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"My cell phone was blowing up. It was 7:30 in the morning, two hours before I usually get up. It kept ringing, buzzing. I finally checked it. People were sending me pictures of the place I bought, the Imagination Station, on fire. Mary and I got in the car and drove over. It's two blocks from where I live, and a small crowd was standing around, watching it burn. I didn't know what to think. Someone suggested it was started by kids shooting off fireworks. I don't know. We didn't have any enemies.
"I had a '95 Ford Explorer that was stolen the morning after the Super Bowl. So Mary called her family—they live downriver—to see if we could borrow the Suburban. We had that for three weeks before it got stolen.
"Things like this happen in Detroit. The neighborhood doesn't rally around to stop it. They just do their thing, not wanting to go digging into some hornet's nest. When I tried to report the first car, it took me three days. I was calling the crime-reporting line, and I kept getting put on hold. It's just a quagmire of red tape here. So finally I recorded a message and sent it to a DJ I found online, a guy in Croatia. He turned it into a great little techno song that I posted on SoundCloud, 'Detroit Police Department Stolen Car.' I was a local hero for a hot moment.
"My friend Zak Meers came by after the fire. We had planned a mural for the Station. I said we should speed the mural up, do something. We painted two words, real big, on what was left of the building: it's ok! That's what it says now—just a big two-word press release."
Jerry Paffendorf's Imagination Station was an art and performance space sitting near Detroit's iconic eyesore: the windowless, 18-story Michigan Central Station. He and some neighbors had bought two houses and a field for $6,000 and renovated the property as a goodwill gesture and an expression of faith in his adopted home. Paffendorf, tall and iPad-trim with wire-rimmed glasses and the musing air of a professor, moved to Detroit four years ago from Silicon Valley. He'd grown sick of the Valley treadmill. The last straw: He was pushed out of a company he founded. Moving to Detroit wasn't such a wild leap. It had been the Silicon Valley of its day—an innovation hub, the fount of a global industry, a kingdom. Now it is a refuge for techies looking to tackle real problems.
Paffendorf's startup, Loveland Technologies, created a website called "Why Don't We Own This?" It addresses one of Detroit's biggest problems: abandoned property. Detroit is big, covering 139 square miles, enough to hold Boston, Manhattan, and San Francisco. Yet over the past 60 years, its population has shrunk from 1.8 million to just over 700,000. As a result, thousands of foreclosed, government-owned lots go up for auction for as little as a few hundred dollars. Identifying those properties is a labyrinth for anyone without a real estate license. Loveland's website provides a simplified and information-rich online map of auction property for anyone looking to buy. Renters, too, can learn if a building is on the verge of foreclosure.
That's useful, yes. But it's not enough when set against the city's myriad problems. Detroit is in such bad shape that in March, Michigan governor Rick Snyder declared that the state would install an emergency financial manager to tackle the mess, a move that could culminate in bankruptcy. The city is weighed down by some $14 billion in long-term debt, a sum that increased by $343 million last year despite spending cuts of $122 million, so much are revenues shrinking. This past December, Mayor Dave Bing announced the latest round of layoffs: 5% of city workers. Unemployment is 18%, twice the national rate, and just 12% of residents 25 or older have a bachelor's degree, less than half the national level. Public school enrollment is a third of what it was 10 years ago, and last year the city lost 21 schools through closings and district changes; 21 more are scheduled to close by 2016. The decline started well before the infamous 1967 race riots that are often cited as the trigger. In the 1950s, 101 fire companies covered the city. Today, 52 remain. With so much abandoned property, arson is common. One 32-hour span in September saw 31 fires. The department's finances are such that last year firehouses ran out of toilet paper. The firefighters, whose wages had been cut, replenished it with their own money.
Yet Paffendorf's website is significant because it represents a new, simplified approach to these problems, from the toilet paper to the schools. Detroit has often sought salvation in big solutions: a car company comeback; the Renaissance Center, a cluster of seven towers downtown; casinos; the 2006 Super Bowl; the 2009 election of Bing, a Detroit Piston star turned steel magnate. Nothing has worked.
But the city's depression—and the depressed real estate prices that came with it—created opportunities. And opportunity lures entrepreneurs. The startup types, like Paffendorf. And the ones with lots of money, like Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the third-largest mortgage provider in the country; he moved 1,700 employees downtown in 2010, giving him 7,000 employees there and making him Detroit's third-largest landowner (trailing only the city and General Motors). With slicked-back hair and a perpetual poker face, Gilbert has just gotten started on his plan to transform the area.
DAN GILBERT: "The lease on our headquarters in the suburbs was due to expire around the end of 2010. Because I was born in Detroit and my father was born in Detroit and my grandfather was born in Detroit, I had this idea that the company could have an impact on the city, help lead the change here once and for all.
"So we signed for a space in this building developed by [Compuware cofounder] Peter Karmanos, who moved his employees here before us. We put about $30 million into making the office space cool, and several thousand employees now work here. But we always said to ourselves we're not going to move down here just because we want comfortable office space. We want to make our mark on the entire area.
"To do this right, we have to control the real estate, because we need to offer companies a package and a process for moving their employees downtown. Just telling them to go figure it out with a typical broker was not enough. At the time, real estate prices were so low that it was what I'd call a skyscraper sale. We picked up one, a beautiful building that needed a lot of work, for $8 a square foot. That's ridiculous! In New York, they rent for $90 a foot. Since we needed space, we went on a buying spree.
"We're trying to recruit companies and create a downtown retailing experience. Chrysler is here, Twitter has come, Blue Cross Blue Shield has moved several thousand people here. We've got lots of interest from restaurants. We've got a major New York City coffee shop opening. We're not doing this in a hodgepodge fashion.
"As the commitment to downtown grows larger, everything becomes easier. It's inch by inch, brick by brick. The more people come in, the more difficult it is for skeptics and pessimists to have a credible position. We offer a lot of internships—600 interns from across the country. You can intern in Chicago or New York and do fine. But if you come here, you have an opportunity to affect the outcome. That is a big selling point for this generation.
"Me, I'm approaching my 50th birthday, and I'm in a fortunate position to affect the outcome of my hometown, a city that's been beat up for decades. I'm not going to be on my deathbed one day thinking, Man, aren't you happy you just stayed in the suburbs in your asphalt parking lot and didn't try? You can do good for Detroit and do well at the same time. And that's what's happening."
Gilbert has invested $1 billion in downtown so far. His plan, carried out with little help from Detroit's hapless government, is working. More than 60 companies have moved into his buildings downtown. His gleaming headquarters teem with modern conveniences. Ten floors up you'll find a glass-enclosed basketball court for employees (Gilbert owns the Cleveland Cavaliers) and commanding views of downtown. Think of it as Gilbert's Imagination Station. You can see retailers testing the market, young workers lunching in a park, residents jogging and pushing strollers. In June, the city's first Whole Foods will open a couple of miles away. And every month, Gilbert says, a couple dozen of his employees move to apartments and homes in the city, many along the creative corridor between downtown and Midtown, joining the artists and entrepreneurs, the hipsters who'd be at home in Brooklyn and Austin, the other pioneers who see the opportunity in this broken and complicated city.
Detroit, which was rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1805, is once again like a forest after a fire, in such ruin that anything is possible. That's what makes it a magnet for folks like Andy Didorosi. Growing up in the suburbs, Didorosi, who favors black T-shirts and aqua sneakers, thought Detroit was dead. But now, at age 26, he finds it irresistible—the only place where he could have created something like his truly unusual business, the Detroit Bus Co.
ANDY DIDOROSI: "Transit in Detroit is bad. It's very underfunded; the city is gigantic; and a lot of people can't afford to get around. But there was a proposal for something called M-1 Rail, a train down Woodward Avenue, the most important street in Detroit. It was the first paved road in the world. The train was finally going to connect parts of the city in a way that made sense. But opponents said it was too expensive and there wasn't demand. Even so, it seemed there was money for it, from the federal government. We were all waiting on it.
"But then one morning in January [2012], I saw the headline in The Detroit News online: light rail is dead. And unlike the old days, when you're mad and you throw your newspaper down, I couldn't because in Detroit the paper only gets delivered three days a week; so I scrolled down real hard. I was furious. This train wasn't going to fix everything, but it was going to be the symbol of a new era in Detroit. I thought, I need to do something myself. But what can I afford? I bought some old school buses.
"I approached the business the way a 6-year-old would. What would people like on the buses? Well, people would like music. So we put good sound systems in. And the buses couldn't stay yellow, so I paid Detroit artists to paint them. And I thought people would like to know where the buses were at any moment, so we found some free apps that allow you to see where the bus is. And finally we asked where would people like buses, and we thought, Woodward Avenue—we'll drive buses up and down Woodward.
"Then, I looked into it: What is it going to take for me to start a bus company? I called up the Michigan Department of Transportation, and they're like, 'What? You want to start a public bus company yourself?' They didn't even know that I was 25. 'Well, you need insurance,' they told me.
"So I called the insurance company, and they're like, 'You want to do what?' They said, 'Okay, insurance is going to be $90,000 a bus.' I was defeated. My buses cost $2,000. Why is the insurance that much?
"So I called them back. This time I tell them, 'I want to create a private bus system that just goes from one bar to another bar. And they're like, 'Oh, no problem, we do that all the time.' So then I had a bus company.
"Now we're going after new services. There's no public option to the airport, so we're working on that. We're tackling some really serious stuff in a commonsense way."
Didorosi's buses stop at hip bars and restaurants in gentrifying neighborhoods, and pack in riders for tours of "hidden" Detroit. In three years, he's become one of the city's most prolific hip-trepreneurs (there's no other word for it). In addition to the buses, he has an incubator, a liquidation business, a Wi-Fi service, and a motorcycle-race series at an abandoned velodrome. (He restored the track with the Detroit Mower Gang, which mows abandoned parks on their own—"reverse vandalism," he calls it.)
All this is cool and fun. But it's fair to ask how it and some of the other startups will mesh with the city. Detroit is 83% African-American, and its poverty, crime, and education failures hit hardest there. Didorosi, like so many of the young entrepreneurs and artists who have descended on the city in the last few years, is white, which heightens the undercurrent of racial tension. And given the city's track record on education, the typical resident lacks the skills for any new high-tech job. "It doesn't feel good for minority populations," says Carla Walker-Miller, a prominent African-American CEO based in TechTown, Detroit's largest business accelerator. "To some people who have been here the whole time, it feels like a takeover, not a renaissance. They see people getting hired, but they didn't get the announcement that there were opportunities."
For people in neighborhoods like Brightmoor, a long-neglected area on the city's outer edge plagued by high crime and poverty, where humble single-family houses sit alongside graffiti-covered, burned-out shells, the entrepreneurially flush downtown can seem more like a mirage than a real hope. In Brightmoor, just about the best thing that can happen is that a huge hole in the ground appears on your block. The hole means that an abandoned building has been scrapped, demolished—often by the not-for-profit Motor City Blight Busters, a fixture run by the enterprising John George. When Dave Bing became mayor, he vowed to tear down 10,000 empty houses within four years. To date, the city has taken down nearly 7,000. About 45,000 remain. This is Alicia George's neighborhood.
ALICIA GEORGE: "For many years I had worked with John George and Blight Busters. The organization demolishes abandoned houses, but when a house can be saved, we renovate it and sell it or rent it to the community.
"And I had a personal dream, which was to open a coffee shop. It would be a place that would also contribute to economic development on the northwest side of Detroit. Nowhere in Brightmoor was there a cafe, a gallery, an artists' market. I wanted to offer open-mike poetry night, jazz, art shows, galleries, a little bit of everything. There's a lot going on in downtown, in Midtown, in the Corktown area, but I wanted to be the person who brought that to my corner of the city.
"I didn't have experience owning a business. But I had worked for Marriott and learned hospitality, and I took college courses, I went to roasting plants, I visited every coffee shop that I possibly could. I talked to folks in the restaurant business. And John and I tried to figure out how we were going to finance this coffee shop. We rented out a space and sold candy, dinners, water—whatever it took to raise the dollars.
"The first place we found was an abandoned Victorian home, very cute, very nice. It was going to be cozy and comfortable, a place where everybody can hang out. We were all set to do the landscaping. But a lot of things happen in Detroit, and shortly after we discovered this place, it burned to the ground, and I was just devastated. I had worked so hard. But I couldn't give up. God had placed that vision and that dream in me, and we were going to make it a reality.
"It took 10 years, but we finally found our space. We spent about a quarter of a million dollars in total. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this place. We opened the Motor City Java House on Angels' Night in 2010. It's part of something we call the Artist Village Detroit. It has a courtyard, a studio, two apartments, and a community garden. There have been payless paydays, and the city once made a permit mistake and shut us down for 23 days. But since we opened, a dozen businesses have started up nearby.
"I married John last September. He helped build the Java House, with hardwood floors recycled from abandoned houses. A lot were drug havens, just negative energy. But those floors helped revitalize and stabilize our neighborhood."
These may sound like small-scale ventures, but there's big money behind Detroit's bet on entrepreneurs as well: not from the government, and not from the auto manufacturers, even as they recover from their near-death experiences. In 2008, the Ford, Kresge, Kellogg, and Knight foundations, along with six others, stepped up with a combined $100 million investment. But after 18 months, the coalition had made just seven grants. "We didn't know what to do to transform the economy," admits David Egner, the president and CEO of the Hudson-Webber Foundation. After taking over the reins of the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, he steered the investment toward grants for entrepreneurs, helping create 425 companies and 6,900 jobs—half in Detroit.
Egner brought in Josh McManus. Six-foot-four with a soft Georgia drawl that belies his bluntness, McManus, 35, had helped engineer a turnaround in the industrial town of Chattanooga, Tennessee, founding an innovation outfit called Little Things Labs and directing a program that incubated 300 enterprises. He came to Detroit looking for the next big challenge. "My interest," he tells me over sandwiches one night at Slows Bar BQ, which is flourishing on a dreary stretch of Michigan Avenue, "has been, and remains, that this is possibly an unsolvable problem."
JOSH MCMANUS: "I can remember the look on people's faces when I said, 'I'm gonna move to Detroit.' It was sorta like when I was 19 years old, coming from a rural southern conservative family; I looked at my dad and said, 'I'm gonna be in nonprofits.' The first day I got here, I was interviewed for an article back home, and I called Detroit 'the Wild West of social entrepreneurship.' Some local people took offense. But I stand by that statement.
"Where everything's broken, anything's possible. Like the owner of this restaurant, a barbecue entrepreneur who took over a 30,000-square-foot building nearby for $100,000 and has people there doing everything from sewing jeans and coats for homeless people to doing metalwork and building furniture.
"Thomas Edison supposedly said that opportunity is missed by most because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks like work. As I think back through the history of innovation, and look at people such as Charles and Ray Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright and Edison and all the others who broke into a space that we had not seen before, they worked in transitional places. That's why I think opportunity looks like Detroit.
"I tell people, if you are not needed where you are right now, you are needed in Detroit. But before you show up, you need to know that it ain't damn Disneyland for hipsters. It's a very real place. When I say 'Wild West,' I mean it. I mean it in that when I walk to certain places I stick a pistol in my boot. And because the first time that I ever called the police in Detroit, it took them 57 minutes to arrive.
"So there's a cost to opportunity, but it's balanced by unlimited potential. An emerging entrepreneur can't have a 100,000-square-foot building in San Francisco, unless he's got a trust fund. For most of us, it just couldn't ever happen. It can happen in Detroit."
At 62, Bill McGraw is trim and boyish, brimming with stories and wry commentary. He's like a walking Detroit almanac for good reason: He co-edited a book by that name. During 32 years as a reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press, he heard every mayor, business leader, and civic cheerleader promise that his hometown is coming back. He'd like to believe them. He can wax on about the gilded art deco Fisher building—"the most beautiful building between Chicago and Philadelphia"—and about how Sunday morning bike rides in the summer are sublime; there's little traffic, a happy by-product of a smaller population. Yet Detroit breaks his heart every day.
On his commute, the transition from Dearborn, a prosperous western suburb, to Detroit is startling. With Ford world headquarters barely in his rearview mirror, McGraw crosses the city boundary and sees the businesses suddenly drop off, the buildings crumbling and defeated. Prostitutes linger on street corners. He passes an antiques store on Michigan Avenue where last year a robber killed its longtime owner with a baseball bat. He drives by burned-out stores, a vacant hospital, and then the granddaddy of them all, Michigan Central Station. His commute ends downtown at the Compuware building, where he now runs Deadline Detroit, an online news site he started last year. He chronicles the contradiction that is Detroit a few floors from Gilbert and his basketball court. The building is the most impressive place McGraw has ever worked, with a cafeteria, health club, day care, and a 14-story water sculpture in the atrium. "If Detroit had 10 other buildings like this, you wouldn't be writing this story," he tells me.
When I talked to McGraw in November, the city was on the verge of running out of cash, and the mayor and city council were locked in a stalemate, freezing up $30 million generated through bond sales. That sum wouldn't come close to making Detroit solvent. In a city desperate for dynamic leadership, Detroit has Mayor Bing—at least until the fall election. "He's been totally overwhelmed," McGraw says. "He's probably the worst mayor politically and technically in my lifetime." That's saying a lot, considering that one of Bing's predecessors is Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in 2008 amid a sexting scandal, went to jail, and was convicted in March of fraud, bribery, and racketeering.
McGraw runs a Doomsday Clock at Deadline Detroit to track how close the city is to going bust. After Moody's downgraded the city's bond rating late last year, McGraw ticked the minute hand forward—a little bit closer to what would be the largest city bankruptcy in U.S. history.
BILL MCGRAW: "I've lived in this city for all but five years of my life. Not for love; for family reasons. And if you're into journalism, this is one of the five or six great news towns in the country.
"Detroit's been going downhill my whole life. I did one project, where I looked back at the 1951 Yellow Pages. There were 120 movie theaters in Detroit; now there are 2, I think. There were 120 bowling alleys; now there are 3 or 4. There were 3,000 bars; now there are 800. In every statistical way, it's gotten worse, if not every successive year, then certainly decade by decade.
"Even today while there's a really impressive number of people who are doing things to help Detroit, the city continues to decline. The most recent decade saw one of the worst declines. In 2007, I did a project called 'Driving Detroit,' where over four months I drove every street in the city—2,700 miles. And now, when I go back into those neighborhoods I don't get to often, I'm shocked at how much they have declined in five years.
"Gilbert is the third in a line of guys going back over 20 years who have done interesting things downtown. [The first two were Mike Ilitch, the owner of Little Caesars and the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings, and Pete Karmanos, who stepped down in March as executive chairman of Compuware.] Gilbert may be able to tip downtown. He has an emotional connection to the city, and he's an obsessive entrepreneur. But that's 3% or 4% of the 139 square miles of Detroit. As you move away from downtown, some areas are so overgrown and desolate and destitute they're like Appalachia.
"I don't know how things are going to turn out. Sometimes I'm tempted to write a story called 'What If Detroit Doesn't Get Any Better?' Because I'm not sure Detroit has reached bottom yet. The city may be bankrupt by the time your article runs. I am struck by what Gilbert's doing, though. And hey, we've added two more employees at Deadline Detroit. Traffic's up. We're a little Detroit business that's growing. In that way, I'm happy to help keep the wolves at bay."
McGraw is right. Despite the recent positive national attention, despite the goodwill, despite the good intentions of Mayor Bing and Governor Snyder, things are getting worse in Detroit every day. The best reason to hope that this new group of entrepreneurs can help is that they are dispersed, not gathered into any one-shot save-the-city effort directed by a single organization. This is grassroots entrepreneurship filling in for the failures of established institutions.
Margarita Barry is another of these entrepreneurs at work on several fronts. She operates a retail shop in D:hive, the welcome center and training hub that McManus opened for creative types and new arrivals. Barry's shop consists of clothes and knickknacks by local designers—an example of entrepreneurs buying goods from other entrepreneurs, feeding the new economic machine. Barry, 28, also runs "I Am Young Detroit," a website on which she profiles up-and-comers like Paffendorf and Didorosi. She celebrates the sort of success stories she never heard growing up in Detroit, as if she's rewriting the narrative of Detroit herself.
MARGARITA BARRY: "I bought a house recently on an eBay-style auction. I used Jerry's [Paffendorf] site to check it out. I decided to move out of Midtown. It's more of a challenge to live in a different neighborhood, somewhere that's not trendy. Maybe if I move here, and people come to events and parties at my house, I'm exposing them to other neighborhoods.
"The auction was exhilarating. I paid under $10,000. I know the neighborhood—you don't see that much blight. The house doesn't need that much—plumbing, some paint, refinished floors. I'll put in another $10,000.
"I have been touched personally by crime, but I don't want to go into it. That's not helping things progress. Sometimes it feels as if all this positive stuff can get negated by the violence, by the crime. I dealt with a break-in at my house, but then they broke into the D:hive. That felt like something else—it was terrible. This place is a special grassroots place. It's not a big corporate place making tons of money.
"You have to find a way to get through that feeling of frustration. You have to harness it, ask what can I do to make the situation better? Everyone in the city is coming together now, and I want to help. It's not just tech. It's Dan Gilbert, who's doing incredible things, and it's Brightmoor.
"Detroit hustles harder. Have you heard that? It's like our slogan. You can't be afraid of failure here. A lot of us don't have a lot to lose."
More. Detroit always needs more, like a hole in the ground that can't be filled. More big investments in downtown and in neighborhoods. More cool software and startups. More stories like Alicia George's. More stubborn optimists declaring, "It's okay."
Despite the setbacks, Barry finds it in herself to keep believing and to keep giving. After all, she's not just doing it for herself. She's improving Detroit for others. Fellow entrepreneurs. Neighbors. Longtime residents. Newcomers. Like the beautiful brown-eyed Detroiter who arrived in her life last October—a baby girl. Posey. This is her city now too.
[Photos by Corine Vermeulen]
A version of this article appeared in the May 2013 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
15 For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they
16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the
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Ryan and Kristie Cook of Hyde Park are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Courtney Marie to Nicholas R. Walker, son of Keith and Patti Walker of Logan. Nick and Courtney will be married on Dec. 31 in the Logan LDS temple.
Courtney is a 2009 graduate of Sky View High School. She is currently attending Utah State University, majoring in elementary education. Nick is a 2004 graduate from Logan High School. Nick completed an LDS mission in the Busan Korea Mission. He is currently attending Utah State University majoring in computer engineering.
Friends and family may join them on Dec. 31 from 4-6 p.m. at a reception held in their honor at the LDS church, located at 2540 North 400 East in North Logan.
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Skip to comments.Scott Peterson sentenced to death
Posted on 03/16/2005 10:15:56 AM PST by wallcrawlr
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. A judge has sentenced Scott Peterson to death for the slayings of his wife and her fetus.
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Later Scott
They mean life waiting for death. Things are so slow in Cali.
One day the fetus is known as Connor and the next it is known as fetus. I love the media.
*yawning* So what? When was the last time someone was actually executed in CA?
He'll live for 20 years before any switch is thrown or needle injected.
Had he been sentenced to life in prison, he would've lasted a week.
"Honest, Mr. Guard Sir, he slipped and fell!"
fat chance he'll ever see the needle...
can't remember the last person executed in CA
Lets start the freeper "office pool". My bet is for July 2020 for the execution date.
Justice served. Now if only we didn't have to hear about him appealing his sentance for the next 15 years....
(meanwhile, back in Bizarroland, some are already creating their "FREE SCOTT PETERSON" signs)
California where the state needs to build a new death row because the old one is too crowded with live inmates.
Get a rope...
Well, you can't officially have a name unless you have a birth certificate. And you can't have a birth certificate if you haven't been born. So, I guess technically, "fetus" is the proper term in this case.
Thanks for the update. I was wondering what had happened.
Doesn't matter. He's got a good 40 or 50 years before they get around to doing anything.
The State Of Kalifonia shows it's love Love you Scott Love you long time!
California's death row is significantly larger than Texas's. And everyone knows why.
Damn, they should have let him run free in prison, he'd be dead in a week, and BTW doesn't the "fetus" have a name???? Damn MSM, his name IS CONNOR, MSM, his name IS CONNOR, not fetus.
Who is Scott Peterson? Is he one of Michael Jackson's playmates or something?
Lee Peterson was kicked out of the courtroom when he called Brent Rocha (Laci's brother) a liar during his testimony today. Dennis Rocha told Scott: "Your going to burn in hell for this.". The brother said that he wanted to kill Scott, but wants to watch him "twist in the wind". Sharon Rocha is now addressing the court. Per MSNBC.
He'll probably die of AIDS from his prison lover before they throw the switch.
Actually, he hasn't yet been sentenced. The process was motions for a new trial (Denied as I understand it), victim impact statements (Ongoing as I type) and then the sentencing. I think the Judge indicated he would impose the sentence but it hasn't been set yet.
Wow! Thanks for the play-by-play. Great job.
I believe death row inmates have single cells.
birds of a feather
prob the other way around
I do believe the last person that was executed involved an innocent individual and a gang of thugs. I presume you know who was executed.
Technically, I suppose you have a point.
But just a reminder (and an unnecessary one, I'm sure) - Scott was convicted of murdering him, name or not.
I'd be curious how the statute used in that case reads.
Laci's brother Brent said that "Laci will be coming to take you away." to Scott Peterson. Brent Rocha told Scott: "It's sad what you put your mother through" and "Scott you are truly a loser." Sharon Rocha called Scott a baby killer, evil murderer, coward....and a product of the environment he grew up in.
Who said what to whom?
Precisely! Change his name to Terri Schiavo and we'll get rid of him much sooner...
>>>Well, you can't officially have a name unless you have a birth certificate. And you can't have a birth certificate if you haven't been born. So, I guess technically, "fetus" is the proper term in this case.<<
Spare me, please. If this were your son would you be calling him fetus?
Scott Peterson was sentenced to death Wednesday for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, more than two years ago.
I look at it this way: he's getting both the death penalty and life imprisonment. Two for the price of one!
How about never. They will never execute him. I think the likely senario is that he will be murdered while in prison.
On a side note. I was rather put off by Ms. Roche regarding her complaints about how the courthouse is full of strangers that didnt know lacy and she thought they should not be there and laci's friends and family should basically hold priority over the available seats.
Actually, I do not.
Lee Peterson was kicked out or asked to leave the courtroom when he called Brent Rocha (Laci's brother) a liar while he was making his "victim impact statement". He was interrupting his testimony.
thanks...they must execute one every 20 years or so. LOL
The Supreme Court of (US) will outlaw the death penalty (to please the UN) within 10-12 years.
Just like the early 1970's, this gambit will commute all existing cases.
SP will live to be 60.
Judge acknowledges media prescence, gives death penalty
Ooooh, strong stuff. can't say I blame them though. I wonder what she meant by "a product of the environment he grew up in". I thought he had a pretty good upbringing? Maybe I heard wrong.
Nope. But I'm not the media either. The reference was to the media calling him a "fetus" instead of a name.
Because Dog Gone doesn't run the show in California.
I think it's kind of inferred.
I do believe that Scotts mother has had a rough life....her father was murdered, she had been married at least once before she married Lee Peterson. I don't think she is a very nice person...quite manipulative and that's where Scott learned it.
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TUPELO – The Tupelo Public School District is expected to hire two new elementary school principals today.
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VARDAMAN – Two men are in the Calhoun County Jail facing robbery charges after they allegedly beat and robbed an elderly man Sunday night.
Vardaman Police Chief Kenny Scott said two Jackson residents had come to Vardaman to work and became acquainted with their victim, but apparently turned on him and robbed him of two cellphones and his wallet.
"The victim was 74-years-old and he didn't know these guys real well," said Scott. "There was some kind of altercation and they jumped him and beat him up pretty bad. He was transported to Tupelo hospital with head trauma and was in the hospital a couple of days."
Scott said James Cody Bourgeois, 18, and his uncle, Ronald Potter, 36, both of Jackson, have been charged with burglary and are in the Calhoun County Jail, each under $25,000 bond.
"From what we have been able to determine, the robbery occurred about 7 p.m., at a home on Richards Street," said Scott. "They knocked the victim unconscious and after he woke up he crawled to a neighbor's house and they called us."
Scott said Officer Dewayne Winter initially responded to the call. Potter was arrested about 9 p.m. at a home on County Road 450. Bourgeois was arrested in Vardaman about 5 p.m. Monday.
Scott said the victim was beat unconscious with a can of food.
"I was glad we were able to make these arrests so quickly," said Scott. "I want to thank the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department for helping us with this case."
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By Ned ScarletCleveland
With energy prices reaching all time highs there is a vigorous effort to find new power sources. We look to develop solar, wind, thermal, and biofuels to wean us from the energy we now use. Many dream of finding the perfect form of energy that would provide our needs with minimum impact on the environment. Energy, that over time increases in efficiency.
However this hunt is unnecessary; our quarry is hidden in plain sight. Our nation already uses the energy we seek. The energy is fossil fuels and nuclear power. They are used to make electricity and power the internal combustion engine. These fuels have enabled us to live with greater comfort and prosperity than any previous generation. I am thankful for these fuels and believe we have only seen the tip of the iceberg in their discovery and development.
This search for new energy reminds me of the dissatisfied teen, who leaves home to find greener pastures. It is only later with responsibility, maturity, and perhaps a little suffering, he learns to appreciate what was left behind. Unfortunately all of us will pay the price for this youthful blindness. It will come in the form of increased fuel prices, loss of freedom, and more controls on our everyday life.
The Basuto proverb from Robert Ruark's novel "Something of Value" should be remembered by those who want change for the sake of change, "If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them."
At this time we do not have something of value to replace the fuels we predominately use. If it makes some people feel better, they can flirt with the solar, wind, biofuel, thermal, and whatever else, but they shouldn't stop the rest of us from finding and using what we already know functions quite well.
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I wish John and Caitlin nothing but the best. As someone who used to skate at the same rink as John did while he was still living in Kansas City, I can honestly say that he is such a sincere and genuine person. I hope that whatever John wants to pursue whether it be coaching, being involved in another aspect of the sport or leaving the sport completely to concentrate on something else, I am sure that he will be successful.
This is a surprise. They are such a well-matched team, and I ACTUALLY thought they could work their way to be World Medal Contenders in the next year or two.
I think the International Judges has a preference to them as well. Great flow and transitions these two had.
Damn... Door will be wide open next year.
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Caitlin has great lines and polish. I hope she can find someone who can come close to matching her.
At this rate, Inoue and Baldwin can come back.
Marley and Brubaker for US National champs next season? Seems possible...
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The Emery County Commission has changed to a neutral stance on HB-49 sponsored by Rep. Kay McIff. Commissioner Jeff Horrocks said there have been some amendments made to the bill that have changed the minds of the Utah Association of Counties and the Utah Farm Bureau. The county will now remain neutral after previously sending a letter to Rep. McIff opposing the bill. "We have stopped lobbying against it," said Commissioner Horrocks.
The commissioners presented the employee of the month award to Kaylee VanWagoner employee at the Emery County Aquatics Center. Commissioner Migliori said, "Kaylee has been an employee of the Emery County Aquatic Center since the pool opened in 2009. Beginning as a lifeguard, Kaylee was promoted to head lifeguard soon after employment and in 2014 became a certified lifeguard instructor and water safety instructor (swimming lessons). During her time employed at the pool, Kaylee became the recipient of a kidney transplant. Even on the days when she did not feel good, she was always pleasant to work With and kind to her patrons. She is a friend and surrogate mom to all the teenage lifeguards and loved by all. Teaching swimming lessons is one of Kaylee's favorite joys of working at the pool. The students she teaches just love her and excel under her instruction. Kaylee has been assistant swim team coach for the Emery High School team for several years. This year her team completed an amazing season by finishing second place at the state competition in both girls and boys team events."
The county denied an ambulance write off. Commissioner Ethan Migliori said no good faith payments have been made.
County Treasurer Steven Barton discussed the May tax sale. He said there are 18 properties on the list and 10 of those have homes on the property. He said this is the largest list he has seen as the treasurer. If you are delinquent in your taxes for five years then the property can be sold to recoup those taxes, Barton said he is very willing to work with the tax payers of the county to set-up payment plans for tax repayment. A letter was sent to those tax payers in January of 2013 and again in January of this year explaining their properties would be sold at the May tax sale if their taxes are not brought current. There has been one request by a tax payer to extend their deadline for payment for six months. The commission agreed to do this. Barton will handle any other requests for extensions in the same way and they will be approved in a future commission meeting.
The commission approved the CIB list of short and medium term projects. One project is a new public safety complex for Green River. Green River City is looking for assistance for a new fire station.
The commission approved the right of way grant between Emery County and the Bureau of Land Management for proposed upgrade and maintenance of an existing road at Millsite reservoir that accesses a vault toilet. Public Lands Director Ray Petersen explained the road would address the off-road activity in that area. There is an endangered cacti in the area. The county will work to stabilize the road and keep it maintained. You will still be able to access the reservoir and off-road trails in the area. This will make a real road where it's a mud bog now.
In the commission reports, Commissioner James Nelson said their recent trip to Washington DC was a success and they met with all but one of the Utah Congressman. They talked to the undersecretary of agriculture and he was supportive of the county's public land use bill.
Commissioner Nelson went to the library meeting, they are working on changing over from the Dewey Decimal system of book organization and the non-fiction books will be listed by subject matter. In the fire district meeting they discussed the need for the mini-pumper trucks and these trucks are on the CIB list. These trucks are an important part of fire fighting.
Commissioner Migliori said the youth sports including soccer, baseball and softball will be starting soon. The Emery County Rec. District will be installing an indoor batting cage for next winter.
The Emery County Chamber is hosting a banquet on March 19. Jeff Beicker from the Green River Refinery will be speaking as well as Delynn Fielding from the Governor's Office of Economic Development. A grant for repairs for the Swinging Bridge has been received. The museum is doing well and interacting with the local community and schools. The state parks is looking at an expansion for Goblin Valley State Park. If this occurs, Commissioner Migliori said, "This will make Goblin Valley a premier state park for hiking."
Commissioner Horrocks said he talked to Sen. David Hinkins and the $400,000 promised for the debris basin for Huntington Canyon was pulled and then reinstated, but until the final day of the legislature the county won't know for sure if this additional funding will be available for flood control in Huntington Canyon.
The seven county coalition is moving forward and a memorandum of understanding will be signed next week. They have plans to build a road through the Book Cliffs to carry oil and also a pipeline project to transport oil.
They are also working on a tank farm. There is an individual company that has a tank farm near Wellington and is planning on a pipeline from Myton to Wellington. The coalition is looking to create jobs for these counties and to diversify the tax base. The county is still working to get natural gas for Emery, Green River and Lawrence.
There is a film company looking at making a movie in the Swell. Green River City is working on a trails project.
The county approved Brenda Tuttle to bid on water share assessments in the Cottonwood Creek Consolidated Irrigation Co. as per terms agreed upon.
Other items approved by the commission included: business license for Any Age Any Stage farrier business owned by Leslie Mills.
Three percent wage increase for Susan Hess upon successful completion of her 6 month orientation period. Grade 7. Three percent wage increase for Alex Stilson for successful completion of his 6 month orientation period. Grade 3. Three percent wage increase for Nannette Harrison for successful completion of her 6 month orientation period. Grade 6.
Notification that Blaine Allen has been hired as a seasonal employee working 120 days in the Road Department. Wage $16.39 per hour. Not eligible for benefits.
Notification that Kevin Pierce has been hired as a part time Equipment Op. I working up to 19 hours per week. Not eligible for any benefits. Grade 16.


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Five things: Well this stinks
Ryan Lambert
October 11 2012 10:33AM
1. The Alberta Labour Board just screwed everything up
Well, today was supposed to be the Flames' first game of the season but instead we have this stupid lockout to deal with. Gross and yucky, I agree. Things got very little help from the Alberta Labour Board, which was like, "No this lockout is legal league-wide if it's legal anywhere, so deal with it."
Of course, I'm not entirely sure we could have sat here and watched the Flames and Oilers play each other for 82 straight games, like as a matter of the human threshold for pain. At some point, everyone league-wide would have killed themselves, and they'd have been right to do it.
But I will say this for the ALB: Its statement about how full of crap both sides are was pretty awesome.
"We do not wish to encourage parties to take purely strategic, inconsistent positions about jurisdiction in the course of a dispute," it wrote in its decision.
Yup, that's exactly what both sides have done all the way on this. Neither is willing to give even a little bit and it's growing more frustrating by the day. How uniquely terrible this has all been, and you know it could only ever happen in this friggin' league.
2. Bob Hartley is PUMPED!!!!!
So just in case you were wondering about whether players would buy into Bob Hartley's management style, the early answer seems to be yes. At least as far as Sven Baertschi is concerned.
The word that came up a lot in that Herald story is "demanding." Hartley is demanding. If you dog it out there, whether it's in practice or a game, you're going to get your head ripped off. Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone.
But what makes me wonder is whether that's the kind of thing a largely veteran team like the Flames will put up with. How did it work in the past with, say, Mike Keenan, just as a for-instance? Answer: Not THAT well. Granted, Keenan averaged 96 points in his two seasons with Calgary and made the playoffs both times, but you got the feeling he wasn't well-liked by anyone and that more or less is what led to his dismissal (that and the team defense, anyway).
It's all well and good to say Hartley ripped it up in Europe — and oh boy did he ever — but as we were constantly reminded on the ESPN2 broadcast of a KHL game earlier this week, European hockey is very, very different. I'm not dumb enough to think Jay Feaster would be dumb enough to hire a close personal friend if HE was dumb enough to try to run things with a team like Calgary through a European style, but nonetheless, it will be interesting to see whether Hartley can readjust to the NHL. How many coaches have gone from the NHL to Europe to back here and had success?
3. More on the farm team thing
The Calgary Sun reported this week that the Flames' front office types are using the lockout as an opportunity to scout the AHL team. Well jeez, that's good.
I wondered this aloud on Puck Daddy a little while ago, but why isn't every NHL team sending its coach down to the minors during the lockout? Especially with a team like the Flames, where there are a number of kids who will be in the NHL whenever the new season gets under way. Instead of Baertschi asking a bunch of Swiss guys what Hartley is like, he could just find out himself. That would be cool.
Maybe there's some reticence to step on Ward's toes, but easing transitions throughout the organizations should be the goal, right? And besides, if you locked up Hartley when you could've had Ward, and everyone thinks he's a future NHL coach, aren't you essentially conceding that he's not going to be doing it in Calgary anyway?
On some level, the answer is, "Who cares?" I guess.
4. Something interesting at Boston College
So as you well know by now two Flames draftees, Johnny Gaudreau and Billy Arnold, are playing at Boston College this season. And most people I've talked to assumed they'd be on the same line this season. Gaudreau is widely expected to be among the best two or three players in Hockey East this season, and Billy Arnold is inarguably one of its two or three best two-way players.
It seemed, then, that the fit for both to play together would be natural. However, based on one exhibition game, that might not be the case. And it also might not matter.
Granted, the Eagles played a CIS school in its exhibition game — the University of New Brunswick — and therefore it's difficult to properly evaluate things, given the chasm in quality between the two collegiate sports leagues (the NCAA is about a trillion times better than CIS). But nonetheless, BC lit UNB up to the tune of a 6-0 win, and both Flames prospects figured heavily despite not being on the same line.
Gaudreau had the game-winner, which is to say, the game's first goal, early in the first period. Arnold had an assist on the second in the second period, then netted the third himself before the game started to really get out of hand.
It'll be interesting if coach Jerry York keeps the two Calgary properties apart for a while, or even the whole season, because that could certainly bring a decent one-two scoring punch to a team that, frankly, probably doesn't need the help.
5. This is how dumb you have to be to read HockeyBuzz
So apparently HockeyBuzz, Eklund's site, is doing some thing where you vote for a franchise's all-time team. The four best forwards at each position, the six best defensemen, the two best goalies. I swear I only know this because of Google News.
Anyway, turns out they saved the right wings for last with Calgary. Pick the best four. In my book the top three are inarguable: 1) Jarome Iginla, 2) Theo Fleury, 3) Lanny McDonald. That's reflected in the voting to date. The dispute over No. 4, to me, falls between Hakan Loob and Val Bure, but even then, I think you gotta go Loob.
But the point of this entry is this: Somehow, only 95 percent of people have Iginla in their top four. At the time I voted, there had been 573 ballots cast. That means about 29 people were like "Yeah, no Iginla for me, thanks." That's phenomenal stupidity right there. It makes my heart hurt.
October 11 2012, 03:36PM
Something tells me that if the ALRB found in favour of the NHLPA we wouldn't be seeing the battle of Alberta every night. It would be more likely that the owners would be calling for bag skate practices every day.
I do not challenge your conclusion that hockey buzz is a cesspool of stupid, however I challenge the methodology. Is it just the sites writers that have to vote, or is it just the regular visitors?
Because either way you are going to have trolls, that sites whole purpose of existing is trolling to an extent. So when trolls are allowed to vote, of course they are not going to put Iggy in the Top 4, they are going to put Nigel Dawes, or Rene Bourque or what ever other tool they can put there for the LULZ!
I mean, you just have to look at fan balloting for all star games and other un-important crap to see just how silly internet voting can become.
"That means about 29 people were like "Yeah, no Iginla for me, thanks." That's phenomenal stupidity right there. It makes my heart hurt."
The sooner you accept that 95% of the world is retarded and become amazed that these people can actually dress themselves, the better off your life will be. Rather than focus on the ignorance of those people just assume they are all that ignorant and it doesn't become a cognitive thought process any more because you know they all have an IQ slightly that of a retarded chimpanzee. If you think I'm wrong take a drive around the busy streets of Calgary during afternoon rush hour. I promise you you will see something that makes you just ask "how?"
If you don't, congratulations you are part of the 95 percentile :)
October 11 2012, 12:11PM
I would have liked out chances to win, not only the Presidents trophy, but the Stanley Cup as well if the Alberta Labour board sided with the NHLPA on that one.
"That means about 29 people were like "Yeah, no Iginla for me, thanks." That's phenomenal stupidity right there. It makes my heart hurt."
The sooner you accept that 95% of the world is retarded and become amazed that these people can actually dress themselves, the better off your life will be. Rather than focus on the ignorance of those people just assume they are all that ignorant and it doesn't become a cognitive thought process any more because you know they all have an IQ slightly that of a retarded chimpanzee. If you think I'm wrong take a drive around the busy streets of Calgary during afternoon rush hour. I promise you you will see something that makes you just ask "how?"
If you don't, congratulations you are part of the 95 percentile :)
Um, yes, except that he means that 5% of the world is retarded and 95% of them got it right.
Personally, I think that's actually pretty decent odds. Consider that some of those people are picking wrong on purpose and some are just randomly filling things in and 5% of people not picking Jarome makes sense.
October 11 2012, 05:47PM
The pool I'm in (22 years and counting) had it's draft last weekend and for the first time ever I went full Homer and drafted more than just a token Flame.
I have a full line (it's my teams 3rd line, I'm not suicidal) of Iggy-Tangs-Cammo, but the biggest coup was landing Cervenka in our prospect draft (Cervenka wasn't eligible in our regular draft because he has zero NHL experience).
So please, please, please keep up the Cervenka in Slavia Praha updates!
Does anyone seriously still read Hockeybuzz?


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Kim and Sue Jones, of Orangeville announce the marrige of their son Kellen to Amber Little, daughter of Don Kelsey Little Jr. of Lone Tree, Colo. and Shaunna Long of Counce, Tenn. The couple will be married on June 28 in Lindon.
Kellen is a 1999 graduate of Emery High School. Kellen graduated from ITT Technical Instiute in 2003 with his associate of science degree in computer electronics, received his bachelor of schience degree in technical project management in 2006. He is continuing his education at ITT for his bachelor degree in electrical engineering. He is currently employed by Tokyo Electron of America in Lehi.
Amber is a 2004 graduate of North Ridge High School of Layton. She is currently attending Devry University seeking a degree in business management and majoring in accounting. She is currently employed by Stratus Insurance Service Inc. in American Fork.
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By COREY BLUEMELStaff writer
The historic cabin on Sid's Mountain in the San Rafael Swell has been, and continues to be, a great hiking destination and learning experience for anyone who undertakes the trip. Many area Scouts go each year, along with many hunters and sightseers.
Emery County Commissioner Gary Kofford has family ties to the builders of the cabin and is always eager to learn more from anyone who has tidbits about the cabin's history. "I have done some research into the origins of the cabin, and I learned something from Kenn Kofford just this morning," stated Kofford. "I am always eager to hear about the history of the place."
Kofford's grandfather, Clayton Kofford, was running cows in the San Rafael area during the Depression Era of the 1930s. Other locals, such as Vern Kofford, Clyde Kofford, Sammy Aiken, and Byron Johansen also grazed livestock in the Sid's Mountain and North Sid's Mountain area. Clayton Kofford decided to take out a homestead under the Homestead Act and prove up on it.
The Homestead Act was a United States Federal law that gave freehold title to 160 acres of undeveloped land in the American West. The person to whom title was granted had to be at least 21 years of age, and to have built on the section, and lived there for five years, in a house that was at least 12 by 14 feet in size. The Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading; the government believed that the best use of public lands was for them to remain in government control.
Clayton's father, George, lived in a tent near the site of his cabin, in Long Hollow where he built the first cabin near the water tanks. Clayton and his sons, built the cabin which remains today. In later years with a team of horses, Clayton pulled George's cabin closer to his own.
The cabin which Clayton and his sons built was constructed of yellow pine logs which they cut near the site of the home. The corner posts are cedar posts buried upright in the ground with two-three feet above ground level. On the top of the post, they installed pie plates and then put the cabin on these posts. The elevated cabin, with the pie plates on the posts, was done to deter mice and other vermin from entering the cabin.
Shingles and a wood stove were the only items hauled in for the construction of the cabin. Don Kofford was one of Clayton's younger sons and Gary's father. He remembers the construction of the cabin being done in 1936-1937, as he was in his early teen years. Vern Kofford's son Clyde, and Clayton's son Newell, hauled the woodstove in on horseback, and that is also how the cedar shingles were hauled in to the construction site.
Gary Kofford relates a story of how a Fresno, (a scraping board) came to be under the existing cabin. Jeffs said Rex Kofford and himself hauled the Fresno into the cabin site to build a pond. He continued that Rex was out of cigarettes and decided to go back to town and Jeffs went with him. The two never were able to return to the cabin to scrape out the pond area, and the Fresno remains under the cabin today.
When the homestead had been proved up on, the paper to grant ownership to Rex Kofford, Clayton's son, was issued on Dec. 16, 1942. The cabin and surrounding 440 acres remained in Rex's name until August of 1945 and then was deeded to Clayton.
Clayton retained ownership until 1948 when he sold the property to Loran Beach in November of that year. The Beach family retained ownership of the property for 20 years and continued to use the property for cattle grazing.
On Jan. 30, 1968, Beach sold the property to Russell Allred of Cleveland. Ten years later, Allred sold it to Energy Fuels who held onto it for seven years, then the property went into the ownership of the Bureau of Land Management in 1985.
Since the BLM came to control Sid's Mountain, the entire area has been designated Wilderness Study area and can only be accessed by foot or horse travel. Only the hardiest of hikers make the 13 mile trek into the cabins, but their rich history is tied to all the families of ranchers and farmers who grazed cattle in the area.
During the early days of the cabin's existence, many people used it besides the owner. It came to be used as a line cabin for others who had livestock nearby as a shelter from the weather. Some were even known to leave spare food behind for others traveling through who might be hungry.
Many families in Emery County can relate stories about their forebearers use of the cabin on Sid's Mountain.
If the cabin on Sid's Mountain could talk and tell the stories of its inhabitants over the past eight decades and how they came to be in the cabin, the history would be very interesting indeed.
These historic pieces of Emery County's past should be preserved and protected for future generations.


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The Central Idea: Central Presbyterian Church is a member of the Cascades Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is an active community of nearly 600 faithful members and friends of all ages. They live out their faith in Jesus Christ in many ways. Central supports the campus ministry at Koinonia Center and welcomes students and faculty. Through their mission and outreach they help the poor, the homeless, and the vulnerable in their community and abroad. Join with them as they work in their community. They have worshipped in Eugene as a Presbyterian congregation since 1855. Their mission statement reflects their theology and vision of this community of faith.
Central Presbyterian Church is in the West University neighborhood of Eugene at the corner of 15th and Patterson. Join them as they celebrate the Lord at 8:30 and 11:00 Sundays in their beautiful sanctuary. Their musical offerings, both contemporary and traditional, help them to come before the Lord with singing. As Presbyterians, they encourage lay leadership in each service. Supervised nursery care with paid staff is provided during both worship hours for infants through age 24 months. Assisted hearing devices, large print hymnals, Bibles and programs and wheelchairs are also available for use. They invite all who attend their services to join them after each service for coffee and a chance to experience the remarkable friendliness for which Central is known.
Current Activities at Central
Prayer Retreat. There will be a half day prayer retreat, June 5th in the parlor from 9:30-noon. At 11:00 they'll share communion. These retreats occur monthly, the first Saturday of each month. Join them any month or just to share communion.
Wednesday evenings at 5:30pm is a BBQ/Potluck at the church. Bring something to BBQ and a potluck dish to share along with your tableware. Bible Study follows at 6:30pm.
June 8th is the Presbyterian Women's Spring Luncheon at noon at the church. Organist Dan Rinnan will provide a musical program. Lunch is $5 and an offering for mission projects will be taken.
No Sunday School during Summer. Sunday School classes will resume September 12th
Vacation Bible School. June 21st-25th at First United Methodist Church. The theme is Hero Quest! Register now. Cost is $16 per child or $45 per family of 3 or more.
Accepting Job Applications. Central is accepting applications for a Director of Youth Ministry and Leadership Development. A job description is available at the office and here.
Youth Local Mission Week. Central's youth will be working with local missions during the week of June 14th to 19th. Youth, family and friends are welcome to join them. See Eric for details and sign up.
Middle School Youth continue to meet on Wednesdays from 6:30 – 8:00pm during the summer.
High School Youth will meet on Sundays from 6:30-8:00pm during the summer.
Youth and Families join to attend Harry Potter 3. On June 11th those signed up with Eric will attend the opening of Harry Potter 3 for a fun event. Contact Eric before June 7th so he'll have an accurate count for tickets.


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Niger, in West Africa's Sahara region, is four-fifths the size of Alaska. It is surrounded by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The Niger River in the southwest flows through the country's only fertile area. Elsewhere the land is semiarid.
Republic, emerging from military rule.
The nomadic Tuaregs were the first inhabitants in the Sahara region. The Hausa (14th century), Zerma (17th century), Gobir (18th century), and Fulani (19th century) also established themselves in the region now called Niger.
Niger was incorporated into French West Africa in 1896. There were frequent rebellions, but when order was restored in 1922, the French made the area a colony. In 1958, the voters approved the French constitution and voted to make the territory an autonomous republic within the French Community. The republic adopted a constitution in 1959 but the next year withdrew from the Community, proclaiming its independence.


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