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Fit, Fun and Fabulous in Franklin (4F) will feature special guests.
Football great and Franklin’s own Leonard Marshall will be the keynote speaker for this year’s luncheon at noon at The Lamp Post.
Koryn Hawthorne from “The Voice” will perform at the Franklin Senior High School stadium during the special events that begin at 5 p.m.
Fit, Fun and Fabulous in Franklin is a free event that is open to the public, and it will take place Thursday, Oct. 6 to promote wellness and Franklin’s downtown from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
There will be health screenings, children’s health activities, guest speakers, demonstrations and presentations along Main Street and discussions of women’s and men’s health issues at The Lamp Post.
Vendors and volunteers are wanted. The deadline to become a vendor is Aug. 31. To become a vendor or a volunteer, please contact Dawn Kaiser-Melancon (337-355-1373) or Ed Verdin (337-828-2550 ext. 2181).
4F continues at the Franklin Senior High School stadium at 5 p.m. Participants will “Walk a Mile for Christ.” All groups and individuals that would like to participate in this event should contact Ed Verdin (337-828-2550 ext. 2181).
The Franklin Police Department and the Franklin Fire Department and the St. Mary Parish Council and the Franklin City Council will compete in tug-of-war competitions. Also, the organizers invite everyone to join in the pink glove dance in support of breast cancer awareness. To end the day, Chez Hope will host a candlelight vigil. These activities will take place at Franklin Senior High School’s stadium.
This event coincides with the monthly First Thursday promotion, and merchants on Main Street will be open until 6 p.m. For more information about First Thursdays and how to become a participating business, contact the Office of Community Development at 337-828-6345 or [email protected].
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Area senior citizens will have a chance Monday to hear Gov. John Bel Edwards speak and learn about how to protect themselves from becoming victims of crime and report incidents of abuse.
District Attorney Bo Duhe of Louisiana’s 16th Judicial District will host a Senior Citizens Educational Seminar from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at the Cypress Bayou Casino Hotel Pavilion in Charenton. The seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be included. Attendees must be at least 21 years old.
The governor’s office con-firmed that, as of this morning, Edwards is still scheduled to speak at the event, but his schedule is subject to change. Duhe expects Edwards to speak about what’s going on in the state and how that affects senior citizens.
The district attorney’s office has held the seminar for many years to educate senior citizens on services provided within the district’s jurisdiction of St. Mary, St. Martin and Iberia parishes, Duhe said.
Among the information provided includes protection against phone scams, emotional and physical abuse by caregivers and other criminal activity “that the elderly are generally susceptible to,” Duhe said.
With the increased use of online social media, senior citizens have become more susceptible to online scams, too, Duhe said.
Sometimes, senior citizens are afraid they will lose a caregiver if they report that the caregiver is taking financial advantage of them or abusing them, he said. Caregivers are often family members, and seniors also worry about the effects on the family of reporting an incident.
“The more we educate senior citizens, the more they may be inclined to report (incidents),” Duhe said.
The District Attorney’s Office has staff members who are responsible for investigating reports of elderly abuse. Those employees first determine if the complaint is credible, and, if so, they turn the investigation over to law enforcement, Duhe said.
Lots of other agencies and entities assist in putting on the seminar. The district is fortunate to have “very active” councils on aging and AARP chapters, Duhe said.
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BERLIN (AP) — Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man’s best friend really does understand some of what we’re saying.
Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listening to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of the brain they were using.
They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans.
What’s more, the dogs only registered that they were being praised if the words and intonation were positive. Meaningless words spoken in an encouraging voice, or meaningful words in a neutral tone, didn’t have the same effect.
“Dog brains care about both what we say and how we say it,” said lead researcher Attila Andics, a neuroscientist at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
Andics said the findings suggest that the mental ability to process language evolved earlier than previously believed and that what sets humans apart from other species is the invention of words.
“The neural capacities to process words that were thought by many to be uniquely human are actually shared with other species,” he said. “This suggests that the big change that made humans able to start using words was not a big change in neural capacity.”
While other species probably also have the mental ability to understand language like dogs do, their lack of interest in human speech makes it difficult to test, said Andics.
Dogs, on the other hand, have socialized with humans for thousands of years, meaning they are more attentive to what people say to them and how.
The study was published in the journal Science.
Andics also noted that all of the dogs were awake, unrestrained and happy during the tests. “They participated voluntarily,” he said.
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Tropical system expected to turn away from St. Mary
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St. Mary Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness directors advise residents to watch weather conditions despite Tropical Depression Nine’s turn toward Florida.
The trajectory of the storm originally was expected to carry the system to the center of the Louisiana coast, where St. Mary is located, said Duval Arthur Jr., director of the parish’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
“So, we would’ve probably gotten some of that storm, if it would have continued on its trajectory,” Arthur said.
“However, there’s a front that’s going to start pushing that sometime, I think this afternoon, to the east. But let me just say, it all depends on when that storm makes the turn.”
At this point, the effects on St. Mary depend on how far north the storm goes before it makes the turn.
“We could see significant rain and high tides from that storm even though it’s not coming towards us,” Arthur said. “It’s still coming close enough to us in the Gulf that it would cause high tides and a lot of rain .”
The homeland security office is basing everything on National Weather Service reports and its computerized prediction of wind currents and the front coming down that it’s going to make a right turn.
Storms in the Atlantic, Tropical Depression 8 on the North Carolina coast and Tropical Depression 9 are all affected by the incoming front.
“It’s a blessing for us now because it’s going to push it away from us but unfortunately it’s going to hit Florida,” Arthur said. “I tell you right now, the only thing I would tell people is please watch the news.
“We’re counting on it going to the right, but who knows?”
Deputy Director Paul Rappmundt says that as far as storm preparations go, “we’re just kind of in a standby hold mode, seeing what’s going on.”
Arthur has made preparations for bottled water and standing orders for relief supplies, Rappmundt said. But basic preparations for a potential hurricane are to be on watch and be careful.
“Don’t turn your back on it,” Rappmundt said. “Right now, everybody just needs to be prepared. Don’t wait to the last minute.
“Make sure you don’t wait till last minute and everybody’s all of a sudden jumping up and down saying ‘all the stores are sold out of water,’ out of can goods and nonperishable foods that you can fix over a Coleman stove or something like that if you lose electricity. Just be prepared.”
In hindsight, residents need to prepare themselves because of the parish’s past experience with Hurricane Andrew.
“Everybody needs to watch and be prepared,” Rappmundt said. “We kind of got complacent for Hurricane Andrew because that was an El Nino year when everything happened.
“Next thing you know, Hurricane Andrew came in and … did all kinds of damage. Everybody was kind of like, wait, this wasn’t supposed to happen. But it did.”
Ultimately, meteorologists make predictions. And the hope is that a forecast is accurate.
“There’s only one person who can control this and that’s man upstairs,” Arthur said. “So, we’re hoping the Lord watches over us and the National Weather Service is right.”
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A 15-year-old has been arrested and charged with battery after he stabbed another teenager at a Pierre Part birthday part, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said.
Assumption deputies answered the call to the party on Oak Lane on Friday night.
The 17-year-old victim was transported to Teche Regional Medical Center, where he received treatment and was later discharged. The 15-year-old was detained at the scene and later transported to the Assumption Parish Detention Center where he was charged with aggravated second-degree battery.
This investigation continues, and additional arrests are likely, the sheriff said.
If anyone has information that may be beneficial, please contact the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office at 985- 369-7281 or Capt. Ray Traigle at 985-526-1627.
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The No Wake Zone that was in place for Lower St. Martin Parish in Stephensville and Belle River has been lifted, according to a St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office news release.
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Morgan City Housing Authority Executive Director Clarence Robinson speaks during Thursday's board meeting. The authority is taking applications for housing from 8 a.m.-11:30 a.m. each Thursday. Applicants should bring a picture ID, proof of income, birth certificate and social security card. Those applicants who were displaced by the flood should bring proof of their FEMA assistance applications. (The Daily Review/Zachary Fitzgerald)
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests:
Martin Robertson, 29, of Glencoe, was arrested Friday at 7:40 a.m. and charged with driving under suspension. He was released on a summons to appear in court.
Allegra Ackerman, 35, of 726 Parish Road 131, Centerville, was arrested Friday at 1:22 p.m. on the charge of unauthorized use of an access card. No bail was set.
Kelly Kendall, 25, of Tickfaw, was arrested Friday at 3:27 p.m. for failing to appear to court on charges of possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids. No bail was set.
Jessica Everage, 35, of 2485 Unit #19 River Road, Bayou Vista, was arrested Friday at 9:53 p.m. on charges of disturbing the peace by fighting. Bail was set at $250.
Yakendra Wallace, 26, of 109 Guzzette Drive, Berwick, was arrested Friday at 9:53 p.m. on charges of disturbing the peace by fighting. She was later released on a $250 bail.
Henry Wayne Truelove, 31, of 132 Grey Eagle Road #1, Charenton, was arrested Sunday at 1:29 p.m. and charged with careless operation of a motor vehicle, license plate switched, driving under suspension, no vehicle insurance and possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicle. Bail was set at $2500.
Chitimacha Police Chief Hal Hutchinson reported the following arrest:
Randy Mitchell, 38, of Center Street, New Iberia, was arrested Saturday and charged with failure to appear for non-support and for improper supervision of a minor. He was transported to the parish jail.
Franklin Police Chief Sabria McGuire reported the following arrests:
Nathaniel Paul, 24, of Eighth Street, Franklin, was arrested Friday and charged with a parole violation. Paul was held with no bond set.
Ananesia Jones, 18, of Sixth Street, Franklin, was arrested Friday at 11:20 a.m. and charged with theft of goods. Jones was released on a $1,000 bond.
Chad Couvillier, 43, of Florida Street, Franklin, was arrested Friday at 5:16 p.m. for the charge of illegal possession of stolen things. Couvillier was also arrested for failure to appear for a review hearing and failure to appear for child support. Couvillier was held with no bond set.
Jermaine Small, 36, of Nora Street, Franklin, was arrested Saturday at 3:47 p.m. for the charge of disturbing the peace by fighting and simple battery on a juvenile. Small was released on a $1,000 bond.
Antoinette Perro-Johnson, 35, was arrested Saturday at 5:47 p.m. for the charge of disturbing the peace by fighting and disturbing the peace by public intoxication. Perro-Johnson was released on a $1,000 bond.
Nicholas Bishop, 19, of Third Street, Franklin, was arrested Sunday at 4:56 p.m. for failure to appear on the charge of aggravated assault. Bishop was held on a $608 cash bond.
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The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the police department at 985-380-4605.
Friday, Aug. 26
5:41 p.m. 300 block of Fifth Street; Complaint.
6:29 p.m. 600 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard; Reckless driving.
6:59 p.m. 400 block of Bush Street; Medical.
7:50 p.m. 300 block of Grizzaffi Street; Loud music.
8:27 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70-; Welfare concern.
8:38 p.m. Brownell Homes; Disturbance.
8:46 p.m. 6000 block of La. 182; Accident.
8:51 p.m. 900 block of Fig Street; Alarm.
9:44 p.m. Tammy Drive; Frequent Patrols.
10:11 p.m. 5000 block of Railroad Avenue; Complaint.
11:32 p.m. 1400 block of Federal Avenue; Complaint.
11:36 p.m. Railroad Avenue and Third Street; Suspicious vehicle.
11:59 p.m. U.S. 90 West; Reckless driving.
Saturday, Aug. 27
1:35 a.m. Veterans Boulevard and Brownell Homes; Suspicious person.
1:42 a.m. 6400 block of La. 182; Suspicious person.
2:11 a.m. 800 block of Youngs Road; Disturbance.
2:20 a.m. 600 block of Brashear Avenue; Theft.
5:18 a.m. 1000 block of Victor II Boulevard; Alarm.
5:55 a.m. 400 block of Brashear Avenue; Assistance.
7:15 a.m. 800 block of Levee Road; Suspicious vehicle.
7:23 a.m. La. 182 Business; 911 hang-up call.
7:29 a.m. Sixth and Bowman streets; Animal complaint.
9:47 a.m. 2100 block of Cedar Street; Alarm.
9:59 a.m. 600 block of Marshall Street; Complaint.
10:35 a.m. 300 block of Laurel Street; Animal complaint.
1:50 p.m. 1100 block of Sixth Street; Theft.
2:04 p.m. 900 block of Marguerite Street; Alarm.
2:44 p.m. U.S. 90 East; Accident.
3:19 p.m. 100 block of Freret Street; Complaint.
4:09 p.m. U.S. 90 West; Assistance.
4:13 p.m. 600 block of Everett Street; Complaint.
4:06 p.m. La. 70 and Victor II Boulevard; Complaint.
4:51 p.m. 600 block of Shannon Street; Domestic.
5:57 p.m. Chestnut Street and Roselawn Drive; Traffic incident.
6:22 p.m. Apple and Garber streets; Juvenile problems.
7:01 p.m. 6400 block of La. 182; Complaint.
8:15 p.m. 700 block of Hilda Street; Disturbance.
9:48 p.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Civil matter.
10:23 p.m. 300 block of Wren Street; Disturbance.
10:41 p.m. 500 block of Hilda Street; Suspicious vehicle.
11:48 p.m. 200 block of Patton Street; Medical.
Sunday, Aug. 28
4:23 a.m. 100 block of Chennault Street; Loud music.
5 a.m. 1300 block of Victor II Boulevard; Alarm.
7:42 a.m. 300 block of Third Street; Animal complaint.
8:18 a.m. U.S. 90 Eastbound; Crash.
9:28 a.m. Onstead and Maple streets.; Animal complaint.
10:38 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Suspicious subject.
11:01 a.m. 500 block of Duke Street; Narcotics complaint.
1:04 p.m. 6000 block of La. 182; Crash.
1:53 p.m. Federal Avenue and Belanger Street; Arrest.
2:07 p.m. 7300 block of La. 182; Disturbance.
5:40 p.m. 1000 block of Franklin Street; Disturbance.
8:35 p.m. 7400 block of La. 182; Complaint.
9:07 p.m. 1400 block of Second Street; Disturbance.
9:58 p.m. 200 block of Aucoin Street; Complaint.
10:40 p.m. 800 block of Roderick Street; Frequent patrols.
10:46 p.m. 1500 block of Bernice Street; Medical.
10:58 p.m. 1300 block of Victor II Boulevard; Alarm.
11:19 p.m. 600 block of Railroad Avenue; Disturbance.
11:28 p.m. 1400 block of Federal Avenue; Suspicious person.
11:59 p.m. 800 block of Sacred Heart Drive; 911 hang up.
Monday, Aug. 29
12:11 a.m. Marquis Manor; Alarm.
2:52 a.m. 2900 block of Railroad Avenue; Disturbance.
3:14 a.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Medical.
3:16 a.m. 4000 block of Railroad Avenue; Alarm.
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“Bert”
September 27, 1935-August 27, 2016
Jerome Bradley Bertrand, known to many as Bert, was born in Kaplan and was a longtime resident of Morgan City. He passed away Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, at the age of 80, while surrounded by his loving family.
Bert leaves to cherish his wonderful memory, his wife of 59 years, Aline Acosta Bertrand; five children, Kenny Bertrand and his wife, Rickie, Verna Gilmore and her husband, Kenny, Kevin Bertrand and his wife, Jerri, Vanessa Bledsoe and her husband, Scott, and Kerry Bertrand and his wife, Bernadette; numerous beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and one sister.
He was reunited in heaven with his parents, Alta and Olite Bertrand; one brother and three sisters.
A very compassionate and generous soul, Bert was incredibly dedicated to his church, Berwick Assembly of God, now known as Lighthouse Community Church. He adored Jesus!
After retirement from Cameron Iron Works, Bert spent many years working with the Drainage Board in Bayou Vista. A music lover and recorded artist, he was the leader of a music band called Bert Bradley and the Louisiana Cajuns. His music featured country and western sounds and lyrics.
He will be deeply missed but never, ever forgotten.
The family requests that a time of visitation be observed Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, from 9 a.m. until time of services at noon at Lighthouse Community Church in Berwick. Following services, Jerome will be laid to rest in the Morgan City Cemetery.
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The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the police department at 985-380-4605.
Tuesday, Aug. 23
8:02 a.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Theft.
8:13 a.m. 6600 block of La. 182; Alarm.
8:32 a.m. Centerville; Arrest.
9:41 a.m. 8000 block of La. 182; Crash.
10:39 a.m. 1100 block of Fourth Street; Animal complaint.
10:50 a.m. 1000 block of Duke Street; Complaint.
11:05 a.m. Fourth and Greenwood streets; Utility.
11:28 a.m. 100 block of Third Street; Assistance.
11:33 a.m. 300 block of Egle Street; Complaint.
3:12 p.m. Victor II Boulevard and Greenwood Street; Crash.
3:20 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
3:22 p.m. 500 block of Willow Street; Complaint.
3:25 p.m. 1000 block of Hilda Street; Complaint.
4:36 p.m. General MacArthur Street; Complaint.
6:12 p.m. 1200 block of Spruce Street; Theft.
6:43 p.m. 2400 block of Apple Street; Medical.
7:13 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Medical.
9 p.m. 1500 block of Sixth Street; Suspicious vehicle.
10:35 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Shoplifter.
Wednesday, Aug. 24
12:52 a.m. Sixth and General Hodges streets; Loud music.
3:56 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Suspicious person.
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Sandra Burshell, award-winning pastel artist from New Orleans, has been named judge for Artists Guild Unlimited 53rd Annual Judged Show, according to Show Chair Charlene Opperman.
Held in conjunction with the 81st Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, The Everett Street Gallery show opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until Saturday, Sept. 24. Prior to the opening there is an annual private reception for Purchase Award Patrons.
Burshell’s renown ROOMSCAPE interiors have been exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Pastel Society of America, Salmagundi Club, Lincoln Center, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, San Bernardino Art Museum, Arlington,
Madden, and New Orleans Museums of Art.
Her works have been featured in the Pastel Journal, American Artist, Artist’s Magazine, and Pastel Artist International, among others.
Her next solo show will be November 2016 at the Carol Robinson Gallery (New Orleans), having been represented by the gallery for over 25 years. She will be part of the Tennessee Museum of Art’s Three Pastel
Artist Invitational in 2017. Sandra gives pastel workshops, talks, and demos and has been a judge/juror for art exhibitions throughout the country.
For more information on the artist: http://www.sandraburshell.com and [email protected]. For more on the art show see Artists Guild Unlimited Everett Street Gallery on Facebook. (Like us on Facebook).
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Earlier this month, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies boarded the Mr. Charlie rig museum in Morgan City for a training experience on the water. The group periodically travels to different locations to conduct the weekly training sessions, according to a news release.
The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit trains weekly with K-9s and their handlers from other agencies, primarily the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 Division. The Terrebonne K-9 teams welcomed the new St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit to participate in their training programs, according to a St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office news release.
These changes in surroundings challenge the K-9s abilities. The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit assists the United States Coast Guard, US Customs and Border Protection, and the St. Mary Sheriff’s Office Marine Division with securing the port facilities and waterways of St. Mary.
The K-9 teams trained in disciplines of obedience, officer protection, criminal apprehension, building search, tracking suspects, crime scene searches, narcotics detection, and bomb detection.
Tuesday, the group, which also included the Houma and Franklin Police Departments, conducted their weekly training at MD Shannon Elementary in Morgan City.
Sheriff Mark Hebert offers special thanks to the staff and director of the Mr. Charlie rig in Morgan City for allowing the K-9’s access to the unique training facility and St. Mary Parish school system administration for allowing the group to use the school.
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One person was killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle accident on US 90 near the Garden City exit.
Emergency responders were dispatched at approximately 1:20 p.m. An SUV and small car were involved.
Two victims were transported to Lafayette by Acadian Air Med, and one person refused treatment.
The deceased victim was pronounced dead by the St. Mary Parish Coroner’s Office after being extricated.
Traffic was rerouted to La. 182 for approximately two hours. Franklin police and fire personnel, sheriff’s deputies, Louisiana State Police, Centerville fire personnel were among the departments that responded.
Identities of the victims have not been released.
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BATON ROUGE –– The Louisiana Republican Party’s governing committee overwhelmingly rejected an attempt Saturday to censure Republicans Jay Dardenne and Scott Angelle because they did not endorse U.S. Sen. David Vitter in his run for governor against Democrat John Bel Edwards last fall.
By a near unanimous vote, the state GOP Central Committee voted down a call for a public reprimand of the two.
The resolution’s author, Christian Gil, of Berwick, did not speak on behalf of his resolution ahead of the morning vote.
Dardenne and Angelle also ran for governor last year but didn’t make it into the runoff race.
Dardenne endorsed Edwards in the runoff, while Angelle endorsed no one.
“As leaders in the Republican Party of Louisiana, we are obligated to fully support our party, platform, and its candidates. Only in times of great crisis or betrayal is it necessary to publicly censure our leaders. Today we are faced with both,” the proposal read.
Edwards beat Vitter 56 to 44 percent in the election, and tensions have continued to simmer among some Republicans since Edwards became the only Democratic governor in the Deep South and the only Democrat to hold statewide office in Louisiana.
Under state law, there is no way to formally kick someone out of a political party. The resolution would have merely been a ceremonial show of disapproval.
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Open house at Holy Cross
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A beginning-of-the-year open house was held at Holy Cross Elementary School. Principal Amanda Talbot welcomed parents in the Yvonne Anne Adams Life Center. Parents then participated in informative classroom sessions with teachers where they learned about the 2016-2017 school year. Tours of the library and student forum, art room and technology lab were also held. Pictured is fifth-grade teacher Katie Rock speaking to parents.
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Ray Zukowski: A tireless commitment to get better
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By STEVE BARLOW/Republican-American
TERRYVILLE – The telephone rang in the Plymouth Police Department at around 4:30 in the morning. A resident on North Main Street reported noise coming from the rear of Terryville High School and feared someone was burglarizing the building.
In the dim predawn light, two officers rushed to the school, where they found not a break-in, but a workout in progress.
“Behind the school, there were a couple of hoops in the pavement,” explained former Terryville boys basketball coach Art Hamm. “It was Zuke playing basketball.”
“Zuke” was Ray Zukowski. If the cops were surprised to find him there at that hour, his coach wasn’t.
“I’d call him abnormal in a good sense of the word,” said Hamm of Zukowski, his former star from the 1970s. “He was completely different from any other player I had in terms of the things he did on his own to become a better player.”
Nearly cut as a freshman, Zukowski blossomed into the Kangaroos’ first 1,000-point scorer and was All-State as a senior in 1978 thanks to a relentless devotion to improving himself.
In the summer before his sophomore year, Zukowski attended the Dave Cowens Basketball Camp in Massachusetts, which made a big impression on the youngster.
To improve his footwork, he enrolled in a ballet class, the only male in a dance hall full of women. “It was written up in the paper. I heard some razzing,” admitted Zukowski, “but people’s comments never bothered me.”
The one area as a high school basketball player where Ray Zukowski didn’t reach the pinnacle of success was the state tournament. When he was a junior, Terryville was ranked third in Class S, but was upset in its first game by Lewis Mills, 84-70, despite Zukowski’s 36 points. When he was a senior, Terryville was ranked first in Class S Region II. The Kangaroos won two tournament games, including a 66-64 come-from-behind win over Mills, but fell in the quarterfinals to Canton, 50-49. Trailing by a point in the final minute, Terryville had three possessions, but never got a shot off. Nearly 40 years later, Zukowski, who had 22 points in his final game, looks back with no regret. “I try to take failure of any sort, a basketball game or in business, and learn from it and then move on,” he said. “I tell my kids you need to lose along the way because the learning is in the failing. Nobody wants to fail, but if you do fail, learn quickly from it and keep moving forward.”
To improve his manual dexterity, he would do fingertip “push-ups” on his desk during classes. Although only 6-foot-1, Zukowski could palm a basketball and dunk it.
To improve his fitness, he devised a daily exercise routine that included running, jumping rope, lifting weights and calisthenics. He played basketball six days a week and, for a change of pace, would play volleyball or swim on the off day.
“I was able to score what I scored because I could outrun people,” said Zukowski. “I was in better shape.”
And score he did.
As a sophomore on a veteran team, Zukowski had only two varsity points. But as a junior in 1977, he led the 18-3 Kangaroos with an 18.7 ppg. average . As a senior, he averaged 30 ppg. for an 18-5 team, scored a school-record 46 points in one game and eclipsed that with 47 in the regular-season finale.
His final point total was 1,098.
Led by Zukowski, Terryville won back-to-back Berkshire League championships over Wamogo and future NBA player Chuck Aleksinas, and Litchfield and Dave Vigeant, the league’s all-time career scorer.
What fueled such an incredible drive?
“When I was 15, my father died. Dec. 19, a week before Christmas. It changes your world,” explained Zukowski.
“It was just my mom and I. We were fortunate enough to live in Terryville, where everybody knows everybody_”
People in town lent support to the struggling family, which Zukowski has never forgotten, and in Hamm and assistant coach John Swicklas, Zukowski found a pair of father figures.
“The lesson I learned was that you still control your own destiny,” said Zukowski. “I think Abraham Lincoln said the best way to predict the future is to create it. I still believe that today.”
After high school, Zukowski attended Johns Hopkins in Maryland for a year before transferring to Sacred Heart, where he played for two seasons and came off the bench for coach Dave Bike’s first NCAA Division II Elite Eight team in 1982.
Zukowski passed up his final season of eligibility – “I was a poor college student; I needed to make some money” – and took his business degree to General Electric, where he enrolled in its executive management school.
Zukowski, who obtained his MBA in 1990, spent 30 years in the corporate world, most recently as senior vice president of NEW/Asurion, a consumer products insurer.
Now 56, Zukowski has been retired for a couple of years (although he still sits on several boards of directors) and lives in Palm Coast, Fla., with his wife, Cheryl. They have two grown children.
In 2008, they created the Zukowski Family Foundation, which funds college scholarships for high school seniors, grants to teachers for classroom use and a “basic needs” program to help provide low-income children with food, clothing and shelter.
While not restricted to Terryville, “98 percent” of the money raised has focused on Zukowski’s hometown.
“My journey is riddled with people giving me a break or giving me a chance,” he said. “I want to pay that back.”
His success and generosity is no more of a surprise to his old coach than it was to find him practicing his jump shot at 4:30 in the morning many years ago.
“Any time Ray put his mind to do something,” said Hamm, “he did it.”
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By JOE PALLADINO
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FALLS VILLAGE — Soccer games have become a much-anticipated event in Falls Village over the past two seasons thanks to the unprecedented success of the Housatonic High girls program.
A trip to a state title game, a league championship and 32 victories in two seasons moved Mountaineers girls soccer to the forefront of Housy sports.
However, there are items not yet checked off the ol’ bucket list.
For starters, Housy earned a trip to the Class S state title game in 2014, the school’s first-ever soccer final. But Housy lost that game in overtime to Portland.
Last season, Housy won its first Berkshire League soccer title since 2007, but the season didn’t end in a championship way. Lewis Mills defeated the Mountaineers on the final day of the regular season and the teams shared the BL title. Then Housy was bounced out of the S tournament by Holy Cross in the quarterfinal round on penalty kicks.
It still stings.
“I think we can accomplish more than we have already,” said senior captain Chloe Dakers. “I want that, and my fellow seniors want that.”
The Mountaineers are champions, but still enter the season with a belief there is a lot to prove in the BL. As Dakers said, “We have great competition in the Berkshire League.”
Housy’s overall record for the past two seasons is 32-6, with that state final appearance and that league championship. But the key, noted senior Lauren Segalla, is to stay greedy.
“When we made it to that state final, there was great joy in the community and spirit within the school,” said Segalla of the run in her sophomore season. “In my junior year, we really wanted to do that again, but we didn’t work hard enough.
“We are pushing to make it to the final again,” added the Division I commit to West Virginia University, “and we want to win the final. I think we can work hard and get there again.”
Segalla is one key reason for optimism. The most dominant striker in the state, she scored 108 goals in her first three seasons and assisted on 22 others. Dakers, who will fill a midfield role this season, has scored 21 and helped on 32 others.
Mountaineers a favorite in Berkshire League race
And then there is Amanda Jacquier, the winger you don’t think about when you’re trying to deal with Segalla. Jacquier earned All-State honors last season and has scored 30 career goals.“We all connect,” Jacquier said.She added that past successes are nice, but the past defeats “will help us push. That disappointment makes us strive for more.”Molly Dowd, now a junior, has played every game in goal since she walked on campus and she earned each of those 32 victories from the 2014 and 2015 seasons. She has also kept 18 clean sheets. The Mountaineers are explosive, but also stingy on defense.“We are strong in both areas, and that is what it takes to be a successful team,” Dowd said.Housy graduated six. There is great talent on the roster, but also spots to fill.“This year, we have a lot of speed, maybe even more than what we had last year,” said coach Tess Segalla said. The fastest of the bunch is sweeper Emily Geyselaers.“But what we have been talking about is, who will make an impact when they come on the field?”There are five seniors, and they have either started or played significant minutes since they were freshmen. Housy will be a handful again.“We will have another successful year this year,” the coach said, “but it will be all about who steps up to play.”Enjoy your autumn bus ride to Falls Village this season. Chances are the ride home will not be as enjoyable.Send comments to [email protected], and follow on Twitter @RAOffTheRecord.
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SAIPAN Southern High School geometry and algebra teacher Dora Borja Miura is one of this year’s recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
It was on Aug. 22, 2016 when President Obama named the nation’s outstanding mathematics and science teachers this year.
The awards are given to mathematics and science, including computer science, teachers from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity schools, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Marianas and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“I just heard about it last week,” Miura told Variety in an interview. “It was Chris Cabrera of [San Vicente Elementary School] who nominated me.”
According to Miura, “Anybody can be nominated — this was actually my second time. The first time, I received the state-level award. This time I got the national award.”
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching are the highest honors bestowed by the United States government specifically for K-12 mathematics and science, including computer science, teaching.
Miura said the application process was quite extensive. “In addition to filling out all the questionnaires, it requires that teachers are reflective in their practice. I also had to submit a video of me teaching, and then reflect on the teaching.”
She added, “I think all teachers need to be more reflective in their practice.”
The national awardees were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators following an initial selection process at the state level.
“The good thing about this program is they will be returning my responses with their feedback, and I get to learn from that, and that’s really the nice thing about this award,” Miura said.
“While it’s nice to be honored; and I’m very happy and humbled to have received this award, I also get to have feedback from a panel of people of who are good at what they do in terms of math and science.”
The daughter of former CNMI Supreme Court Justice and former Lt. Gov. Jesus Camacho Borja and Mary Anne Manglona Pangelinan Borja, Miura received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, her master’s from University of Hawaii at Manoa, and her doctorate in curriculum studies also from UH Manoa.
Miura has been a teacher for over 20 years. Her career started at Tobu Machi Junior High School in Japan. After she moved back to Saipan, she taught at San Antonio Elementary School for nine years, was an adjunct instructor of math methods at Northern Marianas College, and since 2007, has been a teacher at Saipan Southern High School.
She is the 2016 CNMI Teacher of the Year.
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DEPARTMENT of Public Lands Secretary Marianne C. Teregeyo is strongly opposed to the measure that will abolish DPL, saying it is unconstitutional.
Teregeyo appeared before the House on Thursday to speak out against House Bill 19-82 which was introduced by Rep. Felicidad Ogumoro.
Starting in 1978, CNMI public lands were administered by an independent board which was abolished in 1994, re-established in 1997 and abolished again in 2006.
The House Committee on Natural Resources chaired by Rep Edwin Aldan has recommended the passage of Ogumoro’s bill which will establish a Marianas Lands Corporation run by a board.
But the House did not act on the measure Thursday.
In an interview on the same day, Teregeyo said the measure as drafted is already irrelevant as some of the issues it raised have already been addressed.
“The issue of an advisory board was already addressed. We have an advisory board right now, and it is meeting monthly to discuss various issues and land compensation,” Teregeyo said.
“As to the testimony about questionable land dealings, when I first came in, the public auditor investigated one case. Some questionable dealings may have taken place, but it’s no longer the case now — the department is now managed efficiently so abolishing it is irrelevant as of this moment.”
She said if there are some questions regarding land deals, the public is welcome to come to the DPL office, and she and her staff will be there to answer any questions.
“We are open to the public and to any inquiries or questions — we will address doubts about anything,” Teregeyo said.
Connie C. Togawa, the former head of the now defunct Marianas Public Lands Authority homestead division, on Thursday said DPL should be abolished, adding that land matters or any decisions concerning public lands should be decided by a board and not just by one person only.
Togawa lost her job in 2006 when MPLA was abolished after then-Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, citing the board’s “abuses,” signed P.L. 15-2 which also created DPL.
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THE U.S. government is asking the federal court to dismiss in its entirety the complaint filed by the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. and its 13 CW-1 permit holders who filed a lawsuit for the rejection of their application of the renewal of the work permits
U.S. Department of Justice for the Office of Immigration Litigation Assistant Director Glenn M. Girdharry in his two-page motion dated Aug. 26, 2016 asked the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12 (b) (1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Girdharry said if the court finds that is has subject matter jurisdiction over the claims of CUC and the 13 workers, they are asking the court to enter an order dismissing CUC’s complaints under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12 (b) (6) for failure to state a claim for relief.
The U.S. government also requested the court for a hearing date on Oct. 6, 2016.
Girdharry attached to his motion to dismiss a 35-page memorandum which stated that the federal government should not give CUC a special treatment for the late submission of its CW-1 renewal petitions.
Girdharry earlier asked the court to deny CUC’s motion for preliminary injunction in its entirely because it is not consistent with the public interest and that the relief CUC is seeking would be a disfavored use of a preliminary injunction and is not a permissible application of the Administrative Procedure Act or APA’s preliminary relief provisions.
Girdharry said CUC and its nonresident employees are challenging U.S. Homeland Security’s discretionary authority as mandated by Congress through the federalization law to establish a system to reduce the number of CW-1 permits to zero by Dec. 31, 2019.
Girdharry said CUC has been operating with its current workforce for several months now without any alleged any service disruptions related to the loss of the four of the 13 CW-1 permit holders who already left Saipan when this complaint was filed.
CUC, through its counsel James Sirok, sued U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Charles Johnson, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana and U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services Director Leon Rodgriguez, all in their official capacities, for rejecting the application for renewal of CW-1 work authorization permits after the 2016 CW cap of 12,999 was reached on May 5.
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GOVERNOR Ralph Torres has signed into law a measure that will establish the Second Marianas Political Status Commission.
In May 2014, then-Gov. Eloy S. Inos vetoed a similar bill, citing its “problematic language” — specifically the provision stating that members of the commission should be persons of Northern Marianas descent.
But the reintroduced bill, House Bill 19-2, no longer contains such language.
Introduced by Rep. Felicidad Ogumoro, the bill states that the second political-status commission will have “broad authority to review, study, examine, conduct public political education and awareness and all else that may assist the commission in accomplishing its responsibilities, including examination of the present relationship between the NMI and U.S. and to determine whether the people of the NMI are still in favor of continuing in political union with the U.S. pursuant to the Covenant.”
The commission’s report, findings and recommendations will be submitted to the Legislature for review and approval and, if approved, the political status options will be presented to the Commonwealth Election Commission for a plebiscite for the people of CNMI to decide.
The new law, P.L. 19-63, appropriates $100,000 for the commission which will have nine voting members and two non-voting ex-officio members: the Senate president and the House speaker. All voting members will be appointed by the governor in consultation with the mayors.
Rota and Tinian will each have two members while Saipan and the Northern Islands will have five.
Members must be over 25 years old “and have never been convicted of a felony, or if convicted, have been fully pardoned, and are United States Citizens and who have been domiciled in the Northern Mariana Islands for at least five consecutive years at the time of appointment.”
Moreover, “such persons shall have good knowledge of the political history of the Northern Marianas, the people’s desire to attain full, meaningful and well-defined self-government, the Covenant that Established the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, the status of the U.S. territories, and other forms of political status attained by former Trust Territory districts in Micronesia.”
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ASSOCIATE Judge Joseph N. Camacho sentenced Kevin Jason Kaipat, 29, to the maximum five years imprisonment after he entered into a plea deal with the government.
Kaipat, who pled guilty to the offense of sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree, will serve his sentence day to day without the possibility of parole or any early release program. But the judge gave him credit for the 50 days he had already served in jail.
Kaipat, who was represented by Chief Public Defender Douglas Hartig and Assistant Public Defender Cindy Nesbit, made an oral request to surrender himself to the Department of Corrections on Sept. 6, 2016.
The government, through Assistant Attorney General Shannon Foley, opposed and the court denied the defendant’s request.
Judge Camacho informed the defendant that he had pled guilty to the charge and was no longer presumed innocent. Corrections, the judge added, is not a hotel and Kaipat cannot choose when to check in or out.
Kaipat waived the need for a pre-sentence-investigation report and chose not to say anything when he was given a chance to speak by the court.
He was then remanded to custody to start serving his sentence.
He must register with the CNMI Sex Offender Registry and submit to examinations focusing on sex-offender counseling and abide by the treatment decisions made by the Community Guidance Center. His jury trial set for Sept. 6, 2016 was vacated.
On May 3, 2016, the Attorney General’s Office charged Kaipat with one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, one count of assault and battery and one count of disturbing the peace.
On Aug. 25, 2016 the AG’s Office asked the court to amend the charge of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree charge to sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree. The defense did not object and the court granted the request.
Sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree carries a maximum sentence of 30 years while sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree has a maximum sentence of five years.
Judge Camacho stated that it is the AG’s office that decides what charges to file, and the court can only hear the case and charge that the AG’s office files.
According to police, the victim’s aunt called the Department of Public Safety at 9:02 p.m. on Oct. 21, 2015 to report a sexual abuse of a minor. She said the defendant touched the then-13-year-old victim inappropriately while she was asleep in the living room of her aunt’s house in Dandan in Aug. 2015 with her siblings and her mother while the second incident took place on Sept. 8, 2015 from around midnight to 2 a.m. when they were sleeping in a tent in Kagman.
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SENATOR Steve Mesngon introduced legislation requiring the Division of Customs to conduct drug-detection operations using K-9 units for all inter-island commuter flights and seaport entries to combat illegal drugs within the commonwealth.
According to Senate Bill 19-110, drug abuse has greatly increased in the CNMI, and even though there is an ongoing campaign against drugs, “the Department of Public Safety cannot fight this war alone.”
Mesngon said the only effective strategy to tackle drugs at the ports of entry is the use of K-9 units.
Currently K-9 units are being used on Saipan only, but the senator said Rota and Tinian should also be included.
He said drug detection on Rota and Tinian will help deter the smuggling of drugs using inter-island commuter routes.
A key provision of his bill reads:
“The Division of Customs shall extend K-9 unit screenings for the purpose of detecting illegal drugs and other contraband at all seaports and airports within the commonwealth including inter-island outgoing and incoming commuter flights as well as incoming and outgoing watercraft.”
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U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan on Sunday said he will continue to work on immigration-reform legislation in the U.S. Congress.
“I promise you that as long as I am in Congress I will continue to work on that,” Sablan told Saipan Unity Lions Club officers, members and guests during the organization’s swearing in of new officers and members at the Kanoa Resort.
“Many of you know that we need Congress to pass immigration reform,” he added.
Sablan said his presidential candidate, Democrat Hillary Clinton, will make immigration reform a priority if she wins in November.
“Once she’s ready in the first year of her term as president, I’m ready,” he said, adding that he has the “language” that will take care of the long-term guest workers in the CNMI.
“Hopefully this time, Congress will pass it,” he added.
“I do this not because I want you to have status or something like that, but I want you to be valued because many of you have resided here for decades, and I cannot call you nonresidents, I cannot call you aliens or foreigners,” Sablan said.
“You cannot reside here for over 20 years and not become residents.”
Sablan said the least he can do as delegate is “to give you a chance to make Saipan your own home and with your status, go anywhere else in the U.S.”
Also on Sunday, the congressman endorsed the candidacy of Press Secretary Ivan Blanco who is running for one of the six House seats in Precinct 3, saying the CNMI needs good lawmakers.
“I know Ivan well, and if you don’t want to make a wrong choice, please consider him in November.”
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(Office of the CNMI Congressional Delegate) — U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan said Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security has decided to offer an opportunity for relief to some foreign workers affected by the cut-off of fiscal year 2016 CW-1 permit renewals, announced in May. “Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called to inform me of the decision, and I received a detailed letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez today, explaining how USCIS intends to address the humanitarian issues arising from its May announcement to close applications for CW-1 permits for the rest of fiscal 2016,” the congressman said.
For long-term workers in the Marianas whose CW-1 permits have lapsed or will lapse before October 1, the department will now consider “deferred action,” Mayorkas told the congressman.
A grant of deferred action will allow the workers to continue to reside legally in the Marianas. Applicants for deferred action will need to demonstrate exceptional circumstances or justifications, however, and applications will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Individuals with specific questions about the new policy should visit the USCIS website at https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/cw-1-cnmi-only-transitional-worker/temporary-relief-workers-expiring-cw-1-nonimmigrant-status or the USCIS Saipan Application Support Center.
The decision will not affect workers who have already left the Marianas. But those who have remained after their permits expired, or whose permits have not yet expired, will be able to apply for deferred action.
If granted deferred action, the workers would maintain lawful presence during the deferred action period. They may also then apply for employment authorization. If their application for a fiscal 2017 permit is approved, the worker will be required to leave the commonwealth for consular processing of a new visa, and then reenter.
“I thanked Deputy Secretary Mayorkas for this decision, and for his personal concern for the Marianas now and going back to his days as director at USCIS,” Congressman Sablan said.
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GOVERNOR Ralph D.L.G. Torres on Friday said the CNMI team was able to express their concerns related to CW and military issues during the recently held round two of the 902 talks with the U.S. government.
He did not elaborate, but did say U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is expected to come out with an announcement soon about the CW situation in the CNMI.
“We should be getting reports from U.S. Homeland Security and USCIS very soon or in a few weeks. Definitely there is some progress in connection with the CW situation and the military. I think we were able to get our concerns across with a detailed history of our workforce which is very important, the current economic stability and the projected revenue and infrastructure business proposals that are on the table So all our concerns have been presented and a report will be coming out in a few weeks,” said the governor who arrived Friday from Hawaii where he witnessed a military live-fire training activity.
With Torres were Senate Vice President Arnold Palacios, Senate President Frank Borja and Rep. Edwin Aldan.
The governor said the live-fire training was open to the public and was held at a beautiful beach in Hawaii.
He said they made some recommendations to the military with regard to its plans for Tinian, and these will be further discussed by the end of September.
“We have to repeat and reemphasize our concerns in order for us to move forward. They will come here at the end of September to discuss the project, and by then we will have an opportunity to see bigger projects that are moving forward,” the governor said.
Torres said the September meeting with the military is part of the ongoing 902 talks.
He will seek an audience with lawmakers to update them about CW and military issues.
“There were so many issues after the second round of the 902 talks, and I was not able to sit down with [lawmakers] to update them but I will do that this week,” Torres said.
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A NOTICE of the new registration fee schedule for the Thursday Night Market greeted vendors last week when they went up to the Arts Council office on Capital Hill to renew their vendor registration forms.
The notice was dated Aug. 17, 2016 and it states that the new fee schedule for the Garapan street market will take effect beginning Sept. 1, 2016.
According to the notice, the new fee schedule is necessary as the fees collected at the street market cover less than half of the weekly costs of the activity.
Lilia King, a retail vendor at the street market, said she opposes the fee hike.
“I’ve been doing business at the street market for six years. Last year they increased the fee to $45, but that’s fine, it was not too much.”
This time, however, “I can’t believe it!” referring to the proposed new fee of $75.
“I told one of the staffers at [the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs] that it’s unfair to us non-food vendors because we’re not making sales like the food vendors,” said King.
She added that most tourists and local customers go to the street market for the food, and only about 5 percent of them patronize non-food vendors.
King told the DCCA staffer “that this [fee hike] is like punishing us vendors.” She told Variety that the DCCA staffer replied, “If you guys do not agree then quit.”
“But for me quitting is not the solution,” she said. “Give us consideration and maintain the same rate of $45.”
Under the new fee schedule, food vendors will be charged $80; retail commercial vendors will be charged $75; artists (visual and traditional) $45; and informational booths, $25.
But according to Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Secretary Robert Hunter the new fees are just proposals.
“We’ve implemented no registration fee changes, and we did not intend to do it immediately,” Hunter said.
DCCA will be meeting today, Friday, at 5 p.m. with the street market vendors to discuss the fees and the street market in general.
“We are working on cutting the logistical costs of the market, and cutting out unnecessary expenditures,” Hunter said. “The logistical costs are significant, and the primary costs related to the event are the rental of tents, tables, portable restrooms and, often, getting temporary electrical work done.”
Tanya Salas, an artist and owner of Tahine’s creations, is not happy with the proposed new fee schedule either.
“I’m against it because we artists don’t even make $75 a night — we are lucky if we can,” Salas said.
Tahine’s Creations designs handcrafted jewelry, home arrangement decorations, clothes for events and customized handcrafted items for any occasion.
She said she only pays for the nights when she opens her stall. “Sometimes I don’t open when it rains even though I’ve paid the fee.”
It is very expensive for artists to do business here, Salas said, adding that the fee charged on Guam for a similar night market is $5 only.
“Not all artists can even afford to pay for a business license, but we need more of the artists on island to show their work in the street market to attract more people.”
DCCA does not intend to raise the artist’s fee.
“In fact we are looking at ways to lower fees for artists,” said Hunter who is an artist himself.
Meantime, he said DCCA is trying to identify partners that could help subsidize the street market.
“We’ve been looking at the numbers over the course of the day, and we think we might be able to hold off on a hike in vendor fees for several months.
“We’re looking at a number of avenues to address this, outside of raising fees. This work has already begun. We’ve met with particular agencies to discuss some assistance for the market, and we have already begun working with vendors and identifying alternative vendors in order to cut down on the weekly costs.”
DCCA is also considering the development of permanent park facilities for events such as the Garapan Street Market, the Flame Tree Arts Festival and the Taste of the Marianas to reduce costs.
“It will be a site developed specifically for events like these, with permanent restroom facilities, booths, walkways, etc. It would not only greatly lower the costs of these regular events, but a well-planned site would greatly enhance them, and encourage more events.
“We want to be at a place where we’re talking about improvements to the market, rather than working to see that it is simply on stable financial ground to ensure it keeps going.”
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MARIANAS Visitors Authority Managing Director Chris Concepcion on Monday said hotel occupancy tax revenue should not be used for the operation of municipal governments.
He made this clarification after the mayors of Saipan and the Northern Island sought a share from the 2 percent of the MVA trust fund that will be allocated to Rota and Tinian as proposed by House Bill 19-165.
In a statement, Concepcion said MVA cautions against diverting funds legally obligated for MVA to the mayors of Saipan and the Northern Islands for their operational use.
Mayor David M. Apatang earlier said the municipality of Saipan should be included as recipient of a portion of the MVA trust fund, adding that his office is capable of performing activities that will benefit the overall CNMI effort to promote the islands as a tourist destination.
Mayor Jerome Aldan said the Northern Islands needs funding for charter flights to Pagan and to provide charter-cruise tourism incentives and other promotional programs.
But Concepcion said MVA is mandated by law to market the islands overseas “so promoting the CNMI abroad should be left to us to handle.”
He added, “We understand the mayors’ wish to have funding for destination enhancement but that too is one of the many responsibilities MVA has as an organization.”
The original law that provided not more than 2 percent or $400,000 of hotel occupancy tax collections to Tinian and Rota also stipulated that MVA reserve a portion of the tax for destination enhancement, Concepcion said.
“The [MVA] board has wisely decided to add to that funding since we believe in order to attract tourists we have to take care of our islands first. I myself have traveled around the world and what stands out in my mind when visiting a destination are the sights, monuments, statues, parks, memorials and other attractions a place has to offer. We want the same standard for the CNMI.”
Concepcion said while he understood the concerns of the mayors of Saipan and the Northern Islands, Rota and Tinian have sizable permanent populations and are remote from the CNMI capital, which is Saipan, so that having their municipalities control some of the destination-enhancement projects is important.
MVA, he added, has always been ready and willing to support the mayors of Saipan and the Northern Islands with their beautification projects and that will continue if MVA funding through the hotel occupancy tax is protected.
Concepcion said MVA has recently committed around $23,000 for the rehabilitation and renovation of Sugar King Park, along with other projects the mayor of Saipan is working on.
“MVA will always entertain requests for support coming from the mayors of Saipan and the Northern Islands, as well as Tinian and Rota. We have great relations with everyone.”
He said tourist arrivals are on the upswing and MVA must ensure that its funding source is protected in order to keep the momentum going.
“The tourism industry is a hyper-competitive one and we can never compete with regional heavyweights if our funding is continually cut. We have many marketing programs in place overseas, many destination-enhancement projects being implemented and planned, a tour-guide-certification program we’re about to roll out, and numerous other great events happening year round, so we urge our leaders and community members to get behind MVA and support the work we do because the work we do is what fuels our tourism-dependent economy,” Concepcion said.
Last year, the administration and Legislature reduced MVA funding by $2.5 million.
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REPRESENTATIVE Glenn Maratita said Rep. Edwin Propst’s proposed amendment to allocate additional funding for the mayors of Saipan, Tinian and Rota was a noble offer.
“I appreciate the thought,” the Rota lawmaker said, “but I’m a member of the Ways and Means Committee, and if I were to change my position, that would not be good.”
Propst’s floor amendment to the fiscal year 2017 budget bill but it was not approved by the House.
“We have to be mindful that the funding did not come from Ways and Means, it came from the governor’s proposed budget,” Maratita said.
He is thankful that the other members supported the allotment of $400,000 to pay the retroactive salary adjustment for government employees on Rota as mandated by Public law 7-31 which was enacted in 1991.
Maratita said $60,000 is still needed because the total required amount for retroactive payments is $460,000.
“The lt. governor has promised to find ways to get $60,000 and the Rota delegation will also work hard to find ways to get this additional funding of $60,000 so we can close this chapter. We want closure for Public Law 7-31,” he added.
Maratita said of the 215 affected employees, only 83 employees have been paid already.
Of the 132 still waiting for their retroactive pay, 23 are dead already but their families will claim the money, he added.
“It’s good to point out that after all the hard work of Ways and Means, it has come to an end and a majority of the body supports the $400,000 for the implementation of P.L. 7-31. I did point out to the members ever since that it would be good to put a closure to this problem. The law was signed in 1991 and it’s been 25 years already. This is not the end of the issue though because the Senate and the governor’s office will also act on the budget bill, but I am hopeful that things will be moving forward now for the better,” Maratita said.
He also thanked the House for allocating $50,000 for the medical referral program on Rota.
Vice Speaker Joseph Deleon Guerrero in a separate interview expressed satisfaction with the way they deliberated on the budget bill, which now goes to the Senate.
“This was the fastest session to pass a budget and I think that reflects well on the committee doing its due diligence. There weren’t too many departments coming out here asking for more as most of them are able to live with what is proposed in this budget,” Deleon Guerrero said.
He added that issues were also fairly debated on the floor like the 27 percent increase for their operation funding which Propst and Rep. Ralph Yumul opposed.
“The 27 percent increase for each member is reasonable,” the vice speaker said. “As I’ve mentioned earlier in my comments on the floor, there was a point where each member was given $150,000 but now we’re operating on a budget less than half of that. This proposed increase will help members do more. When the revenue went down our budget for operation also went down so now that the revenue has increased it is just reasonable that we get an increase too. I find the 27 percent increase reasonable if you use it wisely like hiring a consultant or funding a research for sound legislation. The members can do a lot with those funds. Sometimes we we’ll also be asked to fix a road so it can help serve that purpose.”
Propst on Thursday offered a floor amendment proposing that lawmakers stick to their FY 2016 allotments.
He said the $585,155 increase in their allocations should be allotted to the mayors instead: $423,736 for Saipan, and $80,710 each for Tinian and Rota.
If the members didn’t like to give it to the mayors, Propst said the funding should be given to the other agencies that are in dire need of funding like Veterans Affairs or medical referrals.
Rep Antonio Sablan, the chairman of Ways and Means, objected, saying they have already appropriated more funding for the mayor’s office, adding that they will also look for ways to fund other agencies that need help.
Speaker Rafael Demapan said they will continue to support the mayor’s office and the other agencies.
Propst and Yumul were the only ones who voted against the passage of the budget bill which was supported by the 16 other members. Reps. BJ Attao and Edwin Aldan were absent during the House sessions on Thursday and Friday.
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A YOUNG girl dropped out of school and left Saipan on Sunday with her mother whose CW1 permit had expired.
Guest worker advocate Boni Sagana on Monday said he met with the mother who used to work at a restaurant and her 14-year-old daughter at the airport. He said he also met with other families in a similar predicament.
“Not only are long-term guest workers being affected here, their U.S. citizen children are too,” he added.
Sagana said Al Jazeera reporter Marga Ortigas, who was recently on island, interviewed some of the families affected by the CW cap imposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Over the weekend, eight families, mostly with U.S. citizen children, recounted their stories to the reporter.
These families reside in San Antonio, Tanapag, Chinatown and San Jose, Sagan said.
“The affected families want to know why USCIS is not making an announcement or providing updated information about the CW issue.”
It was the CNMI government and USCIS that allowed the hiring of nonresident workers for the Saipan casino, he added. Those CW slots should not have been “taken away” from long-term guest workers, he said.
The CNMI government, he added, should have insisted that new investors acquire H-visas for their new nonresident workers so that the CW permit holders are not affected by the cap.
“We cannot blame them if those families believe that the governor is playing politics because it’s election time so he is withholding an announcement about the CW issue,” Sagana said.
He said USCIS should provide timely information to long-term guest workers and their employers.
“They should say whether we should stay or leave instead of not telling us about the progress, if any, of the talks they’re having and delaying an announcement that they always say will be made ‘soon.’ ”
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POLICE authorities arrested a habitual offender who was trapped in a bedroom of a house in Koblerville that he had broken into.
Associate Judge Teresa K. Kim-Tenorio imposed a cash bail of $7,500 on Cheyenne Sablan during the bail hearing on Aug. 30, 2016. The defendant was represented by court-appointed counsel Assistant Public Defender Cindy Nesbit while Assistant Attorney General Shannon Foley appeared for the government. The defendant was charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief.
A preliminary hearing was set for Sept. 6, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. and the arraignment will be held on Sept. 12, 2016 at 9 a.m.
According to Police Officer Daniel T. Joab in his declaration of probable cause, police officers were dispatched to Tottotville in Koblerville on Aug. 29, 2016 and met with a man who was holding a bat and a woman who was hysterical.
The couple, who turned out to be the owners of the house, told police that there was a man in one of the bedrooms of their home.
Police officers ordered the defendant to open the door, but when the defendant did not comply the police kicked the door open with the permission of the owner.
Police then arrested the defendant for burglary and transported him to the Department of Corrections.
The owner said his house had been burglarized multiple times before. In the latest incident, they were asleep at 1:30 a.m. when his wife woke him up and told him she heard someone trying to open the door.
After looking around outside his house, the husband then saw through one of the windows the defendant inside a bedroom. He said a screen was broken and he saw the defendant holding his laptop.
The husband said it was the same bedroom that had been burglarized twice before.
He said he shouted for help, and neighbors soon surrounded the house to prevent the defendant from escaping while they called the police.
A neighbor later told police he woke up when he heard someone yelling and screaming from the victims’ house.
The neighbor said he grabbed his golf club and ran outside where he saw his neighbor looking into the window of his own house.
The neighbor said he also saw the defendant inside his neighbor’s bedroom.
The neighbor said the defendant was trying to break the window to get out and when he failed, he tried to open the bedroom door but was also unsuccessful.
The neighbor said the defendant finally gave up trying to get out and just sat down until police arrived.
The husband said the following morning, he found a green bag by the window that was broken into containing cigarettes, a lighter, a screwdriver, a box-cutter, a silver earring and 80 cents.
The defendant’s rap sheet included a string of assault and battery, theft by deception and burglary cases from 2000 to the present.
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THE House of Representatives on Friday passed four measures including one to establish a revolving fund for the Settlement Fund to protect future payments to CNMI retirees and the supplemental budget for fiscal year 2016.
All 18 members present voted in favor of House Bill 19-178, which was introduced by Rep. Angel Demapan.
Two members were absent: Reps BJ Attao and Edwin Aldan.
Demapan’s bill proposes to set aside a specified amount of business gross revenue tax collections for making the required payments to the Settlement Fund: in 2017, $33 million; 2018, $45 million; 2019, $44 million; 2020, $43 million; 2021, $42 million; 2022, $41 million; 2023, $40 million; and 2024, $39 million.”
The House also passed H.B. 19-180 to include the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services on the list of government agencies that will get a share of the business gross revenue tax collections from the Saipan casino.
The measure was introduced by Speaker Rafael Demapan, Reps. Felicidad Ogumoro, Angel Demapan and John Paul Sablan.
Also passed on Friday was House Bill 19-194 which was introduced by Rep. Antonio Sablan to make supplemental appropriations for the operations and activities of the CNMI government in FY 2016.
Sablan said pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 19-4 the total estimated revenue and resources identified for supplemental appropriation for FY 2016 is $47 million.
Finance Secretary Larrisa Larson told lawmakers that $32 million has been collected and is now available for appropriation.
The funding has been allotted to the following:
• $2.5 million for the Fuel Adjustment Clause rate or utility subsidy;
• $16 million for the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.’s payment to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.;
• $1.6 million for the Medical Referral Program as payment to the Guam Memorial Hospital;
• $9 million for the payment of land compensation judgments — judgments between $1 and $50,000 regardless of the date of the final judgment will be paid in full while judgments over $50,000 will be paid on a proportional basis; and
• $2.9 million for the Public School System to pay the $2.7 million that it owes CUC, $100,000 for school meal vendors and $100,000 for school repairs and maintenance.
The House also passed Rep. Antonio Sablan’s H.B. 19-142 which aims to provide for a just and fair payment system for the legal obligations of the CNMI government.
All of the four House bills passed on Friday now go to the Senate.
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BOARD of Education Chairman Herman T. Guerrero said the issues at Marianas High School are “critical” which is why associate commissioner for administrative services Glenn Muna should continue overseeing the ongoing relocation of the Public School System’s central office from MHS to a government building on Capital Hill.
Guerrero made this comment in an interview with reporters after acting Education Commissioner Yvonne R. Pangelinan reported an increase in the student population at MHS from 1,600 at the start of the school year on Aug. 15 to 1,710 as of Thursday, Aug. 25.
“You’ve heard about the overcrowding at MHS, so even if I want to appoint Glen [Muna as the new acting commissioner], we have to move PSS out of MHS because the school needs more classrooms.”
In her report to the board on Thursday, Pangelinan said MHS has the largest enrolment ever this school year.
They are now working to expand the number of classrooms and the number of full-time employees to alleviate the overcrowding, she added.
“Once we relocate the PSS central office, we will have 12 classrooms for instruction,” she said.
At the beginning of the school year, Pangelinan said only 14 percent of public schools were fully staffed, and 62 percent of the schools still had minor repairs to be done.
But although the opening of the school was a “little bit rough” due to the weather conditions, the “general consensus is that it went pretty smoothly,” she told the board.
She said each department and program manager assisted in the opening of the schools.
As for the school bus operations, “we did have bumps along the way,” she said, referring to registration and the schedules but these were addressed immediately, she added.
“We put out plans for an even smoother transition in the next school year,” Pangelinan said.
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NORTHERN Islands Mayor Jerome Aldan is unhappy with the “discriminatory public policy” of House Bill 19-165 which will allocate funds to two municipalities from the Marianas Visitors Authority trust fund.
In his comments on the bill, he told Speaker Ralph S. Demapan that his office “reserves the right to a cause of action over the inequitable and unfair practice of policy.”
Aldan said there’s “a glaring absence of the Northern Islands in the equitable and fair allocation of funds dedicated to the municipalities in the CNMI.”
Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang has also told lawmakers that Saipan should get a portion of the MVA trust fund for beautification programs and tourism enhancement projects.
Under the bill, which was introduced by Rota Rep. Glenn Maratita, 2 percent of the MVA trust fund will be divided equally between Tinian and Rota.
In his letter to Speaker Demapan, Aldan requested the inclusion of the Northern Islands in the MVA trust fund allocation so they can implement not only a charter air link to Pagan but offer charter cruise liner incentives and promotional programs.
In his letter, Aldan said his requested amendment to H.B. 19-165 will enable the Northern Islands mayor’s office to “begin the process of building the permanent foundation necessary for a resettlement plan and other vital projects that will assure the sustainability of the settlements.”
This month, he said his office has “commenced active discussion with a permit holder of the mineral rights in Pagan that will see active reclamation, rehabilitation and removal of waste materials from Pagan.”
Aldan said in June 2017, they will again host the Silver Explorer Cruise Liner in addition to the Konferencian Dinana Islas Marianas involving Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan whose officials will gather on Pagan.
According to the mayor, the Department of Public Lands has issued notices to homestead-waiver-act applicants to complete their documentation and materials for the issuance of their homestead lots in the Northern Islands.
He said one family has completed the required documentation and evidentiary materials and will soon be issued their homestead-waiver permit subject to a perimeter survey on Pagan.
In Pagan’s Bandera village, he said 54 village homestead plots have been identified and are waiting for distribution subject to a physical survey.
Eighty-four homestead plots have also been identified and allocated in Regusa, he added.
Both of the allocations require DPL to perform actual physical surveys, which will likely occur before the end of this year, Aldan said.
The Northern Islands, he added, wants to become an equal partner with the rest of the CNMI in terms of creating jobs and generating wealth for the Northern Islands community and the commonwealth as a whole.
He asked Demapan to support the Northern Islands’ “quest for socio-economic redevelopment to enable sustainable living conditions” there.
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U.S. Marines are on Tinian to prepare for an upcoming military exercise called Forager Fury which is scheduled to run from Sept. 10 to 30.
The Tinian mayor’s office told Variety that a small group of Marines are on island “as part of the advanced party prepping logistics and equipment.”
The mayor’s office said it will issue an official press release to announce some important information regarding the exercises.
The military will also issue an official statement, Variety was told.
According to the mayor’s office, it is working with the military to inform the general public, especially residents of Tinian, of these important developments.
The mayor’s policy adviser, Eric San Nicolas, said residents have been informed and will continue to be informed about these military exercises that have been scheduled.
“Our office also posts photos and information when we meet with military personnel relating to upcoming exercises on our Facebook page as well,” he said.
Gov. Ralph Torres, in an interview on Friday, said military officials are arriving in September to further discuss its buildup proposals for the CNMI.
He said the discussions are part of the ongoing 902 talks between the commonwealth and federal governments.
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(MVA) — The newly re-lit Beach Rd. Pathway was hit by vandals on Tuesday night last week, according to the Marianas Visitors Authority.
MVA received a report on Aug. 24 about the damage to one of the lights across from the SASHA building near Quartermaster Rd. The optical glass diffuser was found broken on the ground, the three parts of the light were missing: the LED corn-shaped light, light socket, and light socket base.
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“We cannot express deeply enough how disturbing this is for MVA,” its Managing Director Christopher A. Concepcion. Said. “The damage done to the pathway lighting only delays the completion of this much anticipated destination enhancement project. We urge our law enforcement partners to do their proper investigations and vehemently seek out those responsible for this crime. Crimes that go unpunished ultimately encourage criminals to continue their misdeeds, to the detriment of our entire society. This has to stop now.”
An official police report is still pending. Individuals with information that may help authorities are urged to contact the Department of Public Safety or Crime Stoppers at 234-7272.
In June 2016 MVA re-lit the Beach Road Pathway after several years of it being dark at night. Copper wire thieves had successfully targeted the pathway several times, including during MVA’s current rehabilitation.
“The last copper wire theft that took place at the pathway was unacceptable,” said Concepcion. “To date, we have no information regarding any arrests made for that theft. We hope law enforcement agencies are still working on this case as no one has been made to answer for that crime, yet.”
MVA expects to spend a total of $965,591.99 to relight the entire pathway before the holiday season.
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LIEUTENANT Gov. Victor B. Hocog has asked the Superior Court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a taxpayer related to the release of $400,000 to MV Luta, claiming that legislative immunity shields him from liability.
Hocog, through the late Assistant Attorney General David Lochabay, filed the motion to dismiss the causes of action filed by taxpayer John Del Rosario.
According to the defense, the lawsuit claimed that Hocog, as then-senator from Rota and president of the Senate, breached his fiduciary duty to taxpayers when he violated the Government Ethics Act of 1992, influenced the decision on Rota Legislative Delegation Resolution 19-3, voted on it and participated in the drafting, introduction and adoption.
The lawsuit also alleged that Hocog has a pecuniary interest in Resolution 19-3, and that he benefited personally from it as well as his relatives when he knew or should have known that it was not a legal appropriations bill, and that he should have known he cannot use his public position for the benefit of his relatives.
The defense said Hocog was president of the Senate and member of the Rota Legislative Delegation during that time, and most of the actions complained of involved legislative activities.
Legislators are entitled to both common law and constitutional immunity for their legislative actions, the defense stated, adding that CNMI Constitution Article II states that “a member of the Legislature may not be questioned in any other place for any written or oral statement in the Legislature….”
The defense said legislative immunity arises from functions, and that any person, official or otherwise, performing legislative functions is entitled to legislative immunity
“There can be no question Hocog’s actions in connection with Resolution 19-3 fell within the ambit of legislative activity, and what Hocog knew or should have known about the ethical propriety of his actions are irrelevant,” the defense stated.
“There is no fact in the complaint that would indicate Hocog was responsible for any expenditure of public funds outside of his protective actions concerning Resolution 19-3.”
In addition, the defense said, the Open Government Act only provides personal penalties for attending meetings that do not conform to the requirements of the Act.
Plaintiff opposition
Del Rosario filed his opposition to Hocog’s motion to dismiss on Aug. 19, 2016, claiming among other things that legislative immunity cannot attach as Resolution 19-3 was not legitimate.
Del Rosario, through his counsel Jennifer Dockter, said Hocog is not protected by legislative immunity for the acts he undertook without authority and which violated the law, his ethical obligations and his duty to the taxpayers of the commonwealth.
As Hocog acknowledges, “the person claiming legislative immunity must first show they are acting within the legitimate legislative sphere” and “thus the government official seeking immunity has the burden of showing that an exemption from personal liability is justified,” the plaintiff said.
The issue is whether Hocog has met his burden of showing that his acts — which are not authorized by the CNMI Constitution, which violated the government ethics code, violated his fiduciary duties and improperly spent funds — are protected activities under the legislative immunity provisions of the CNMI Constitution which makes him immune in his official and personal capacity, the plaintiff added.
The plaintiff said Hocog has not met his burden for two reasons — first, the acts were ad hoc decision-making which benefited only a few and second, the acts that violated the Open Government Act were not legislative activity.
According to the plaintiff, Resolution 19-3 sought to give a one-time payment to a private company “which benefited the defendant’s family and not the entire community or multiple private companies.”
The $400,000 paid out to MV Luta was essentially a gift orchestrated by Hocog which resulted in a benefit to his own family, the plaintiff added.
Hocog voted not on public policy or a law that affects the community but merely to give his family $400,000 of public monies, the plaintiff said.
The acts undertaken by Hocog “were so plainly illegal [that it] only amplifies a finding that he was not acting in a legislative capacity.”
The plaintiff said to claim immunity, the defendant “had the burden to prove that that his acts were the formulation of policy, benefited the community, and were legislative rather than administrative.”
But the appropriation of money to a private company which Hocog’s family owns through a resolution was not a legislative act by the Senate, the plaintiff said.
“Legislative immunity cannot attach. The resolution was not legitimate and has no basis in law.”
Moreover, a “resolution attempting to appropriate money is not an authorized function of the Senate and the legislation did not benefit the community but the defendant’s family. The defendant has not demonstrated a right to relief on the ground of legislative immunity.”
Del Rosario sued Hocog and Finance Secretary Larrisa Larson for authorizing the payment of $400,000 to Luta Mermaid LLC to pay for the costs associated with MV Luta’s voyage from Louisiana to Rota. Resolution 19-3 stated that MV Luta was to repay the funds within one year, but no repayment has taken place. According to Del Rosario, Luta Mermaid’s shareholders are Hocog’s relatives.
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VENDORS breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Secretary Robert Hunter told them that the proposed fee hike for doing business at the Garapan Thursday Night Street Market will be postponed until further notice.
Hunter met with vendors at the Carolinian Utt pavilion in Garapan on Friday at 5 p.m.
“It looks like we can hold off on that for 10 or 11 months,” he told them. “Hopefully, we can get a subsidy or some special appropriation for the market.”
He said “right now we’ve narrowed down a lot of the costs for the market operation and we’re going to be able stretch this out longer than we originally thought.”
Lilia King, a retail vendor at the street market, said she was relieved by Hunter’s announcement.
“Everybody is happy they are not raising the fees for now…until such time as they find subsidies to take care of the the logistical costs of the market,” she added.
It was also announced that DCCA will either raise the fees by a small amount or even reduce them to $10.
“If that is going to happen, we will love that,” King said, referring to the $10 fee.
Besides the vendor market fees, DCCA reminded the vendors about business licenses specific for the Garapan street market, the issuance of sale receipts for tax purposes, and Division of Public Health sanitation permits for food vendors.
DCCA said vendors must comply or enforcement personnel will shut down those violating the regulations.
Some vendors complained about fellow vendors not obtaining proper food-handler permits for their food servers.
Arts Council staffer and local artist Parker Yobei talked about limiting live entertainment at the street market as part of the cost-cutting measures. He also clarified an issue raised by a vendor regarding the actual time for electrical power to be turned on at the street market.
Margaret Muna, another Arts Council staffer, said of the meeting: “We’re very satisfied. At least now everybody has the same understanding and are on the same page.”
Mahesh Thepa of Java Joe’s said they understand the need for a fee increase “because of the costs related to operating the market.”
But, Thepa added, the DCCA secretary said he will not initiate the fee — he will postpone it.
Super Frosty Ice Cream Truck operator Belen Santos said they cannot afford the fee increase. “I’m selling my ice cream products at a dollar/2 dollars apiece.”
Tropical Chill Pearl Shakes operator Lilibeth Santiago said “if the fee is raised to $80, that’s a lot for us.”
Edith Cruz, owner of WEC food catering services, which sells five food choices for $5, said they are fine with Hunter’s announcement.
“We’re relieved — we are still trying to recover from the typhoon, and we’re happy the rate will not be raised yet,” Cruz added.
Regarding the fees that artists pay, Hunter, an artist himself, said: “We know that the fee as it is today is too high for the average artist. A lot of the artists have months without any sales at all.”
He said they will consider the suggestion of Flowerpot Salas, a handicraft artist, of having a booth dedicated entirely for artists and their products.
“Artists could come in and split the cost of the tent — we will try that for two weeks,” the DCCA secretary said.
“The whole purpose of the market was for local artists and farmers to bring their products to an area where tourists go — that was the whole intent of the market and that is still the DCCA goal.”
He added, “We’re going to see what comes in from our stakeholders, If necessary, we’re going to put the market in our FY 2018 budget. Definitely one way or another either through subsidies or through trying to get an appropriation for the event, and there really should be one or two permanent staff who manage the event.”
On Aug. 17, 2016 a notice to the vendors informed them of a proposed fee hike. Food vendors were to be charged $80; retail commercial vendors, $75; artists, visual and traditional, $45; and informational booths, $25.
The current fees are $45, food and non-food vendors; and $25 for artists and informational booths.
DCCA said the street market’s “logistical costs are significant, and the primary costs related to the event are the rental of tents, tables, portable restrooms, and often temporary electrical work.”
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GOVERNOR Ralph Torres did not directly reply when asked if he supports the abolition of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s controversial board, but he did say he has some issues with CUC.
It is the Legislature that has the authority to abolish the board, he added.
“I do have issues with CUC’s progress,” he said in a media conference on Tuesday. “I would like to see more aggressive decisions. But I believe this is a concerted effort, and we’ve been working together to address those concerns. I will be meeting again with the board this week to further discuss those concerns that I spoke about during my prior meeting with them.”
In other news, the governor disclosed that the request for proposals with respect to the Managaha concession is still on hold while a feasibility study is being conducted on the CNMI’s most famous tourist site.
Torres said they need to identify what kind of RFP will be issued for the Managaha concession.
In the meantime, he said he has asked the Department of Public Lands to extend Tasi Tour’s concession for a while until such time that the issue is resolved.
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GOVERNOR Ralph D.L.G. Torres remains opposed to the proposed bombing exercises on Pagan, saying he has already instructed the Department of Public Lands to go ahead with the homestead program for the remote, volcanic island.
In a press conference Tuesday, he said he recently witnessed a live- training exercise in Hawaii, but, he added, there’s a big difference between Hawaii and Tinian and Pagan.
He said he is not against the military and its activities, but he is against live-fire training activity on Tinian and Pagan.
“KBay [Kaneohe Bay] is a Marine base in Hawaii and within are beaches utilized for training Monday through Friday, but they are open on weekends. They have a live-fire range there and it seems to work for them, but Tinian is different. It’s flat and the beach there is different. We have a short reef while the KBay beach has a longer reef. But the biggest difference is that the people there were born into it,” Torres said, referring to the military presence.
“The locals there, they are saying it works for them. I don’t doubt that it works for them because they were born into it. But what we will do here is we are going to implement it into our people’s lifestyle. At this point, I disagree with the plan in the original proposal. I would like to see an amended version.”
Torres said there will be no bombing activity on Pagan, but he is happy to welcome the Marines who will conduct training exercises on Tinian on Sept. 10-30.
“We support the military, and that’s why we signed the programmatic agreement for a divert airfield on Tinian because we support the military and their training exercises. We support the men and women of our armed forces. But what is being proposed is something that we disagree with. That’s why we have this continuing dialogue on the importance of our culture, of what we have here. The proposed firing range on Tinian will only be about three miles [away from]. . .Saipan, and we have not talked about that. Those are the things that we realized might affect us, so we need to discuss that further. Our goal is to look at the proposed facilities and make sure they know our concerns. Those concerns need to be met and heard, so I would like to see an amended proposal.”
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SENATOR Jude U. Hofschneider, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Fiscal Affairs, asked the Division of Agriculture to be more specific about its funding request.
During a budget hearing on Wednesday morning in the Senate chamber, he told division director Manuel A. Tenorio to explain why there is a need to purchase heavy equipment.
Hofschneider said they want to understand why the government has to invest in costly equipment, adding that he didn’t see any procurement request for a tractor which, according to the division, is needed to assist Rota and Tinian farmers.
Sen. Justo Quitugua said they want to help the division, but they must also understand why it has to buy a tractor when production has not been so good lately.
“If extra funding is needed for procurement of equipment, then give us guidance as far as what you know is needed for the estimated amount because it’s not fully comprehended at the moment,” Hofschneider told Tenorio.
“We must prioritize the proper allocation of funds,” the senator added. “I’ve seen, on Saturdays especially, how time is spent in the field — during the 52 weeks workers spend in the field — each year. There’s not a huge amount of productivity on the locally grown end. Please help us understand because I can’t make sense of this request, knowing these results. We should examine if it’s true that usage of funds in this instance is necessary. Never mind the other divisions [of the Department of Lands and Natural Resources], let’s focus primarily on the Division of Agriculture for the moment.”
Hofschneider reiterated that he wants a “clear estimate of the necessary funds that the farmers truly need.”
Sen. Sixto Igisomar said Division of Parks and Recreation employees should also be considered essential and they deserve a salary increase.
But he also said that Parks and Recreation should make sure it doesn’t duplicate the tasks of the Department of Public Works.
Sen. Teresita Santos commended DLNR Secretary Richard B. Seman for closely collaborating with the department’s Rota office.
“Rota DLNR should be expecting a vehicle for its conservation program including a tractor for agricultural activities,” Santos said. “The [DLNR] secretary will also be working closely with the Legislature and [the Office of Management and Budget] to identify funds for the procurement of new disking equipment extremely vital to our Rota farmers in their agricultural operations.”
According to the Rota senator, “The current disking equipment is inoperable or irrepairable and is 27 years old. Moreover, the completion of the federally funded Rota marina project, which is estimated to cost from $150,000 to $170,000, will soon be a reality after it was destroyed during the last typhoon. The marina is being used as a docking area for small boats coming to Rota as well as by residents with small boats. We also applaud the [DLNR] secretary for announcing the availability of veterinarian services on Rota and Tinian within the next few days.”
DLNR Secretary Richard B. Seman said he would appreciate any extra funding from the Legislature, but in case they do not get additional funding, they will try their best to live within their means.
“We will also get a tractor for Rota and Tinian, and we would appreciate the help of the Legislature, but we will do our best to get it,” Seman said.
DLNR is requesting a budget of $2.8 million which is slightly higher than the governor’s proposed allotment of $2.7 million which the House approved on Thursday.
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THE leak-repair program of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is causing inconvenience among residents, especially motorists, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang.
He visited villages on Friday with his safety officer Mac Chargualaf, and they found “around 50 pot holes, small and big ones, that CUC failed to repair after they fixed water leaks.”
The mayor’s office filled these pot holes with coral, but it will be washed away when it rains, the mayor said.
Last week, the mayor’s office hired a sewer company to drain flood water from Texas Road in Chalan Kanoa.
Apatang said they also filled the flooded area at the interior of Kanoa Beach Club with coral.
Prior to the opening of schools, the mayor’s office field operation director Joann Aquino said they conducted a cleanup campaign at Hopwood Junior High School, Chacha Middle School, William Reyes Elementary School, Kagman Elementary School, Marianas High School and Mount Carmel School.
“We trimmed overgrown shrubs and we did brush-cutting and picked up trash in the school vicinity,” she said, adding that the cleanup drive was part of the ongoing beautification program of the mayor’s office.
Apatang said they will continue to collaborate with the Marianas Visitors Authority and the Department of Public Works to implement the beautification program.
“We will also put up trash bins at the public cemetery,” he added.
“The area has become like a jungle with overgrown vegetation.”
The mayor’s office spent two days cleaning up the cemetery in Chalan Kanoa due to the large volume of trash dumped in the area, Apatang said.
As for their road-repair program, Aquino said over the past weeks, it was focused on Chalan Galaide, Chalan Kiya, Papago and Kagman.
“There is road-repair work that needs graders and rollers, and we have to rent that equipment,” she said.
The mayor’s office continues to buy coral aggregate from private quarrying companies, she added.
“This is just a temporary fix,” she admitted, adding that every time there is heavy rain, the coral aggregate that fills potholes is washed away.
Aquino said their cleanup campaign was also focused on tourist areas.
“We have a good working relationship with MVA and the Division of Parks and Recreation.”
In partnership with the division, Apatang said they helped clean up the road and planted trees in front of Garapan Elementary School.
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FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation special agents Hae Jun Park and Jay Wolfe made a presentation on active-shooter situations and cybercrimes Tuesday during the Saipan Rotary Club meeting at the Hyatt Regency’s Giovanni’s Restaurant.
Park showed a graphic and violent short clip of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 that killed 12 students and a teacher.
“Can it happen in Saipan? It had happened in Saipan,” Park said, referring to the shooting in 2009 that started in Kanat Tabla and ended in Marpi with the gunman taking his own life.
“We never mention his name — in fact in active-shooting training we never mention the shooter’s name, and the reason for that is how many of us remember the names of the victims? Probably none. People have the tendency to remember the name of the gunman so we don’t want to memorialize that.”
After showing the Columbine High School shooting movie clip, Park asked the Rotarians:
“As a parent, brother, sister, mother or father — how does that make you feel? Angry? Upset? Those two cowards committed a crime that day…. It happens more often than not. Read the newspaper, check the internet and there are stories about active shooters all the time. The active shooter or stabber, creating as much mess as they can, whether for some political or religious motivation we don’t know.”
In response to Columbine, Park said the U.S. government came up with a program called ALERRT or Advance Law Enforcement Rapid ResponseTraining.
“The FBI in partnership with the University of Texas in San Marcos came up with a program that taught our law enforcement officers how to respond to active shooting,” Park added.
“The FBI also has an active-shooter school for law enforcement across the U.S. including Saipan and Guam. [The Department of Public Safety], port police, Marshals — everybody must be up to speed if an active shooting takes place.
“Sworn officers must work together to stop the killings — that is our goal in an active shooter response.
“in the past there have been crazy responses where so many different law enforcement officers showed up, and didn’t know who were friendly and who were not, that we now have a coordinated training program to help combat that situation.”
Park said they also work with schools.
“We give them guidance on how to respond to an active shooter so schools can have certain rules and programs in place: when to lock the doors, turn off the lights, barricade the doors, and how to tell the kids to hide. They will have a plan.”
He invited interested schools or establishments to contact the FBI if they want to undergo active-shooter training for civilians.
“It is hard to stop an active shooter before it happens — law enforcement can only respond to it, so we’re trying to do better with intelligence, possibly identifying people who fit a certain profile. The best we can do is respond to it, and train our law enforcement nationwide how to quickly stop the killings.”
Cybercrimes
For his part, Special FBI agent Jay Wolfe talked about cybercrime, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying.
“We do presentations in schools to alert the young people of Saipan about what can happen when they bully someone or send inappropriate photos,” Wolfe said.
“With the internet, those things cannot be taken back. Sometimes that’s difficult to understand when one’s at an early age — how life changing those choices can be, so we do our best to advise young people about those issues.”
As for cybercrimes involving businesses, Wolfe said: “We encourage the business community on Saipan to report to the FBI those suspicious e-mails they get that ask for information.”
He said the FBI can provide cyber-assessments tailored to the type of one’s business or organization.
“Often your business may have information that other businesses are seeking, and that is something that the FBI can also provide — information so that you can reduce your risk level and retain your business market,” he added.
Wolfe said the FBI can likewise provide valuable information on mitigating risks if one is doing business overseas.
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FINANCE Secretary Larrisa Larson has denied violating her duties and breaching public trust when she followed the then-governor’s order to transfer $400,000 in public funds to Luta Mermaid LLC which owns MV Luta.
Lt. Gov. Victor Hocog, then the Senate president, offered Resolution 19-3 which authorized the release of $400,000 to Luta Mermaid LLC.
But in her reply to the complaint filed by taxpayer John Del Rosario, Larson, through Deputy Attorney General Lillian Ada Tenorio, denies that she has any knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the complaint.
Tenorio said Larson is not a lawyer and cannot be expected to navigate through sometimes conflicting and complex laws which require extensive legal training.
When Larson transferred the funds to Luta Mermaid LLC, Tenorio said the Finance secretary was following a direct order of then-Gov. Eloy S. Inos.
“Any unlawful results of actions of Larson complained of in this case are the product of a reasonable mistake,” Tenorio said.
Larson had authorized payments of public funds through resolution before under CNMI Public Laws 11-79 and 12-64, and believed that the monies transferred to Luta Mermaid LLC were for a public purpose, Tenorio said.
Larson did not knowingly violate her fiduciary duties, and neither did she breach the public trust, Tenorio added.
She said the monies Larson transferred to Luta Mermaid LLC were for a public purpose.
Tenorio said it is well documented that Rota has suffered severe shortages in the past because of the inability of cargo ships to dock at Rota when the weather was bad.
“The purpose of transferring the funds…was to pay for bringing the ship Luta Mermaid to the CNMI so the ship could transport necessary provisions and supplies to Rota during bad weather,” Tenorio said.
The Luta Mermaid was also to provide shipping for agricultural products and other goods produced on Rota to Guam and other islands, and give the Rota economy the boost it badly needed, the deputy AG added.
Del Rosario sued Hocog and Larson in Superior Court, both in their official capacities, for the release of $400,000 in government funds to Luta Mermaid LLC.
Del Rosario, through his counsel Jennifer Dockter, said the private corporation is owned by Hocog’s relatives and the $400,000 was released to the company without introducing a bill in the House of Representatives for proper appropriation.
Del Rosario is seeking civil penalties against Hocog for violations of the Open Government Act, and injunctive relief against Larson to enjoin her from taking any further action in furtherance of the illegal expenditure of public monies.
He also sought a declaratory judgment finding Rota Legislative Delegation Resolution 19-3 void ab initio or from the very beginning.
Del Rosario said Luta Mermaid is a limited liability corporation whose shareholders are Abelina T. Mendiola, Deron T. Mendiola and Fidel S. Mendiola III, all relatives of Hocog.
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VICE Speaker Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero is not in favor of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board’s proposal to prioritize the controversial reverse-osmosis system instead of fixing water leaks.
In an interview on Wednesday, he said he doesn’t agree with the direction in which the board is moving right now.
“It doesn’t make any sense to go in the direction of [reverse-osmosis or] RO to pay any contractor or anyone when we have not resolved the water-leak problem which is still roughly at 60 percent,” Deleon Guerrero said.
“I don’t support that idea, the RO system. For me, if we can fix the leaks we will have a sufficient water supply for all residents.”
According to CUC, he added, they pump 10 million of gallons a day with 4 million gallons being delivered to consumers while 6 million gallons are lost due to leaks.
“It makes more sense to fix the leaks than invest in this RO system,” the vice speaker said. “If there were no leaks, the water supply would be enough and more water would be available to the people per day. We can provide more water to the people if we have the capacity and we should do that — we should make the repair of leaks a priority among other things. I find that more practical than going to another source of water such as the RO.”
Deleon Guerrero noted that CUC won’t have to pump 10 million of gallons per day if there are no leaks.
The RO system is estimated to cost $160 million, CUC board members earlier told lawmakers.
Deleon Guerrero said pumping less water will also benefit the people as it will make the water less salty and it will reduce water billings so people will be paying less for their CUC water consumption.
He said he will draft legislation to help residents obtain low-interest loans for the construction of water tanks.
He will encourage each household to supplement their water supply with rain water by having a water tank.
“We need to do little things that will reduce the amount of water pumped,” Deleon Guerrero said.
In a separate interview, Gov. Ralph Torres said he met with the CUC board before he left for Hawaii to express his concerns about the two stipulated orders from the federal government.
He said he told the CUC board to address the stipulated orders.
“I also emphasized to them the importance of addressing the water leaks first before anything else,” Torres added, referring to the RO system. “I would like to address the water leaks immediately and I will be meeting with them this week to discuss the issue further.”
He added, “My priority is to address the leaks and the well issues first and then we’ll discuss the RO system later.”
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THE new commissioner for the Public School System must not only have extensive teaching experience, he or she must also have leadership and administrative credentials, Board of Education Chairman Herman T. Guerrero said on Thursday.
The commissioner’s position has been vacant since Aug. 19 following the retirement of Dr. Rita A. Sablan after eight years in office.
During a break from the BOE meeting on Thursday, Guerrero told reporters that the board had yet to come up with the job description and requirements for the hiring of the new PSS chief.
“We need to fine-tune it a little bit because we have the same job description from 20 years ago and we need to upgrade it so it will be more aligned with our strategic priorities.”
He noted that PSS is no longer accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges but by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Asked if there are individuals in the PSS central office interested in applying for the position, Guerrero said: “Most of the people in the central office have teaching experience. I am sure they have teaching credentials but whether they have leadership or administrative credentials I don’t know.”
He added, “It’s not just about curriculum or about teaching. You need to run the system and that means every aspect of it, including the budget. You need a good person who knows how to work with the Legislature, someone who can go up there and defend the PSS budget.”
Guerrero said as the expenditure authority under the Constitution, the education commissioner must justify the PSS budget and ensure that it will not be reduced.
He believes that there are individuals on island that qualify for the commissioner’s position.
One of the major requirements is that an applicant must have at least a master’s in education, Guerrero said.
“If we have a doctorate, then that is something to look at. But just because you have a doctorate degree doesn’t mean you know more than someone with a master’s degree. You might know more about your specific thesis but that doesn’t mean you are an expert in everything. So for me a doctorate is just a credential that you carry but doesn’t mean that you know everything.”
He said the board will decide if they will consider candidates from off-island.
He added, however, that applicants from abroad may not be aware of the “dynamics” of working with the CNMI Legislature.
“That will complicate things,” he said.
Guerrero is hopeful that the board will soon agree on the job description so they can announce the job vacancy next month.
Meantime, he said, he has extended the appointment as acting commissioner of Yvonne R. Pangelinan, the associate commissioner for student and support services.
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HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — There are about 1,200 H-2B visa workers currently on Guam, but that number may drop drastically by the end of the year if there is no change in how visa requests are being processed, according to Greg Massey, administrator of the Guam Department of Labor’s Alien Labor Processing and Certification Division. He said the number of H-2B visa workers may fall below 100 — and may even drop to zero — by the end of December.
While a congressional solution for military-related projects is contained in a provision in the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, the law likely won’t be implemented until April 2017 at the earliest.
There have been only two H-2B visa approvals out of 670 requests since January, Massey said, setting the approval rate at nearly zero since the beginning of the year. The remaining 1,263 H-2B workers on the ground are expected to leave near the end of the year through the standard expiration of their visas. It is difficult to gauge what the decline will be month over month because of pending decisions on visa applications and extension requests, but Massey said his department’s “best guess” is that Guam will have 100 temporary workers or fewer by December 2016 or January 2017.
The lack of approvals is unprecedented for Guam, which has enjoyed a nearly 100 percent approval rate in the past. Guam is also supposed to be exempt from the annual national cap of 66,000 H-2B visas. Approvals may be few, but there has also been little movement on visas overall. In May, Massey said most visa petitions were issued requests for evidence or RFEs. These requests are used to clarify certain aspects of a petition but the benchmark seems to have been set unusually high, Massey said in June. The RFE process can take an unusually long amount of time as well, putting petitions on hold.
Regardless, an RFE is essentially a precursor to a denial, Massey has said previously.
A release from the Office of the Governor on Aug. 22 stated that despite repeated attempts at communication, there is no indication that federal officials will reverse the current trend. A representative from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told the Post in May that there have been no policy or procedural changes on how the office handles petitions.
“I can tell you that USCIS is aware of the importance of the H-2B program to Guam and is committed to ensuring the H-2B program functions as it is intended within the statutory and regulatory framework,” the representative stated.
There has been some change in the office’s adjudicators, however, and Massey has stated that this change may have resulted in a shift in thinking and increased scrutiny.
Gov. Eddie Calvo is meeting with U.S. Department of Labor and Office of Economic Adjustment representatives this week to discuss short-term and long-term alternatives, the governor’s release stated.
The House and Senate are still reconciling their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act, Massey said. Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo managed to include a provision in the House version of the bill that extends Guam and the CNMI’s exemption from the national H-2B cap until Oct. 1, 2029. The provision specifically provides support for military-related projects and the health-care industry.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has finally announced a decision on the CW issue, saying its deferred-action policy may benefit workers whose CW permits have already expired.
The policy will allow contract workers affected by the cap to continue to reside legally in the Northern Marianas, but they need to “demonstrate exceptional circumstances or justifications.”
USCIS said the deferred-action policy will be handled on a case-by-case basis, and it will not affect contract workers who have already left the island because of the CW cap.
But those who have remained after their permits expired or whose permits have not yet expired will be able to apply for deferred action, USCIS said.
If granted deferred action, the workers would be able to maintain a lawful presence during the deferred-action period.
The workers may also apply for employment authorization. But if their applications for fiscal 2017 permits are approved, the workers will be required to leave the commonwealth for consular processing of a new visa and re-enter the CNMI again, USCIS said.
U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, in a media statement, commended Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for coming out with some kind of relief for some of the workers affected by the cutoff of the fiscal year 2016 CW-1 permit renewals announced in May.
“Today’s news will be welcomed by those CW-1 workers who may now be eligible for deferred action,” Kilili said on Tuesday. “It is also good news for their families, their employers and everyone in our community whose economic interests are tied to having a stable and adequate workforce.”
In his statement, Gov. Ralph Torres thanked USCIS Director Leon Rodriguez for “his concern about the current situation here in the CNMI.”
According to the governor, “Since learning of the economic and humanitarian effects of the CW cap being reached early this year, I have made every effort to explain and relay the situation on the ground and why immediate action is necessary. There are many good, hardworking people in USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security who have listened to the CNMI’s concerns in both 902 consultations and bilateral discussion and have worked hard to provide this relief to many. I sincerely appreciate today’s announcement, but recognize that we have much work to do to ensure this transition period achieves its goals with the least possible harm to the fragile CNMI economy and the many families who call our islands home.”
In a press conference Tuesday morning, Torres said he understands the frustrations of the business community and he shares those frustrations, but added that the CW issue is a federal one.
“So we cannot expect the CNMI government to release any new information about the issue because we don’t handle our immigration. I want that to be clear.”
Torres said he will continue to work closely with Kilili and the CNMI Legislature so that they will have a unified position when addressing the islands’ workforce issues.
The administration, in a statement, said the USCIS announcement “significantly reflected” the CNMI’s recommendations during the 902 consultation process.
HANMI, chamber ‘very thankful’
The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Saipan Chamber of Commerce said they are thankful for the “great consideration” USCIS has given the CNMI.
In an email, HANMI president Gloria C. Cavanagh said she wanted to thank Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Majorkas, Congressman Kilili and the Torres administration “for the work they have to done to get to this point.”
She added, “This is good news for those remaining CW1 employees that are facing much hardship with the FY 2016 cap.”
Cavanagh said the USCIS decision will also alleviate worsening conditions caused by the labor shortage.
“Although I don’t totally understand the mechanics nor the politics in this kind of consideration, I am led to believe that this is a huge accommodation for the CNMI. For this HANMI is very thankful,” she said.
There are 1,300 CW workers who were affected by the cap.
She admitted though that it is still tough dealing with the splitting up of families that has already occurred over the last couple of months. She said they have sent all but one employee back to their homelands to wait for approval of their CW1s under the new fiscal year.
A few of them, she said, still have young children being taken care of by close relatives here.
She said the next thing to do now is to work on getting approval for a much needed increase in the CW cap.
“The CNMI is growing exponentially. The original cap was to afford the supply of labor for the operations of a [declining] economy. With growth the way it is now, we are going to fall short very soon with our labor market again,” Cavanagh said.
“Again, we are very thankful. However our plight for an opportunity to grow our economy is directly tied to having an adequate labor pool. We need a more realistic cap in order to do this.”
In a separate email, Saipan Chamber of Commerce president Velma Palacios said the USCIS announcement is welcome news for everyone.
“Since the announcement that the CW cap had been reached in May, businesses had to make adjustments within their operations as some of their employees affected had to leave island. Businesses have instituted training programs and created partnerships to address their human resource requirements. CW-1 workers and their families have made hard decisions: to separate their families or to leave their home altogether,” Palacios said.
Businesses now have guidance and an avenue to maintain those who would be eligible to support their operations, she added.
“With the continued economic growth in our islands, we need a workforce to support and sustain this growth. Our economy is on a rebound…. We have many new hotel developments that have started construction and are planned. New businesses including restaurant franchises have opened. In addition to the local workforce capacity, we still require our CW-1 workers. We thank Congressman Kilili and Governor Torres for working with USCIS.”
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REPRESENTATIVES Edwin Propst and Ralph Yumul on Thursday were the only House members who voted against the fiscal year 2017 budget bill which proposes, among other things, to increase lawmakers’ operation allocations by 27 percent.
Propst wanted the $585,155 to be given instead to the mayors of Saipan, Tinian and Rota: $423,736 for Saipan and $80,710 each for Rota and Tinian.
But the House leadership opposed his proposed amendment. Rep. Antonio Sablan, chairman of Ways and Means, said lawmakers need funding for their operations which include doing their jobs on the committees.
He said they are are not ignoring the needs of the municipalities and have in fact increased their allocations by more than 100 percent.
Speaker Rafael Demapan said the additional funding for legislative operations will not go into their pockets but to the people who they work for and represent.
Vice Speaker Joseph Deleon Guerrero said the funding for lawmakers will go to reasonable projects such as hiring consultants and researchers to ensure that they pass good bills.
Under the FY 2017 budget bill, which now goes to the Senate, the House and the Senate will get a total of $2,755,000. Their FY 2016 funding was $2,169,845.
Propst’s amendment was rejected by 11 of the 18 members present while the vote on the budget bill was 16 in favor and two against —Propst and Yumul.
In an interview, Propst said lawmakers should live within their means, and if there is excess funding it should be given to other agencies that are in need of funding.
Propst added, “The mayor’s office is always asking for funding, and the mayor is bombarded throughout the island for various obligations and here we are getting an increase of funding for our operations. If we are able to travel then our funding is sufficient, and we don’t have to get more because there are others who are in dire need of funding. If it’s not enough the leadership has $300,000 to fund whatever they need such as hiring consultants while we in the minority get nothing — we get zero and yet we manage to function because we have a sufficient and competent support group, and we have legal counsels that we can rely on, and for us that’s enough. So if they don’t want to give $585,000 to the mayor’s office then why not give it to other agencies like Veterans Affairs, medical referrals or the museum?”
Yumul, for his part, said excess funds should be used to pay the government’s other obligations like land compensation and court judgments.
“A month ago, [financial experts] told us that we tend to increase our debts because we fail to address our obligations and tend to overspend. My opinion is we should do something to decrease our obligations and start paying our debts. But we want to spend more instead of paying our debts. This is why attorney Michael Dotts filed a lawsuit [against the CNMI government] because we fail to address our obligations. This could be the right opportunity to address that by giving excess funds to settle obligations.”
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A MAN who served two years in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old victim in 2012 has been arrested again, this time on the charge of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in Chalan Kanoa.
Associate Judge Teresa K. Kim-Tenorio imposed a bail of $100,000 cash on 36-year-old Steven Romie Aguon at the bail hearing on Tuesday. The court appointed Assistant Public Defender Cindy Nesbit to represent the defendant while Assistant Attorney General Shannon Foley appeared for the government.
Aguon was charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
The preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 7, 2016 at 9 a.m. and the arraignment will be on Sept. 12, 2016 at 9 a.m.
Police Detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her affidavit that responding police officers met with a woman who reported that her 10-year-old son was sexually abused by the defendant who is their neighbor.
Pangelinan said the boy’s father told police that the boy came home late and when asked where he came from, the boy said he went biking with the defendant.
Pangelinan said the boy’s father was concerned because they knew the defendant had been arrested before for sexual abuse of a minor.
The boy’s father said he noticed something was wrong, and he told the boy to tell the truth because “God will punish him if he lied.”
The boy said he was scared so his father promised not to spank him if the child told the truth.
Pangelinan said the boy told his father he was playing basketball when the defendant told him to follow him to his house to “build a camp.”
The boy said he followed the defendant but when they got there, the defendant told him to get into the back seat of an abandoned vehicle parked outside his house.
The boy said the defendant touched him inappropriately and continued even when the boy told him to stop. The boy said the defendant then sexually assaulted him.
The boy’s father said the victim was scared and was in pain.
The father said he wanted to confront the defendant, but Aguon had already run away.
Pangelinan was transported to the Commonwealth Health Center where he was examined. The rape kit indicated that there was penetration of the boy’s anus.
In May 2006, then-Gov. Benigno R. Fitial commuted the sentence of Aguon who had earlier been convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
Fitial said his decision was based on “compassionate and humanitarian reasons and in the public interest.”
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REPRESENTATIVE Glenn Maratita, the chairman of the Rota Legislative Delegation, said he will get more information about the incident involving an MV Luta crewmember who died after falling into the water.
Maratita said it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the matter without any knowledge of what really transpired on the night of the incident.
He said he will ensure that appropriate actions will be taken.
MV Luta’s Japanese investor, Takahisa Yamamoto, said he was informed about the incident, but was not provided with specific details.
Yamamoto said he feels sorry for the crewmember, adding that he is still waiting for a complete report from Fidel and his wife Abelina Mendiola who are managing the merchant vessel.
A Variety source said the victim was involved in a drinking session with other members of the crew, including boat captain Fidel Mendiola, when he fell into the water.
Abelina Mendiola declined to comment.
“At this point, I am not going to give you an answer. Please await the police report and [the U.S. Coast Guard] report,” she stated in her email.
On Thursday, the Department of Public Safety released a statement, indicating that the incident was reported to the Rota police on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 11:36 p.m. Police were told that an injured person was at the West Marina Commercial Port on Rota.
Police and the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and conducted a preliminary investigation.
DPS said based on interviews with some witnesses, the 62-year-old crewmember, a Filipino, fell off the MV Luta and into the water. The other crewmembers managed to pull the victim from the water and bring him to the shore.
But the victim had no pulse and was no longer breathing. First responders attempted CPR on the victim who was then transported to the Rota Health Center. He was pronounced dead on arrival by Dr. Gregory Kotheimer at 12:04 am on Aug. 24.
DPS spokesman Jason Tarkong said the name of the victim will be withheld pending notification of next of kin.
He said the incident is still under investigation and the cause of death has yet to be determined.
A Variety source said the victim was a Filipino-American from Texas. (With Junhan B. Todiño)
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Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.
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Mashaun Hendricks is only 30 years old, but he says that he's "retired." For the average 30-year-old, that professional status would be ridiculous, but Hendricks boasts an unusually extensive resumé: he's been an economics teacher in Chicago, a restorative justice specialist at Chicago Public Schools, and a mentor for juvenile offenders. However, "none of that was really intentional" Hendricks says. "The only intentional thing I've done is Trap House Chicago."
Trap House is Hendricks's brainchild, a graphic T-shirt brand that's a synthesis of his love of streetwear and his zeal for community work and social justice. The first shirt design Trap House issued is stark red, with the words CRIME PAYS printed on the front in a bold white graffiti-style font. On the back of the shirt is a list of professions that "depend on crime to pay their salaries," Hendricks says, such as "police, lawyers, ambulances, judges, probation officers, and coroners." Last on the the list, bolded and underlined, is the phrase but not us. A percentage of the sales of the shirts, and of all Trap House Chicago clothing, goes to fund the organization's nonprofit wing, TRAP (Teens Reaching All Potential), which seeks to address the root problems of poverty and violence through teaching the values of restorative justice.
"Our intention is to be cool as hell," Hendricks says. "I want to see my young guys on the block with a CRIME PAYS T-shirt on and they surrounded by they homies and they all pointing at the shirt. They're the educators now. The main goal of those CRIME PAYS T-shirts is to raise awareness of an invisible system—that awareness hopefully leads to an actual crime strike, which will lead to a crime drought in Chicago."
Hendricks, who grew up in Roseland and now lives in South Shore, attended Columbia College in the mid-2000s, originally to study marketing, but dropped out to start his first streetwear line, called YORS (Young Overcomes Reaching Success). With phrases like EVERY NIGHT IS LADIES NIGHT and I LOVE MYSELF printed on the front of the T-shirts, YORS was a brand explicitly for women, who are rarely engaged by mostly male streetwear designers and fans.
click to enlarge Trap House Chicago’s crime pays T-shirts
T-shirts April Alonso
Hendricks abandoned YORS and the world of streetwear to make a transition into social and community work in 2010. He eventually discovered restorative justice, an approach that takes into account the victim and the community in addition to the offender, with the goals of fostering accountability and forgiveness. Hendricks describes it as "the way in which we value the lives and experiences of all people, specifically or especially people who have been marginalized, oppressed, and harmed—those who are at the bottom—and not just those in lower-income communities: those are the kids, the teenagers, and people of low-income rural communities as well."
The philosophy and practice of restorative justice encouraged Hendricks to teach a high school economics class at Banner South Academy High School in Jeffery Manor, where from 2010 to 2011 he conducted peace circles and engaged in open-ended dialogue with his students. He went on to serve as a mentor and restorative-justice specialist for the entire Chicago Public School system from 2014 until the end of this past school year—he helped implement restorative-justice practices and programs in all grades across the city. But with all his work and success, Hendricks could still see the deep-seated problems of poverty and crime right in front of him.
"A few years ago I was in a mentoring program in Englewood, and a few of my young men were late, and I went to go get them, and they were in the neighborhood trap house, or place where drugs are made, packaged, and distributed," Hendricks says. "Standing outside that trap house that day I was thinking, How can I get them out and keep them out of the trap house? And the idea came to me to start Trap House Chicago."
The streetwear industry rarely overlaps with the social-justice nonprofit field, but Hendricks's vision was of just that: a for- profit streetwear brand that fed into a nonprofit focused on enacting restorative-justice programs. "The process of restorative justice is really how I found myself," he says. "But my medium is T-shirts. It's what I understand."
—Mashaun Hendricks
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Chicago plays itself in this dramatization of the First Couple’s first date.
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Plenty of couples banter, woo, and fall in love in Chicago, despite the vast majority of American films locating romance elsewhere (most often in New York). But in dramatizing the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama in the summer of 1989, when they were colleagues at a Loop law firm, writer-director Richard Tanne returned to the city where the couple met and, three years later, married. Shot over 15 days last summer, Southside With You showcases a city as photogenic, dynamic, and charming as the lovers themselves.
Wisely, Tanne focuses narrowly on their date, piecing together his narrative from the president's two memoirs, Dreams of My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope (2006), and from various interviews. In a 2012 presidential campaign video, the First Lady describes the couple's first romantic outing as a kind of revelation: "He was showing me all facets of his character. . . . He was hip, cutting-edge, cultural, sensitive . . . " Standing beside her, the president smiles and quips, "Take notes, gentlemen." Clearly Tanne did, recording not only the day's events—a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, a "lovely" lunch in the museum courtyard, a long stroll down Michigan Avenue, a screening of Spike Lee's just-released Do the Right Thing—but also the nuances of the deepening relationship, from Barack's flirtatious attempts to sound suave to Michelle's amusement at the same to the way they supplement each other's memories.
For the two lovers, Chicago is more than a collection of places—it's a community, which makes the film more resonant than your average romantic walk-and-talk. Tanne opens with an appealing tableau, scored to Janet Jackson's "Miss You Much," that also serves as a civic statement: black families and friends enjoy each other's company on a sweltering day in South Shore. Unlike the mass-media narrative of the south side as a gang-ridden hellhole, Southside With You radiates love, connection, and positivity. Children ride their bikes up and down the street and chase each other through sprinklers. Teenage girls eat popsicles; an older couple play cards on their front lawn. And in a sun-soaked apartment on Euclid Avenue, Michelle Robinson, a young attorney who lives with her inquisitive and adoring parents, prepares to meet a colleague from her law firm, who lives in nearby Hyde Park, for a casual outing that she insists is "not a date."
Tanne takes an evenhanded yet still flattering approach to the characters; they seem like any educated and ambitious young professionals bonding over art and culture in a city that prizes both. Barack (Parker Sawyers) has completed his first year at Harvard Law School and been named a summer associate at the Loop law firm Sidley Austin; Michelle (Tika Sumpter) is a first-year associate, recently graduated from Harvard Law herself, and Obama's adviser. Initially she balks at the idea of dating a rumored "hotshot" who is not only her subordinate but also one of the few other people of color employed by the firm. But about a month into their working relationship, he suggests that they "spend the day together," and based on that wording, she agrees. Nonetheless she wonders aloud what they have in common. Barack's response is jocular yet sincere: "We both love Chicago."
Constrained by a tight budget, Tanne takes some artistic liberties with exact locations. The Chicago Cultural Center stands in for the Art Institute, and the couple lunch in Douglas Park instead of the museum courtyard. In one touching, if fictional, scene, Barack looks on as Michelle joins a group of black drummers and dancers in the park, their figures mirroring those in Ernie Barnes's painting The Sugar Shack, which they discussed earlier at the exhibit. At sunset they walk along the lakeshore, not Michigan Avenue, probably because the Magnificent Mile has changed so much since 1989. North-siders will recognize the movie theater as the Music Box, though the couple probably went to the old Hyde Park 1 & 2 (now the Harper Theater). Their fabled first kiss outside a Baskin-Robbins occurs not at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd (the spot has been marked with a commemorative plaque since 2012) but at 53rd and Woodlawn, where the film crew turned a Harold's Chicken Shack into a Baskin-Robbins for the nighttime scene.
Tanne also resorts to dramatic license in creating and then resolving a conflict between the two lawyers. Sawyer's Barack is an imperfect character: he smokes, which does not go unnoticed by Michelle, and his dilapidated car has a rusted-out hole in the floor. While walking through the park, he passes judgment first on his late father, describing him as an unreachable alcoholic, and then on Michelle, questioning her practice of corporate law when her true passion lies in helping underprivileged women. She calls him a hypocrite, and he apologizes. But what really turns their date around is a visit to the Altgeld Gardens housing project, where Barack previously worked as a community organizer. At a nearby church, Barack, hoping to impress Michelle with his rhetorical prowess, gives a not-so- impromptu speech for the residents, who remember him fondly.
As Tanne has admitted in interviews, this visit may have occurred later in the couple's relationship, yet Barack's rousing address to the residents, who are frustrated by the City Council's resistance to building them a community center, foreshadows his later political rise. Barack encourages them to stay positive—they already have some funding they can use as leverage—and to let go of judgment (a "friend" taught him that, he says). He invokes Harold Washington and ends his speech with a glimmer of his 2008 campaign slogan, Yes We Can. "When they say 'no,' " he declares, "We say, 'carry on!' " During an invented scene at the dimly lit Water Hole Lounge, Michelle asks Barack why he came to Chicago in the first place. "To make a difference," he replies. "Politics?" she nudges. Barack considers: "Maybe."
Chicago may not be a character in the film, the way New York City is in the movies of Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Nora Ephron. But Southside With You generates as much warmth for its setting as for its characters. In another poignant scene, Barack and Michelle pass a hallway in Altgeld Gardens whose yellow brick is inscribed with the names of people lost to gun violence. This makeshift memorial, Tanne understands, is just as integral to Chicago as the lakefront, the museums and movie theaters, and the Hyde Park curb where the future First Couple shared their first kiss over chocolate ice cream. In portraying two of the city's most famous inhabitants, Southside With You offers a shining and prismatic view of Chicago as well. v
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This week's featured gig poster was designed by local artist Daniel MacAdam of Crosshair screen printing.
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"The demand got so crazy that I realized I had to charge money," Theodore Hahn says of his homemade hot sauce.
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Limited-edition Chicago-made hot sauce Wrath of Hahn inspires burning desire
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"I don't know if you've ever had pureed jalapeño in your eye, but if you can imagine 100 drunk wasps trying to attack your face, that is what it feels like," hot-sauce hobbyist Theodore Hahn says.
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Of Wrath of Hahn, its maker says "there is literally no other possible fucking name for this hot sauce."
"For a long amount of time I was basically a beige-atarian. I grew up in Wisconsin in a family of Korean immigrants, and my mother cooked Korean food deliciously, but I, being a gigantic idiot, was very, very picky. It wasn't until, like, high school that I realized I should just shut the fuck up and start appreciating it. "By the time I started to get really nutso about food, I didn't have any preconceived notions as to what I should try or what was good or what was lame. All I knew was that there was so much more stuff out there that I wanted to cram into my face. And then my college years coincided almost exactly with the introduction of the Food Network."A few years ago, I went online to see if there was any way to doctor up Huy Fong sriracha. That's the rooster sauce you get at Thai or Vietnamese restaurants. I found a basic recipe, and I tinkered around for a couple years, and everything I made was terrible. I have a bottle saved somewhere that you could pour into your car and drive to Milwaukee with."Finally I got to a version that I thought people might like. It's called Wrath of Hahn , and I want to give 100 percent credit to my genius friend Holly Dunsworth for coming up with that, because there is literally no other possible fucking name for this hot sauce."Anyway, to incentivize myself to get it out the door, I told my friends, 'I will trade this for whatever you want to make—candy bars, muffins, other sauces, whatever.' I thought I'd get a couple dozen friends to do it. It turned out everybody and their mom wanted to try this hot sauce. I did it again last year, and even more people wanted to get in on it."The demand got so crazy that I realized I had to charge money. That said, there is no money in this at all. What little extra I've made I've just put into buying a fridge to store the stuff. In early September, I'm putting up 300 jars for sale—150 of the hot sauce and then 150 of a vinegar-pepper sauce. And when they're gone, that's it."It's very laborious, blending the peppers and garlic with brown sugar and salt to ferment. I have to do it out of my folks' house, because if you try to boil and blend and process 20 gallons of fermented red jalapeños and habaneros in a condo in the South Loop, I'm pretty sure the co-op board will throw you out a window."Now I wear gloves and goggles all the time. In years past, I have taken a rather cavalier attitude towards this sort of thing and have been punished for my hubris. Once, as I was cleaning up, I had sweat drip into my eye, and I wiped it away with my fingers. I don't know if you've ever had pureed jalapeño in your eye, but if you can imagine 100 drunk wasps trying to attack your face, that is what it feels like. You're basically just flushing and flushing and flushing and then lying down and then swearing a lot in front of your Baptist mom."
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Pilsen punk heroes Los Crudos return from Europe to play a street festival in Little Village on Saturday.
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Also, Rahm shuts down rumors that he will be the next ambassador to Israel.
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Family members and supporters hug Diann Aldridge during a vigil for her daughter Nykea Aldridge Sunday.
Welcome to the Reader's morning briefing for Monday, August 29, 2016.
Weather: Sunny and lovely
The week will start out with beautiful and sunny weather. Expect a high of 83 and a low of 71. [AccuWeather]
Trump tries to capitalize on shooting death of Dwyane Wade's cousin
Nykea Aldridge, a mother of four children and cousin to Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, was shot dead on the south side Friday. Aldridge was not the intended target of the shooting, and two brothers were charged for the crime Sunday. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump caused controversy when he referred to the high-profile homicide to campaign on Twitter writing, "Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!" [Washington Post] [Sun-Times]
Chicago police apologize to rapper Rhymefest after tweet
Rapper and former aldermanic candidate Rhymefest posted a video on Twitter showing himself arguing with Chicago cops when he went to report an armed robbery Saturday. "You wonder we don't report crimes? The police treated me disgustingly," he wrote to his followers. The Chicago Police Department responded and apologized for the incident and said they will be addressing the issue. [CNN]
Rahm calls rumors that he'll be ambassador to Israel "ridiculous"
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has denied rumors that he might be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wins in November. "One can't say they're not flattered," Emanuel said at a press conference Thursday. "I'm absolutely not interested." [Crain's Chicago Business] [NBC Chicago]
Museum of Contemporary Art plans major renovation, hopes to increase attendance
The Museum of Contemporary Art will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017 and the museum is planning a major $15 million renovation and new exhibits in order to stay "relevant," according to Crain's Chicago Business. "We really are trying to build loyalty with the Chicago audience," the MCA's chief curator Michael Darling told the publication. [Crain's Chicago Business]
PAWS Chicago shelter rescues animals from Louisiana floods
Twenty-six cats and dogs were rescued from the Louisiana floods by no-kill shelter PAWS Chicago. Moving the pets to the shelter's Little Village medical facility will help the overwhelmed shelters in Louisiana and Chicago residents will be able to adopt them. "Everything down there was really chaotic. Some of the shelters are flooded and actually can't accept any animals, others shelters are trying to move out all of their strays to try to make room for displaced animals," Stacy Price, director of animal operations at PAWS Chicago, told the Tribune. [Tribune]
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Reader writers take on 2016's Riot Fest from seven different angles.
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Chicago's Riot Fest runs Friday through Sunday, September 16 through 18, entering its fifth year as a multiday outdoor event. Riot Fest has changed a lot since 2012, when it spent only two of its three days in Humboldt Park and about 50 bands played on three stages. Since 2013 the festival has been entirely outdoors: that year it booked roughly 80 bands on five stages, and in 2014 it expanded aggressively, hosting more than 100 bands on eight stages and taking up much more of Humboldt Park.
Facing opposition from a growing number of residents and 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado after causing $182,000 in damages to the park, last year Riot Fest found a new home in North Lawndale's Douglas Park. Not everyone in that neighborhood is thrilled that Riot Fest is returning in 2016, and Mayor Emanuel has put the festival's organizers "on notice," suggesting that they won't get a third chance if they're pushed out of Douglas Park. But so far this year, no major obstacles have arisen.
Riot Fest
Fri-Sun 9/16-9/18, 11 AM-10 PM, Douglas Park, 1401 S. Sacramento, riotfest.org, $84.98-$159.98 single-day pass, $149.98-$159.98 two-day pass, $209.98-$699.98 three-day pass, all ages
Riot Fest continues to corral an impressive roster that despite its eccentric variety shares the spirit of punk (if not its sound). In some respects the lineup has the comfortable familiarity of a well-loved couch with a big dent in the shape of your butt: even before the bill was announced in May, you knew Andrew W.K. and Gwar would be on it. And because Danzig has a long relationship with Riot Fest, this year's big coup—the Original Misfits with Danzig, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, and Jerry Only—wasn't the blockbuster surprise it might've been. Sure, the three of them haven't played together since 1983, but Danzig played Misfits songs with Doyle at Riot Fest in 2011 and 2013—if the Misfits were going to reunite anywhere, it'd be here. On the other hand, pinning down Morrissey was pretty clutch.
Unlike all the summer festivals that seem to draw from the same pool of acts—you could think of them as the Festival Industrial Complex—Riot Fest does its own thing. And as hard as it leans on legacy acts and nostalgia, at least it books veterans from all over the musical map: Julian Marley performing Bob Marley & the Wailers' Exodus, the Descendents making their umpteenth Riot Fest appearance, Method Man & Redman staying lit despite not having released a studio album since 2009's Blackout! 2.
Riot Fest also has an ear for vital young acts—this year they include Canadian punks White Lung, fierce Florida rapper Denzel Curry, Nashville guitar army Diarrhea Planet, and Chicago indie-pop charmers the Walters. And plenty of long-grinding Riot Fest acts have continued to evolve, so that despite their relatively advanced ages they can offer more than time-capsule feelings: among them this year are metal chameleons Deftones, indie-pop wizard Dan Deacon, Canadian punk powerhouses Fucked Up, and metalcore experimentalists the Dillinger Escape Plan (currently on a farewell tour).
Visit riotfest.org for updated information as the festival approaches—set times, gate locations, park rules, et cetera. Aftershow headliners include the Specials, Motion City Soundtrack, the Dillinger Escape Plan (at cozy Cobra Lounge, no less), Thursday, Bad Religion, and Taking Back Sunday. v
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The district pays schools the same amount regardless of a teacher’s level of pay or experience.
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In the first week of August, as he was preparing for his 25th year as a middle school social studies teacher, Rob DiPrima got the call CPS teachers have come to fear.
His principal was on the line, telling him to beat it—We're too damn broke to pay your salary, she said.
Well, she was a little more delicate in her phrasing. But the bottom line amounted to the same thing. DiPrima was getting laid off because apparently we've reached the point where certified social studies teachers are a luxury some Chicago public schools can't afford.
Just when I thought things couldn't get worse.
At age 52, DiPrima's something of a legend at southeast-side Jane Addams Elementary School, where he's taught seventh- and eighth-grade social studies since 2000.
According to former students, DiPrima's an impassioned storyteller who brings lessons of the past alive and makes them relevant to children today.
For his efforts, he was awarded educator of the year by the East Side Chicago Chamber of Commerce in 2010. And in 2004 he passed the test that made him a nationally certified teacher—one of the highest distinctions a grammar or high school teacher can achieve.
"I wanted to teach at Addams until I retired," he says. "I love my job."
But on August 5 he got a call from his principal, Ruth Martini-Walsh. "It was a short conversation," DiPrima says. "She said, 'I have eliminated your position—there's a job fair next week.' And I said, 'Thanks for ruining my life,' and I hung up."
DiPrima was one of roughly 1,000 CPS employees—including 500 teachers—laid off last month because of budget cuts.
Martini-Walsh didn't respond to requests for comment. But according to the letter she posted on the school's website, she had no choice.
"These teachers were not cut from our staff because of talent or performance issues, but because of a decrease in Addams' enrollment, and, therefore, our budget," Martini-Walsh wrote. "Simply put: our budget and decreased enrollment cannot support the same number of teaching positions."
Enrollment declined at Addams because students have been funneled to a new elementary school just up the road that will open in September.
And Mayor Emanuel decided to build the new school because Addams and another nearby school were overcrowded.
So the project intended to help Addams's students wound up kicking them in the teeth. So it goes in Chicago.
The challenge for Martini-Walsh—as it is for any principal facing falling enrollment—is deciding which teachers to let go.
Generally, union contract seniority rules favor long-standing employees like DiPrima. So in theory a principal should be forced to lay off the last person hired first. But things have changed.
In the good old days of Mayor Daley—a phrase I find myself muttering more frequently than I ever imagined I would—CPS allotted teachers to a school based on enrollment.
If a principal wanted to fill a teaching vacancy with a seasoned employee—such as DiPrima—so be it. The central office picked up that salary, no questions asked.
But Emanuel changed that funding formula in an effort to save money in the classroom—leaving him free to spend it on things like the new Marriott Hotel and DePaul basketball arena he's building with TIF funds in the South Loop.
Nowadays CPS gives each school a flat per-pupil allowance that doesn't fluctuate with a teacher's salary. Thus, there's no incentive for a principal to pay more to hire experienced teachers, no matter how many awards they've won or how much their students love them.
In fact, it's just the opposite. There's an incentive for principals to hire the cheapest teachers they can find.
To be blunt, when it comes to a teacher like DiPrima, principals tend not to see a classroom asset. Instead, they see $91,000—which is about what he was making. And that kind of money is almost enough to buy a principal two rookie teachers just out of college.
I'm not sure you can build a world-class public school system if teaching experience is treated as a financial liability, but that's where we're at.
Effectively, Martini-Walsh got around union seniority rules by cutting DiPrima's position from the budget, so the school has no social studies teacher at all.
On August 23, about two dozen people showed up at Addams for a local school council meeting to plead with Martini-Walsh to rehire DiPrima.
Tenth Ward alderman Sue Sadlowski Garza—who used to be a counselor at the school—asked who'd be teaching social studies in lieu of DiPrima.
Martini-Walsh said the assistant principal—who's certified in math—would fill that role.
"So they've got a math teacher teaching social studies," says Garza. "It's crazy."
An Addams parent set up an online petition so parents, students, and graduates could weigh in on DiPrima's behalf.
As of publication it was filled with more than 300 testimonials ranging from "He is the most inspirational teacher I have ever met" to "He's one of the teachers you remember forever" to "You're fucking idiots for firing him."
As you can see, some of his fans are rather passionate. In any event, the students at Addams are now without a certified social studies teacher, though most civilized school systems require students to take social studies.
I suppose we might question whether CPS counts as a civilized school system at this point—an enlightening topic for any social studies class to debate, in any school that still has one.
At least this story has one happy ending: DePrima called me Tuesday to tell me he'd been hired—at his same salary—to teach sixth-grade history at southwest-side Sutherland Elementary School.
Congratulations, my man.
One school's loss is another school's gain. Perhaps that's the best we can hope for from CPS in the age of Mayor Rahm. v
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The Silicon Valley star brings his stand-up tour “Meticulously Ridiculous” to Chicago.
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When I saw T.J. Miller perform this past January, he was joined by his longtime sketch group, Heavyweights. But what Miller did can't really be described as "sketch comedy." In a solo scene he remained silent, using only a clown horn to communicate with an unsuspecting audience member whom he brought onstage. He proceeded to silently act out a first date with this person while using a pair of skeleton hands as his real hands (he later tried the same bit on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert). If it sounds strange and uncomfortable, well, it was. But it was also hilarious. These bits, as well as some outrageous personal stories, are vehicles for Miller to welcome people into his absurd mind, all while maintaining a delicate balance between making them laugh and making them cringe.
This approach isn't restricted to the stage—he adopts it for his role on HBO's Silicon Valley, in talk-show appearances, and even on his professional website. After one clicks through a list of tour dates on the site (normal), a page pops up where he and his wife, Kate Miller—who's joining him onstage on his current stand-up tour—are hawking bottles of "discerning smells" for $90 a pop (strange). Lord help whoever spent the cash to find out if a scent called Warm Urine is actually just a bottle of warm urine.
Miller's current touring show is called "Meticulously Ridiculous," an apt description for what he does. Whether he's performing an explosive bit or telling a story about being on the set of Yogi Bear, everything he does feels carefully planned to deliver the most bizarre and entertaining end result possible.
T.J. Miller Fri 8/26, 8 PM, the Vic, 3145 N. Sheffield, jamusa.com, $37.
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Activists refuse to be quiet about Riot Fest, but boosters say their claims are off base.
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Concert photographer Bobby Talamine thanks donors for their help replacing stolen gear, Chicago label Scrapes teams up with proto-industrial duo Hogg, and more.
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Prolific Chicago music photographer Bobby Talamine, whose work has frequently graced the Reader (you might remember his vibrant shots of Cheap Trick, Gary Numan, or Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment with Chance the Rapper), was assaulted after Radiohead's set at Lollapalooza—and the bastards made off with his camera too. Talamine's buddy Brett Widmann has set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to cover the cost of new gear, which quickly met its initial goal. And on Wednesday, September 7, the fine folks at Metro host a celebration of Talamine's work at GMan Tavern as a thank-you to donors. It features DJ sets from Tom Pazen, Jeff Pazen, Scary Lady Sarah, Jeff Moyer, Greg Haus, and Gil Burns, and Talamine's photos will be projected onstage (he'll also sell prints). It's free and starts at 6 PM.
Gossip Wolf has been awaiting new jams from Chicago label Scrapes (run by creepy-synth maven Alex Barnett) and from local proto-industrial duo Hogg—and as if in answer, they've teamed up! On Thursday, September 1, Scrapes releases Hogg's Solar Phallic Lion, whose self-titled track features laborious bass grind, ugly guitar scrapes, and what sounds like a vocodered recording of an animal undergoing electroshock therapy. Gossip Wolf approved! Chicago artist Elijah Burgher, who's appeared in the Whitney Biennial, did the EP's obsessively weird artwork. Hogg will be selling copies of the 12-inch (Scrapes recently started releasing vinyl) on Sunday, September 4, when they play a label showcase with Champagne Mirrors and Ariisk at the Empty Bottle.
It's been a few since Gossip Wolf checked in on off-center pop auteurs Oshwa, and just last week the badass band self-released their second album, I We You Me. Oshwa have smoothed out their dazzlingly knotty sound on these tantalizing tracks, and you can order a copy on transparent gold vinyl from their Bandcamp. v
Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail [email protected].
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Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago: In 1909 chemist Fritz Haber, a German Jew who’d renounced his faith to advance his career, successfully demonstrated the feasibility of artificial ammonia production. His discovery …
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Haymarket's published version of Steppenwolf's This is Modern Art selectively excerpts some of the play's reviews.
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Just wish I had also put something like this in my review: "When these kids are hauled into court will Steppenwolf set up a fund to pay their bail, hire a lawyer to see that charges are expunged from their permanent records (so they can get into a decent school or be hired for a good job), and finally reimburse their parents for missing days of work while they fix all this? A far better play might have helped kids think about how to engage their community and local politicians, and how to mount a campaign that might lead to getting more dedicated spaces for such work.
, a provocative play about graffiti artists, ran for a few weeks early last year as a Steppenwolf for Young Adults production. The play, by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval, was inspired by an action in 2010, when young graffiti artists working at night in a snowstorm spray-painted a 50-foot mural on the new modern wing of the Art Institute. (It was removed.)Both Chris Jones of theand Hedy Weiss of thehad harsh things to say about it. Jones at least calleda "romantic ode" before coming to his main point. "Graffiti comes at a price," he wrote . "It can be invasive, self-important and disrespectful of the property of others—and plenty of struggling folks have had to clean graffiti off something they own or love. Graffiti can be inartful, for goodness sake. More importantly yet, graffiti had the effect of making people feel unsafe in the city. It terrified people . . . You do not have to be conservative or somehow not down with youth to think it reprehensible that these issues do not have a place in a show for schools that is quite staggeringly one-sided."Weiss also believedwas making a one-sided case for vandalism. She called the play "wildly wrong-headed and potentially damaging." She wrote , "No amount of classroom discussion will scrub clean the irresponsible ideas promulgated in this play . . . Really, what could Steppenwolf have been thinking?"Now Haymarket Books of Chicago has just published This Is Modern Art , and Jones and Weiss agree no longer. On the back cover of the play (and on the Haymarket website ) are blurbs from Jones and Weiss (and others) culled by the publisher from reviews. (Jones and Weiss are identified by their papers, not their names, but in Chicago most everyone will know who wrote what.) And at least one blurb turned a critic into a cheerleader.Weiss is served up straight. Probably a smart move—the accusation that "irresponsible ideas" lurk inside won't discourage anybody from finding out what they are.But she's the contrarian. Every other blurb is admiring. This includes the one from the's Albert Williams, who called the play both "celebratory and cautionary—clearly sympathetic to the artists' point of view, but not blind to the impact their reckless act would have on their own lives."And, remarkably, it includes the blurb from Jones. Haymarket tells us he had this to say: "A romantic ode to the art of graffiti and the act of tagging, a piece that demystifies authorial signatures and charts the storied history of graffiti art in Chicago, shouting out its great artists and their canvases, from Kennedy underpasses to CTA train yards."When the reviews were originally written, Jones and Weiss both caught it from readers. They'd stirred up what American Theatre called a "veritable firestorm of debate and discussion in the Windy City, with accusations of racism and elitism being hurled" against the two of them."I don't reject the notion that I have a limited view," Jones told's Chloe Riley. "Obviously, I am who I am." However, "If you ask me what's personally difficult, it's to be called a racist, as I was, and to be called an idiot."The Haymarket Books blurb has the effect of telling Jones the name-calling is ancient history. The price Jones pays for this courtesy—if you want to call it a price—is to be quoted out of context. I wondered if he minded."Blurbs are promotional and I am at peace with that," Jones told me, in an e-mail shrugging off the question. "This always was a mixed review; not true of Hedy's very negative review, and she is entitled to her view. That said, in the ensuing reaction, it generally was argued we were one and the same. I doubt many people read my whole review. Ironic perhaps that it should be used in this way!"What then, was Weiss's reaction to finding herself once again playing Bad Hedy, contrarian to the world? "I am perfectly fine with it!" she answered. Her e-mail to me went on:As for Haymarket Books, I asked publicist Jim Plank why they'd used what they'd used from Jones, and he replied, "We think the quote is a good description of what the play is about." As for turning Jones's critique into a cheer, Plank told me, "We really don't see an issue here."The issue I'm certain of is misrepresentation. And it's not a big issue—as the alchemy of turning criticism into puffery is as old as the poster, the marquee, and the cynic. It's a low art, though, properly derided.
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The foam-resin footwear returns.
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Five Riot Fest emo acts—Thursday, Tigers Jaw, the Anniversary, Balance & Composure, and Underoath—talk about how the genre's reputation has evolved along with its sound.
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Geoff Rickly fronts the band Thursday at Soundwave 2012 in Sydney, Australia.
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Emo has been around long enough to have shed its skin a few times—the melodic, cathartic strain of posthardcore first blossomed in 1985, and it's continued to evolve since its mainstream breakthrough in the 2000s. Genre-blending Kansas rock band the Anniversary got saddled with the term in the late 90s and early 2000s, at which time guitarist and vocalist Josh Berwanger was a little insulted by it. But the stigma he was responding to has largely dissolved. "When you ask one person who's maybe ten years younger than me about emo, they think emo is this whole other genre of music," he says. As the genre has undergone its sea changes, subsequent generations have come to see the word "emo" in different ways. The Anniversary reunited earlier this year, and they're among many 2016 Riot Fest acts to have influenced the definition of emo. I spoke with a handful of those artists to get a better sense of how emo, its sound, and its reputation have changed over the decades. Below are edited excerpts of my conversations with Berwanger, Geoff Rickly (who fronts reunited New Jersey posthardcore band Thursday), Brianna Collins (who sings and plays keys in Pennsylvania indie-rock group Tigers Jaw, part of emo's recent fourth wave), Jon Simmons (who fronts Pennsylvania fourth-wave outfit Balance & Composure), and Timothy McTague (who plays guitar in reunited Florida screamo crew Underoath). Geoff Rickly of Thursday
I had heard of post hardcore first—I was into Quicksand and Fugazi in high school. My first trip to college at Rutgers, when I was 17 or so, I heard people calling some of the stuff I already liked "emo." I thought it was really funny they were calling it that—they thought it was kind of funny too—but then they played me some more overtly emo bands like the Promise Ring, and I kind of got what they meant. There were touchstones of what I thought of at the time as indie rock showing up in it. In general the singers' voices were more plaintive, more sincere, earnest, and whiny. All these things can sound quite derogatory, but they were skirting this fine line of "should be annoying but is sort of touching," because it was so fresh, so sincere, and new. It didn't feel like a commodity yet. I saw some bands like Saves the Day and the Get Up Kids getting a lot bigger. In my mind that's not what we were doing at all. We were very much a part of—to me—a posthardcore tradition. I was really into bands like Orchid and a lot of bands that would play in my basement—like, Planes Mistaken for Stars or Milemarker. I thought we were sort of this heavier thing, what I would call melodic hardcore. Even our name, Thursday, was a sort of plain, anonymous name. A long name was, to me, a hallmark of an emo band. Later on, when all emo bands had days of the week in the titles, that was a hallmark, and I think we're probably a part of it becoming that way. That commodification of the emo thing—turning emo into the next wave of Hot Topic pop punk, the thing that I hated being associated with—that's sort of changed again. Now bands, critics, writers, and fans have had this critical reevaluation of emo with the whole revival. The bands that are coming up with the tag "emo" are actually complex, strange, and thoughtful, and to me that resonates a lot more deeply. To see bands like the Hotelier and stuff like that, it's great for me. I feel like that's something Thursday was a part of.
Tigers Jaw
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Brianna Collins of Tigers Jaw
My first introduction to the term was when I was 14. I was getting into Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and that wave of what was called "emo" at the time. It wasn't until I was a little older that I actually listened to the bands that were originally considered emo—the Promise Ring and other bands like that. As I got older, I think the music I tended to gravitate toward more was in the original vein of emo. I still feel like I'm a novice as far as what is and isn't—obviously the music that I was listening to that was called "emo" was very different than Rainer Maria. Lately Tigers Jaw has been included in this wave of new emo, which I think is really funny too. When I was in high school, you'd get made fun of—"Oh, you're so emo." My older brothers used to call me that. I don't think it's a negative thing so much anymore. Charmer by Tigers Jaw Any type of label is just an easy way to describe a certain type or idea of music that you're into. Saying, like, "I like alternative music" versus saying "I like country music." But it's more specific than "alternative." It's cool for people to be able to say, "I love this new wave of emo music." It's interesting, 'cause I feel like the bands themselves aren't the ones that dictate these labels—it's put upon them. But if it's what people want to call it, I don't think it's a negative thing, especially because the music now that's being labeled as "emo" references the original emo music versus the 2004 emo. Which—hey, I still back it. I listen to Take This to Your Grave to this day. But it's definitely different.
Josh Berwanger of the Anniversary
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Josh Berwanger of the Anniversary
I've always listened to heavy metal and classic rock. [The Anniversary bassist] Jim David was telling me [emo] was more like Mineral and Sunny Day Real Estate, and I'd never listened to those bands. I was kind of insulted by the word at the time. I think the first interview I did after 2000's Designing a Nervous Breakdown came out—they said, "What's it like being emo?" I was like, "Well, I think it's kind of like calling someone a pussy, and we don't like being called pussies." We never liked being pigeonholed, and I think you can hear that in our music. So for one person to say, "Oh, they're emo"—I mean, you're like, "OK, I guess you're really narrow-minded if you think that's all this is." Recently, going back and relearning some of these songs, and knowing more of what the genre was and is, I can hear why people thought that. Also being part of the Vagrant label—all those bands were somewhat more in that emo category. I totally get it. How do I look at it now? It's like, what part of time do I look at it? Was I into that later stuff that was more mall punk? Most people would be like, "You guys aren't emo! Emo was like My Chemical Romance and this and that." And then you've got someone else saying, "Oh, you guys are totally emo, you're like that second wave," whatever the fuck that means. My opinion on it is, I just don't care. Whatever people want to call us, we've always just kinda said we're a rock 'n' roll band.
Jon Simmons of Balance & Composure in 2012
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Jon Simmons of Balance & Composure
I got my first Saves the Day CD when I was in sixth grade, and I listened to it for a whole year. When I got to middle school I was wearing a Saves the Day shirt and a kid on my bus was like, "Oh, you listen to emo too?" I didn't know what it was. I said, "I guess I do?" I stopped calling things by genres, but everyone considered us an emo band when we were starting out. I never was into labeling things for what they were. I think all music is emo technically—if it's got emotion in it, you can call it that. I just like heartfelt music and music that comes from the heart, and that's what resonates with people. The Things We Think We're Missing by Balance and Composure We're always gonna get called it because we tend to wear our hearts on our sleeves. I think we're the new emo, compared to the early 2000s—I think it's cool that kids are associating us with that. I think it's great how kids recognize the depth of our songs and our lyrics. They consider it emotional music, and I would agree with that. I never would have expected us to be called "emo" when I was growing up.
Timothy McTague of Underoath
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The Inconvenience's celebration of the body is back.
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The Anton Chekhov Book Club Returns Moving Dock follows up last year's compilation of Chekhov's short stories with this new set of seven. Using "From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man" as a framing device, a cast of four women bob between goofy vignettes like "A Work of Art" and richer, more nuanced romantic pieces like "A Joke." Director Dawn Arnold's reverence and affinity for the source material is clear, but the format—sort of a performance, sort of a staged reading—robs viewers of the stories' intimacy without doing much to heighten their power. —Dan Jakes
click to enlarge Simon Slater in Bloodshot , at Greenhouse Theater Center
, at Greenhouse Theater Center Courtesy Carol Fox & Associates
Bloodshot Derek Eveleigh, hard-drinking former crime scene photographer, is washed up until an envelope arrives in the mail containing money and instructions: trail and photograph a particular woman, and expect more money. He bites, falls for his subject—who ends up dead—and suddenly he's eyeballs deep in finding her killer. Douglas Post's one-man noir is tightly constructed, well written, and calcified, so dependent on the well-worn conventions of midcentury crime dramas it may as well be an unproduced episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. As Eveleigh, British import Simon Slater, star of Bloodshot's original 2011 London production, gives a precise, detailed, impassioned performance, but by the time he's played ukulele, saxophone, and done magic tricks—all before intermission—the evening feels more showcase than show. —Justin Hayford
click to enlarge John Michael's Dementia Me , at the Den
, at the Den Paul Clark
Dementia Me A solo show can live or die by the energy of its performer. Dementia Me is nothing if not a high-energy display, as John Michael Colgin (who goes by "John Michael" professionally) brings quasi-manic levels of eagerness and intensity to his tale of two years spent working for a Texas "memory care center"—a nursing home for seniors suffering from dementia. In his time there, he says, he was known as "Mr. Smiles," and it's clear that exuberance is important to him, not only as an actor, but as someone whose job it was to shepherd the aged through impairment, forgetfulness, and terminal illness with a reassuring smile. Dementia Me makes a desperate case for joy in all things—as a palliative to intense suffering, as a meaningful distraction that can help if not heal sickness, and as good theater. John Michael heartens without making light of his subject matter. —Max Maller
click to enlarge The Fly Honey Show VII, at the Chopin Theatre
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The Fly Honey Show VII Pregamers ought to consider Irish coffee before attending this annual late-night marathon of burlesque rapture, which parties on until around last call. Accompanied by a live rock band, a rotating, diverse cast of performers celebrate bodies and self-love in a punk-styled, socially progressive variety show. Interdisciplinary collective the Inconvenience has cultivated a sizable community of artists and audience members over time, and there's no question the show's gender politics preach to the choir, but that's one of its greatest values—in a year rife with disheartening stories, a little church does the mind and body some good. Emcee Mary Williamson is a razor-sharp firebrand when she yields a microphone, and this year's run has the added bonus of soaking up some of the magical juju of the Chopin's basement theater. —Dan Jakes
click to enlarge Light Opera Works' Mame
Mona Luan
Mame Songwriter Jerry Herman and playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 1966 musical—based on Lawrence and Lee's 1956 stage adaptation of Evanston-bred novelist Patrick Dennis's 1955 best seller—is an old-fashioned Broadway star vehicle. The actor playing the title character—a madcap Jazz Age socialite who finds new meaning in life when she becomes guardian of her orphaned nephew Patrick—must be a glamorous clotheshorse who can sing and dance up a storm. She must also be able to make lightning-fast emotional shifts, from screwball giddiness to pathos to crackling anger, as Auntie Mame fights to raise Patrick as a freethinker rather than a prep-school conformist. The leading lady of Light Opera Works's 50th-anniversary revival of the show, belter Nancy Hays, looks good and sounds great, but under Rudy Hogenmiller's by-the-numbers direction she's dramatically bland; her battle for Patrick's soul lacks any urgency. The result is a disappointingly conventional take on a wonderfully unconventional character. Kudos, however, to choreographer Clayton Cross and his high-stepping kicklines and cakewalks. —Albert Williams
click to enlarge Walkabout Theater's Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade
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Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade On the one hand, this bilingual Walkabout Theater show is performed outdoors, in parks, and that can be very pleasant. A beautiful moon hung in a clear sky the evening I attended. On the other hand, pretty much everything that happened under that moon was an amiable mess. Based on a Mayan creation myth, Tall Girl follows the cosmic troubles that ensue when the daughter of the Sun and Moon falls for the son of the Ocean and Hurricane. Director Thom Pasculli approaches it as neo-Redmoonian spectacle, with stilt walking, puppets, and implacable whimsy. But little seems to have been thought all the way through. Subsidiary characters are poorly differentiated. The choreography is vague. Aesthetic rules change arbitrarily. And why would Pasculli time the show so that the all-important final image comes after dark, when, thanks to a lack of man-made illumination, it's hard to see?
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Cecil Adams soaks up the origin story of adult incontinence products.
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Also, a call to bring back CeaseFire with $3 million in state funding.
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Jason Van Dyke, right, and his father, Owen, at a hearing at Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago
Welcome to the Reader's morning briefing for Wednesday, August 31, 2016.
Weather: Cooler without much humidity
It will cool down significantly Wednesday, with a high of 77 and a low of 66. There's a chance of a thunderstorm in the morning, and the humidity will fade by the afternoon. [AccuWeather]
CPD files charges to fire Jason Van Dyke and other cops involved in Laquan McDonald shooting
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and four other cops who gave reports about the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald that didn't match the video of the shooting could be fired by the Chicago Police Board. Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson filed administrative charges asking that the five officers be dismissed over the incident. Van Dyke is facing first-degree murder charges for McDonald's 2014 death. [Tribune]
Anti-violence activists ask for state funding to bring back CeaseFire
Former members of the anti-violence group CeaseFire are calling for $3 million in state funding to bring back the program. The group trained former gang members to end arguments and disputes before the situation became violent. Its $4.7 million in state funding was frozen by Governor Bruce Rauner in 2015. The CeaseFire push comes during Chicago's violence surge, which has resulted in more homicides in 2016 than in New York City and Los Angeles combined. [DNAinfo Chicago] [BBC News]
Rahm promises that food trucks will have to follow the rules
After an investigative report by the Sun-Times and ABC7 Chicago found food trucks regularly breaking the rules laid out in the city's food truck ordinance, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says all of the issues can be solved by a crackdown on trucks violating the rules. The investigation found that trucks breaking rules on time limits and the established "mobile food vehicle stands." [Sun-Times]
Popular CPS principal and vocal Rahm critic resigns from Blaine Elementary
Blaine Elementary School principal Troy LaRaviere has resigned from his job after being placed on an unpaid suspension in the spring. The Chicago Principals and Administrators Association president was removed as principal of Blaine in April, and CPS started the process of firing him based on accusations that he denied. "The flimsy charges you've leveled against me—combined with the recent elevation of my school as the No. 1 neighborhood school in Chicago—makes it obvious that your actions against me have everything to do with politics and nothing to do with what's good for students and families," he wrote in an open letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel posted Tuesday. [DNAinfo Chicago]
83-year-old cockatoo Cookie passes away at Brookfield Zoo
The bird named the oldest living parrot by the Guinness World Records has passed away at the Brookfield Zoo. Cookie the Cockatoo was beloved by fans and was the last animal at the zoo from its original collection in 1934. [Tribune]
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A great idea for a summer-fest look sported by Brooke of Wishful Thinkin Clothing.
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Cutoff denim shorts for the cool urban girl
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Touche Amore’s new Stage Four combines furious energy with earnestness, curiosity, and introspection.
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On May 9, 2010, Touche Amore opened for Converge, Coalesce, and Black Breath at Bottom Lounge. Every band on the bill was repping an album released within the past year, several of them great—but the Burbank five-piece appeared most in awe of their circumstances, most grateful to be sharing the stage. Just nine months after dropping their 2009 debut, . . . To the Beat of a Dead Horse, Touche Amore were being courted by Converge hardcore honcho Jacob Bannon and his Deathwish Inc. label (with whom they'd release their next two records), and front man Jeremy Bolm was clearly stoked about it.
Throughout the band's set, Bolm paced the stage with the manic energy of a kid whose mind percolates and eyes widen at the sensory deluge of a carnival's light show, often grinning from ear to ear. And he wore his earnestness like a badge of honor, unafraid to look starry-eyed—exactly as he does on To the Beat. The album's quick-hit onslaught of raw, tattered guitar, swooping yet brawny rhythms, and scratchy, zealous yowls can elicit a powerful nostalgia on the very first spin, as though it's already been with you for ages—it seems to want to learn something rather than just yell at you about something. Touche Amore's melodic hardcore explores themes of vulnerability in its lyrics, skimming from emo and borrowing youth crew's sincerity and underdog mentality.
Bolm is at his most magnanimous and forgiving when he reflects on eras of life gone by. He dwells, he muses—and he accepts that no matter how great the pang, he's writing to study it, not to find a fix. This is an outlook for which hardcore has always yearned. Gorilla Biscuits, Lifetime, Modern Life Is War: long before Touche Amore, they were pros at combining hardcore's tough-guy, meat-and-potatoes songwriting with wistful melodies and lyrics about time flying by. Because damn it, tough guys need to feel too.
The title of Touche Amore's newest album, Stage Four (Epitaph), refers to the death of Bolm's mother, who succumbed to cancer in 2014 at age 69. Delicate and painful, it deals directly with his relationship to her—both in the past, when he took her for granted, and in the present, when he has to come to grips with her absence. And Bolm doesn't let himself off the hook for that apparent contradiction—he realizes that it can look like he only started caring when she was gone. On "Eight Seconds" he admits that he intentionally missed the call announcing her death, choosing to delay the inevitable by socializing at a show ("Made the call and stared at my feet / She passed away about an hour ago / While you were onstage living the dream"). On the the next song, "Palm Dreams," he provides insight into his mother's story—not his story without her—by wondering about the brave move she made to California decades ago ("What was it that brought you west / I assume but could only guess").
A self-prescribed character study, Stage Four is more polished and refined than any of Touche Amore's other records (it's their first for Epitaph), but Bolm's earnestness hasn't waned an ounce in the six years since that show at Bottom Lounge—he still seems full of wonderment that he gets to do this at all. If anything his curiosity has intensified, redirected into self-evaluation. That comes with age, no doubt, and often with tragedy—and it's made Touche Amore flag bearers for modern-day melodic hardcore. v
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Cook County's effort to bilk small music venues is like a plotline from Footloose.
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The town preacher in the movie Footloose tried to ban rock music and dancing—sound familiar?
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Cook County has become the fascist principal who tells the slacker rebel to cut his hair and get a job.
Pop quiz: Who uttered the following line—a Cook County official commenting on the legalities of a tax on small music venues booking rock, rap, and DJ shows, or Reverend Shaw frompreaching about a ban on loud music and dancing?"Even if this was not a law—which it is, I'm afraid—I would have a lot of difficulty endorsing an enterprise which is as fraught with genuine peril as I believe this one to be."You had to think about it for a second, didn't you?In the past week or so, Cook County officials have essentially transformed into cartoonish, mustache-twirling villains from a snobs-versus-slobs 80s movie. They're the functional equivalent of John Lithgow's self-righteous Pentecostal preacher character from the 1984 film Footloose , outlawing dancing and rock 'n' roll out of fear of the spiritual corruption of the youth. (Ironically, Kevin Bacon's character is from Chicago and is shocked at the town's conservatism.) They're the fun-hating suits and stiffs who want to turn beloved clubhouses into parking lots; the fascist principal who tells the iconoclasts to cut their hair and get jobs; the priggish cultural elitist sneering at the music that "kids these days" love while huffily insisting something like Beethoven is "real art."At least that's what I gathered after reading the news the Reader broke about how the county is trying to strong-arm small music venues into ponying up hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Its spurious claim is that clubs with a capacity of 750 or less that book rock, country, rap, and DJ shows have been cheating the county out of funds from a 3 percent county amusement tax because they're taking advantage of an exemption set aside for "live theatrical, live musical or other live cultural performances."In the county's view, only opera, ballet, symphony orchestras, and other so-called "fine arts" deserve a tax break. And by "fine," the county seems to imply arts events where white people of a certain age and income level politely clap while holding programs, where socialites go to rub elbows clad in expensive Italian fabric and tinkle gold-rimmed glasses at cocktail receptions. Venues that spell theater as "theatre," that have trustees and boards and big donors.The county is seeking to make the burden of the amusement tax fall instead on blue-collar bars and clubs that book . . . [] dreadfully lowbrow forms of music, especially venues that regularly book DJs. Because this is real-life Chicago in 2016, not an 80s comedy, there's no Ernest around to save camp, no Goonies with fistfuls of pirate treasure—just venues like the Empty Bottle, Beauty Bar, and Evil Olive employing a handful of lawyers to protect them from getting suddenly bilked by the government.Here's possibly the most surreal aspect of the whole ordeal: those lawyers will appear at a hearing scheduled for October 17 to reportedly present evidence and testimony from musicologists and working DJs in an attempt to convince the county of the cultural value of, say, house music. In effect, the county has put EDM on trial.County officials shouldn't need experts to attest to the cultural value of electronic music. All they have to do is look around Chicago. The record collection of the late, legendary Chicago DJ Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House, is on permanent display at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank. Knuckles has an honorary street dedicated to him, as does the seminal DJ squad the Hot Mix 5, whose individual members also have been recognized with honorary street designations. The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a David Bowie exhibition in 2014 and '15 and regularly hosts DJ performances at its afterhours events, and . . . hell, why do I even need to explain this?The truth is that Cook County isn't really interested in some kind of philosophical discussion about the nature of high art. It's acting as a tax collector, of course, not a cultural gatekeeper. It could try to extract funds from the opera, symphony, or moneyed fine-arts patrons with say, a financial transaction tax , but instead it decided to play the bully and shake down the little guys—the PBR-stained bars and divey dance clubs—for their lunch money.The county's villainy is absurd enough that you're forgiven if a certain 80s Twisted Sister refrain worms its way into your brain: "We're not going to take it! / No! We ain't gonna take it!"As much as I'd like this legal proceeding to end like an 80s music video or movie—an unlikely group of music-loving misfits rebelling against the fascist authority figure or banding together to organize a fund-raising concert—those who are opposed to the county's controversial stance are probably going to have to do this the hard way: by signing this petition that Chance the Rapper tweeted out last night, by writing and calling county commissioners, contacting Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle, and showing up to the October 17 meeting to give 'em hell (and maybe a Daft Punk album).
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Pundits jumped on the goalkeeper after she called the Swedish team that bested hers "a bunch of cowards."
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Did soccer player Hope Solo deserve all the criticism she got?
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Hope Solo
A journalist scolds an athlete at the risk of sounding like a schoolmarm. Or do I mean an idiot?That said, do I feel any sympathy for Hope Solo, the U.S. women's soccer team goalkeeper recently criticized for calling the Swedish team a "bunch of cowards"?Well no, not exactly—but a case can be made that she served her teammates well after the favored Americans lost on penalty kicks to Sweden in the recent Olympics. It's only fair to Solo that someone make this case, and as everybody else has been tied up with calling Solo a disgrace to her American uniform, I'll take a try.Pundits jumped on Solo and defended Sweden; I particularly enjoyed the nun-with-yardstick reaction of Nancy Armour of. "This was a win-or-go-home game in the Olympics," Armour reminded Solo, and all of us. "You do what you need to survive and you don't owe any apologies."Armour lowered the boom. "Hope Solo is a distraction U.S. Soccer can no longer afford. . ." her lecture began. "Solo has embarrassed her team and the country she represents one time too many." Armour didn't explain who Solo was distracting, or what she was distracting them from, or why this was a horrible thing to do, but whatever. It's always safe to call someone who annoys you a distraction.In her indignation, Armour sometimes lost her grip on her argument. With the U.S. on the brink of defeat, but one last penalty kick to stop, "Solo decided to open up her bag of tricks," Armour wrote . Putting it that way cast Solo in a lurid light—America's stand-up representatives don't resort to trick bags. "With Lisa Dahlkvist standing at the spot, Solo motioned for new gloves and made a show of taking her old ones off and putting the new ones on." But it didn't work. Dahlkvist "buried her shot."So here was Armour praising the Swedes for doing what they needed to do to survive, and putting Solo in her place for doing the same thing. Armour gave Solo a piece of her mind. "Rather than griping and whining about [the Swedish strategy], take it like a compliment and find a way to break it down," Armour lectured. "But graciousness and decorum have never been Solo’s strong suit."We might have to unpack this a little to appreciate how fast and loose Armour was playing with the time-space continuum. The griping and whining by Solo came after the game. Finding a way to break down the Swedish defense would have involved Solo's coach and teammates once the game began. And graciousness and decorum had nothing to do with the game whatsoever.And it's worth stressing the point that solving the Swedish defense was the responsibility of coach Jill Ellis and everyone else on the American teamSolo. They failed. Yet when the game was lost, nobody paid attention to any of them. No one was held responsible for anything but Solo for her loose tongue, and on Wednesday she was suspended from the national team for six months.Yes, Solo was a distraction—but perhaps a distraction helpful to her team, not a burden on it. The U.S. lost and she took the heat. But ambiguities rarely get in the way of a seasoned finger-wagger.
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Judge Gary S. Feinerman decrees that a disputed artwork was not created by the renowned painter.
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'76, Pete Doige
1976 acrylic painting by Pete Doige
After seven days of testimony and a week's breather from a trial as surreal as the artwork at its center, international art star Peter Doig has won a resounding victory.A U.S. district court judge ruled on Tuesday that Doig did not paint the desert landscape a former corrections officer claimed to have purchased from him 40 years ago for $100 (after watching him create it in a Canadian prison).Judge Gary S. Feinerman found in favor of Doig on both counts of a $7.9 million civil lawsuit brought by the corrections officer, Robert Fletcher, and Chicago gallerist Peter Bartlow.The lawsuit alleged that Doig had interfered with Fletcher and Bartlow's "economic advantage" by refusing to own up to the painting. They sought costs, damages of $7.9 million, and the right to sell the painting as a Doig work.According to expert testimony during the trial, if Doig said he had painted the work then it could be sold for somewhere in the range of $6 million to $8 million. Last year a larger Doig work went for $25.9 million.Doig denied all along that he had created the painting.Though courtroom attendance was sparse, the trial attracted attention in the art world. Authentication of a work of art can be a puzzle for experts if the purported artist is dead. Prior to this case, however, if the artist was still alive, it was usually a pretty simple matter. All you had to do was ask. If he or she said "no," end of the story.But Doig said "no" to Bartlow four years ago (and many times since), and now a judge was deciding. It looked like the case could set a precedent that would rob any artist of control over his or her own oeuvre, and open the way for other lawsuits over disowned or imposter art.And this "imposter" wasn't particularly convincing.The painting Fletcher bought is an eerily realistic, delicately detailed southwestern scene: an expanse of dry brown earth with sky, mountains, red rocks, and green saguaro. It looks more like a Dali´ than a Doig, whose work is typically looser, starker, flatter, more abstract, and darkly expressive.And then there was the matter of the signature:. With an "e" on the end.Bartlow—who didn't know Doig's work before Fletcher contacted him—not only found similarities between the desert scene and Doig's acknowledged paintings but argued that this one provides a seminal pattern that the artist used repeatedly ever after.To prove this, he invented what Doig's lawyers derisively labeled the "Bartlow Method." It consists of superimposing a transparency of known Doig works over the desert scene, turning it one way or another to reveal that a shape here or line there matches up in approximate form and placement.During a blistering cross-examination by Doig attorney Tibor Nagy (one member of Doig's sizable defense team from the New York firm of Dontzin, Nagy & Fleeing working with Chicago's Agrawal Evans), Bartlow attempted to show, for example, that a cactus edge in the disputed painting was used to make the line of a human arm in one Doig painting, while a faint U-shaped stain around a lion's paw in the background of another Doig work had been lifted from the bank of a watering hole in the foreground of the desert scene.In both instances, Nagy was able to produce much more convincing sources: actual photos of a human and a lion Doig had projected onto his canvas. To top it off, Nagy demonstrated that he could get a match between the disputed painting and theor a Magritte.Nagy took Bartlow to task for everything from touching the painting with his bare hands and transporting it to court in a cardboard box to sending threatening e-mails to Doig's father and borrowing $50,000 from a widow to pursue this case. (The widow, who was in the courtroom to monitor the proceedings every day, turned out to be a former corporate executive who's made a standing offer of $100,000 to buy the painting, no matter the outcome of the trial.)The defense's art expert, University of Texas professor Richard Shiff, who has written extensively about Doig, testified that Bartlow's methods are "entirely unreliable," and that "Mr. Doig did not paint the disputed work."Doig himself, bald, with deep-set eyes, testified that he'd never been in the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre where the painting was made, nor in any prison, though he'd once been arrested for stealing a sweater in London, when he was broke and cold. He kept a surface calm through some testy moments with the plaintiffs' solo attorney, William Zeiske, who wielded his deep, resonant voice like a weapon.Doig said it would be despicable to put his name on another, and less fortunate, artist's work; he felt threatened and bullied but was "not going to create my own forgery." His mom testified that at the time Fletcher saw the painting taking shape in Thunder Bay prison, her son was a teenager, living at home in Toronto.The defense also produced the sister and the onetime live-in girlfriend of a man named Peter Doige, who died in 2012. They said he painted, attended college in Thunder Bay in the 1970s, had an alcohol problem, and told each of them he'd done time in prison. They both said the painting looked like his work, and the sister, Marilyn Bovard, wept. Another defense witness, Ernie Adams, testified that he was the Correctional Centre art teacher in 1976, and that he recognized the desert painting. It was made by one of his inmate students, a young man named Pete Doige, and not the Peter Doig who was present in the courtroom.In a surprisingly personal closing statement, Zeiske said he took this case because his mother was an artist and he understands the artistic temperament. He argued that the records for Pete Doige are confusing, evidence had been cherry-picked and, in response to a question from the judge, that even if Doig were found not to have made the painting, his strident interference with the plaintiffs' attempt to sell it should still entitle them to damages.Nagy closed by saying Peter Doig's motive in denying this painting "is very simple: he didn't paint the work."The judge agreed: the evidence, he said, was "clear and convincing."
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Mike Sula reviews the new Logan Square Nepali spot.
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There's nothing so discouraging as a dumpling that falls apart. A dumpling is like a nicely wrapped gift, bearing not only its filling, but the pleasures of anticipation, suspense, and ultimate gratification. When a wrapper shreds at the touch of a chopstick, or sticks to the bottom of the steamer until it rips apart, a little piece of my soul dies.
That's why after a couple visits to Logan Square's Nepali Chiya Chai Cafe, I was left an empty, glassy-eyed shell of a being. Five varieties of momo are available, and each one looks structurally sound: neatly, evenly pleated wrappers that conform to the shape of the filling inside. The flavors are, for the most part, delicious: gingery, spicy ground bison, dill-forward lamb, ground pork ever so slightly sweetened by red onion. The only one I have any complaints about is the sloppy, bland all-vegetable version, which tastes like something pulled out of The Moosewood Cookbook for Geriatrics. But the real downside is the wrappers. Nearly every dumpling I moved toward my mouth ruptured, spilling its contents onto the plate, and necessitating remediation by spoon.
Fortunately Chiya Chai has a lot more going for it than momo. Its whole reason for being is masala chai, the milky spiced-tea potion that originated in northeastern India and slowly spread through the machinations of the British East India Company. The Shrestha family that opened the spot in a bright airy space back in June has been importing tea from Nepal since the 70s, and they're presenting an almost dizzying variety of ways to drink it. There are three base teas—black, green, and rooibos—to be blended with a choice of whole, skim, almond, or coconut milk, and then different chai blends, from the relatively traditional masala, redolent of warming spices, and spicy masala, tasting of gingersnap, to more intercontinental experiments, such as dark chocolate-spearmint and caramel-sea salt, to mixes like fresh turmeric curry and black cardamom with purported Ayurvedic applications. Those can be balanced by spiking the chai with your choice of booze, or they can be ordered iced, though don't make the mistake I did and request that with the salty pink Himalayan with almond butter. The ice doesn't allow the almond butter to disperse, so it just settles to the bottom of the cup like mud.
Apart from the momo, there's an impressively varied food menu, beginning with British-style savory pies with subcontinental fillings like chicken curry and spicy minced pork. The crust on these, while not rivaling the buttery goodness of a Pleasant House pie, is nonetheless flaky and rich, a worthy delivery vehicle.
Four curries are on offer, from an assertive vegetable jalfrezi to a mild pork vindaloo, and there's an assortment of small plates and sides, including fries (thick, hand cut, and undercooked) smothered in curry sauce and a complex raita with black mustard seeds and tart green apple slices. But the most visually arresting and irresistible item on the menu is the chiya chile potatoes, a chunk of honey-glazed spuds crusty with crushed red chile flakes. It's just the thing to pair with a cuppa black pepper-clove. v
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Popular biking corridors like Milwaukee Avenue have turned into dangerous places to ride.
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Unsafe construction zones and trashed bike lanes are endangering cyclists
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