Posts Tagged ‘Society’

Vanderbilt policy causing 11 Christian student groups to leave campus

by Jack Minor – A coalition of 11 Christian student groups are being forced to leave campus at Vanderbilt University over policy requiring them to open their leadership up to atheists, homosexuals and any other group even if they are antithetical to the group’s mission. The campus groups, who call themselves Vanderbilt Solidarity,  have joined [...]

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School rejected faith-based student’s community service

Said only secular service allowed by Peter Grady – The Alliance Defense Fund is helping an honor student in Alexandria, Virginia after she was denied community service credit because her volunteering was faith-based rather than secular in nature. Matt Sharp, litigation counsel with the ADF, says his client, 17-year-old Sarah Stites, is claiming discrimination because [...]

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Five D.C. prosecutors go after abortion protestor for passing out literature

DOJ claims Ken Scott doesn’t have Fifth Amendment rights against self-incriminationby Jack Minor –   An abortion protestor is Colorado that is being prosecuted for passing out flyers outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver, has received legal help from a law firm that specializes in pro-life cases.   Kenneth Scott has been defending [...]

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Point of Grace to perform at UCCC

“Home For The Holidays Tour” is family friendly and will help provide scriptures for soldiers           Staff Reports Multi-platinum selling trio, Point of Grace will be performing at the Union Colony Civic Center on December 17th  as a part of their Home For The Holiday’s Tour.  Since forming at Ouachita Baptist [...]

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Hotel allows terrorist supporter to speak, cancels conferences critical of Islam

    by Jack Minor –   Protesters assembled outside a Hotel in Anaheim after it permitted the Council on American Islamic Relations to hold a banquet with an anti-American guest speaker who has called for the replacement of our constitutional form of government with one based in Islamic law.   Dr. Gary Gass, founder [...]

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Great American Smokeout – Thursday, Nov. 17th

Staff Reports – Weld County – This year the community will join together to celebrate the Great American Smokeout on Thursday November 17, 2011.  Millions of people make the pledge to quit tobacco every year during the Great American Smokeout, and it can be the first step to successfully quit tobacco for good. The Great [...]

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Pedophiles want same rights as homosexuals

Claim unfair to be stigmatized for sexual orientation by Jack Minor – Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals. Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became [...]

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Richard “Rick” Phil Futch

August 22, 1962 ~ June 4, 2011 Rick Futch, age 48, passed away on June 4, 2011. He was born August 22, 1962 to Nyrene (Eby) and Phil Futch in Sterling. He attended school in Sterling. He moved to Greeley in the early 1990’s and in 1998, he married Debra Cashatt Bowman. Rick worked in [...]

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Helene Marcia Fast Faulconer

Helene Marcia Fast Faulconer passed away June 12, 2011 at the age of 70.     “Honey,” as she was known by all her loved ones and friends, was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey March 28, 1941. She spent the majority of her childhood in San Francisco and still considers it her home. Honey [...]

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Lester O’Neil Ebersole

  July 24, 1922 ~ April 11, 2011   Lester O’Neil Ebersole, son of Roy A. and Bessie (Brenneman) Ebersole, was born in Tuleta, Texas on July 24, 1922.  He grew up in Elkhart, Indiana, and graduated from Elkhart High School in 1940.  After working a year, he attended Goshen College for one year.  Because [...]

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Mary Elizabeth Thurston Bothel

Mary Elizabeth Thurston Bothel, 82, of Greeley, Colorado, passed away on February 2nd, 2011 at Bonell Good Samaritan Society. Betty was born on September 4, 1928, at home on the family farm in Knoxville, Iowa, to Charles F. and Mary Elizabeth (Wren) Caffrey.  She married Ira Thurston of Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, the love of [...]

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Animal hoarding not only form of abuse

Local vet helps keep animals safeby Vanessa Dominguez Many animals are abused or neglected. They may live in the home next to you, the home up the road, or across the street. Regardless of their location, these animals need help and their owners need to be reported. In Evans, at PETS Emergency Clinic on 23rd [...]

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William Stanley Nelson

May 1, 1921 ~ December 31, 2010 William Stanley Nelson formerly of Ault, died Friday, December 31, 2010 at Bonell Good Samaritan Center in Greeley.  He was born on May 1, 1921 to William Arthur and Kathryn (Smith) Nelson in Greeley. William attended school in Gooding, Idaho; Greeley, Milliken, Pierce and a one-room school house [...]

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Birders Flocking to Holiday Count

DOW Insider Report By Mike Bauman Courtesy DOW Colorado children are not the only ones looking forward to the holiday season. Birders across the state are gearing up for two of the high points of the birding year; the Christmas Bird Count and the Midwinter Waterfowl Survey. Thousands of people across the Western Hemisphere participate in the [...]

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Lawrence Howard Finn, Sr.

Lawrence Howard Finn, Sr. May 13, 1923 ~ November 6, 2010 Lawrence Howard Finn, Sr., 87, of Greeley died Saturday, November 6, 2010 at North Colorado Medical Center.  He was born May 13, 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland to Herbert and Lydia (Mueller) Finn.  He graduated from the University of Maryland with a mechanical engineering degree. Lawrence served [...]

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Volunteers celebrated and recognized

by Vanessa DominguezCity council members were invited to attend Civic Pride at Fox Run Senior Living and the Good Samaritan Society Bonell Community. Civic Pride is designed to investigate the positive impact that volunteerism has on volunteers, the people they serve, and the community at large. It was designed to celebrate and recognize individuals and [...]

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Jim Riesberg, Local Businessman, Volunteer, State Representative

Rep. Jim Riesberg meets with a local constituent at a town hall Story and Photo By Jack Minor On Friday, August 27, the Greeley Gazette will host a debate between the two candidates for Colorado State House District 50. The debate will be held at the Farr Library at 6 p.m. and will focus on [...]

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Leland Wayne Carlson

Leland Wayne Carlson,  (Lee) 76, of Eaton, CO, entered his eternal home in Heaven, to be with his Lord and Savior, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010, after a short courageous battle with melanoma while at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. He was born Oct. 7, 1933, on the home place to Albin B. Carlson [...]

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Marjorie Lynne Knight

Born January 19,1952 in Tucson, AZ.  Died July 19, 2010 in Aurora, CO after a courageous battle with cancer.  Employee of State of Colorado. Member of Simchat Torah Beit Midrash.  Survived by daughters Angela & Brenda Delgado, grandson Josiah Delgado, of Aurora.  Sisters and brothers-in-law Carol & John Edmonds of Downey, CA, Beverly & Ross [...]

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Square Dancers participated last Friday during the Relay for Life

Over 100 square dancers participated last Friday during the Relay for Life event at the Island Grove Pavilion. $745  was raised to donate to the American Cancer Society from the event. Share on Facebook

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Carrie E. Keefer

Carrie E. Keefer  Carrie Elizabeth “Bette” Keefer, 96, of Windsor, CO died May 23, 2010 at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO.  She was born on April 21, 1914 in Shippensburg, PA to Willis and Carrie (Shumberger). Hershey.  She was raised in PA.  In 1965 Bette married Joseph Keefer in Frederick, MD.  Bette [...]

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RESPECT: THE MISSING INGREDIENT

By Carol Clemans Respect is missing from our society today.  Respect is absent for the life of the unwanted child in the womb. The innocent baby is conceived in the inner chambers of its mother’s womb that should be the safest place in the world. Then someone decides it’s unwanted and allows that baby to [...]

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Bark for Life!

You’ve heard of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, right? This Saturday, April 24th, the Weld County chapter of the American Cancer Society will be hosting a fundraising event called “Bark for Life!” This one mile walk/run will help to raise funds for the Weld County Relay for Life which is scheduled for June [...]

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Big Dog, Little Dog

by Rish Burkholder, for The Greeley Gazette As a follow up to our story “What if my dog gets picked up by Animal Control”, we want to tell you one of the success stories of a dog adopted from the Humane Society of Weld County. Miranda, as the shelter staff called her, had come in [...]

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