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Southern Nazarene University v. Azar
Religious Freedom (old) > Overview (old)
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Status: Won
What's at stake
The freedom to integrate Christian commitment into all aspects of a Christian community.
The freedom for religious educational institutions to provide health insurance for their employees and students according to their beliefs.
The freedom from the threat of crippling fines for resisting illegal government mandates.
Southern Nazarene University, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Oklahoma Baptist University, and Mid-America Christian University are Christ-centered institutions of higher education in Oklahoma. The government sought to force these universities to compromise their deeply held religious beliefs on the sanctity of human life. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services required the school to suffer extreme penalties if they did not include all FDA-approved contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs and devices, in their employee and student health plans.
ADF filed a lawsuit challenging the mandate on behalf of these universities. In November 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of the case and consolidated it with six other similar cases against the mandate.
In May 2016, the Supreme Court sent the cases back to the lower courts, directing the courts to allow the parties to "arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners' religious exercise."
In May 2018, the district court enjoined the federal government from enforcing the mandate against the universities, permanently ending this attack on religious freedom.
Our role in this case
Alliance Defending Freedom represented the universities, defending their freedom to operate according to their deeply held religious beliefs.
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Deleting bin folders; creating new project to test; creating new emulator;
Here is the build output:
emulator: android_hw_fingerprint_init: fingerprint qemud listen service initialized
emulator: Warning: config.ini contains invalid skin.path entry: (null)
emulator: Warning: config.ini contains invalid skin.path entry: (null)
emulator: Adding boot property: 'ro.opengles.version' = '196608'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.fake_camera' = 'back'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.adb.secure' = '1'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'dalvik.vm.heapsize' = '256m'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.hw.mainkeys' = '0'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.lcd_density' = '420'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'monodroid.avdname' = 'my_device'
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.timezone' = 'Unknown/Unknown'
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Stories linking everyone in Telecom
Alexandre Starovoitov
Hello World or how to design a telecom blog
The world of telecoms is all about communication and making it as smooth and comfortable as possible. This goes beyond the basics of user experience and sound – it's also about how things look and what we have to say. In other words, design is as paramount as a good product. Let me tell you a story about how this blog was created, its creators, and our inspiration regarding the tools that help us communicate every day.
When we decided to design and implement our content strategy, we knew we needed someone special for the job. We had always been lucky with great developers, but never had someone who could tell our stories with the passion and drive we wanted.
This is where Hennadiy Kornev, our content manager, came in. A content manager must help build the brand's identity and online presence by creating written, visual and other means of communication that match the brand's intended image. A good content manager must have creativity and an analytical mind, be perceptive in both visual and language cues, and at the same time be a team player and someone who's unafraid to speak their mind.
When we met Hennadiy, it was clear from the start that he was right for the job. Hennadiy was truly passionate about content and helping us craft our story. And of course, he knows his stuff, always asking a lot of questions and generating new ideas. Most of all, he doesn't hesitate to share his opinion or offer a different direction for our content to go.
Our first task with Hennadiy on board involved setting up the PortaOne blog. Launching this telecom blog is a part of our content strategy to reach our customers, keep them informed, and bring them together. We had quite a few things to consider as we tackled this project: choosing a name and logo for the blog, finding the right platform, and coming up with a good design. And it all had to fit our brand.
Choosing the Platform (the problem)
The first thing to do was to decide on which platform to use. After reviewing all our options, we decided on WordPress. WordPress is a great tool for building websites, being free to use with high customizability and lots of extensions. WordPress is also used by millions, making it easy to use and to find someone who can manage our site. We chose the Johannes theme, for it looked particularly promising and fresh compared to the other themes we viewed. Once we'd selected our theme, we started to get to work on incorporating and adjusting the theme for our needs.
WordPress themes look fantastic at the first glance, and that's just the problem – the designers behind them do well pimping them out with nice fonts, colors, and professional photos, and the right balance of text, visual accents, and white space. But the minute you start changing things – adding your own photos, changing font sizes, and so on – everything starts falling apart.
When it came to organizing the front page, Hennadiy didn't want a static front page with descriptive text; he wanted nothing but blog posts. The text and images of each post would hopefully entice the visitor to read more on any one of the topics showing up on the main page. But we weren't happy with the initial result. It was a rather boring, bare-bones site with only rectangular images and paragraphs of text, as you can see below.
Unfortunately, it had to do for the moment, as we had other issues to address as we prepared the site.
Another basic problem was the name. Should we call it simply the PortaOne blog? Or go for something a bit more creative and clever?
Hennadiy strongly advocated for a different name, as it could stand out in people's minds (and in searches) more than a generic no-name blog. One of the first suggestions Hennadiy brought up was "The Switch" – the name related to our key product, PortaSwitch, and the term clicked with both techy and artistic types. But it didn't sound quite right, and didn't accurately reflect our brand.
Other ideas included The Portal, Converged, The Cluster, and The Connector. After some brainstorming, debate, and a vote, we settled on The Connector. The name most closely represented our mission as a telecom company: to connect people and business together.
The Icon
What is a product logo/icon
We next needed to decide on a logo for our site. Product logos are an essential aspect of communicating the company or product brand – they serve as the face of the brand and are often the first thing that comes to mind when customers think of the company. The distinctive VW logo or the blue-and-yellow IKEA emblem, for instance, are practically synonymous with their brands.
Because it can stick in customers' minds, the logo can be a very powerful image, communicating personality, quality, and even provoking emotion. The logo symbolizes what the company stands for and its connection to customers.
Icons have a more specific function than logos. An icon is a more abstract, artistic representation of an action or operation that is immediately apparent to the viewer. Facebook's "like" icon, for example, instantly communicates the action of liking a post with a thumbs-up symbol, while also communicating something about the brand.
While logos have more wiggle room in terms of design, icons tend to be designed quadratically and to fit specific dimensions, constraining the range of shapes and sizes they can appear as. A company or brand usually has only one logo, but there can be many different icons representing different aspects of what the company offers. Google, for instance, has a different icon for each of its many different services.
The Connector icon iteration
In our case, we wanted to create an entirely new icon for the blog to distinguish it from our other telecom products and services. But we also wanted the icon to be consistent with our brand.
Before designing the logo for the new blog, we looked to PortaOne's brand book, which covers how we want to present the PortaOne brand. This includes the company's textual and visual presentation: our color scheme, voice, values, and typography.
The brand book specifies that icons should be simple and consist of outlines, symbolizing simplicity and connection. So the look was clear. But what could the logo for the Connector represent? We started brainstorming some possibilities. Below is the first version of the logo we came up with.
First attempt
Why did we start with a plug? Before creating a new icon or logo I always do research, including a Google search on images representing the term connected to our image. Below are the results of searching "connector icon": a lot of electrical plugs showed up, so clearly it was strongly issued with the idea of a connector.
Google image search result for "connector icon"
But I felt the image of a plug didn't suit our brand. It had the wrong connotation for connection – that of a man and woman being together – that we didn't want affiliated with our brand. Plugs are also more associated with home appliances, which is not our line of business, so again it seemed inappropriate for a telecom logo.
In the meantime, Hennadiy had produced a few more comprehensive and exciting posts. In these posts he had a tone that suited our brand just right, and he covered a lot of history and how things work in the telecom industry. This got me thinking about a printed circuit board (PCB) pad, a place on the surface of a board to which a component is soldered. Circuit boards are among the most fundamental components of electronics, existing to connect things together, suiting our brand just fine.
For our logo design, I considered in particular the PCB pad: portions of exposed metal on the surface of the board to which components are soldered. These pads come in two shapes: circles and squares. PCB designers use round pads on the circuit boards and square pads are often used to indicate pin 1. The image of a pin connecting different components was analogous with PortaOne, and could call back to the PortaOne logo. Below you can see the final image, inspired by PCB pads.
The connector icon
Back to the platform and fixing the problem
So we had a logo, name, and platform ready to go, but we still had to tweak the website to get the look right.
A friend from Slovenia introduced me to Elementor, a WordPress plugin that helps you design and build a website to maximize its attractiveness and usability. There are over a dozen reasons to use Elementor, most of all its user-friendliness, endless design possibilities, and useful customized content widgets with drag-and-drop functionality. The experience was smooth and easy. Once Elementor was in place, designing the new blog for PortaOne became a joyful ride and was complete in three days.
Designing a website is not a quick-and-easy undertaking, if you want to do it right. It is, in fact, an art (here's proof – amazing page connecting art history with web design), conveying specific meanings to the visitor. Isn't it better, then, to approach web design with intention, so that the visitor clearly understands what your website is about? We put a lot of hard work and care into building this new blog, and we're quite pleased with the result. And we hope we have inspired you to take on a new approach to designing your website and crafting your brand. If you have any questions about the design, process or branding feel free to contact me
About the post date
While this post was written in April 2021, I wanted it to be the 1st post, so I set the post date to Jan 1 1980. I'm old enough to remember the days when you reset or unplugged a home appliance (such as a VCR), the date went to this default setting. And because we are resetting the system, in a way, by creating a new blog, this date seemed fitting.
My sincere thanks to everyone involved in this gratifying project, including Matjaž Razbornik for taking care of technical stuff (WordPress included), and much appreciation to Danielle Bodnar for helping me write and proofread this post.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – The historic stretch continues for the Wesleyan University men's lacrosse team as the nationally-ranked No. 6 Cardinals secured the No. 1 seed in the 2018 NESCAC Championship for the first time in program history. Wesleyan (12-2, 9-1 NESCAC) will look to defend its conference title beginning this Saturday, April 28 as it hosts eighth-seeded Bates College (8-7, 4-6) at 1 p.m. on Jackson Field. If the Cardinals advance, they will host the semifinal and championship games on Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6.
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Wesleyan, Amherst, and Tufts all finished with identical conference records of 9-1. In head-to-head competition, all three teams went 1-1. In results against the top four teams, all three teams were 2-1. In results against the top eight teams, all three teams were 6-1. In comparing results against teams in rank order, all three teams posted wins against Williams, Connecticut College, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Trinity, and Hamilton. Per NESCAC tiebreaker protocol, a random action was used to determine Wesleyan as the No. 1 seed, Amherst as the No. 2 seed and Tufts as the No. 3 seed.
AT A GLANCE: NO. 1 WESLEYAN
For the second year in a row, the Cardinals posted a 9-1 conference record in regular season play. The nine NESCAC victories are a program record.
Wesleyan is 6-0 at home this season (five wins on Citrin Field and one on Jackson). The program is also riding a 20-game home winning streak which dates back to the 2016 campaign.
The Cardinals boast the league's top defense, allowing just 8.46 goals per game, and rank third in the conference in face-offs won (189).
Offensively, Wesleyan averages 12.43 goals per game. Freshman Ronan Jacoby leads the team and ranks fifth in the NESCAC with 42 goals while senior Harry Stanton—the program's all-time goal leader with 205 in his career—is second on the team and sixth in the conference with 41. Stanton is also second all-time in the Wesleyan record books in points with 264.
Junior Carter Hawthorne leads the league in assists with 47 and ranks seventh in Cardinal history with 188 career points.
Defensively, seniors Andres Rodriguez and Jake Cresta headline the unit with 26 and 25 caused turnovers, respectively. Rodriguez ranks second in the NESCAC while Cresta ranks third.
In net, sophomore goalie Otto Bohan has been terrific in his first season starting between the posts. He boasts a 10-1 record and leads the conference in goals-against average (7.44) and ranks second in save percentage (60.6).
Wesleyan is 21-14 in 16 NESCAC Tournament appearances. The Cardinals have won the conference championship twice (2017, '09) and finished as runner-up five times. The team's 21 postseason wins are third-most in the league behind only Tufts (28) and Middlebury (26).
AT A GLANCE: NO. 8 BATES
The Bobcats return to the postseason for the fourth-straight year after defeating Colby, 20-15, on Wednesday. A year after earning the No. 1 seed, and ranking No. 1 in the country for the majority of the season, Bates claims the No. 8 seed for the first time ever.
The Bobcats are 3-3 on the road this year and snapped a two-game losing streak with the win over the Mules.
They rank third in the NESCAC in goals, scoring 13.73 per game, while allowing 12.64 per contest.
Bates is led offensively by senior Clarke Jones and sophomore Matt Chlastawa. Jones is tied for the league-lead in goals with 48 while Chlastawa sits fourth with 45. The sophomore also leads the NESCAC in points with 91 and is second in assists (46). His 91 points are 13 more than the second-most in the league.
Defensively, Bates is led by Rocco Fantoni who leads the conference in caused turnovers with 34.
The Bobcats have played in seven NESCAC Tournaments and are 3-7 all time. They are seeking their first finals appearance.
THE SERIES:
Wesleyan leads the all-time series, 24-15, and has won two in a row including a thrilling 14-13 victory a year ago in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Jackson Field.
The two rivals met earlier this season, with Wesleyan claiming a 13-11 win on Citrin Field on March 10.
Saturday's game marks the second-ever meeting between the two programs in the conference championship as the Bobcats won the first meeting in the 2015 quarterfinals, 14-11.
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Constable: Nicarico case at center of lawyer's diverse career
Gary Johnson talks about his book, with stories of him going to jail and defending a man wrongfully charged with killing Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Taking the title for his book from a quotation by English writer William Somerset Maugham, attorney Gary Johnson of St. Charles says his distinguished legal career included lots of good fortune. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
In the highest-profile case of his career, lawyer Gary Johnson argued that a shoe from his defendant didn't match the shoe that kicked in the door of the Naperville home where a 10-year-old was kidnapped and later found murdered. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
As a prosecutor, Gary Johnson sent people to prison. As a defense attorney, he kept others from prison. And he also spent four hours in jail after one judge found him in contempt of court. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
The idea for Gary Johnson's memoir came from his wife of nearly 42 years, Amy, who convinced him that the stories he told her could fill a book. Brian Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
While his memoir focuses on the trials stemming from the murder of Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, Gary Johnson also tells of lighthearted moments during his career as a lawyer. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Gary Johnson, who defended one of the men wrongly accused of killing Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, says the outcome of the cases was a key event in ending the death penalty in Illinois. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
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During more than four decades as an attorney, Gary V. Johnson of St. Charles has compiled a rare legal trifecta. As Kane County state's attorney, he sent people to prison. As a defense attorney, he saved a man falsely accused of one of the suburbs' most notorious murders from a potential death sentence. And then there was that time Johnson had his mug shot and fingerprints taken, was handcuffed, had his legs shackled and was shuffled off to a small cell in the DuPage County jail.
"I'm well-rounded," quips Johnson, 68, as he sits in his office at the Aurora law firm of Camic Johnson, which he started with partner David Camic in 1987. Johnson's desk is covered with layers of paperwork, and his two chairs for visitors hold boxes of legal work. His wall sports photos of shortstop Luis Aparicio and second-baseman Nellie Fox, Hall of Fame players for his beloved Chicago White Sox. A plaque with the likeness of Teddy Roosevelt reads, "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
A small picture frame holds evidence of Johnson's "aggressive fighting for the right" -- the booking photos of his face and profile for that time he and co-counsel Carol Anfinson were held in contempt of court for refusing to do some unnecessary research for a legal point they never pushed. They had bigger concerns while working on their defense of Steve Buckley, a 21-year-old high school dropout who lived with his parents on the east side of Aurora and was charged in the high-profile rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville.
Details of that defense take up the majority of Johnson's new memoir titled, "Luck is a Talent: The True Story of a Trial Lawyer's Experience Defending an Innocent Man Charged with Murder."
The Nicarico tragedy began on Feb, 25, 1983, when Jeanine was home sick from school. Her parents, away at work, checked in on her a couple of times that day before someone kicked in the door of their home in an apparent burglary. Sexually assaulted and beaten to death, the girl's body was discovered two days later in a park.
More than a year later, Buckley, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez were arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.
Having spent four years as an assistant state's attorney for Kane County, Johnson was in private practice, doing civil cases for the firm of Clancy, McGuirk and Hulce but looking to work on a criminal defense case.
"Boy, have I got a case for you," said fellow attorney and friend Cliff Lund, who invited Johnson to help him defend Buckley in the case, for which prosecutors were seeking the death penalty.
Meeting Buckley in the DuPage County jail, "I got a pretty good sense he was innocent," Johnson remembers, adding that the evidence quickly reinforced that belief.
"I liked Steve from the get-go," writes Johnson, who says he remains friends with Buckley.
Buckley's fate centered around a print of the shoe used to kick in the Nicaricos' door.
"I was about to learn more about shoe prints than I ever thought possible," Johnson writes as a way of introducing the detailed work it took to prove Buckley's innocence. "The sole had a name."
The "New Silver Cloud" sole was found in the shoes Buckley bought at a Payless store, but it also was found in shoes Buckley's legal team bought at a Fayva shoe store in Aurora, and those shoes, unlike the pair worn by Buckley, were a closer match to the print on the door, Johnson says. With the shoe print evidence crumbling, a hung jury couldn't reach a verdict and the beleaguered legal team from the DuPage County state's attorney's office dropped charges in 1987 against Buckley, who had spent three years behind bars. Cruz and Hernandez were convicted twice in the killing and spent more than a decade in prison before Cruz was pardoned and prosecutors dismissed charges against Hernandez.
A convicted killer named Brian Dugan confessed to killing Nicarico, his DNA was found on the girl's body, and the shoes he wore matched the print on the door, Johnson says. Buckley, Cruz and Hernandez shared a $3.5 million settlement from DuPage County after filing a federal civil rights case. Four sheriff's deputies and three former prosecutors were indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for their roles in the investigation, but they were acquitted.
In his book, Johnson praises many people, including law enforcement officers, prosecutors and other lawyers, who did the right thing to bring justice in that case. His four-page acknowledgments thank dozens of people, including the St. Charles Writing Group to which he belongs. The book, which takes its title from a William Somerset Maugham quote, is dedicated to his wife of nearly 42 years, Amy, and their daughter Andrea and son Philip. Johnson grew up in Villa Park, graduated from Willowbrook High School and Illinois Wesleyan University, and got his law degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Initially thinking he might want a career in politics, Johnson was elected to one term as Kane County state's attorney before focusing on his private law practice. The book includes humorous stories about lawyers and other cases he worked on, but he focuses on the Nicarico case.
"Everyone who was involved got overwhelmed in this case," says Johnson, who says his heart goes out to the Nicarico family. "I have kids. It's impossible to empathize with what they must have gone through. But you can try, and it's painful."
What happened during those resulting murder trials changed the face of criminal justice in Illinois.
"Opponents of the death penalty can look to the Nicarico case as the single most important event that led to the end of capital punishment in Illinois," Johnson writes. "And I was lucky to be a part of it."


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CM Balochistan pledges to fully support NGOs working in education and health sectors
Quetta: Pledging to fully support Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working for the promotion of education and health sectors in the province, Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah khan Zehri has said that government viewed such NGOs working for the welfare with great respect and reverence.
He was talking to delegation of Muslim Hands Pakistan headed by his President Mr. Syed Bakht Hassnain who called on him here on Thursday at Chief Minister's secretariat.
Provincial Minister Rehmat Baloch, Additional Chief Secretary (Planning and Development) Dr. Ummar Babar, Secretary Home Dr. Muhammad Akbar Harifal, Secretary Health Noor-ul-Haq Baloch and Chairman Kidmat Foundation Nimatullah Zaheer were also present in the meeting.
President Muslims Hands Pakistan briefing the Chief Minister about welfare services and performance of his organization said that Muslim Hands has had branches in 50 countries in which more than 2500 employees were working. He said that his organization besides carrying out relief activities during natural calamity also works for the promotion of education and health. He said that Muslim Hands intended to establish a state of the art school and college in Quetta where boys and girls would be imparted modern education along with Islamic education, and requested Chief Minister for provision of land in this regard. He also informed that Muslim Hands would provide latest machinery to government of Balochistan for diagnosing Cancer and treatment of patients, adding that Muslim Hands would also provide support in health and educational sectors to fulfill the missing facilities in these sectors identified by government.
Announcing provision of land for the educational institution, Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri said that his government was taking concrete steps for the promotion of education. He said that proposed educational institution of Muslim Hands would certainly be a great development in this connection.
Nawab Zehri said that he would himself supervise and monitor the all welfare works so that their benefits could reach to the deserving and needy people.
In the meeting, matters regarding curbing use of drugs and treatment and revival of addicts and steps for their welfare were also discussed.
Chief Minister said that strict steps had been taken for the prevention of drugs and smoking Shisha in all educational institutions and a full campaign would be kicked off to protect our new young general from this curse.
President Muslim Hands appreciated the services of Chief Minister Balochistan for welfare of masses and social services. Paying tribute to Chief Minister for his social services he invited Chief Minister Balochistan to visit England and said that during his visit meetings would be arranged with authorities of welfare organizations and investors so that support and investment of their could be sought for the promotion of health and educational sectors in Balochistan.
Chief Minister accepted the invitation of president of Muslim Hands and assured that he would soon visit England.
Published in The Balochistan Point on January 12, 2017
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Obama set to form new administration
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is set to begin the task of forming his new administration after a historic election in which American voters selected him to be the first black president of the United States. News reports say Mr. Obama has offered the job of White House chief of staff to Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who is from the president-elect's home state of Illinois. VOA correspondent Meredith Buel reports from Washington.
Mr. Obama began his first full day as president-elect with the simple pleasure of having breakfast with his two daughters, the type of everyday family activity that he has often had to sacrifice during his nearly two-year-long campaign for the White House.
The 47-year-old Democratic Senator from the midwestern state of Illinois will become the 44th President of the United States when he is sworn in on January 20, 2009.
He will soon begin to assemble a new White House staff that will shape his administration and form the team to help him confront the nation's problems.
In his victory speech in his hometown of Chicago , Mr. Obama said solving America's problems will not be easy.
"The road ahead will be long," he said. "Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there."
President-elect Obama defeated his Republican opponent, Arizona Senator John McCain, in a decisive victory that swept away the last racial barrier in American politics.
Mr. Obama is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia.
President Bush paid tribute to the historic nature of the election, saying the moment is especially uplifting for those who lived through America's turbulent civil rights era when the vestiges of government-sponsored racial discrimination were overcome.
"They chose a president whose journey represents a triumph of the American story, a testament to hard work, optimism and faith in the enduring promise of our nation," he said.
Mr. Bush says he will inform his successor of all important decisions made in the last months of his administration, and says he has invited Mr. Obama and the president-elect's wife, Michelle, to the White House at their earliest convenience.
Preparations for the transition are also underway at the U.S. State Department where Secretary Condoleezza Rice says she will do all she can to ensure a smooth transition of power.
"As an African American, I am especially proud because this is a country that has been through a long journey in terms of overcoming wounds and making race not the factor in our lives," she said. "That work is not done, but yesterday was obviously an extraordinary step forward."
Mr. Obama's victory was hailed overseas, with particular enthusiasm in Kenya, where he is viewed as a native son.
On the streets of Nairobi a man named Bernard summed up the feelings of many in his country. "I think Kenyan people have got a lot to learn from the American election," he said. "It has shown true democracy. It does not matter what you look like. It does not matter where you come from. It is about what policies you have for the people."
On Wednesday Mr. Obama announced the formal creation of a Washington-based transition team to oversee the handover from the Bush administration.
A statement from the campaign said the three co-chairs of the team will be John Podesta, who was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, Pete Rouse, Mr. Obama's chief of staff in the Senate, and close friend and advisor Valerie Jarrett.
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Obama sweeps to victory as first black president
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A tree grows on Beaudry: echos of the creeks of Echo Park
October 6, 2009 § 50 Comments
Bicycling down 2nd Street one day, this arroyo willow caught my eye. Located in a vacant lot at 2nd and Beaudry, the willow has taken root in the path of the former Arroyo de los Reyes.
I wrote about Arroyo de los Reyes over a year ago, with promises of telling more -as the creek's origins are in Echo Park. As you can see, I am slow but faithful in my follow up. To be truthful, posts at Chicken Corner on LA Observed about Echo Park's creeks and the lake also nudged me considerably.
Arroyo de los Reyes originates near the Catholic school on Glendale Boulevard – right by the 2 offramp. It flowed southward, along Glendale Boulevard, occupied the area now taken by Echo Park lake, and continued down 2nd Street, crossing through downtown LA, about a block or two south of Pershing Square, where it spread and created a big muddy mess. These flows eventually connected with the Los Angeles River, when they didn't seep into the ground first.
There are historical photographs on the wall at Masa – look closely and you can see a dry wash along Glendale Boulevard (north of Sunset) – that's the one actual photograph of the creek that I've seen. Not clear, and most likely highly altered from its original state – other maps indicate a perennial stream. There it just looks like a big sandy mess.
Fellow creekfreak and mega-cyclist Ron Milam forwarded me this quote, about the creek, which he found at an exhibit at the LA Public Library. The quote is by Leo Politi, one of Echo Park's famed writers, recalling a friend's reminiscence:
He told me of his boyhood and how he learned to swim in a pond at Second and Beaudry streets. It was a natural pond formed by a brook that ran down from the Echo Park reservoir. Along this little creek grew cattails and water lilies. Also there were sweet-waterfishes which are still to be found in great quantities in Echo Park lake. He remembers frogs croaking after dark.
Another stream joined Arroyo de los Reyes at Echo Park lake – this drainage came down from Echo Park Avenue. Rumor – and that's all it is still – has it that there are capped springs up the street, possibly at Elysian Heights Elementary School. I've scouted for signs on many a walk up to FIX, and can't confirm anything. But maybe one of you can.
Echo Park Lake was indeed originally a reservoir, formed by a dam, and as noted at Chicken Corner, captured stormwater runoff from the watershed. At one time, even after burying the stream, the groundwater was quite high. A former DWP employee told me that he took borings in Glendale Boulevard, under the Sunset bridge – and hit water at 5′ below the surface! Not surprising, then, that in 1959, Arroyo de los Reyes struck back with a little flooding.
1959. Source: LA Public Library. Image no. 28410.
But the dam my have served another purpose early on.
This 1888 Detail Irrigation map shows us many streams in the area – and also ditches/zanjas. See the darker blue lines? Most of those are ditches/zanjas. Rusty red and fainter blue colors are streams. So we see a ditch very clearly, also coming down Glendale Blvd/2nd Street. Last year's Public Library map exhibit included a map that named the ditch coming down alongside the stream: Woolen Mill Ditch. So, conjecture – there was a wool mill, which may have needed a water wheel, which needed a dam…?
Sheep in Garvanza. 1878. Source: LA Public Library, photo no 69363
I can just imagine the little sheep running all over the hills, there's great photos of them over in Garvanza. Someone's got to shear them, and someone's got to do something with all that wool, yes?
Speaking of those rusty red creeks, pan over to the right of the map, and you'll see that Chavez Ravine and Solano Canyon both had streams (not surprisingly). Another rumor I heard in my time living in Echo Park was that staff at Barlow Respiratory Hospital could hear the flows from a capped spring in a stormdrain flowing through their parking lot – and that subsurface water flows were responsible for their parking lot needed to be fixed up a lot. Which brings to mind that we are poised on the brink of another lost opportunity if the Barlow Hospital is redeveloped as mega-housing on the edge of Elysian Park. Before even the Chavez Ravine debacle, it was bad enough that what was obviously once part of the extensive public common land – Pueblo Lands of Los Angeles (as marked in the map above) had been sold off, developed etc – the bright side at Barlow being that here's a sliver of privatized land that at least served a public good – soon to be turned over to inaccessible private property? Add to that a probable buried creek to be further lost to infrastructure. My only solace will be if the descendents of the dispossessed Chavez Ravine dwellers get first dibs on the housing.
Tagged: 2nd Street, Arroyo de los Reyes, Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Beaudry Avenue, Chavez Ravine, Echo Park Lake, Elysian Park, Glendale Boulevard, Leo Politi, Los Angeles, Pueblo Lands of Los Angeles, Ron Milam, Solano Canyon, William Hammond Hall Detail Irrigation map, Woolen Mill Ditch
§ 50 Responses to A tree grows on Beaudry: echos of the creeks of Echo Park
ay… another beautiful story, Jessica! Thanks! Everyone should come hear you speak this Friday at noon at Farmlab!
This is so exciting. Thank you for helping me to envision a greener Los Angeles.
Under the pavement, the beach!
Er well, the stream! I couldn't resist referencing the situationists.
Great quote, Matt, my friend… don't resist when situationists call!
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Darrell Kunitomi says:
Many thanks for keeping the memory of what was once here alive. I'm a native Angeleno who fished Echo Park Lake as a boy. Rode the RTD #44 bus on Temple east from where we lived, Commonwealth and Beverly to fish on Saturdays. It was marvelous.
I know the good ol days came with certain attitudes and restrictions of the day. IOW, not all Americans were as free and equal as we would have liked. But there was a fine time after WW II when our city was cleaner, less crowded and safer from random acts of violence. And a kid going to a public school did not have to worry about a classmate carrying heat. I went to public schools in the center of the city, and it was safe.
Back to the ol days, there was good nature in the city — vacant lots with springtime weeds were a playground. Butterflies were all over, flitting through Los Angeles. Crawdads at beautiful Ferndale park, landscaped grounds, no taggings, a wonderland. And a patrolling ranger.
Things change, I know. But it's good to look back. IMHO.
Jessica Hall says:
Thanks for your comment. I am very glad for the civil rights advances we've made, but the incredible violence that we as a city (and nation) take so casually is an infuriating tragedy. And I wonder sometimes about the lack of nature in our lives here – how that affects us. Clearly there are terrible acts of violence in isolated, rural places – so don't want to over-romanticize nature either – but I do believe that in paving our streams, we paved childhood, took away something people often bond around, at a subtle level reduced our sense of commitment to one another and something bigger than ourselves.
That said, even in LA, there is so much opportunity for restoration – if only we can muster the political will to make it happen.
Glenda Cox says:
I, too, grew up in Los Angeles in the 40's and 50's. It was a wonderful place to grow up. You mentioned Ferndale Park. I would like to know where it is or if it is still there. As a kid, I didn't pay attention to where my Dad was driving. It was one of my very favorite places to go and we went there often. When guests from out of town came to visit, we always took them there as one of the great places to visit. I still have pictures of our family in the park. I grew up in the Silverlake area of L.A. My old home is still there.
There is a Fern Dell near Western and Franklin, that takes you into Griffith Park. There is a pretty stream there, historically spring fed – today, I'm told, augmented with other water.
Hm, it was the 42 on Temple, and the 44 on Beverly.
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LA MapNerd says:
Re: The Woolen Mill Ditch
From A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs, Vol. 1, by James Miller Guinn, 1915:
Echo park, containing thirty acres, is another park evolved from the city's refuse lands. In 1868 the city council contracted with the Los Angeles Canal & Reservoir Company, a corporation, with a capital of $200,000, of which George Hansen was president and J. J. Warner, secretary, to construct a system of reservoirs and canals in the northwestern part of the city. The reservoirs were to be filled by water from the river conducted in a canal. A dam, twenty feet high, was built across a canon near the head of the Arroyo de Los Reyes and a ditch following the canon of this arroyo down to Pearl street, now Figueroa, was constructed. This zanja in later years was known as the Woolen Mill ditch.
Los Angeles had an ambition to become a manufacturing city. The water brought down by the ditch could be used for power to propel machinery and for irrigation. The ditch was extended down to the southern part of the city. For this improvement the company was to receive several thousand acres of hill land in the northwest part of the city. In 1873 a woolen mill was built on the line of this ditch near Figueroa and Fifth streets, and for a decade or so manufactured a fair quality of blankets. Then it was turned into an ice factory. Competition froze it out. The Woolen Mill ditch disappeared before the march of improvement and all the city has left for its leagues of land is a pond or reservoir now known as Echo Lake. The other reservoirs that appear on the old maps as reservoirs 1, 2, and 3 were never completed. The land surrounding reservoir No. 4 (Echo Lake) was converted into a park and the land below the dam—about four and one half acres—belonging to the city was converted into a children's playground. Echo Lake is the largest body of water in any of the parks. It is a favorite boating resort and a few deluded fishermen occasionally angle for carp in its turbed waters.
Wow! Thanks MapNerd! I obviously need to get ahold of this book!
CapnMike says:
I am not sure if B F Coulter of Coulter Dry Goods which was later a department store had it built or if he took it over. There is a photo I have seen (couldn't find it just now). There is info at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/lacou.htm
The cutting of the 101 was the beginning of the end, IMHO. And the loss of the Echo Park Library building, at Temple and blvd. Tennis courts came in. At least the old rec center is refurbed and opened. Now comes the lake's turn.
Last sentence of above, full of snark. He say crap, I say carp, and more.
To add — just drove past lot in photo on my way into work — sorry to report, but the lot got a going-over, plants are missing.
May they forever return.
what a bummer.
Colleen Miyano says:
"They pave paradise & put up a parking lot!" Sad…
David Kimbrough says:
When I was a young fellow attending Elysian Heights Elementary School on the north east corner of Baxter & Valentine was a bottled water company. It was called the Elysian Springs Bottling House (it was the scene of a shocking murder in December of 1904 according the Los Angeles Times). While in room 8 I could see truck coming and going. It was later closed and the land bought by the school. There are now classrooms in that corner. The garage doors, which were on the Baxter Street side, were used in a movie once "Hearts of the West" starting Jeff Bridges which came out in 1975 so it was around at least until then. So there was some sort of well/spring on that site.
Thank you for this amazing information! A bottling company at Baxter! Wow!
Martin Scott says:
I really appreciate the comments about Elysian Spring Water Co..
I recently found an old 5 gallon bottle with the word "Elysian" molded to it. I have found out some stuff about the company, but not nearly enough. Your share has helped me put a little more of the puzzle together. I found the Company opened sometime in 1878.. But that is all I know other than the killing (1907) and the lawsuits (1930,1934).
Wow! Would you mind sharing a photo of it with us?
Lane Barden says:
So sorry I missed your farmlab talk. keep us posted about your next one. Thanks for your story about the Arroyo de los Reyes. I had no idea. I found in my research on the LAR that road and city workers had dug up riversand downtown and I assumed it was from an extreme River flood. This makes more sense.
BTW, maybe you know this but Leo Politi was also a painter and children's book publisher, winner of two Caldecott awards. His son, Paul Leo Politi wrote Those Oldies But Goodies (Remind Me of You) recorded by Little Caesar in 1961.
over and out,
Lane Barden
Thanks, Lane, for your comment. I thought Politi was a writer (children's books) but no didn't realize he was also a painter.
Sand in downtown – some may have come from Arroyo de los Reyes, but I've also read accounts of boulders being hit by excavators – about where the LA River was reputed to have crossed over to the Ballona watershed – during those untold number of years when that was its course.
Politi did the illustrations for the children's books – beautiful, and many are recognizable L.A. places. Didn't know about his son, though!
The Los Angeles Central Library did a show of his paintings several years back. I think they have them in their collection. A lot of them were paintings of the sadly ill-fated Victotian Bunker Hill neighborhood (now California Plaza – Yikes!)
Ooh, I found another bit in Guinn's "History". From the section on Central Park (today's Pershing Square):
After the conquest of California by the Americans, a portion of the pueblo lands lying between First and Twelfth streets, Main and Grasshopper (now Figueroa) streets, was subdivided into lots and blocks by Lieutenant Ord; Central Park is block 15 of Ord's Survey.
This survey was made in 1849 and a number of the lots fronting on Main, Spring and Fort streets were put on sale. The maximum price for Ord Survey lots, 120×165 feet, in the "days of '49" was $50 each. With the decadence of mining and the decreased demand for cattle— the chief product of the South—the city became a case of arrested development.
Ord's Survey lots on Main, Spring and Fort streets could be bought in the early '60s at the price of ten years before, namely, thirty to fifty cents per front foot. There was no temptation to invest in lots beyond the settled portion of the city; consequently the blocks west of Hill street remained practically intact.
There was another reason why settlers did not locate on lots on Olive and Charity (Grand avenue) streets near the base of the western hills. The Arroyo de Los Reyes, rising in the northwestern part of the city, debouched into the plain at the base of the hill on which the old Normal School stood. It crossed Olive street north of Sixth and cut a corner off the prospective park, then it zigzagged in a deep channel through the blocks between Hill, Olive and Charity streets down to Washington street.
In the spring of the year there was considerable water in it and innumerable frogs nightly held concerts along its reedy brink. As the season advanced, millions of mosquitoes hatched in the stagnant pools of the arroyo of the kings and made night a horror to the dwellers on its banks. These appurtenances to real estate in that locality made it undesirable for first-class residences.
So I guess not everyone wants to live next to a creek. 🙂
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[…] By Jessica Hall Thanks to Creekfreak readers who added so much richness of detail to the post, A tree grows on Beaudry. If you are intrigued by Echo Park's former Arroyo de los Reyes, Elysian Springs and Woolen […]
vanessa acuna says:
Thank you much for this great article.
My partner & I recently opened a youth & culture center at 132 S. Beaudry Avenue…We incorporated the willow tree into our logo 🙂
Come by. Would love to meet you!
Vanessa Acuna
lovely! Thanks for letting us know, and I hope to drop in to the center sometime!
Hi there, I just read your article doing some research on Echo Park and this was really helpful!
Tina Mata says:
As always, such a pleasure, I am so grateful for your the passion and time invested in this blog Joe, and for all those who contribute as well.
My grandfather was born and raised in Echo Park arround the turn of the century. The maps , stories and research bring life to our families oral tradition.
Mid Wilshire
Thanks for the kind words, my friend, Tina. The credit for the Echo Park post is all Jessica's!
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[…] The story starts with a buried river called the Arroyo de los Reyes, which originates off of Glendale Blvd. near the 2 terminus. It flowed down Glendale, to where Echo Park Lake now is, and into downtown down 2nd Street where it ends up just south of Pershing Square and eventually connecting to the LA River (Source: LA Creek Freak). […]
RC says:
Awesome article!
I'm doing some Historic Echo Park research and I'm wondering if there's a larger version of the detail of the 1888 Irrigation Map pictured above — I've been looking through the LA Engineering vaults as well as the LAPL, and I can't seem to find the right one —
Thanks much — !
Hi RC, the map actually comes from state archives in Sacramento. I have a digital copy, very large file. If you want to email me the area you're looking for I can send you a crop or yousendit.com it to you.
Hi Jessica!
Thanks for your reply —
I've been searching through the State Library Archive Online, but have been unable to find the map online.
If you downloaded it and it's available online, I'd be happy to download it myself, otherwise, if you could yousendit to the email address on the post, I'd really appreciate it.
I'd probably go for the whole file if you didn't mind, since whatever was cropped out I'm sure I'd need to see next 🙂
Jessica, Joe Linton, Ron Milam, thank you. I have spoken to you of my family being raised in Echo Park and Mid Wilshire near the turn of the century, bathing at the Bimini baths, gathering watercrest from the LA River at dusk for dinner time. My husbands family arrived as migrant farmworks from Mexico and walked this land earlier. We as a couple remain deeply connected to this land. G-d help us to be wise stewards given our education, resourses, assests in people, our access to institutions, our health. Jessica, Joe, Ron, your lives and writings continue to inspire and invite us, chalange us to live and continue to become our best selves. Thank you sister. Thank you brothers.
Tina Mata
In 1887 an El Niño year brought severe flooding to the Los Angeles. Most of the bridges across the LA River were damaged (except the covered bridge at Macy Street – now César Chávez Blvd.). On Februray 16 of that year the LA Times ran an article about the damage. The story was a north to south review of the various bridges, beginning with Downey Street (now North Spring) down to Santa Fe Depot. The story ends with a paragraph about Reservoir No. 4 (i.e. the future Echo Park Lake). It says…
"President James McLoughlin of the Second-street Cable Road appeared in Council yesterday, and stated there was great fear that Reservoir No. 4 would break and cause great loss of life and asked that the reservoir be kept not more than half full in winter months.
The Zanjero is running water off from Reservoir No.4 as fast as he deems prudent, so that any solicitude as to a break is useless, unless very heavy rains fall. Early this morning he reported that he had lowered the reservoir a foot."
I cannot tell is this story is mountainous mole-hill or represents a real possibility. Today the idea of mighty Echo Park Lake being emptied onto what is now Glendale Blvd. and sending a torrent of flood waters down toward Pearl Street (later Figuroa) seems plain silly. However perhaps things were different then. I do know that Reservoir No. 4 was more than bit larger than is modern Echo Park Lake.
It is a mystery.
Once again, a fount of amazing enviro-urban history. I don't know either, about the seriousness of a flood risk today. Back then the stream was an open channel; today, a stormdrain follows its path and would likely carry the flood flows.
DarrellKuni says:
Update, depression — 8/11: the lot is asphalted over.
Very sad to hear that. They'd cut the tree down a while back. Visionless wonders.
tovangar Toutvabien says:
Re Woolen Mill Ditch and BF Coulter-
The following quote is from "Adobe Days" by Sarah Bixby Smith (1929)
"…Mr Coulter had a woolen mill over the hill near the present corner of Figueroa and 5th St….There was a little stream there that was called Los Reyes…"
PS Ive read that Pershing Sq is where it is because it was always too muddy and so could not be sold as building lots.
The Ord Survey of 1849 shows Los Reyes as it enters downtown. It looks very vigorous
http://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/visual-collections/plan-de-la-ciudad-de-los-angeles-1849?page=1
A photo of BF Coulter's Woolen Mill is at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/1926
He made products for his store, Coulter's Dry Goods (later Coulter's). Broadway Wilshire at Hauser (torn down in the 1980's) was originally Coulter's http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8874
Jonathan Weiss says:
More pictures of and information about Coulter's Woolen Mill and Los Reyes/Woolen Mill Ditch.
More pictures of and information about Coulter's Woolen Mill and Los Reyes/Woolen Mill Ditch. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?s=9ab3e77af3208d96f70cb1ee3b2348f1&p=7245387&postcount=32213
Thx for the mention
1876 photo of BF Coulter's Woolen Mill:
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/laviews%3A142
Series of three pix of the mill:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=7244340&postcount=32195
This zoomable 1877 birdseye map of LA shows the mill:
http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4364l.pm000260/
1875 plat map of the mill. Mill Street ran behind it, parallel to and west of Figueroa:
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/12985/rec/11
BTW, Figueroa was Grasshopper Street from 1849 (when it was platted) until 1874, when it was changed to "Pearl". It was changed to "Figueroa in 1896.
Short, but interesting, item about the woolen mill is here:
https://archive.org/stream/historyoflosange00wils#page/128/mode/2up/search/%22bernard+bros%22
1886, or later, photo of the woolen mill ditch leading away from the mill (a corner of the mill is on the extreme center-right margin). The ditch was piped under both Pearl/Figueroa and Flower St.
Camera is looking SW.William Henry Fletcher was the photographer:
Another photo of Los Reyes. Looking north at the Crown Hills west of Bunker Hill (right). I think the mill is out of shot to the SE:
http://collections.nhm.org/seaver-ce…&refirn=558426
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2010 Preliminary Raiderette Auditions
Former Raiderette Loreen is hoping to return to the squad after four years. Photo by Tony Gonzales.
More than 300 candidates vying for a spot in next weekend's finals participated in the preliminary Raiderette Audition at the Hilton-Oakland Airport. The 2010 Raiderette Auditions, presented by Bud Light, conclude Sunday, April 18th, as more than 100 finalists, including returning veteran Raiderettes, will compete for 36 spots on this year's squad.
Newcomers, those who have auditioned in the past and former Raiderettes donned their best outfits, put on their make-up and styled their hair and put forth their best efforts to impress the panel of judges.
The reasons for wanting to become a Raiderette are as varied as the candidates. Six-year veteran Raiderette Loreen has been away from the Silver and Black for four years. She says that the allure and excitement of being on the squad were too much to resist. "I would love to come out and represent this organization well and be a positive role model in the community," Loreen said. "What haven't I missed? Definitely the camaraderie with the girls, I definitely miss mingling with the fans, the interaction with all of the fans…you all have the same passion for the same team."
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Heat milk, water and butter until warm (100-110 degrees).
Pour into large mixing bowl and add yeast; stir and let rest for 5 minutes.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Add to liquid mixture and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
Combine cheddar cheese, Asiago cheese, bacon and chives in a bowl. Reserve one third; stir remaining cheese mixture into batter.
Pour into prepared dutch oven. Cover and let rise 40-50 minutes or until doubled in size.
Sprinkle remaining cheese mixture over bread. Cover and continue cooking for 5-10 minutes until well brown and bread is done.
I'm new to yeast breads also but this one is really easy and who doesn't like bacon and cheese together? Hope you like it!
Take a look at my posting of 2/6/2010. It will help with the rain problem. Your bread looks good and I will give it a try. Keep up the good work on your blog.
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Donna Smith, left back row, with members of the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce
The Kimberley's Halls Creek is a town and surrounding shire of great divides, racialised, of pronounced inequalities. Local Elder, Donna Smith said more has to be done for Halls Creek's First Peoples who are on the outer when it comes to jobs, opportunities and quality of life. Ms Smith said "you will not find our people with the jobs in our towns and communities." Ms Smith is worried about the youth. She is part of the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce, a conduit of hope that she said "must be Aboriginal owned".
Halls Creek has low employment levels of its local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. Ms Smith said that inadequate skills learning opportunities exist in the town for its First People. The local Elders are concerned that alcohol and drugs will grip their children, their youth to relieve them from the boredom of their aimlessness in the face of all the inequalities.
Ms Smith said that the Healing Taskforce is underfunded and that it needs to be adequately resourced in order to provide a 24/7 service that enables the full suite of prevention and postvention services for the youth of Halls Creek, and for their families and for cultural programs in addition to any existing interventionist support.
"Often we need someone ready to respond to someone who is at-risk at say 3am in the morning. Helping those at-risk is not a 9 to 5 thing only," said Ms Hall.
Ms Smith said that the Healing Taskforce represents the needs of the people and the communities of the shire of Halls Creek in the area of social and emotional wellbeing.
"We listen to what people want and need, to what their issues are and are then best placed to explain to government agencies how community wants them to work."
Ms Smith said the Healing Taskforce needed funding for a 24/7 crisis response capacity and for a crisis helpline. At this time some funding has been secured to ensure that these services will be set up by the end of the year and run through the Jungarni-Jutiya. But a long-term funding commitment would stabilise budgets and planning and coordination. The Taskforce does not have enough funding for community counsellors who can work as mentors and in the crisis helpline service. Funding is needed to develop a Healing Place on Country program – teaching, learning and healing on Country.
The Halls Creek Healing Strategy initiative was created out of listening to the needs and hopes of residents of Halls Creek and of surrounding remote Aboriginal communities.
Similarly to the well-known west Kimberley program, the Yiriman Project, the Halls Creek Healing Strategy seeks to empower people and build resilience and capacity.
"It is the journey of change that people, families and communities want to go on to move beyond the trauma of the past that is leading to a cycle of grief, depression, cultural loss, self-destructive actions and suicide."
"The journey will be different for each person and family. It can mean different things to different people. It might mean cultural healing, it might mean strengthening faith or it might mean overcoming addictions."
"The Halls Creek Healing Strategy will support the community to heal."
Ms Smith reinforced the need for local First Peoples to guide the ways forward, to enable the healing. This will lead to stable local leadership, to local ownership of problems and solutions, to local planning, to role modelling, to the empowerment of the local First Peoples.
"This strategy will not succeed without being driven by and having the involvement, support and guidance of local Aboriginal people."
The Halls Creek Healing Taskforce is in pursuit of a holistic whole of community involvement.
"The Halls Creek Healing Taskforce will have members which include a balance of men and women, young people, Traditional Owners, Elders from major family groups and representatives of Aboriginal Corporations as well as members from different language groups, town communities, remote communities, and churches."
"The Halls Creek Healing Taskforce will bring service providers together to support the Healing Strategy. The community wants service providers to work better together and avoid a crossover in programs. The Healing Strategy will be driven by the Halls Creek community and not by a Government department. This is different to how it has been done before."
The Healing Taskforce can provide support to service providers to optimally engage with families and individuals they have referred.
Ms Smith said that the First Peoples of Halls Creek face many pressures and the disparity between them and non-Aboriginal residents is wide. Ms Smith reinforced that this disparity cannot be allowed to replicate itself within any Healing Strategy, the ways forward must be owned by First People and if this is the case hence half the journey is completed.


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Watch Sammy Hagar Honor Eddie Money During Tribute Concert
Ryan Reed Published: February 27, 2020
Stewart Volland, AXS TV
A recent all-star benefit concert honoring Eddie Money will be broadcast as a two-hour TV special premiering March 22 at 9PM ET on AXS TV.
The network teased Eddie Money Tribute Concert with a clip of Sammy Hagar playing Money's 1982 hit "Shakin'" with the late rocker's children Dez, Jesse and Julian. In the video, the former Van Halen frontman belts the chorus and plays a guitar solo as a vintage picture of the two singers is projected behind the band.
The show's set list also features Metallica's James Hetfield with a solo acoustic rendition of "Baby Hold On," George Thorogood on "Money (That's What I Want)," Mickey Thomas with "Walk on Water," John Waite on "Save a Little Room," REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin and Dave Amato on "Think I'm in Love" and Greg Kihn with "No Control," among others. All the musicians unite for the final song, "Two Tickets to Paradise."
You can watch the Hagar clip below.
A fan-shot video of Hetfield's performance showed the singer and guitarist reminiscing about his friendship with Money. "I got to hang out with Eddie, the last probably three years of his life," he says of the late singer and saxophonist, who died in September at age 70 following complications from esophageal cancer.
The tribute — which benefited MusiCares and the USC Eddie Money Cancer Research Fund — was filmed live on Feb. 20 in Beverly Hills. The event, hosted by comedian and actor Louie Anderson, also featured video tributes from Huey Lewis, Joan Jett, Steve Miller, Loverboy, Boston and former Styx singer Dennis DeYoung.
Money's widow, Laurie Money, enthused about the special in a statement.
"AXS TV was a big part of our lives for the past two years while we shot [the reality TV show] Real Money, and we are so pleased to have them on board as the exclusive home for Eddie's memorable tribute event," she said. "We are so excited that others will now have the opportunity to witness the outpouring of love and support that Eddie and our family received from his music peers through this concert."
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