citizens at a recent City Council meeting, with many citing concerns about noise and pollution, as reasons to reject the project.
Business owners of Independence Recycling, an Ohio-based company, who hope to build the plant near the Space Coast Regional Airport and U.S. 1 said they had plans to mitigate any pollution and that the industrial area had similar plants operate without major issues.
Council voted on April 12 to send the project to the Titusville Environmental Commission for review to study before any final ruling.
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Titusville council member Jo Lynn Nelson said she understands and shares many people’s concerns about the plant but reminded people that there was a legal protocol to stopping the project, which statutorily is allowed to operate on the land.
“We were all concerned about the noise, the dust, the potential pollution, and the impact on our aquifer and the Indian River. However, in order to turn it down, we have to have a legally valid reason. Just saying 'no' will not cut it,” Nelson said.
"I have nothing against your business. I have concerns about the location with all we're trying to do in that area so close to the river," Mayor Dan Diesel said, echoing the worries of many citizens and the Council.
What will the concrete plant actually do?
John Zemball, an engineer on the project, explained the details of the project to the Council, saying that the company, Independence Recycling, will crush concrete at the plant only a few times a year.
The site is zoned industrial and largely will be used to store concrete until enough has accumulated to process it, Zemball said.
He acknowledged concerns voiced by the public and said that there would be a larger buffer than is legally required between the plant and the road and there would be other measures in place to protect the environment.
"Right next to the site is a huge pile of concrete that was dumped there because people don't know where to take it. It's expensive to dump and the closest sites are within 30 miles of Titusville in either direction," Zemball said.
His hopes are that the recycling plant will prevent people from putting more concrete into the landfills when it could be reused. Recycled concrete can be used as road-base and in a variety of construction projects, Zemball said.
Zemball listed several protection measures that would be taken by the plant:
- Stormwater pollution prevention plan
- Chemical testing of water every quarter
- Misting to prevent concrete dust from entering air
- Wind buffers to prevent concrete dust from being blown away from site
Zemball said the company has received no complaints or violations at its other plants around the state.
Why are people opposed?
Many people speaking against the project at the meeting said they had little faith that the environmental protections promised by the company would actually work and said that the water used to mist the dust from the air would put a strain on the area's aquifer.
Nayra Atiya said putting the plant less than a mile from homes, hotels, the Enchanted Forest and the lagoon would be more risk than is worth it.
"Crushed cement is toxic," she said, adding that silica dust can cause lifelong damage to those who bring it in. Dust residue will make its way into the lagoon and damage it further, she claimed.
Laurilee Thompson, a commercial fisherwoman and owner of Dixie Crossroads Seafood in Titusville, was also among those opposed to the project, citing concerns about odor, noise, dust and pollution, which she said were commonplace with these sorts of plants.
She suggested the company review other locations farther away from U.S. 1 and the lagoon for the company to put the plant.
"Other communities have passed legislation to keep concrete crushing facilities away from parks and other residential areas," "Now we want to consider allowing one to go in across the street from Tom Statham Park and so close to the river?"
What are the next steps for approving or rejecting the project
Because the plant's approval is based on a conditional-use permit, the city is allowed to add more stringent rules around its operation. But that does not mean the city is allowed to deny the project outright.
After the Titusville Environmental Commission reviews the project further, the project will come back to City Council on June 14, but many members said they were leaning toward opposing the project.
"If you're inclined to deny the application for this development permit, you have to include a written notice... the notice must include a citation to the applicable portions of an ordinance, statute or other legal authority for denial," said city attorney Richard Broome.
That means there has to be some existing law or part of the city's comprehensive plan that Council can point to that would disallow the plant, otherwise it can go forward
Tyler Vazquezis the North Brevard Watchdog Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Vazquez at 321-917-7491 or tvazquez@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @tyler_vazquez
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Explosion, body found at home of Lake Twp. man charged with shooting fireworks
LAKE TWP. – Uniontown police and firefighters are investigating an overnight explosion and resulting fire at the home of a man who was released from jail Friday.
Harry Campbell, chief investigator with the Stark County Coroner's Office, said a man was found dead on the second floor of the residence on Fairwynde Circle NW. He released no further information, referring questions to police and firefighters, who are still investigating.
Authorities were called to the triplex off Lake Center NW at 1:29 a.m. Saturday, according to officials at the scene.
Details of what happened were not yet available.
The 45-year-old man who lives there was arrested at his home on Thursday
The 45-year-old man who lives there was arrested at his home on Thursday on warrants charging him with inducing panic, fireworks violations and having weapons under disability. He is accused of setting off major fireworks, often at night.
The man was released Friday from the Stark County Jail to await court hearings.
The late-night explosions had been bothering the community for months, with people unsure what was causing them. Uniontown police previously said they received 20 to 30 calls over the last couple of months from residents concerned about the explosive blasts.
Sam Thompson who lives in a triplex next door said she was awakened by Saturday's explosion.
She said her neighbor had been setting off fireworks in the middle of the night for a couple of months, waking everyone with the loud blasts.
This article will be updated as details are made available.
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Dive teams recovered the body of an 18-year-old high school student who didn't resurface after jumping into a New Jersey pond late Friday, officials say.
The teen, who has not been publicly identified, went underwater at Hardcastle Pond in New Milford around 7:15 p.m. to retrieve a soccer ball, according to reports.
A 911 caller alerted emergency officials once the 18-year-old did not come up. At its deepest points, the pond it 12-15 feet deep.
Rescue teams from around Bergen County responded to the pond and eventually retrieved a body around 10 p.m.
The student attended New Milford High School and lived in the area, according to police.
A medical examiner will determine the boy's cause of death.
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ROCHESTER, Minn.- A shortage of new cars is raising the price on used automobiles.
According to Troy Buhr, the owner of Southpoint Motors in Rochester, used car prices have been high for over a year now.
Buhr says the price of his cars increased recently by 10-15 percent.
High gas prices and an ongoing computer chip shortage are keeping prices high.
Buhr has some advice you should know before you visit a used car dealer
"Make sure it's a good one. Make sure the car's been inspected. The lowest price isn't always the best deal," he tells KIMT News 3. "You want to make sure you're buying a quality car from a reputable dealer that has CARFAX vehicle history reports, that has a full inspection report, and the dealer has good reviews online. Good online reviews is a good place to start."
Buhr also tells KIMT News 3 the market is always changing and buyers should know what they're seeing and make adjustments as they go along.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A shooting victim died from his injuries after officers found him while on patrol early Saturday morning in Southeast Portland, police said.
According to a release from the Portland Police Bureau, officers were patrolling the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood when they found the man around 1:12 a.m. near the corner of SE 136th Avenue and Powell Boulevard.
He had been shot, police said, and although medical crews arrived at the scene, he did not survive.
The man was not immediately identified and the circumstances leading up to the shooting are unclear.
No arrests have been made and homicide detectives are investigating. Authorities did not release any information on a suspect.
PPB asked anyone with information to contact Detective Sean Macomber or Detective Rico Beniga and reference case number 22-107170.
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The NYPD is trying to track down a suspect who injured British singer Tom Grennan in what his manager calls an unprovoked attack and robbery in New York City.
The assault occurred on Bleeker Street around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, following Grennan's evening performance at the Bowery Ballroom.
The "Little Bit of Love" singer was apparently attacked outside of a Manhattan bar and suffered a ruptured eardrum and concussion.
He was briefing admitted to the hospital for treatment but has since been released.
In a video posted to social media Friday, the singer detailed his injuries and thanked fans for the "overwhelming" support following the incident.
“So yeah, wrong place wrong time but just a crazy 24 hours, but you lot are my main priority and I don’t want to let anybody down and I don’t want it cancel this US tour," Grennan said.
The 26-year-old is in the middle of a U.S. tour, and hopes to continue the rest of his scheduled performances after postponing a show in Washington D.C. immediately following the attack.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — A new Safe Rest Village at the Sears Army Reserve Center in Southwest Portland could be the first of six to open in Portland.
Portland’s Safe Rest Village team says a site plan has been submitted to the city for permitting at the armory near Multnomah Village. Materials and site improvements are still being confirmed, but staff in Commissioner Dan Ryan’s office say the goal is to get the 40-pod outdoor homeless shelter up and running in May.
“It is likely to be our first one opened,” Bryan Aptekar, a communications liaison with the Safe Rest Village team, said Wednesday, April 13. Aptekar noted the relocation of the Queer Affinity Village to Southwest Naito Parkway is next on track.
Despite the city’s plans, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spokesperson confirmed the agency hasn’t made a determination yet on whether the managed transitional housing village complies with an existing deed restriction for the property. The agency didn’t provide a timeline for when that review might be completed, but local agencies are moving ahead.
All Good Northwest, a new startup nonprofit organization, has been tapped by Multnomah County to manage the Safe Rest Village slated to go in the armory’s parking lot.
The organization will replace Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers, the org that backed out of the project, citing concerns about a lack of screening and qualifications for prospective village residents.
Many neighborhood residents have similar concerns about how the outdoor village will be managed and its impacts to the surrounding neighborhood.
Andy Goebel, executive director of All Good Northwest, told neighborhood residents that the new Safe Rest Village will have round-the-clock staffing and a 24-hour phone line.
“We want to afford everyone the opportunity to be served,” Goebel said during an April 12 Multnomah Neighborhood Association meeting. Goebel said across the city, opposition to homeless shelters usually stems from “fear of the blue tarp,” a common sight among Portland’s myriad unsanctioned homeless camps.
The villages — contained lots with pod structures akin to tiny homes — are part of the city’s Streets to Stability plan. Sites will offer showers, bathrooms, a cooking space and social services to give residents stability with the goal of finding permanent housing.
Goebel said he’s gleaned insight from other shelter managers and learned what works and what doesn’t. He said the Sears site will include case managers, peer support and housing navigation specialists.
While All Good Northwest is still in its infancy, having been established just six months ago, the group has been managing three emergency shelters in Portland, including the Queer Affinity Village. Prior to taking the helm at All Good Northwest, Goebel worked for Do Good Multnomah, which manages the Clackamas County Veterans Village and the St. Johns Village.
“We’ve successfully housed 20 people out of those sites,” Goebel said.
Addressing concerns from residents and neighbors of the Sears Armory, Goebel said drugs and alcohol won’t be allowed, but cautioned there’s no way to guarantee the sobriety of residents, even in large, indoor congregate shelter settings. If village residents run afoul of expectations and rules for the village, they may be connected with external services and asked to leave.
“The no. 1 rule we have in all our shelter projects is to be a good neighbor,” Goebel said. “What we don’t want to do is say, ‘there’s the door, see you later.’ That’s not humane, that’s not trauma informed.”
Each Safe Rest Village is expected to cost about $1.5 million to operate annually, according to rough cost estimates from the city. That includes case managers, wraparound services and the guarantee of at least one free meal a day to residents. Construction and infrastructure is expected to range from $350,000 to $500,000. The SRV program is currently being budgeted for three years.
Aptekar, the city staffer, noted federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars will be used for the first year of the Safe Rest program, and said budgets for each site are still being shored up at the city level. Each location’s costs will vary, depending on number of units and site preparation needed.
“These are managed shelters with services and that’s what we’re paying for,” Aptekar said.
Entry to the Safe Rest sites will be by referral only, from first responders, park rangers, Portland Street Response, and other social service workers, according to city plans. Residents must be 18 or older.
Jake Dornblaser, a community outreach specialist in Commissioner Ryan’s office, said the Safe Rest Villages are just one part of a larger plan to bring 1,000 more shelter beds online by the end of the year.
Estimates of Portland’s unhoused population vary greatly. A 2015 point-in-time count showed 3,800 people were sleeping on city streets, in shelters or temporary housing. In 2019, Portland State University released a study estimating the number of people in the Portland Metro region without stable housing to be closer to 38,000.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner became emotional while recalling a volatile 2016 argument she heard about between her son Rob Kardashian and his then-girlfriend Blac Chyna that traumatized him.
Jenner testified for the second day from the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday that she believed Chyna attempted to murder her son. At the time, she said she was told that Chyna pointed a gun at Kardashian’s head, tried to strangle him with a phone cord and hit him with a metal pole while intoxicated.
“It was complete chaos. It was scary,” said Jenner, the 66-year-old “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” matriarch. She’s the first of four defendants -– a group that also includes her daughters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner –- to testify in Blac Chyna’s $100 million lawsuit alleging the women conspired to have her reality show “Rob & Chyna” canceled and damage her celebrity status.
Earlier this week, much of Chyna’s testimony dealt with the fight, and the celebration of the show’s renewal the night before. Chyna testified that she was joking with her fiance when she wrapped a phone cord around his neck and grabbed his unloaded gun off a nightstand.
But Kris Jenner said putting a gun to her son’s head was “not a joke.”
“He was a mess,” she recalled while talking to her son after the incident on Dec. 15, 2016. “I could only imagine how he felt. … This was a horrible situation. I was heartbroken.”
Kris Jenner began to shed tears while remembering the Rob Kardashian-Chyna spat, which happened months after Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. She said knowing that both her children had a gun pointed at them within the same year was traumatizing for her.
“While Rob’s situation was going on, Kim had just been dealing with Paris,” she said. “He had a gun put at his head, and she was held at gunpoint and thrown into a bathtub. That’s a lot to take as a mother.”
While on stand, Kris Jenner said her boyfriend Corey Gamble separated her son and Chyna –- who she says smashed an expensive television in the master bedroom. But after Gamble pulled them apart and asked Rob Kardashian to leave, she was told that Chyna smashed a chair on the windshield of her son’s car.
In her questioning, Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, asked why Jenner or anyone else did not call the police. Jenner said her security team – former Los Angeles Police Department officers – helped diffuse the intense ordeal.
Kris Jenner claims she wanted to help Chyna. She said arguments between the couple were an “ongoing theme” in their relationship that included alcoholic beverages and drugs.
“We didn’t put Chyna on the show and give her this fabulous life to be taken away,” she said. “We created other opportunities. I was hopeful that it would be OK. That’s why I didn’t call (the police).”
Ciani tried to gain clarity about a text message sent from Kris Jenner to “Rob & Chyna” showrunner that read Chyna “beat the (expletive) out of Rob’s face.” She said the phrase was used as a figure of speech.
Kris Jenner compared her reference to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the recent Oscars.
“It’s like you’re at an awards show and you get slapped,” she said while drawing some laughter from jurors and some others in the courtroom while her daughters’ facial expressions remained stoic.
Ciani asked about another text she sent to the showrunner that read “We need to ditch this (expletive)” after her son’s altercation with the Chyna. Jenner said she was very angry and upset at the time, but she claims she never had any involvement in hampering Chyna’s time on the show.
“It’s not my proudest moment, but it was how I felt at the time,” she said.
Chyna’s lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleges defamation and interference with contracts. It accuses Kris Jenner of being a ringleader who used her daughters in a campaign to defame Chyna as abusive to Rob Kardashian.
Kris Jenner would be an executive producer on the couple’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” spinoff, “Rob & Chyna,” which premiered on the E! Network later in September of 2016. She said she had nothing to do with the network deciding to not pick up the reality show for a second season.
With Kris Jenner being her son’s manager, she said she would receive a letter saying the show was “green lit.” But she says they never got a letter exercising the option.
Chyna and Rob Kardashian share a daughter named Dream.
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ARKANSAS, USA — Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday (April 22) that he will seek to decline roughly $89 million in federal rental assistance funds.
In other business, he said the Department of Finance and Administration has officially determined the state will have a $1 billion surplus by June 30. That’s up from the previous estimate of $600 million.
During one of his periodic “Pen and Pad” press conferences at the state Capitol, the governor presented a letter he is sending to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen declaring Arkansas will not accept all of its $146 million in the second phase of Emergency Rental Assistance funds (ERA2) contained in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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Police in New York City were on the hunt Saturday for the driver responsible for sending a teen to the hospital and fleeing the scene of a crash.
Emergency officials responded to the hit-and-run reported around 1:30 p.m. at 113th Street and 2nd Avenue in East Harlem.
Authorities said a gray Audi struck a 13-year-old boy who was riding a scooter in the area. The driver took off, heading over the 3rd Avenue bridge, according to the NYPD.
Police said the injured teen was taken to a nearby hospital for a minor leg injury.
The investigation is ongoing.
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A federal judge ordered the head of New York City's jails to appear at an upcoming status conference on conditions at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, after prosecutors said the situation had become so dire that it might be necessary to install court supervision over the beleaguered system to institute necessary reforms.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain directed city Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina to attend the session scheduled for Tuesday.
She issued the order after getting a letter earlier in the week from the office of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.
In the letter, prosecutors said, “The jails are in a state of crisis, inmates and staff are being seriously injured, and action is desperately needed now,” and questioned whether the city and corrections department had “the ability, expertise, and will to swiftly make the changes necessary to bring true reform.”
Sixteen inmates died at Rikers last year, and three have died so far in 2022.
Prosecutors went on to suggest that more aggressive steps could be sought, including putting an independent authority in place to implement reforms.
In her order handed down Thursday, the judge noted “the gravity and urgency of the security situation,” and “the consequent need for clarity as to planned changes and the implementation.”
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In a statement, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Molina “is laying the groundwork for long-term change.”
“Fixing Rikers is critically important, a moral imperative, and we need to get it right. But to do that, we need the opportunity to implement our plan,” he said. “These are generational challenges, deeply ingrained, and no administration can solve them in less than four months. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with the federal monitor and all other stakeholders.”
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Sarasota County Sheriff speaks against removal of commenter from school board meeting
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office released a video statement on Friday distancing itself from the removal of a controversial school board commenter.
A member of Mom for Liberty's Sarasota Chapter, Melissa Bakondy, was removed from a Sarasota County School Board meeting on Tuesday by officers from Sarasota County Schools Police Department.
Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman released a video statement explaining that the Sheriff's Office was not involved in the "unfortunate incident" and doesn't condone the removal of Bakondy.
"The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office would never participate in preventing a citizen from expressing their first amendment rights during public comment," Hoffman said in the video. "As your sheriff, I don't condone tax-paying citizens being silenced."
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Hoffman said that the Sheriff's Office has had an excellent 20-year record working with the county school board.
"They are professional, intelligent, and understand the constitution, just as we do. We have never had a problem and we do not expect to," Hoffman said.
Why was the commenter removed from the Sarasota school board meeting?
Bakondy was commenting on an addendum that wouldn't require Individualized Education Program meetings to be recorded unless a parent had a disability or speaks another language.
While Bakondy talked about the school board allegedly "falsifying documents and systemic corruption," Board Member Jane Goodwin interrupted her for a warning.
"Be careful. Be careful," Goodwin said.
Bakondy was about to make a comment on Board Member Shirley Brown when Goodwin gave her another warning.
"Stop talking about school board members," Goodwin said.
Bakondy continued talking over Goodwin as she asked her to comply, prompting Goodwin to ask Bakondy to leave.
"You're done. You're done, Ms. Bakondy. You cannot go and expound on school board members. I warned you several times," Goodwin said.
Bakondy refused to leave the podium after an officer asked her to leave. Two other officers approached and asked her to leave. She left, and the board took a five-minute recess.
Bakondy has attended Sarasota County school board meetings regularly and has been asked to leave meetings before.
In a meeting about mask mandates on Aug. 20, Brown asked her to leave after Bakondy directed remarks toward Brown and Board Member Tom Edwards.
Brown asked the officers at the meeting to clear the room, but they didn't enforce Brown's request. Bakondy was permitted to finish speaking.
According to Florida law, board members are allowed to request the removal of a person if they were issued a previous warning after interfering with the orderly process. Additionally, the law says that law enforcement present should remove any person ordered to leave.
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An 89-year-old woman walking in the area of a Queens shopping center was critically struck Saturday afternoon, police said.
The NYPD responded to 48th Street in Astoria around 2:40 p.m. for reports of a pedestrian hit by a vehicle.
Police said the driver of a Dodge Durango was leaving a parking lot when he hit the elderly pedestrian. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition.
The driver remained at the scene, according to officials. Police said no criminality was suspected.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Tonight: Dry and pleasant, with lows dropping into the upper 50s and low 60s before sunrise Sunday. Wind remains light out of the Southeast.
Tomorrow: Another dry, sunny, and warm day. Temperatures quickly climb through the 70s and reach the 80s again in the afternoon. It will be warm for the Geico 500, and with a clear and sunny sky, be sure to apply sunscreen if you’re attending the race.
The Week Ahead
Rain chances return as we head into the work week. A few showers are possible Monday as a near stationary front sets up across Northwest Alabama. Best chances to see a shower before sunset on Monday would be North of I-20 and West of I-65. That front finally starts to push south through Monday night, increasing our rain chances, and more rain sticks around the front to kick off the day Tuesday. Rain eventually tapers off late Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday evening, and cooler and drier air briefly filters in Wednesday and Thursday before we warm back up to round out the week.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — After hearing from a group concerned about whether their offers to buy property through the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) are ever brought before the board, the authority board opted to soon hold a study session to discuss procedures for property sale contracts.
On the agenda for the FCRA board of directors the regular meeting Thursday (April 21) was a resolution giving the FCRA executive director express authority to negotiate contracts and determine if contracts should be brought to the board’s real estate review committee. FCRA attorney Dalton Person said the authority had been part of the executive director’s job description in the past but somewhere along the way it stopped being so, though practice had been implied and continued over the years.
“I believe it implicitly is there and was previously explicitly stated,” Person said. “I do not believe that if you all were to approve of this in its current form, that you would be giving up any particular powers.”
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ARKANSAS, USA — Governor Asa Hutchinson has declared May 22-27 as Safe Boating Week in Arkansas.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District in partnership with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Coast Guard Auxiliary attended the Safe Boating Week Proclamation ceremony.
The proclamation states it is essential for boating enthusiasts to recognize the importance of taking certain safety precautions. This includes always wearing life jackets and never operating a boat under the influence of alcohol.
Boaters are recommended to be extremely cautious with the high water levels across the state and with the upcoming rain.
Safety reminders for boaters:
- Slow down
- Take a safe boating course
- File a float plan
- Always tell someone where you are going
Daily river and water release information can be found online or through the Little Rock District mobile app, "USACE Little Rock".
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PORTLAND, Ore. —
Non-profit organization Constructing Hope has increased the number of students it can serve through its pre-apprenticeship program as part of a makeover at its Northeast Portland facility.
The expansion is a big deal for Constructing Hope, which has been around in some form for nearly 30 years, providing opportunities for people who would otherwise probably not be given a chance a start learning construction skills.
"We target people who are missing in the construction industry, so we target African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and all low-income people," said Pat Daniels, Executive Director of Constructing Hope. "So I see it as an opportunity to truly change lives from being low-income to creating generational wealth."
The people who come to the facility at 405 NE Church Street for the ten-week program are 100% low income, predominantly people of color, and most have been incarcerated at some point in their lives.
The new expansion means Constructing Hope’s mission just got bigger — nearly two times bigger, according to Daniels.
"This building is going to afford us the opportunity to move from classes of 25 to classes of 45, so it's going to increase the capacity of what we can do, training low-income people in this community," he said.
The non-profit teaches a range of other work, life and financial skills in addition to construction, and it has a long list of success stories.
"It gave an opportunity when nobody else would, I mean a lot of people see somebody with a criminal background and they'll overlook them, but here they actually give you a chance," said Gerry Jones.
Jones was a good student and athlete growing up, but got into some trouble. A neighbor advised him to get into the Constructing Hope program over a decade ago, and now he owns his own electrical contracting business.
"(My neighbor) was a 2009 graduate, and so we were just hanging out and he said 'I think this program would be good for you,' so I took a look at it, got in and it was the best thing that ever happened to me," he said.
Beyond the bigger classrooms, there are other new additions at the Constructing Hope facility, such as a set of beautiful murals inside and out, meant to inspire. The creations were led by artist Amaranta Celena Colindres, whose father was a painter in the construction trade.
"I fully support this facility and their mission, and so here behind me we have this awesome image that sort of shows the potential journey these students can take, the various industries that they can enter," she said, speaking in front of one of the new additions.
In the past five years, Constructing Hope has placed 326 graduates in new careers. With the expansion, the non-profit’s goal is to go from 75 to 150 graduates per year over the next few years.
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PORTLAND, Oregon — Portland police announced this week that they plan to crack down on illegal street racing in Portland after numerous street "takeovers" in recent years.
On Friday, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) released a statement saying that as the weather improves, they anticipate an increase in street racing. They said they were “planning and gathering resources to conduct regular enforcement missions.”
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Much of PPB's focus remains on illegal street races happening regularly near the 6300 block of North Marine Drive.
“I thought [police] already had a task force and were taking care of it,” said Stan, who lives in the St. Johns neighborhood. He asked that we not share his last name. “When I'd asked police officers who'd been around here, they'd just always say no one's going to go out there.”
In March, officers arrested a man after four people were shot while watching street racers on North Marine Drive. Two of the victims were teenagers and one was 11 years old.
Many people who live in North Portland have complained about noise that comes from the street racing. The sound travels far and can be counted on nearly every weekend it doesn’t rain. Stan said he'll probably sleep in his basement this summer when the racing is at its worst.
“When it rains they don't seem to go out,” said Stan. “I think it's a little too dangerous.”
Portland police said people who participate in illegal street racing activity can face jail time, fines and may have their vehicles towed.
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OREGON, USA — The burst of winter weather last week is fully in the rearview mirror for many, but some in the wine industry are worried that the snow and frost could have damaged this year's crop. Others said it's just too soon to tell.
Winemakers told KGW that the vines are only vulnerable to below-freezing temperatures if they've reached 'bud break,' which refers to when they begin "waking up" for the warmer season.
"While they're dormant they can handle very cold temperatures, but as soon as they rehydrate and start growing, they lose that resistance to the cold and then 28 degrees can cause significant damage," said Jessica Cortell, owner of Vitis Terra Vineyard Services.
Cortell manages vineyards throughout the Willamette Valley. She said she's currently calculating how much of the crop could be lost for her clients after the snowstorm, but the impact varies by location.
"You could go to one vineyard where there was significant damage and then go to another nearby and have minimal, or less damage," she said.
Others said it's still far too early to know the exact impacts or losses from freezing conditions.
"Since frost impact is very site-specific, not all vineyards were impacted," said Jessica Mozeico, winemaker and owner of Et Fille Wines. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Willamette Valley Wineries Association.
There's no risk of the freeze impacting the quality of the crop, she said. It's a quantity problem, although she said it'll be another month or so before winemakers have a better idea of the scale of the problem.
"If a site already had bud break at the time that the freezing event happened, then it could stunt the growth, which will be a quantity issue, meaning that the crop load would be lower," she said. "It has nothing to do with quality."
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SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — Authorities are conducting an investigation after a person drowned near the Cahaba River Saturday afternoon.
According to Clay Hammac with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call around 3:30 p.m. stating that a person was drowning in the water near Slab Road. The SCSO has requested help from the Calera Police Department’s diving team to retrieve the victim.
The identity of the victim has not yet been released.
Stay with CBS 42 as this is a developing story.
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SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. — The 47th Annual Dogwood Festival is underway this weekend in Downtown Siloam Springs.
The event includes over 200 vendors from all across the nation with a variety of arts and crafts, food, and live music.
The Dogwood Festival draws an estimated 35,000 people to downtown Siloam Springs every year.
The festival started Saturday, April 23, and wraps up Sunday.
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FORT SMITH, Ark — After months of requests, rejected requests, community meetings, study sessions, and negotiations, the Fort Smith Board of Directors voted to approve a planned zoning district (PZD) at 815 S. Sixth Street that will allow a new facility for Next Step Day Room (NSDR).
The ordinance will allow NSDR to move its base operations from North Sixth Street to approximately four acres on the northeast corner of South I and South Sixth streets. The zone change to a PZD will allow a homeless shelter with non-congregate housing. The property will consist of an 800-square-feet building for office and educational space as well as a kitchen.
Behind that facility, there will be 30 small individual housing units for people transitioning from homelessness, said Sharon Chapman, NSDR executive director.
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In conjunction with National Volunteer Month, Big Brothers Big Sisters held its Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Thursday at Green Tree Country Club. All volunteers for the organization were invited, with 10 receiving specific honors for their service. In addition, the organization recognized and two community partnerships.
Andrew Davis was chosen as the 2022 Community-Based Big Brother of the Year. Davis has been matched with his little brother Camran for two years in the Odessa program. The match began in the school-based program, which meets during the school day at the child’s school. Davis was honored for his dedication in adapting in order to continue the match when schools closed due to COVID.
The 2022 Community-Based Big Sister of the Year is Brittany Watson. Over the past four years matched with her little sister, Watson has helped her become more outgoing through activities such as interacting with farm animals and helping with her homework. Watson has also encouraged other volunteers matched with quiet little brothers or little sisters.
Jim and Shauna Trela were honored as the 2022 Couples Match of the Year. They have been matched with their little brother for almost two years, helping him overcome family issues he was struggling with. The Trelas adopted a daughter while matched but made it a priority include their little brother in discussions of the process, reassuring him that they planned to maintain their relationship. Their little brother is doing well in school and has overcome the family issues he faced in the beginning.
The 2022 High School Big of the Year is Brett Campagna. Campagna was matched with his little brother in September 2020. Although the match has been virtual – meeting weekly via Zoom – Campagna has been committed to encouraging his little brother about school and special school projects, while fitting in a little fun with Fortnite, the game of Life and Among us. Campagna has helped to educate his little brother in making good choices, while his little brother educated Campagna on video games.
Katheleen Chaney and her Little Sister Rosie were honored as the 2022 Match of the Year. Rosie says she can be herself with Chaney and that her big sister respects and values her feelings and thoughts. Matched for more than five years in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Community-Based program, they have found they have a great deal in common, including their love for arts and crafts.
Recognized for her encouragement and support of her little sister, Natalie Conner is this year’s School-Based Big of the Year. She and her little sister have been matched for four years, seeing each other weekly to play with Play-Doh, color or do origami. They also practice reading. Conner rates her match with her little sister as a 10.
Also recognized were board members Shellie Young and David Hanss. Both have been long-time board members for Big Brothers Big Sisters and have served in leadership roles, helping the organization adapt through COVID and to introduce new initiatives during that time to ensure that the children in the program achieved the vision of reaching their full potential. Both are also Bigs (short for Big Brother or Big Sister) in the program and have been for many years.
Adrian Vega was named Odessa Committee Member of the Year. Vega has been a big brother for several years, beginning with the School-Based program and then moving to Community-Based when schools closed during COVID. He serves on the committee to oversee the program and has helped promote the organization by promoting his match in various media.
The final two awards presented at the dinner were to recognize the importance of community partnerships. Teresa and Paul Cain with Cain Insurance Solutions and InWest Retirement Solutions were honored for their decades of financial and program support for Big Brothers Big Sisters. They attend fundraisers, encourage staff to volunteer and also donate a large number of RockHounds tickets annually so that matches can enjoy a game at the ballpark.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin was honored for the willingness to partner with a fellow nonprofit to improve the lives of children in the Permian Basin. High school and college students can meet with a little brother or little sister after school at one of the area clubs in Midland and Odessa. The child receives a mentor and positive voice, while the older students can earn community service hours and develop leadership skills.
Also recognized were special guests Lawrence Cheeks, counselor at De Zavala Elementary, and April Madrid and Elizabeth Curtis, counselors at Yarbrough Elementary.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has provided mentors for children in Midland County since 1975 and in Ector County since 2017. For more information about enrolling a child or volunteering as a mentor, call 432-687-0195.
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For three days, Johnny Depp has been testifying in a libel trial that, at least in theory, is about whether Amber Heard defamed him in a 2018 newspaper op-ed.
The trial has turned into a spectacle in which Depp has testified about everything from taking pills as a child to a near mental breakdown in which the actor said he used his severed finger to write on the walls in his own blood to recount his ex-wife’s alleged lies.
WHY IS DEPP DOING THIS?
Heard’s lawyers had warned that the trial would be a mudslinging soap operathat would expose the “real Johnny Depp.” Depp denies ever abusing Heard and, despite the public attention brought to his drug use and his violent text messages, he said he’s obsessed with revealing the truth and doesn’t want to disappoint those who’d looked up to him.
“My goal is the truth because it killed me that all these people I had met over the years … that these people would think that I was a fraud,” Depp testified Tuesday.
The actor has said that his movie career suffered after Heard wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post in which she referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp’s lawyers said it was a clear reference to accusations Heard made when she sought a 2016 restraining order against him.
Depp said the accusations and the article made him a Hollywood outcast and cost him his role in the lucrative “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise.
Heard’s lawyers have argued that Heard’s opinion piece was accurate and didn’t defame him. They’ve said Depp’s ruined reputation was due to his own bad behavior and have argued that The Walt Disney Co. had already decided to ax Depp from “Pirates of the Caribbean” months before the article’s publication.
WHAT ARE HEARD’S ALLEGATIONS?
Heard has accused Depp of physically and sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions before and during their brief marriage, often in situations where she said he drank so much he later blacked out.
Depp said Heard’s allegations of his substance abuse have been “grossly embellished” and that he was never out of control during that time period. The two met in 2009, got married in 2015 and Heard filed for divorce a year later.
Heard’s attorneys have highlighted many text messages Depp sent to friends recounting the copious amount of alcohol and drugs he had taken at a time in which he claims he wasn’t a problematic drinker.
Depp filed a similar lawsuit in England against a newspaper there and lost. The judge there found that Depp assaulted Heard on a dozen occasions and put her in fear for her life multiple times.
Heard is expected to testify later in the trial.
HOW DID DEPP AND HEARD MEET?
Depp and Heard met through the filming of “The Rum Diary,” a 2011 Depp-produced movie based upon an initially unpublished novel by the late Hunter S. Thompson that Depp discovered while going through the gonzo journalist’s papers with Thompson, his friend.
Depp said Heard was the perfect embodiment of the book’s femme fatale character named Chenault. “That’s the Chenault that Hunter wants,” Depp recalled. “Yep, she could definitely kill me.”
They started dating a few years later, with Depp portraying the early part of their relationship as a classic Hollywood romance. Depp would call Heard “Slim,” while she called him “Steve,” nicknames used by the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall characters in the 1944 film “To Have and Have Not.”
Depp, 58, said he was also cognizant of the age difference between himself and Heard, 36, and compared it to the 25-year gap between Bogart and Bacall.
“I acknowledge the fact I was the old, craggy fogey and she was this beautiful creature,” he said.
HOW DID THEIR MARRIAGE FALL APART?
Depp said things began to change in his marriage when he felt that he “was suddenly just wrong about everything” in Heard’s eyes.
Depp said Heard made little digs at him, demeaned and berated him. The insults escalated into full-fledged circular arguments from which there was “no way in or out,” Depp said. “It was sort of a rapid-fire, sort of endless parade of insults,” Depp said.
Soon after, Heard began physically attacking him, Depp said. He said she once threw two bottles of vodka at him, the second of which exploded and severed his finger to the point where bone was exposed. Depp said he used the resulting blood to write on his walls and recount lies in which he had caught Heard. At the hospital, Depp said he lied to protect Heard and told the doctors that he had injured himself. Heard’s lawyers contend he cut his own finger.
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BOSTON FLIGHT?
One of the chief points in contention is what occurred on a 2014 private flight from Boston to Los Angeles that Depp and Heard took while he was filming the gangster film “Black Mass.”
Heard has said Depp assaulted her on the flight while he was blackout drunk.
Depp testified he took two oxycodone pills — an opiate to which he admits he was addicted at the time — and locked himself in the plane bathroom and fell asleep to avoid her badgering.
He told the court that he drank only a glass of Champagne while boarding the flight. But texts he sent to the actor Paul Bettany at the time referenced drinking half a bottle of whiskey, “a thousand Red Bull vodkas” and two bottles of Champagne before the flight.
Heard’s attorneys have also pointed to text messages Depp sent to Heard after the flight, saying, “Once again I find myself in a place of shame and regret. … I must get better.”
WHAT ELSE DID DEPP TEXT?
Heard’s attorneys have focused on text messages Depp sent to Bettany in which he expressed a desire to kill and defile Heard.
After saying he wanted to burn her, Depp wrote, “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will (expletive) her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”
Depp has apologized to the jury for the vulgar language and said that “in the heat of the pain I was feeling, I went to dark places.” He also compared his writing to Thompson’s gonzo style, which often incorporated brash language and embellished thoughts.
MOMENTS OF LEVITY
Despite the dark accusations and profane text messages being read to the court, Depp’s testimony has on occasion featured humorous moments.
Asked whether he would sometimes drink whiskey in the morning, Depp responded, “I mean, isn’t happy hour any time?”
And asked whether he had ever given pills to musician Marilyn Manson, Depp conceded that he once gave Manson a pill to get him to “stop talking so much.”
Depp also admitted that he’s never watched “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” the 2003 megahit in which he played the unhinged Captain Jack Sparrow. Asked how the film fared, Depp smiled and said, “I didn’t see it, but … well, the film did pretty well, apparently.”
And then there’s the bizarre matter of the alleged penis vandalism. Heard’s attorney repeatedly asked Depp whether he was responsible for drawing a penis on a painting inside his home shortly after the actor said Heard severed his finger. “Drawing a penis on a painting was not the first thing on my mind,” Depp testified.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING IN VIRGINIA?
The trial is taking place in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia.
Heard’s lawyers had sought to have the case tried in California, where the actors reside. But a judge ruled that Depp was within his rights to bring the case in Virginia because The Washington Post’s computer servers for its online edition are located in the county.
Depp’s lawyers have said they brought the case in Virginia in part because the laws here are more favorable to their case.
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani.
The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked despite prolific careers, while also investigating themes including gender norms, colonialism and climate change.
Alemani’s main show, titled “The Milk of Dreams,” alongside 80 national pavilions opens Saturday after a one-year pandemic delay. The art fair runs through Nov. 27. It is only the fourth of the Biennale’s 59 editions under female curation.
Women took the top Golden Lion awards announced Saturday for best national pavilion, which went to the United Kingdom pavilion and artist Sonia Boyce. Best participant in the main exhibition was won by U.S. sculptor Simone Leigh.
The predominance of women among the more than 200 artists that Alemani chose for the main show “was not a choice, but a process,’’ Alemani, a New York-based Italian curator, said this week.
“I think some of the best artists today are women artists,’’ she told The Associated Press. “But also, let’s not forget, that in the long history of the Venice Biennale, the preponderance of male artists in previous editions has been astonishing.”
“Unfortunately, we still have not solved many issues that pertain to gender,” Alemani said.
Conceived during the coronavirus pandemic and opening as war rages in Europe, Alemani acknowledged that art in such times may seem “superficial.” But she also asserted the Biennale’s role over the decades as a “sort of seismographer of history … to absorb and record also the traumas and the crises that go well beyond the contemporary art world.”
In a potent reminder, the Russian pavilion remains locked this year, after the artists withdrew following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nearby, sandbags have been erected in the center of the Giardini by the curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion, and surrounded by stylized posters of fresh artwork by Ukrainian artists representing the horrors of the two-month-old war.
American artist Leigh is among the women getting long-overdue recognition in mid-career at this Biennale.She is both headlining the U.S. pavilion and setting the tone at the main exhibit with a towering bust of a Black woman that Alemani originally commissioned for the High Line urban park in New York City.
Fusun Onur, a pioneer of conceptual art in Turkey, at age 85 has filled the Turkish pavilion with wiry cats and mice set up in storyboard tableaus that confront modern-day threats like the pandemic and climate change. While proud of her role representing Turkey and the work she produced during the pandemic in her home overlooking the Bosphorus, she acknowledged that the honor was late in coming.
“Why it is so I don’t know,” Fusan said by phone from Istanbul. “Women artists are working hard, but they are not always recognized. It is always men first.”
New Zealand is represented by third gender artist Yuki Kihara, whose installation “Paradise Camp,” tells the story of Samoa’s Fa’afafine community of people who don’t accept the gender they were assigned at birth.
The exhibition features photos of the Fa’afafine mimicking paintings of Pacific islanders by post-impressionist French artist Paul Gaugin, reclaiming the images in a process the artist refers to as “upcycling.”
“Paradise Camp is really about imagining a Fa’afafine utopia, where it shutters colonial hetero-normality to make way for an Indigenous world view that is inclusive and sensitive to the changes in the environment,’’ Kihara said.
The image of a hyper-realistic sculpture of a futuristic female satyr giving birth opposite her satyr partner, who has hung himself, sets a grim post-apocalyptic tone at the Danish Pavilion, created by Uffe Isolotto.
The Nordic nations of Norway, Sweden and Finland this year turned over their shared pavilion to the Sami, one of Europe’s oldest Indigenous groups, touching on a different idea of nation as the Sami ancestral arctic homeland now spans four nations.
The Sami Pavilion offered a more hopeful path out of the apocalypse, with artwork and performances depicting the struggle against colonialism by the Sami people, while also celebrating their traditions.
“We have in a way discovered how to live within the apocalyptic world and do it while, you know, maintaining our spirits and our beliefs and systems of value,” said co-curator Liisa-Ravna Finbog.
This year’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement awards go to German artist Katherina Fritsch, whose life-like Elephant sculpture stands in the rotunda of the main exhibit building in the Giardini, and Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuna, whose portrait of her mother’s eyes graces the Biennale catalog cover.
Vicuna painted the portrait while the family was in exile after the violent military coup in Chile against President Salvador Allende. Now 97, her mother accompanied her to the Biennale.
“You see that her spirit is still present, so in a way that painting is like a triumph of love against dictatorship, against repression, against hatred,’’ Vicuna said.
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CHICAGO (AP) — TV shows about sci-fi or comic book fare usually inspire fan conventions — not a sitcom about four women of a certain age living together in Florida.
But sisters Hillary Wasicek, 37, and Melissa Gluck, 43, took this weekend’s inaugural “The Golden Girls” convention at Chicago’s Navy Pier to heart. Both women, who flew from California, spent Friday in elaborate cosplay as the characters of Dorothy and Blanche. The series has always held a special place for them because of its themes of friends becoming family and inclusiveness. Dressing up in wigs and all, which they previously did on a “Golden Girls” cruise, just enhances the convention experience.
“It’s a fun expression of showing respect and appreciation for something you admire. It just makes you feel more a part of it,” said Wasicek, who plans to don a different costume every day. “We just met so many people and heard so many stories. It’s like ‘These are my people.’”
For Gluck, meeting other “Golden Girls” buffs gives her “a greater appreciation of the show itself. Now, I’ve gotten my son and husband into it.”
Golden-Con: Thank You For Being a Fan, which lasts through Sunday, is giving those who adored the NBC sitcom a chance to come together. More than 2,000 attendees are expected to converge. The show, which ran from 1985-1992, starred Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Betty White — the last remaining “Golden Girl” who died at age 99 in December. It was revered for showing their characters, who shared a house in Miami, dealing with issues later in life like ageism, sex and LGBTQ rights.
Like any “con,” there are panels and Q&As with people who guest-starred or worked behind the scenes. There is a vendors market with booths carrying “Golden Girls” themed candles, masks, T-shirts and other merch. Fans can snap photos in a recreation of the kitchen where the “girls” always ate cheesecake as well as a giant replica of Sophia’s trademark purse. There are also two separate drag queen groups scheduled to perform tributes.
Among the guests are actress Bonnie Bartlett, known for roles on “St. Elsewhere” and “Boy Meets World” (both alongside her husband, actor William Daniels). She is notable to for playing a stuck-up new friend of Dorothy’s in a third-season episode. The two-time Emmy winner, 92, however, did not turn her nose up at the idea of a fan convention.
“I was running around chasing after Betty Grable and people like that,” Bartlett said. “I was a big fan when I was a kid. So I understand this. My husband doesn’t understand it but I do.”
Stan Zimmerman, a TV producer whose second writing job was on the first season, never imagined mingling with fans nearly 40 years later. Being in an industry where popularity is fickle, he’s not taking it for granted.
“So I’ve seen the trajectory of the popularity, but nothing like what is happening now,” Zimmerman said. “It’s so cool to see young people that obviously were not even born when we wrote it know every line.”
This “Golden Girls” extravaganza was originally just supposed to be a bar trivia night. Zack Hudson, who works in social services for seniors and is a “hard-core fan,” approached Brad Balof, his friend and fellow fan about staging an event back in November. They ended up planning to book a community center but then interest outside of the state and even the U.S. intensified.
“All we did was make one announcement on social media,” Hudson said. “It just kind of escalated from there. So we pivoted a little bit to welcome as many people as we can. And we’re here now.”
Hudson, Balof, a nightclub manager, and Balof’s brother Brendan, who lives in Phoenix and has event planning experience, organized a small army of volunteers and staff. The entire group has been juggling their regular jobs and convention planning for the past several months. Hudson tracked down all the talent for the panels. While they secured some sponsorships, the bulk of Golden-Con’s funding comes from ticket sales.
They believe interest was also heightened because “Golden Girls’ devotees were looking for an outlet to continue grieving White. So there is one booth with hundreds of notecards for fans to write about their favorite memories involving the show or what it did for them.
“This is a chance to pay that much (respect) to a show that they loved and actresses that made it shine,” Brad Balof said. “One thing that does help the show remain timeless is that there’s enough humor that is not dependent on a specific situation, political or geographic … It’s just funny.”
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Five questions with ... Megan Conkle, director of housing at YWCA of Canton
Megan Conkle is the director of housing and supportive services at the YWCA of Canton. She has been at the YWCA and in the position since June 2021.
She previously served as a resident services administrative analyst at the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority.
"I was attracted to this job because it was an opportunity to work in the community I live in," Conkle said. "I always knew I wanted to end up serving my neighborhood."
She currently lives in the Colonial Heights neighborhood of Canton with her fiancé Sean Kelley; the two are getting married in October. They have two dogs: Jed Bartlett and Argus.
Conkle grew up in the Greentown area and went to Hoover High School (class of 2010). After that, she went to Wittenberg University for her undergraduate education and double majored in English and communications.
"I spent two years working with the AmeriCorps VISTA in Athens, Ohio food system before starting my master’s degree at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs where I received my master's of public administration,” she said.
Would you detail some of the tasks and duties you do as housing director for the YWCA?
I oversee all our homeless prevention programs. This includes our 73-bed homeless shelter for women and children; our permanent supportive housing program, which includes three apartment-style housing locations across Canton; our Rapid Rehousing program, which offers clients a 12-month subsidy with a private landlord; and our YWCA THRIVE infant mortality program in partnership with the Canton health department. Each of these programs relates back to housing either directly or indirectly.
When individuals are homeless, they’re truly in a fight, flight or freeze situation. Once they are stably housed, we can better assess the unique barriers that they face in securing long-term affordable housing, and we set up a housing plan based off of that information.
In terms of what my job looks like on a day-to-day basis, I never really know until I walk through the door that day. What I like so much about this work is that it challenges me every day to solve problems, address new situations, and identify creative ways to provide our services. Since I've been in this role for less than a year, I'm still learning and growing each day.
What I can say is that a huge part of what I do is ensure that my staff have the tools, resources, and support to make sure they are able to show up for our clients each day. This work can be emotionally exhausting, and I am a strong believer in making sure my team is not only taking care of our clients, but also taking care of themselves.
If individuals reading the profile are experiencing/know anyone experiencing homelessness, the best way to get assistance is through our county’s Homeless Navigation system by calling 330-452-4363.
On average, how many women and children does the Canton YWCA serve per year?
In 2021, the YWCA of Canton served 1,139 individuals throughout our six different programs, with 60% of those individuals living at or below the federal poverty level.
In housing alone, we served:
- 219 individuals in our Emergency Homeless Shelter for women and children.
- 302 individuals in our Rapid Rehousing program, which places individuals facing homelessness with private landlords.
- 158 individuals in permanent supportive housing, which offers YWCA-owned apartment style living.
It’s a common misconception that the YWCA only serves women. In 2021, we served 683 women/girls, 448 men/boys, and three transgender or nonbinary individuals.
What is your personal philosophy about helping others?
Do so in a way that is person-centered, and trauma informed. If we are approaching individuals as problems that need solved rather than people who need support, it's time to rethink our approach.
Part of person-centered help is recognizing that individuals are unique and have diverse needs, experiences, and realities. For me, it's always important to come to each situation without expectations or preconceived ideas of how someone should act. Everyone acts differently in crisis, and it's not my job to say if they're processing their experiences correctly or not.
I remind myself constantly that most households, including my own, are only a few missed paychecks away from poverty. There are many points of my life where, if I had made a different decision, I could have been facing the same challenges that our clients face each day.
At the end of the day, the people I serve are not homeless people, they are people who are currently experiencing homelessness. They are my community members. They are my neighbors.
The bottom line is sometimes people need a little support to get back on their feet. Dr. King says it more eloquently than me: "It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
Would you share some of the hobbies or activities you do on your down time?
I love to garden. We have a big garden plot in our yard, and I spend all summer out in the dirt.
During the pandemic, my fiancé and I designed and built our own chicken coop for the backyard and welcomed four chickens to the family: Jane, Courtney, Portia, and Orla.
I love to create things. I freelance in graphic design when my schedule allows, I embroider, demo. And I'm an avid reader — I was an English major in college, so I've always loved literature. My goal this year is to read 60 books (five a month) — I'm a little behind.
What are some other causes you volunteer for or support and why?
I currently serve on the board of directors for StarkFresh, which is a grassroots food justice organization in Canton. Sustainable food systems and agricultural equity was one of my first passions when I started working in the nonprofit realm. When I finally found myself settled back in Canton, I really wanted to be able to be a part of that work again, and StarkFresh was the logical fit for me.
Prior to the pandemic, I volunteered with Girls on the Run as a volunteer coach. I wish this organization existed when I was younger! The mission is to reach girls at the critical time in their adolescence to build confidence, practice coping skills, and learn to love physical activity.
It's probably no surprise, given my role at the YWCA, that empowering women and girls is something I'm extremely passionate about, so hopefully I'll have the opportunity to work with this organization again.
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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How are women reinventing the workplace? Find out at Bryant University Women's Summit
According to Virginia “Ginny” Clarke, the business world is in the midst of an enormous transformation.
Clarke, the founder of a talent and leadership consultancy, doesn’t just mean the more flexible workplace precipitated by the COVID pandemic. She sees a seismic shift in the very constructs of corporate culture, where women — and other underrepresented groups — play a larger role in creating new paradigms in the workforce.
“I’m saying to women: We need to start stepping up and really claiming what we know we’re good at and where we can add value. And, stop asking and seeking validation from others,” she said. “As a civilization we cannot afford to not have everyone active and doing what they want to do for the good of all.”
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Clarke’s front-line assessment has been informed by an expansive 30-year career. From her early years in the banking and real estate industries, she became the only Chicago-based, African American partner at the global executive search firm Spencer Stuart (a distinction she still holds). She was later hired by Google to lead its executive recruiting, diversity and internal mobility operations before branching out with her own business, Ginny Clarke LLC.
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On Wednesday, Clarke will join Karen S. Lynch, CEO of CVS Health, and Nikkia Reveillac, director of consumer insights at Netflix, as keynote speakers at Bryant University’s Women’s Summit. The theme of the summit’s 25th year is “Leadership Through a New Lens.”
“Women are trying to contort themselves into this image of what it means to be a leader or a professional,” Clarke said. “We don’t need to do that anymore. We need to rewrite that whole playbook of what leaders look like. And, it looks like us. Being empathetic and competent. Being unapologetic and fearless.”
Clarke, who received her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, says she honed her skills of assessing talent during her dozen years at Spencer Stuart. She soon realized that “the whole game has been rigged.” Rather than relying on meritocracy, many companies continue to act like fraternities that favor certain academic and professional pedigrees.
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“A lot of these venerable institutions — whether they’re the older ones like GE and IBM, or newer ones like the Googles and Apples — were built on foundations that I think are wobbly and weren’t necessarily created to be inclusive,” she said. “How about we build something that really is for everyone and is going to be that much better? It doesn't need to be either/or. As women, we’re coming with the ‘and.’”
Another of the summit’s keynote speakers, Karen Lynch, instantly became one of “the most powerful women in American business,” according to Forbes magazine, when she was named CEO of Woonsocket-based CVS Health in February 2021. As the highest-ranking female executive in the United States, Lynch oversees the fourth-largest company in the country by revenue. She took charge of a corporation on the front lines of a once-in-a-century global pandemic.
“Throughout my life I have been faced with adversity,” Lynch said via email. “Regardless of what the challenge is, I’ve learned our strength and resilience is shown through how we respond. When you have a setback, learn from it and keep moving forward.”
Lynch, who will receive Bryant’s Kati C. Machtley Businesswoman of the Year Award at the Women’s Summit, has said she looks forward to the day when female executives are no longer the exception but the norm.
Her career advice for women: “Empowered leaders empower leaders. Find a sponsor or mentor, and as you advance in your career, pass it on. Teach what you’ve learned.”
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Ross Gittell, president of Bryant University, said it's critical for Bryant students — and for women in the workforce — to hear directly from the speakers, not only about their own professional trajectories, but also the lasting impact of the pandemic on the business world.
“It’s a particularly poignant time to get together and talk about leadership issues,” Gittell said. “We thought this was a really good opportunity to highlight three keynote speakers who are really providing a new lens to leadership with a particular focus on some of the challenges. But, really a focus on the opportunities for women and women’s leadership.”
The summit, which will be held on Bryant’s campus in Smithfield, is expected to draw more than 1,000 participants both in person and virtually. Admission costs $199. Registration is available online until noon on April 26, at wsummit.bryant.edu/register.
— Patricia Andreu, a freelance journalist living in Providence, writes Women In Action, a periodic column. Reach her at WomenInActionRI@outlook.com and follow her on Twitter: @ri_women.
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One man killed, another injured in ATV crash in Osnaburg Township
OSNABURG TWP. – A Canton man was killed and a Louisville man was injured at 9:55 p.m. Saturday when their all-terrain vehicles collided on state Route 172 at Evening Star Avenue, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.
The Honda Rincon ATVs were traveling eastbound beside one another when they sideswiped each other. The ATV operated by Steven Blouir overturned and traveled off the side of the road, and the ATV driven by John Barnhart also traveled off the road and struck Blouir, the patrol said.
Blouir was pronounced dead at the scene. Barnhart was transported to Aultman Hospital with serious injuries.
Neither ATV operator was wearing a helmet. Drugs and alcohol are suspected as factors in the crash, which remains under investigation, the patrol said.
Osnaburg Township Fire/EMS, Louisville Fire/EMS, and Louisville police assisted at the scene.
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Sorry, birds: Illinoisans urged to take down backyard feeders amid avian flu outbreak
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is urging residents to remove and/or disinfect bird feeders and bird baths to prevent the spread of avian flu. The recommendation extends through May 31.
IDNR said while the EA H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has not been detected in songbirds, it is affecting some wild and domestic bird species. It said wild birds will have ample food sources while feeders are removed.
What you should do
The IDNR urges residents to:
- Clean and rinse bird feeders and baths with a diluted bleach solution (nine parts water to one part bleach) and remove them, or clean weekly if they can’t be moved.
- Remove any birdseed at the base of feeders to discourage large gatherings of birds or other wildlife.
- Avoid feeding wild birds in close proximity to domestic flocks.
If five or more dead wild birds are observed in one location, an IDNR district wildlife biologist should be contacted at wildlifeillinois.org/sidebar/contact-an-idnr-district-wildlife-biologist/. United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services also may be contacted, at 866-487-3297. The IDNR also requests any sightings of dead or sick bald eagles to be reported to the agency.
When disposing of dead wild birds, rubber gloves and a mask should be worn, and the carcass should be double-bagged in sealed plastic bags. The bags can be buried away from scavengers or placed in the garbage if approved by a local waste service provider. Anyone handling dead birds should thoroughly wash their hands, clothes and any tools used with soap and water following disposal.
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Which birds are at risk?
IDNR first announced HPAI was found in wild Canada geese in Illinois on March 10. Wild bird deaths from avian flu have been confirmed in Fulton, Sangamon, Champaign and Will counties. Affected wild birds include waterfowl and waterbird species and some raptors, including bald eagles. Detections in domestic poultry flocks have also occurred.
What about turkey hunters?
Wild turkeys are less likely to contract HPAI given their behavior and habitats, but hunters should thoroughly cook the meat to an internal temperature of 165 degrees and implement other guidance found at aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/2015/fsc_hpai_hunters.pdf.
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A 27-year-old man was gunned down and two others were wounded in a triple shooting in the Bronx, police said Saturday.
It happened on Clay Avenue near the Bronx Expressway shortly after 7:30 p.m.
Police said the 27-year-old victim was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital a short time later.
Two other men, ages 34 and 39, were shot in the leg and are expected to recover, according to the NYPD.
Authorities said the suspect took off in a dark-colored sedan, but no other suspect information was immediately available.
Police didn't say if the shooting appeared intention or what events led up to the gunfire.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Police in New Jersey say a toddler is safe after a man stole a car with the child inside.
The vehicle was stolen along 21st Avenue in Paterson on Saturday, police said.
Officers quickly tracked down the black Mercedes SUV a few blocks away and safely located the child.
The boy was reunited with his parents shortly thereafter.
Authorities said the suspect managed to get away. No description was released by officials.
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IMMOKALEE Fla. — Multiple fires broke out in Immokalee mobile homes Saturday afternoon, impacting nine people including one child.
Local American Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid to the nine victims of the fire located on S. 4th Street, according to the Florida Gulf Coast to Heartland Chapter.
Further information on the rescue by Red Cross can be found at the SWFL Red Cross website.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Ukrainian grandmother spent her Saturday night at the Southwest Florida International Airport anxiously waiting for her children and 9 grandkids to touch down months after fleeing Ukraine.
Nelli Roshchuk and her husband have lived in the U.S. for 23 years. They’ve lived in North Port for one year. Her family left Ukraine on February 25, one day after Russia’s invasion.
Through a translator, Roshchuk said she hasn’t been able to sleep knowing her family was still seeking refuge.
“They went through Hungary, Austria and Germany. 3 nights in one car, 11 people,” said Roshchuk. “When they were driving they were already bombing.”
While the family of 11 moving throughout the world hoping to find their way to the United States, Nelli and members of the Ukrainian Baptist Church went to work. Members made enough empanadas and other treats to raise nearly $5,000, just enough to rent a three bedroom home for the family to live in North Port.
“The outpouring of support is unbelievable,” said Roshchuk.
Church and family members are furnishing the home through donations. They’re hoping for more donations to fill the otherwise empty home.
At 9:30 Saturday night, the family met at RSW for an emotional, long awaited reunion. Now that her family is here, Nelli can rest and her family can begin adjusting to their new home.
“Long road ahead, but they’ll have support,” said Roshchuk.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The southern access route to the west end of the St. Johns Bridge has reopened after a four-month closure caused by a landslide.
The southern half of Northwest Bridge Avenue, which carries traffic up and down the hill between the bridge and Northwest St. Helens Road, reopened on Saturday, according to a news release from the Oregon Department of Transportation.
The landslide occurred on the evening of Jan. 5 following a round of heavy rainfall. Fire crews responded and closed the road, and about two weeks later ODOT announced that the closure would need to remain in place for several weeks.
The Bridge Avenue area is known for landslides and rockfall incidents, ODOT spokesman Don Hamilton said at the time, and the agency would need to conduct an emergency repair project at the site.
The job included removing any remaining hazardous vegetation from the slope above the road, then installing a new pinned mesh system to stabilize the hill, which required removing additional rock in order to safely install the anchors that would hold up the mesh.
The mesh system has worked well in other areas of Portland, Hamilton said, but the installation process would take eight to 10 weeks. In the meantime, bridge traffic has had to use the northern half of Bridge Avenue.
The last step in the repair process was to repave the road, ODOT said, which wrapped up early Saturday morning.
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Video captured the moment police say a car thief barreled through the Bronx on Friday morning, striking a pedestrian and continuing down the road until his joyride ended with a utility pole crash.
Police were still searching for the hit-and-run driver Sunday, accused of leaving a victim with severe injuries on White Plains Road.
The NYPD said video shows the victim, 49, standing behind his parked pickup truck when the stolen flatbed strikes him around 8:15 a.m. and knocks him unconscious.
Authorities said the man was left on the road near East 238th Street as the flatbed driver continued northbound. The injured man "suffered severe body trauma," which included broken bones, according to police.
Officers found the stolen flatbed hours later, around 5 p.m., abandoned after crashing into a utility pole not far away, near East 235th Street and White Plains Road.
The NYPD said its officer were searching for a man in his late 50s to early 60s and bald, captured in surveillance images.
The investigation is ongoing.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Portland Japanese Garden held a handover ceremony Thursday evening at the former Salvation Army home for young women on the edge of Forest Park. The Garden bought the house designed by famed architect A.E. Doyle and three other buildings on the property for $4.2 million, with a view to turning it into a sibling organization called the Japan Institute.
The new site will host visiting artists and gardeners learning Japanese gardening methods, will house a dark room, ceramic studio and other artist studios, and the chapel will become an auditorium, which they are calling a “glass theater.”
The property is just past the Thurman Bridge at 2640 N.W. Alexandra Ave. Japanese Garden — as it calls itself without the definite article — currently has properties spread around Washington Park and Sylvan, as well as scattered storage units. The new suite of buildings will be able to accommodate office staff and objects that don’t fit into the Garden’s Cultural Village, which opened in 2017.
Portland Japanese Garden was established in 1963 to help heal the wounds of World War II. The Japan Institute aims to extend the garden’s vision to be a “leading global voice for cultural understanding, in pursuit of a more peaceful, sustainable world,” its CEO Steve Bloom said.
Thursday’s event was billed as a handover, and a chance to celebrate the Salvation Army’s work at what was known as its White Shield Center.
“As an organization that was established on similar ideals around peace and healing, we take our charge seriously that this land’s legacy of community service will continue for generations to come,” Bloom said.
Room for all
The Cultural Village at Japanese Garden was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates and Portland-based architects Hacker, who also will renovate the new campus. Kuma will work with art glass for the first time, partnering with Bullseye Glass to turn the chapel into a brightly lit concert hall. The organization has never had a stage, and the institute will be able to host small conferences, concerts and talks.
“The Japan Institute won’t be a place to just drive by and check out what’s going on,” Bloom told the Portland Tribune. “But it will be a new educational institution where people can sign up for classes and come and participate in it. We’re going to transform this place to a place of creativity and enjoy.”
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Bloom added that if the hall of residence is not full all year round, rooms could be let to other institutions, such as the Oregon Symphony, for hosting their visiting artists. “We can save them some money, just being good neighbors and a resource for the community.”
Sylvan
The Salvation Army’s Major Robert Lloyd said the handover hit some speed bumps when they discovered 3,500 gallons of fuel oil in an underground tank, abandoned in the 1950s. They also didn’t know that the Parks Bureau owned the lower parking lot, which they had been using for decades. That has all been straightened out.
“We’re just surrounded by Forest Park, we don’t have neighbors that would come and complain about us encroaching on them,” Lloyd said.
The hillside, wood-fringed property initially was developed in 1914 and features the work of Portland’s most celebrated architect, A.E. Doyle. Until 2020, it housed young women in the 1960s-era living quarters down the slope. The halls have baby blue paint and electric wall heaters, but that institutional feel will be replaced by the nature-informed minimalism of Kum and Hacker. The commercial kitchen and dining hall will be needed so people don’t have to leave for every meal.
Adam Crosson, who works with Portland Japanese Garden head gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama, said people learning the art of Japanese gardening can take Levels 1, 2 and, soon, 3 there. Areas of the hillside will be dedicated to plants and stonework. He said in Japan, it takes one and a half decades to become a Japanese master gardener — the first few years consist of just observation and training the body — but in Portland they expedite some parts of the training.
Space
The campus started off as a hospital for women pregnant out of wedlock. The money came from a bequest by E. Henry Wemme. The once-time richest man in Portland was grateful to be cared for by single mother who took him in after he was injured while working as a lineman, according to lore. For the last 20 years, the Salvation Army partnered with the Oregon Youth Authority and Oregon Department of Human Services to house girls who were wards of the state and runaways, but it was not cost-effective, so the Salvation Army closed the program in the summer of 2020.
One young woman who stayed there for two months, was Tian Rufener, age 20. “It was like living in high school, like a journey of self-discovery,” Rufener told the Tribune at the event. “Thank God we had good staff who were good when it came to being there and being supportive.”
The girls studied mindfulness and yoga. Rufener now works at Killer Burger in Hollywood and is taking prerequisites to get into the addiction counseling program at Portland Community College.
Politicians in attendance included U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. The $25 million capital campaign is $15 million complete. Taxpayers have contributed $1.75 million via the federal government and $2 million from the Oregon Legislature.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — A wildfire in the Gulf Cove community ignited Saturday evening on Dubarry Avenue it spread over an estimated 150 acres in the Myakka State Forest.
Neighbors believed an 8-year-old started the fire by playing with matches, but fire officials said that’s not the case.
According to Florida Forest Services (FFS) of Myakka, no homes have been damaged at this time by the Saturday evening fire.
However, one boat and two sheds have been damaged so far, according to FFS.
130 acres 30%, Wildfire is now on the ##MyakkaRiverForest. Will update pic.twitter.com/lQ9UwkIAv8
— FFS Myakka (@FFS_Myakka) April 24, 2022
The fire is currently 90% contained, FFS said.
The Charlotte County Fire Department is currently investigating the exact cause of the fire.
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Police on Long Island say they have the woman in custody responsible for stealing another woman's vehicle and running over her legs in a church parking lot.
The brazen incident occurred Saturday around 6:45 p.m. at St. Mary's Church in Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County Police said.
Police said the vehicle owner parked next to clothing bins and exited, leaving the engine running. That's when the other woman struck.
The owner ran back to her vehicle after the woman hopped into the driver's seat. Police said the owner opened the door and tried to grab the steering wheel when the suspect threw the car in reverse and stepped on the gas.
According to authorities, the door knocked the victim to the ground and the car ran over her legs. The 73-year-old was later taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Police said the car thief, 50, crashed the car into a guardrail and fence, then fled on foot before she was tracked down and arrested later that day. She's being charged with assault and robbery.
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Mayor Eric Adams announced a commitment from the city to invest nearly $1 billion into safety measures designed to curb traffic deaths and enhance protections on New York City streets.
Adams' pledge Saturday comes on the heels of a deadly three months on city streets: at least 59 people were killed between January and March, a 44 percent increase over the same time last year.
An estimated $900 million is being eyed to combat what Adams calls a "crisis."
“Too many New Yorkers have lost their lives to the traffic violence crisis, and we are seeing cities across the country struggle just like us, but this historic investment will allow New Yorkers to walk and cycle around our city without fear," his statement read.
The funds earmarked for the next five years are designed to help create a more bike, bus and pedestrian-friendly city. It also means fewer cars on certain roads.
New York City is currently on track to upgrade 10 miles of bikes lanes this year and an additional 20 miles by the end of 2023.
Adams says the new investment injects needed funding into former Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to expand bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes and reclaim pedestrian space in the "NYC Streets Plan."
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The day of the mayor's announcement, a 13-year-old teen riding a scooter was hospitalized with a leg injury after he was hit by a car in Manhattan, and an 89-year-old woman walking near a Queens shopping center was critically wounded by a driver.
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More than 100 FDNY members were battling a 3-alarm blaze at a home in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, a department spokesperson confirmed.
At least four firefighters received injuries amid the large response within the first two hours of the fire, the FDNY said.
Thirty-three units responded to the structure on 1086 Avenue North in Canarsie around 1:40 p.m. for a fire overtaking the roof of the residence.
Shortly after 2:10 p.m., the department triggered a 3-alarm response.
The conditions of the four members injured was not immediately known.
Neighbors in the area were encouraged to close windows due to the amount of smoke in the air.
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SANIBEL, Fla. — A brown pelican is recovering at the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc. (CROW) after officials found the bird with a three inch hole in the left side of its pouch.
Crow veterinarians suspect the hole was the result of fishing gear getting hooked onto the pelican’s mouth.
The pelican was found at the Bookeelia Fishing Pier on April 14 severely dehydrated and emaciated as well. It received supportive care until CROW veterinarians performed surgery on the pelican to close its wound.
Veterinarians were able to remove dead tissues from the wound and stitch the hole closed. The pelican recovered from surgery and is doing well, according to CROW.
For more information on the negative impacts of fishing gear on wildlife and the environment, you can visit the Mind Your Line website.
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