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A native of Buenos Aries, Argentina, Barroetavena started with four consecutive wins at the No. 3 singles position. He posted straight-set wins over Paul Schuette of Georgia Tech and Artem Tarasov of Tennessee Tech before pulling out a three-set victory (4-6, 6-3, 6-4) over Belmont's Fernando Mussolini.
Barroetavena moved up to the top singles spot against North Alabama and topped UNA's Matt Feury, 6-0, 6-3. The senior picked up two wins at No. 2 singles over the weekend with victories over Austin Peay's Jasmin Ademovic (6-4, 5-7, 6-4) and Murray State's Tyler Jeffers (6-1, 6-2).
The Steve Baras Memorial Scholarship recipient has either clinched the match point for the Mocs, or been the first to finish a singles match in each of UTC's seven matches.
Barroetavana has paired with fellow senior Jackson Tresnan (Apopka, Fla.) in doubles play. The duo has opened the year 4-1, including a 3-0 mark at No. 2 doubles.
The Mocs are back home next weekend, hosting Lee University at the Champions Club on Saturday, Feb. 16. First serve is set for Noon and a link for live scoring is available on the men's tennis schedule page on GoMocs.com.


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In a Change of Watch ceremony, Mr. Paul Berka, of Johns Island was named Commander and Mr. Dwaine Harris, of Summerville was named Vice Commander of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 12-8 serving the Charleston area.
The ceremony was held at the Radisson Hotel in North Charleston on Dec. 8. There were 46 in attendance who witnessed Mr. Paul Thomas, former Flotilla Commander handing over the USCG Aux 12-8 Flotilla ensign to Mr. Paul Berka the new commander.
Mr. Paul Berka, Flotilla Commander, along with Mr. Dwaine Harris, Flotilla Vice Commander, then swore in the 2013 Flotilla Staff Officers:
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Friday Night Lights; Offensive fireworks, PAC-6 'title' on tap tonight?
Conference football season is in full swing and the two biggest games in the spotlight Friday will be Hillside at Riverside (7 p.m.) in the PAC-6 4-A and Northwood at Southern (7 p.m.) in the Big Eight 3-A Conference.
The showcase game of the night, especially for fans of offense, might well be Northwood (6-1, 2-1 Big Eight) at Southern (5-2, 3-0 Big Eight). Both teams have the ability to run and throw and have the playmakers on offense to explode any time they touch the ball.
At quarterback, Northwood's Ti Pinnix has thrown for 1,951 yards and 20 TDs while completing 60 percent of his passes (163-271). Southern's Kendall Hinton has very similar numbers (89-137, 1,583 yards) while completing 65 percent of his throws for 14 scores.
But Hinton has the edge on the ground. He's the Spartans' second-leading rusher with 34 carries for 455 yards and five touchdowns. William Cameron (41-503, 7 TDs) is Southern's top rusher and Jordan Brown chips in 329 yards on 34 carries and five rushing scores.
On the edge and through the air, Southern looks to future N.C. State wideout Maurice Trowell who has 33 catches for 721 yards (21.85 per grab) and 10 touchdowns.
Southern actually rushes for more yardage than it gets through the air, 267 to 238 per game.
Northwood's mix is much more air-oriented — 334 to 119 per game on average — but backs Kadarus Rone (62-346, 5 TDs) and Montel Goods (52-257, 4 TDs) came move it on the ground.
Big-play threat Jalen Smith has caught 55 of Pinnix's passes for 845 yards (15.4 per grab) for 12 TDs and Rone's versatility has allowed him to catch 37 passes for 334 yards and four scores.
For the season, Northwood is averaging 41.4 points a game on offense and allowing 22.9 per game on defense. Southern scores 46 points a game while giving up just over 25.
Don't let the records fool you. Both teams have had outstanding seasons.
Southern's losses have been to two of the state's top 4-A programs — undefeated and No. 4-ranked Scotland County and No. 32 Hillside. Northwood's only loss was to undefeated Big Eight power Orange, ranked No. 7 among the state's 3-A programs. Orange has not been challenged while outscoring its opponents 311-50 in its seven wins.
Southern coach Adrian Jones is aware of the challenge the Spartans will face.
"This is another tough conference game ...," Jones said. "We have to make sure we play a sound game and contain the QB (Pinnix) and WR (Smith). We have to do a much better job on special teams and defense."
Meanwhile, Hillside (4-2, 1-0 PAC-6) is the prohibitive PAC-6 favorite, but Riverside (5-2, 1-0 PAC-6) has had a remarkably surprising start that's marked the Pirates as Hillside's most serious title challenger.
Riverside has played head-and-shoulders better than fellow PAC-6 members Northern (1-6, 1-0 PAC-6), Person (2-5, 0-1 PAC-6), East Chapel Hill (1-6, 0-1 PAC-6) and Jordan (1-6, 0-1 PAC-6). Much of Riverside's success can be traced to the running of 5-4, 185-pound senior back Joel Evans, who's picked up 1,361 yards on the season.
However, Evans hasn't posted great numbers against top defensive teams, being held to 68 yards, for example, against Orange in a blowout loss.
The key to any hopes the Pirates have of actually taking Hillside down tonight will likely hinge on the team's ability to control the line of scrimmage and get Evans some running room against one of the tougher defenses around.
Riverside's reliance on the ground game could prompt Hillside to stack its defense against it, unless the Pirates can come up with a passing attack to diversify its offense.
Here's a look at tonight's other games involving area teams.
— East Chapel Hill (1-6, 0-1 PAC-6) at Northern (1-6, 1-0 PAC-6), 7 p.m. — This game could open the door for the winner to lay claim to third place in the PAC-6, which entails the league's final playoff berth. Unlikely as it seems, each program is very much in the running, although Northern has the edge based on its opening week win over Person that snapped a six-game losing streak, all against non-conference opponents. The game will be played on Northern's home field, Durham County Memorial Stadium.
— Jordan (1-6, 0-1 PAC-6) at Roxboro Person (2-5, 0-1 PAC-6), 7 p.m. — Any playoff aspirations either of these teams still hold depend almost entirely on the outcome of this game. It's unlikely the loser has a prayer of making the playoffs after an 0-2 start in a five-game conference season.
— Orange (7-0, 3-0 Big Eight) at Chapel Hill (3-4, 2-1 Big Eight) — To earn an eventual state playoff berth after a very shaky start, Chapel Hill has to upset a team or two down the stretch. That's not likely to happen against powerful Orange, who's numbers have been touched on above. With a defense that's second to very, very few — if any — and an offense that scores points in bunches, the visiting Panthers are an overwhelming favorite to win this one. Chapel Hill has also been bitten by the injury bug, losing its top two running backs last week in a tight win over hapless and winless Northern Vance.
— Oxford Webb (2-5, 0-3 Big Eight) at Cedar Ridge (0-7, 0-3), 7 p.m. — Webb's defense has allowed 100 fewer points than winless Cedar Ridge (216-316), but Cedar Ridge has scored 21 more than Webb (153-132). This is a chance for either team to pick up a win and in the tough Big Eight Conference, that might be all either one gets. Although Northern Vance (0-7, 0-3 Big Eight) remains on both schedules.
— South Granville (6-1, 1-0 Northern Carolina 2-A) at Southern Vance (2-5, 0-1 N.C. 2-A), 7:30 p.m. — South Granville holds down a top 10 ranking among 2-A schools by the Associated Press for a reason. The Vikings are outstanding. They have a solid quarterback in Matt McCutcheon who can take the heat off running back Sean Bowman if need be. Bowman, who has carried the ball 179 times for 1,529 yards and 12 touchdowns, rarely needs help. South Granville has outscored its opponents almost 2 to 1 on the year (304-157) and Southern Vance, a former 3-A program, has been outscored by almost 2 to 1 (114-198). It should be an easy South Granville win.
— Carrboro (4-3, 1-0 Mid-State 2-A) at Burlington Cummings (1-6, 0-1 Mid-State), 7 p.m. — Everything about this game screams Carrboro win, but after a 3-0 start this year and a runner-up finish in the state 2-A playoffs last year, the Jaguars lost star back Trai Sharp and star receiver/defensive back Marlin Johnson to injury. Three losses ensued before Carrboro pulled out a homecoming win last Friday. Even without Sharp and Johnson, Carrboro has the talent to fight its way to a victory tonight.
— Southeast Halifax (4-3, 0-1 Tar-Roanoke 1-A) at Granville Central (4-3, 1-0 Tar-Roanoke), 7:30 p.m. — These teams are remarkably similar except for their conference records. SE Halifax lost a 44-42 heartbreaker to tough Louisburg in its opener last week, while the Panthers were on the better end of a 16-8 conference opener. Granville Central has outscored its opponents 282-115 and Southeast Halifax holds a 244-188 scoring edge. The Panthers should be favored, but not by a lot, at least on paper.
— Kestrel Heights (1-6) at Newton Grove Hobbton (0-7), 7 p.m. — Kestrel Height's lone "win" came against a non-high school opponent two weeks ago when the Hawks played a team of home-schooled students and beat them 40-8. Toss out that result, since it wasn't against a sanctioned high school, and the Hawks are 0-6 and have been outscored 306-40. Hobbton might be winless, but they're a heavy favorite in this one. Still, for a program that has never beaten a traditional varsity opponent, this might be the best chance for a breakthrough for coach David Lloyd and the Hawks this season.


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Disappointing performanceFebruary 04,2013Even Democrats who support President Obamas choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, must have winced as the former Nebraska lawmaker a Republican appeared unable to respond with clarity and confidence to questions from his former GOP colleagues on the Senate Armed Forces Committee last week.
Hagels performance was in sharp contrast with the earlier Capitol Hill appearance by retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who, when challenged by critics, had mounted a stirring, spirited defense of her performance. She was on her way out of the Obama administration while Hagel was trying to find his way in, and that made a huge difference.
One observer, Peter Beinart of The Daily Beast, has advanced the theory that Hagels surprisingly inept performance was actually the result of coaching by White House staffers who had strongly advised him not to react in his normal way he has a reputation for having a short fuse to the grilling he was sure to endure at the hands of Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, James Inhofe and Ted Cruz.
The problem is that Hagel is quite compelling when hes mad, Beinart observed. I suspect thats part of why Obama chose him in the first place, because Obama is himself mad that he was pressured by the military brass and by congressional Republicans into sending more troops to the lost cause that is the Afghan War. And Obama wants someone to push back, hard, if Benjamin Netanyahu and his friends in the GOP try to pressure him the same way on Iran.
Whatever caused Hagel to appear unprepared for such an important confrontation, his performance was surely deeply disappointing to those who genuinely believe that the president needs a secretary of defense who has what it takes to stand up to the incredible pressures that are sure to come his way, especially at a time when our nations priorities are changing.
It is widely understood, for example, that Pentagon spending has to be reined in, and it is unlikely the generals will accept that without strong leadership from the secretary of defense.
But there are two things to understand about the Hagel nomination: First, despite his lackluster performance on Capitol Hill last week, he is almost certain to be confirmed. Second, as poor an impression as he may have made, the tone and nature of the questions thrown at him by his critics on the committee made them Hagels critics look more like immature schoolyard bullies rather than statesmen.
It was especially irksome to see McCain treat Hagel so rudely because when he ran for president in 2008, McCain said hed appoint Hagel secretary of defense. They were once close friends.
There are enough (55) Democrats in the Senate to almost guarantee that, barring an unlikely Republican filibuster, Hagel will indeed become the next secretary of defense. Two Republican senators, Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mike Johanns of Nebraska, have already declared their support for the appointment.
However, there are well-financed outside groups vigorously opposing the nomination for their own reasons and there will be great pressure exerted on senators by organizations such as The American Future Fund. Among their targets will be Democratic senators who face re-election in 2014, so look for an abundance of articulate anti-Hagel commercials on television between now and the vote on confirmation.
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Dominic Preziosi September 23, 2013 - 4:06pm
Now on the website, Commonweal's editors on what the pope's interview reveals:
[M]uch attention has been paid to the pope's surprising admonition that the church has been too "obsessed" with abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage. As welcome as that observation is, however, the real importance of the interview is to be found in the pope's clear-eyed evaluation of how the gospel should be preached in the modern world.
To be sure, many Catholics whole-heartedly embraced the change in tone and spirit in which the pope discussed difficult questions like abortion. Unfortunately, some deeply involved in the prolife movement have taken those remarks as a rebuke. That is an overreaction and misinterpretation of what the pope said. Obviously, Francis was objecting to the uncompromising and confrontational rhetoric of some Catholic activists. Why? Because that approach is simply not working. Worse, it is preventing the larger gospel message from being heard both within and beyond the Catholic community. With a third of all baptized Catholics abandoning the church, while those who remain are increasingly divided on ecclesial, cultural, and political questions, the pope's diagnosis is hard to refute. Is it not time, as Francis urged, to "find a new balance" in presenting the church's teaching to an often doubting flock and a sometimes hostile secular world?
Elsewhere, the analysis continues. R.R. Reno in First Things:
By my reading, Pope Francis was being a bit naïve and undisciplined in parts of this interview, which although reviewed by him before publication has an impromptu quality I imagine he wished to retain. This encourages a distorted reading of what he has in mind for the Church. This is a problem related, perhaps, to his Jesuit identity.
A key passage involves his image—a very helpful one—of the Church as "a field hospital after battle." He observes that in such a circumstance we need to focus on healing as best we can. Some of the protocols and procedures fitting for a hospital operating in times of peace need to be set aside.
He then digresses into fairly extensive reflections on what the Church needs in the way of pastoral leadership in this situation: "pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials." We're not to allow ourselves to fixate on "small things, in small-minded rules." The Church needs to find "new roads," "new paths," and "to step outside itself," something that requires "audacity and courage."
These and other comments evoke assumptions that are very much favored by the Left, which is why the interview has been so warmly received, not only by the secular media, but also by Catholics who would like the Church to change her teachings on many issues.
At Room for Debate in the New York Times, Simone Campbell, Frances Kissling, Rod Dreher, Bill Donohue, and Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu offer their takes.
Campbell: "In 2012 U.S. Catholic sisters and my organization, Network, were criticized by the Vatican for not holding their narrow focus. Now we see that our pope knows that no one political party has control of the Gospel message." Dreher: "As a Christian who worries about the future of religious liberty in America, I find the pope's pastoral direction to his flock naïve and discouraging."
John P. Judis at The New Republic draws a connection from Francis to King Juan Carlos of Spain and current Iran president Hassan Rouhani. Short form: Assumptions that existing conservative positions will be continued or even harden under successors don't always pan out. Longer form:
What's the link here? At the risk of obscurity, I would cite the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel's conception of history as Spirit's journey toward Freedom. Of course, Hegel's conception of Spirit and Freedom may be a little different from ours, but it still makes some sense to call these different events in Spain, Rome, and Tehran part of Spirit's journey toward Freedom. And what's distinctive about each of them is that they were somewhat unexpected—especially by the critics of Franco, Papal conservatism, and Iran's mullahs—and that they were not imposed but happened—to use a term favored by Edmund Burke—organically. Yes, there were outside pressures in each case, but the pressures could have easily had the opposite effect, as predicted at the time.
Music critic Alex Ross is struck by, among other things, Francis's comments on Wagner:
If I'm not mistaken, Pope Francis is comparing "decadent Thomist commentaries" to Klingsor's magic garden — a seductive illusion covering a wasteland. Could the Pope's emergent philosophy of unadorned compassion have been influenced in some small way by Parsifal, that attempted renovation of religious thought through musical ritual? "Through pity, knowing"? "Redemption to the Redeemer"? Possibly, but there are limits to his aestheticism: "Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing." This is a remarkable man.
You'll also remember that Francis touched on Caravaggio in the interview, which seems a good reason to look back on our multi-author symposium on the artist, "A Message from Caravaggio," along with Robert P. Imbelli's "Tortured Genius: The Miracle of Caravaggio's Art."
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Reno seems to like the field hospital image but he says the Pope is 'naive', 'undisciplined' and 'digresses'
the field hospital idea maybe to Reno's liking so he might declare himself at the triage station, out side the field hospital, as being one who is too far gone for healing and thus refuse entry. . (-:
I am trying not to comment on everything everybody says about the interview, and Commonweal should try to do likewise. But... "a bit naive and undisciplined"? Fr. Sparado's opening to the interview explicitly makes nonsense of that reaction. If one doesn't like what Pope Francis said, one will have to do better than "naive and undisciplined."
And despite a long, long struggle with Parsifal in Cologne, I am inclined to agree with anything Alex Ross says because I read his book ( The Rest Is Noise ) and realized he must have been personally in attendance at every major musical event of the 20th Century, including the ones that happened before he was born.
If Pope Francis were naive it would be easy to figure him out, and, being such a simpleton, it would be easy to predict what he is likely to do. But what he is, is extraordinarily surprising.
I say that the most obvious thing about him is that he is a forgiving man, but closer acquaintance with him reveals a particularly complex person. Far from being a simpleton he's extremely intelligent and grasps both factual details and nuanced thinking based on broad and deep principles. Underestimate him at your peril, though he'll forgive you if you do :-)
Yes indeed, Ross's The Rest is Noise is a wonderful book, and his column in the New Yorker is the only one I read faithfully in every issue in which it appears. For my money, he's the best critic going. But I have yet to be converted to Parsifal. When I was about 15 or so, I accompanied my mother, a rather high Episcopalian, to see the opera (when the Met still played Philadelphia) in the Academy of Music, and she made a dismissive remark about not caring for the "fake religiosity" of the opera. No doubt she and I were and are both missing something, but I still think she was right, and watching part of yesterday's PBS broadcast of the Met performance did little to change my mind.
It's nice to know that Francis (rather like his predecessor) seems to put Mozart at the top of the heap, or at least very near the top.
In the published interview, Pope Francis describes himself as a bit naive, at least at times.
At times, a bit astute. At times, able to adapt to circumstances. At times, a bit naive.
Elsewhere in the interview, he describes himself as very undisciplined -- which is why he admired the discipline of the Jesuits and entered the Jesuit order.
So R. R. Reno is picking up on Pope Francis's own words to criticize the interview.
Being "a bit" naive at times doesn't qualify Pope Francis as a naive pontifs. If the cardinals had thought he was naive he never would have been elected pope.
Pope Francis did make the decision to appoint the advisory council of eight cardinals, but I think it important to note, as the Pope does in the interview with Father Spadaro, that the proposal for such a council came from the cardinals in their meetings before the conclave. A month after his election, Pope Francis acted on the cardinals' proposal.
The group will meet next week for three days. Whether it will continue to meet periodically and whether its membership will eventually be opened to non-cardinals is not clear.
A number of commentators thought that changes in the Curia would come only after the 1 to 3 October meeting. But, in fact, the Pope made a several major curial appointments last Saturday, including the re-confirmation of all of the present officials, members, and consultors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The speculation that Archbishop Gerhard Mueller (named prefect of CDF by Pope Benedict last year) would be re-placed proved to be wrong.
A number of changes or re-confirmations are still to be made.
I am enthusiastic about what Pope Francis has been emphasizing and what he has been doing. But isn't all this to-do about the inteview that he gave beginning to border on the nutty. He strikes me as a very serious man who is deeply compassionate and recognizes that the problems we Catholics face are substantial. He offers us a fresh conception of what is needed to let the Gospel message find a hearing today. Isn't that enough? At least for the moment?
This weekend at my parish, our retired monsignor in his homily noted that he'd been ordained for 47 years, quoted the first two sentences of Gaudium et spes as his inspiration for his priesthood, and said that he had been completely revivified by hearing Francis express the same vision of the church that he'd been inspired by so many years ago. He got an enthusiastic ovation.
Wasn't Rod Dreher a Roman Catholic for about five minutes? Amazing how the Times can only round up the usual suspects, even if their credentials are expired.
Rod Dreher was Catholic for seven years. The bishops' cover-ups enfuriated him and drove him to the Orthodox Church. He often seems nostaglic, though. (I follow his blog a bit -- some interesting conversations there between liberals and conservatives.)
One worry is that when Francis says let bishops handle questions of orthodoxy and let the CDF have just mediator role, this might license the zanier bishops to step up their excommunication schedule, as in Australia: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dissidents-preach-a-new-breed-of-catholicism-20120805-23nyg.html
But of course Greg Reynolds was excommunicated by Francis: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100237450/pope-francis-excommunicates-pro-gay-marriage-priest-hes-not-the-liberal-the-media-thinks/
Fr O'Leary, I agree that we need to see that what pope Francis does is consistent with his wonderful words of dialogue, openness and creativity.
However in this case the issue has been burning for a while, it is not clear how much pope Francis had to do with it, and "Archbishop Hart said Father Reynolds was excommunicated because after his priestly faculties were withdrawn he continued to celebrate the Eucharist publicly and preach contrary to the teachings of the church." I am all in favor of unbounded freedom of expression, but I draw the line at actions. A man who continues to celebrate the Eucharist after his faculties are withdrawn, who creates an association with an opening message stating "First was my growing conviction that the Institutional Catholic Church was wrong in its teaching on Women's Ordination and on Homosexuality. More recently I discerned a personal calling to minister to and with Catholic people who share these beliefs and have been longing for a community that celebrates the Catholic Eucharist in ways that support these beliefs," and who, if one is to believe the media (but I find that hard to believe), did not object to a man sharing communion with his dog, such a man is not in full communion with the church.
I am not ready to say that this is an example of excessive use of power by the CDF, nor to see the hand of pope Francis behind it.
"But of course Greg Reynolds was excommunicated by Francis"
How much do you think that Cardinal Pell had to do with this?
Good points. As with John XXIII the Curia is going to issue things without the pope's permission. With the pope we have to see an overall pattern before we can discern. This happened with John Paul II and Ratzinger. The pope was praying with other faiths in Assissi while Ratzinger was condemning it.
"Unfortunately, some deeply involved in the prolife movement have taken those remarks as a rebuke. That is an overreaction and misinterpretation of what the pope said."
Well, it was quite plainly a rebuke to somebody. If not those "deeply involved in the prolife movement," then to whom?
The Pope's critics on this are a definite group. They're the ones, like Bishop Tobin, who are "disappointed" that Francis hasn't said more about abortion, and say so publically to pressure him into doing so. They are the ones who censured the American sisters for PRECISELY the same attitudes that the Pope has now endorsed, namely -- putting abortion and gay marriage into perspective and attending first to the works of mercy.
"Obviously, Francis was objecting to the uncompromising and confrontational rhetoric of some Catholic activists. Why? Because that approach is simply not working."
Francis, the pragmatist? No. This misses the mark entirely. I don't think that in Francis's interview he is talking about changing tactics. It is about a long-range strategy. Taken in context of everything else he has said, about the times we live in, about the challenges, about the development of doctrine, about everything -- he is making strategic moves to change things in deeper ways than just a pragmatic shift in tactics.
That was the whole problem with the "new evangelization" -- oh, the tactics were going to be more welcoming and all that, but there really wasn't a new strategy, and people can see through this new varnish on the same old picture pretty fast.
"Obviously, Francis was objecting to the uncompromising and confrontational rhetoric of some Catholic activists."
One more comment on this. How could it possibly be that the Pope is fixed on merely some "rhetoric" of "activists"? This hypothesis lets off the hook the whole American episcopate, which has collectively summoned all the muscle it can to defeat President Obama's health care reform because of one detail concerning contraception.
One detail. As far as the bishops are concerned, all the health care that will be improved and made available because of that plan--care for the poor, for everybody--is rightly held hostage to one tiny provision about contraception.
All the money and effort expended on fighting this, the whole "religious freedom" crusade -- is this "the rhetoric of some Catholic activists"? No, it's the episcopate of the most wealthy and powerful country on the planet. That is who is being uncompromising and confrontational, and focussing all concern on one thing, to the exclusion of other things that arguably are closer to the core of the Christian message. And yes, this has gone way out of balance.
For all those conservative Catholic pundits - loosely defined - who are desperately trying to keep a straight face and stiff upper lip when pronouncing that recent statements of Francis are [completely consistent] with JP2 and B16, David Gibson is tweeting that Tom Reese, S.J. got canned as editor of America Magazine for publishing the very ideas that now come straight from the pope's mouth!
Go figure ... I guess: Jesuits rule!
"whole American episcopate, which has collectively summoned all the muscle it can to defeat President Obama's health care reform because of one detail concerning contraception."
They are not looking so good. I would love to be a fly on the wall of the USCCB meeting this November.
Step One: Disband the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty and use the money to subsidie the ministries of our American sisters.
Rita - did Bishop Tobin actually say out loud that he is disappointed in Pope Francis?
Here is a link to the interview that Bishop Tobin gave to the "RI Catholic".
If one thinks that at least in the later stages of gestation there is a human baby present, then defense of that child is indeed a compassionate act, an even more compassionate one than see that it has a lot to eat.
Unfortunately, Ann, those lawmakers and others who are so obsessed with being anti-abortion also seem to be the ones extremely obsessed with underfunding or even cancelling the SNAP program.
"Birth 'em and starve 'em" is compassionate?
Frank, thanks for that link. Interesting. (Actually, the interview as a whole isn't that interesting, but one or two things he said, including the "disappointed" remark, are interesting). It reads as though that particular remark wasn't elicited by the interviewer - Tobin sort of volunteered it on his own.
Probably of little concern to anyone here, but Pope Francis has changed our relationship with non-Catholic extended family members--which is all of them, actually--for the better. It's amazing how many teachings people outside the Church will take more seriously when those teachings are presented with friendliness and compassion, and when the Church is presented as a healer of human suffering rather than a judger of sins and rule-breaking.
I think Pope Frances exudes great joy. As my kid was watching one of his visits with crowds of people, he said, "He seems like he's at a party and is glad everyone showed up."
Meanwhile, Francis has appartnetly excommunicated an Australian priest for speaking up for same-sex marriage and women's ordination ... http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/church-dumps-rebel-priest-20130920-2u5... .... and those at First Things are happy this shows the pope didn't mean what many thought he meant about gays and women ... http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/09/23/francis-excomm...
The Pope's critics on this are a definite group. They're the ones, like Bishop Tobin, who are "disappointed" that Francis hasn't said more about abortion, and say so publically to pressure him into doing so. They are the ones who censured the American sisters for PRECISELY the same attitudes that the Pope has now endorsed, namely -- putting abortion and gay marriage into perspective and attending first to the works of mercy.
This is a useful comment inasmuch as it highlights why people who hope for fundamental change in church teaching are (sorry) doomed to have those those hopes crushed.
Here is the CDF's summary of what the LCWR is being charged with. I'll add some comments of my own below these three bullets.
- Addresses at the LCWR Assemblies. Addresses given during LCWR annual Assemblies manifest problematic statements and serious theological, even doctrinal errors. The Cardinal offered as an example specific passages of Sr. Laurie Brink's address about some Religious "moving beyond the Church" or even beyond Jesus. This is a challenge not only to core Catholic beliefs; such a rejection of faith is also a serious source of scandal and is incompatible with religious life. Such unacceptable positions routinely go unchallenged by the LCWR, which should provide resources for member Congregations to foster an ecclesial vision of religious life, thus helping to correct an erroneous vision of the Catholic faith as an important exercise of charity. Some might see in Sr. Brink's analysis a phenomenological snapshot of religious life today. But Pastors of the Church should also see in it a cry for help.
- Policies of Corporate Dissent. The Cardinal spoke of this issue in reference to letters the CDF received from "Leadership Teams" of various Congregations, among them LCWR Officers, protesting the Holy See's actions regarding the question of women's ordination and of a correct pastoral approach to ministry to homosexual persons, e.g. letters about New Ways Ministry's conferences. The terms of the letters suggest that these sisters collectively take a position not in agreement with the Church's teaching on human sexuality. It is a serious matter when these Leadership Teams are not providing effective leadership and example to their communities, but place themselves outside the Church's teaching.
- Radical Feminism. The Cardinal noted a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith in some of the programs and presentations sponsored by the LCWR, including theological interpretations that risk distorting faith in Jesus and his loving Father who sent his Son for the salvation of the world. Moreover, some commentaries on "patriarchy" distort the way in which Jesus has structured sacramental life in the Church; others even undermine the revealed doctrines of the Holy Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the inspiration of Sacred Scripture.
So here is my comment. To the extent this summary is accurate of what the LCWR talks about at its meetings and in its materials, the LCWR would seem to be making the very same error, in light of Francis' preferred positioning of church teachings, that the episcopate is accused of. In other words, allegedly like the US bishops, the LCWR is focusing on the same narrow band of hot-button issues - human sexuality, ordination of women, who is in and who is out of the church, and so on. Granted, the LCWR presumably is taking the opposite side of each of those issues than the US bishops. But Pope Francis' point isn't that the church should switch up and take the opposite side on each of those issues - it is that that church should shut up about those issues.
Francis is calling us to focus on things such as conversion, love and mercy. Who could be against those? Surely the American sisters are all for such a program. Presumably, so are the bishops. Presumably, so are the rest of us. There is a good deal of commonality here - a vast, broad area for agreement. It's salutary to remind ourselves that these wide and fruitful lands exist. Perhaps Francis' reminder of what we hold in common will help dial down the tension between the American sisters and Rome. But what is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. If bishops should stop obsessing over these hot button issues, then shouldn't the LCWR do the same?
Francis' challenge, I believe, is fully as much to so-called liberals as to so-called conservatives. Both sides need to leave the old playing field, band together as one and face the genuine, authentic challenges of the 21st century. It may be that the things we've bickered about for the last half-century or so don't really matter too much anymore.
Jim McC --
Birth 'em and don't give 'em enough to eat is not nearly so awful as kill 'em.
The Republicans, by the way (the "compassionate conservatives", remember?), have cut food stamps for the next ten years.
Jim, Francis was explicit: "We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods."
You can try to make a case that by extension, his explanation - "The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things: this is also what fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it did for the disciples at Emmaus. We have to find a new balance" - can be applied to the nuns as well, but I think it's a stretch: in the context of the preceding paragraph, it is clear that he people he has in mind are, first and foremost, those who keep hammering on about abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
Now, perhaps you are taking his words to heart and applying them to the nuns, but that's your own take, not the pope's words.
If we really want to think about extensions, then don't those words also apply to those who are obsessed about the poor, when they ought to worry more about the sex abuse scandal for example? Pope Francis, I'm looking at you!
In other words: you can twist his words to apply them to any issue you want downplayed and ny you want highlighted.
But the setting for that statement was a woman confessing her sin of abortion to a priest. That puts a different context on things that the far left has ignored.
A priest who continues to celebrate the Eucharist after his faculties are withdrawn -- I am not sure that this is so monstrous as to merit excommunication. Theologically, a priest may celebrate the Eucharist in case of need even if he has been laicized, or indeed excommunicated. This is rather different from taking part in the ordination of a woman or consecrating a schismatic bishop, not only because of the more radical challenge to church order, but also because of the invalidity in the former case.
I understand that the English theologian Charles Davis continued to celebrate the Eucharist for friends after he had left the RCC.
Jim P - business travel so can't respond with documentation on your LCWR comment but your comparison is incorrect - apples to oranges.
Hope others can provide the data:
- e,g, Sr, Brink - her talk has been taken out of context; a few lines highlighted out of context. A true hatchet act by the forces to be .....and she was not laying out some principle or act/decision that the LCWR was going to stand behind; spend millions of dollars on, etc. Your comparison limps so badly.
- radical feminism....same as above...this is a pre-judgment that has no foundation...it is a pre-judgment by those who feel threatened by something
- female ordination - that is not a corporate policy of LCWR....that would be the same as someone criticizing Burke for his traddie behavior and then drawing the conclusion that every bishop is just like burke
Aren't you omitting the point that was so widely reported here, namely that the sisters were not sufficiently vocal in their opposition to abortion and gay marriage?
I'm sorry, I do not have the CDF statement at hand to check. Was that mis-reported? If it's not in the CDF statement, perhaps some bishops who incited the investigation said so, I am sorry not to have the citation.
We all know about Laurie Brink, and I am surprised you would continue to cite that passage after all that has been said in this blog about how the CDF's critique takes her comments completely out of context and distorts their intention.
Finally, glad you found my comment, uh, helpful, but I don't see how you conclude from what you have stated that those who hope for changes are "doomed." I certainly don't think anything I've said here merits a "doomed to failure" label -- I didn't propose any changes.
Mr. Pauwels,
Please tell me you did not compare the USCCB with the LCWR. Has a member of the LCWR ever "observed" a session of the USCCB—no? The USCCB is the group behind 'Fortnight for Freedom'; members of the USCCB took it upon themselves to campaign against civil marriages for gays and lesbians, and as Ms. Ferrone commented, it was/has been "the whole American episcopate, which has collectively summoned all the muscle it can to defeat President Obama's health care reform because of one detail concerning contraception." When sexuality was discussed it was on a scientific and pastoral level and not in a way that alienated an entire cohort. One last comment, women as a whole and the LCWR in particular, has neither decision making power nor the pulpit from which to speak as do priests, Bishops, Cardinals, et al. It's not "goose and ganders" it's more apples and oranges.
I'm thinking you have never experienced real hunger nor have lived with small children who are hungry and you have little to feed them. It's another form of killing people---just a slow form.
Just to add to the excellent comments of Ms. Sipe -- any fair examination of LCWR will show they are not focused "on the same narrow band of hot-button issues - human sexuality, ordination of women, who is in and who is out of the church, and so on." Outside of how they can best live their communal, consecrated lives in the the 21st Century, LCWR is focused things like immigration, income inequality, access to healthcare, human trafficking, environmental issues and (horror of horrors) feminism -- (the ultra-radical belief that woman are, you know, human beings!)
LCWR is out there with real people, facing real problems. These nuns are taking on the smell of the sheep, while the US bishops are following the lead of small group of right-wing ideologues, organizing forthnights against imagined bogeymen.
Fr O'Leary, doesn't it all depend on how it is done, that is, on whether the attitude is adversarial? That priest "discerned" a calling to minister to a new community, for which he founded an association. He sounds, not fearful and uncertain, as one normally is when going a different way from the rest of the church, but almost brazen. He is going his own way instead of trying to stay in unity with the rest of the church.
Aren't you omitting the point that was so widely reported here, namely that the sisters were not sufficiently vocal in their opposition to abortion and gay marriage?
Rita and all, my apologies, I neglected to provide a URL to the doctrinal assessment - it is here.
Regarding your question, here is what I believe to be the pertinent passage from that document:
while there has been a great deal of work on the part of LCWR promoting issues of social justice in harmony with the Church's social doctrine, it is silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States. Further, issues of crucial importance to the life of Church and society, such as the Church's Biblical view of family life and human sexuality, are not part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes Church teaching. Moreover, occasional public statements by the LCWR that disagree with or challenge positions taken by the Bishops, who are the Church's authentic teachers of faith and morals, are not compatible with its purpose.
So yes, I believe you're right in saying that the LCWR is accused of not paying sufficient attention to issues that are part of the "lively public debate". But more is said here:
- that when those issues are broached, they are broached in a way that doesn't correspond to what the church actually teaches about these things
- On occasion, they are broached in a way that out-and-out contradicts waht the church teaches
But the larger point of my comment is to note that focusing on this narrow cluster of issues, whether it is pushed by left or by right, has the risk of seeming to be all that the church stands for, all that the church talks about. I'd add that conjoining this short panel of hot buttons to a second panel of laudable concerns about social justice doesn't really get to what the pope is after, either. He is calling the left, as much as the right, to rethink and reprioritize.
I've seen a number of commentary by liberal Catholics who seem to think that the Holy Father is vindicating their preferred views and stands on controversial issues, or perhaps is laying the groundwork for a shift in church teaching in a direction that is preferable to liberal Catholics. I think this take is wrong. I think he is saying, "keep talking about abortion, contraception, et al - but do it in the context of preaching the Gospel."
Jim Pauwels:
Your interpretation against others' interpretations. Are we now going to have more division as a consequence of the Pope's interview?
Please tell me you did not compare the USCCB with the LCWR. Has a member of the LCWR ever "observed" a session of the USCCB—no? The USCCB is the group behind 'Fortnight for Freedom'; members of the USCCB took it upon themselves to campaign against civil marriages for gays and lesbians, and as Ms. Ferrone commented, it was/has been "the whole American episcopate, which has collectively summoned all the muscle it can to defeat President Obama's health care reform because of one detail concerning contraception."
The USCCB and the LCWR are not really comparable (thus I don't know why it would make sense for the LCWR to observe, in an authoritatvie sense, the USCCB, as the LCWR has no authority over the USCCB) - but the Holy Father's admonitions surely apply to both organizations, as well as to the rest of us.
I was going to let Rita's comment about Obamacare pass, as there is only so much one can argue about in a given day :-), but since you've republished it, I'll respond. The USCCB cited a number of reasons for its initial opposition to Obamacare - most/all of which have been vindicated by subsequent events. One of those reasons - by no means the only reason, but one of them - was concern about the possibility of threats to freedom of conscience. And as it turns out, the contraception mandate vindicates that particular concern, as it is one concrete instance of Obamacare subverting freedom of conscience: Catholic business owners who conscientiously object to cooperating in the distribution and use of contraceptives have no choice accept to accede to the contraception mandate; there is no exception for them.
The bishops' overall opposition to Obamacare occured during that period of time when the legislation was being considered and debated, before it became law. I'm not aware of the bishops working actively to repeal Obamacare since it became law - and it has come up for reconsideration in the House and Senate dozens of time since it became law - much less "summoning all the muscle it can to defeat Obamacare." Certainly, the GOP has tried mightily to overturn Obamacare, but I don't think that can be said of the bishops. (If what I'm saying here is not accurate, if the USCCB has actively lobbied on behalf of Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare or has undertaken other significant activities to overturn the legislation, I'd be glad to be corrected).
What the bishops have done is form ad hoc committee for religious liberty. It's purpose, though, is not to "defeat Obamacare", and I'm not aware of anything the ad hoc committee has done to oppose Obamacare as a whole. The ad hoc committee has opposed the contraceptive mandate, which is just one of the million heads of the hydra that is Obamacare, albeit a very important one for the bishops.
Just to add to the excellent comments of Ms. Sipe -- any fair examination of LCWR will show they are not focused "on the same narrow band of hot-button issues - human sexuality, ordination of women, who is in and who is out of the church, and so on." Outside of how they can best live their communal, consecrated lives in the the 21st Century, LCWR is focused things like immigration, income inequality, access to healthcare, human trafficking, environmental issues and (horror of horrors) feminism -- (the ultra-radical belief that woman are, you know, human beings!)
Fair enough, Jack. As a matter of fact, the CDF does take a couple of paragraphs in its document to acknowledge all the good things that the LCWR, and women religious more generally, do. I'm sure the congregation could/should have been much more effusive on this score than it was.
But sauce, geese and ganders again. Your list of things that the LCWR focuses on, is also what the USCCB focuses on - contrary to a number of assertions here at dotCom that the bishops "obsess" on abortion, contraception and same sex marriage. A quick visit to USCCB press releases during the month of September reveals the USCCB speaking out on the following topics: feeding the hungry, immigration reform, peace in Syria, overseas humanitarian aid, and support for Chinese American Catholics, as well as liturgy, bishop assignments, abortion and religious liberty. Certainly, it is true that the secular press and even the Catholic press doesn't pick up a lot of these stories.
Your interpretation against others' interpretations. Are we now going to have more division as a consequence of the Pope's interview?
John - I dunno, I don't feel particularly divided from anyone here. Can't we talk about what the pope's words mean, and their implications, without being divided from one another?
Jim Pauwels,
In following the debate on the contraception mandate, I continue to wonder where one can reasonably draw the line between individual religious liberty and that of the general population. Allowing individual employers to disregard laws that are meant for all could open the door to consequences that might not serve the general good.
The state already limits individual religious freedom in many cases and I would be interested in your responses to these cases - a few examples:
Do you disagree with the legal requirement imposed on members of certain religions that they seek medical care for their minor children when those children are at risk (Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists being among the most notable)?
Would you agree or disagree with the court ruling that denies certain Native American tribes the right to use traditional (but illegal) substances in their sacred rituals?
Are the religious rights of Mormons (and of some Muslims) violated by the legal ban on polygamy?
Do you agree or disagree with courts that have ordered Muslim women to reveal their faces when having a photo taken for a legal ID (driver's license, passports etc) or when being questioned in court?
And finally, an example of a self-imposed "violation" of religious belief -
Are the Christian Scientists who own and operate the Christian Science Monitor wrong when they violate their own religious beliefs to offer health care insurance to the non-Christian Science employees of the organization who may (or may not) choose to take advantage of it?
These are fairly mainstream examples of intersections of individual religious beliefs and the common good. Certainly many more extreme examples could be cited (sacrificing virgins as part of a religious rite is not acceptable, for example).
Finally, should Roman Catholics be given greater legal leeway in exercising their own religious liberty at the expense of the religious liberty of the non-Catholics they employ than do other religious groups?
Turns out America Magazine mis-translated Pope Francis' comments on women; NCR has the corrected version. http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/america-apologizes-omission-francis-interview
I am still waiting to find out why I am "doomed."
Rita - I fervently hope your are saved. :-) I miswrote; I meant to say that (some of ) liberals' hopes are doomed.
Irene - I agree with Phylis Zagano - that's a big omission.
Ann Chapman - respectively: no, disagree, probably not, not sure but tend toward agreeing with the courts, no.
Regarding your final question: I confess I don't understand it. Does it refer to the contraception mandate? If so - I don't see whatever putative "right" the contraception mandate is supposed to confer to consumers of contracepttives as being a religious-liberty right.
Why is Congress being granted an exemption from having to enroll in Obamacare? I don't understand why the democrats who led the fight for the Affordable Care Act don't want to subscribe to it. Can someone give me a reasonable answer to this question?
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On August 28, 2011 Tropical Storm Irene struck Vermont causing millions of dollars worth of devastation and destruction in it's wake. The Valley Reporter has been documenting Irene's effects from the torrential flooding to the rebuilding of communities and lives. Irene may have caused massive destruction but it also brought communities together in a way that no other event could. From the crushing flood waters we all found that We Are Vermont Strong.
A year after Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont and the Mad River Valley, many of those affected by the storm are back in their homes and many businesses have re-opened. Many people are just moving back into their homes after a long year of cleaning and dealing with insurance, FEMA and reconstruction.
Roads and bridges have been repaired. Moretown, which was very hard hit by the storm, has re-opened its school, post office and two churches in the village that were flooded. The Moretown town clerk's office remains closed and its fate is uncertain.
Waitsfield's Bridge Street has undergone much change since the flooding, with several new businesses and several that did not re-open and one that relocated.
Warren's Pitcher Inn has cleaned up, rebuilt and re-opened and several people in The Valley are awaiting word on whether their properties will be subject to FEMA buyouts.
August 28 marks the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene which dealt The Valley and Vermont a devastating blow. The rain fell all day Sunday, increasing in volume in the afternoon leading to severe flooding in Warren, Waitsfield, Moretown, Duxbury and Waterbury.
The flooding from Irene rivaled or surpassed the flood of 1927 depending on which gauges were consulted. Flood stage at the Moretown gauge of the MadRiver is 9 feet. On August 28, 2011, the water crested at 19.06 feet which is just shy of the 19.4 feet in 1927. Some reports have the bridge cresting one-eighth of an inch higher than 1927.
Over two dozen homes and buildings were severely damaged (one destroyed) in Moretown. A home at the bottom of North Fayston Road in Waitsfield was destroyed. Homes and businesses on Bridge Street in Waitsfield were inundated with water and badly damaged. A Warren home was flooded as was the basement of The Pitcher Inn in WarrenVillage.
Both Waitsfield and Warren's covered bridges were damaged and closed.
The bridge on Route 100B leading into MoretownVillage was closed as was a bridge north of MoretownVillage. German Flats Road turned into a deep gully at the FaystonElementary School. Huge swaths of Route 100 were gone from Waitsfield to Warren and even larger swaths of Route 100 were missing from Warren to Granville to Hancock and further to the south.
The flooding spurred a massive volunteer cleanup and the rebuilding efforts that continue today. Many, many people and businesses in the community were aided by help from the Mad River Valley Community Fund.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin will visit communities hard hit by Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday, August 26, and Tuesday, August 28.
He will be at the Town Hall in Granville at noon and will head to Hancock for a 1 p.m. event at the intersection of Routes 100 and 125 where the bridge and road were washed out.
On Tuesday, August 28, the governor will be at the Moretown Post Office at 10 a.m. and at the Waitsfield covered bridge at 11 a.m.
Mad RiverValley 'Vermont Strong' Bridge Street block party is September 8
On September 8, from 3 to 10 p.m., all are invited to converge on Bridge Street in Waitsfield for a block party to celebrate community resilience, post-Irene. Bridge Street, home of Vermont's oldest still-in-use covered bridge, will be closed to traffic to allow several local bands, community organizations and food vendors to create a festive event where everyone is welcome.
"The community in the MadRiver watershed has done an amazing job of mobilizing volunteers and donations to recover from Irene. It'll be great to celebrate together on Bridge Street," said Asah Rowles, board chair of Mad River Flood Recovery. "But we also recognize the need to increase self-reliance and make our voices heard on global issues that impact everyone, and we still have a lot of work to do."
The event will feature local food and local music from White Zinfandel, Last October, The Gulch Band, Tim Holter and friends, Phineas Gage Project and Sugar Shack. Community-focused nonprofits and displays will focus on flood recovery and ongoing community projects, with kids' activities from 3 to 6 p.m.
The MRV Rotary Club will announce their Person of the Year award to flood relief volunteers. Attendees will be invited to sign the Earth Charter from www.earthcharterinaction.org which will be presented to state representatives as a means to connect and have a voice regarding community resiliency and sustainability actions.
The event is sponsored by 1% for the Planet, the MRV Rotary Club, HigherMind Mediaworks, MRV Business Builders, Sperry Tents, Hartigan Septic, Deerfield Designs, SunCommon and Waitsfield's Masonic Lodge, along with dozens of volunteers working to organize logistics and entertainment donated by local musicians.
The ravages of Irene on Hancock, Granville and Rochester roads are almost complete. The storm did major damage to major town roads in the White River Valley, some of which has been repaired, some of which is currently under construction and some of which faces an uncertain future.
Cheryl Sergeant, chair of the Granville Select Board, said that Buffalo Farm Road is still closed due to three slides and said that the town is awaiting (and has been awaiting for many weeks) an engineering report on a proposed fix.
The report is so late, she said, that the town had to request an extension from FEMA.
"We still have no idea what our options are going to be to fix it and have no idea of the cost and we don't know how it will be funded and if voters are going to want to fix it," Sergeant said.
Buffalo Farm Road runs east from Route 100 in Granville and connects to North Hollow Road. Right now residents have access above and below the closed sections of the road.
"We don't know what the delay is in getting that report to us, but we do know that nothing is going to happen on that road this year," she said.
Granville has three properties that are waiting for FEMA buyout decisions and the town took out a line of credit to cover road repair and other costs associated with the flooding. In Granville, the town will ring the bell at the town complex at 7 p.m. on August 28 to commemorate the storm and flooding.
In Hancock, select board chair Jack Ross said that the upper part of Churchville Road, which runs from Route 100 to Fiske Road, had been re-opened last weekend but was closed this week so that the bridge at the bottom of the road could be fixed. Churchville Road suffered extreme damage during Irene, along with TexasFalls roads and others Hancock roads. Repairs to Churchville Road alone cost over $750,000, Ross said.
And while the town received FEMA funding for some of the repairs, there were other repairs that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers required the town to undertake that cost the town $115,000. That is a significant sum for a town where the municipal budget is about $300,000, according to Ross. The town is currently out of pocket $300,000 for flood repairs pending state and federal reimbursement.
Hancock residents will commemorate the storm and flood with a community cookout on September 2 at the Hancock Firehouse from 5 to 7 p.m.
In Rochester repairs to Fiske Road are about two weeks away, according to select board chair Larry Straus. Because of the damage to Fiske Road and Churchville Road, Hancock and Rochester worked with Granville last fall to upgrade a portion of a Class 4 road to provide a detour around the connected and closed Fiske and Churchville Roads.
Straus said that the Fiske Road work was covered by FEMA and cost $130,000.
Rochester's out-of-pocket costs from the flood, based on the formula approved by the Legislature, is 3 cents on the town Grand List, or about $47,000.
With Fiske Road work under way, Straus said the town was turning to its other projects including repair of the town cemetery, which washed away, littering the road and riverbanks with caskets and remains during the storm.
In Rochester, there are five or six homes that may be eligible for FEMA buyouts.
Community members are invited to a celebration to recognize the anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene in Moretown at 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 25. The celebration starts with a dedication of the 7 Standing Stones garden in the Strauss floodplain behind the Moretown Library. The stones are foundation stones from the former Moretown Masonic Lodge that were erected on the site of the memorial garden created by Caroline and Roger Strauss in the location where their backyard oasis was washed away by Irene.
All are welcome to stroll the gardens, enjoy the party, participate in a duck race, then float or stroll down to the Moretown Fire Department for a Moretown Ladies Auxiliary pig and trash can turkey roast. Dinners, activities, games and music will be featured.
On Sunday, August 26, at 10:30 a.m., the MoretownMethodistChurch will hold a special service in honor of August 28, 2011, with a theme of "Goodnight Irene, Hello Tomorrow" featuring well-known musicians performing special music. Among the performers will be The Gospel Choir of Montpelier, Elizabeth von Trapp, George Woodard, congregants, Moretown residents and others.


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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin put his primary emphasis on overhauling West Virginia's elementary and secondary education programs in his State of the State speech to members of the Legislature and other guests in the House of Delegate chamber here last Wednesday night—the highlight of the opening day of the regular 2013 legislative session.
"Even with all the good things happening in our schools, our student achievement is falling behind and that is not acceptable," the governor said. "Education in West Virginia must change, and that change begins now."
Earlier in the day, state Budget Office Director Mike McKown briefed the news media on the administration's request to state agencies to cut spending by more than $75 million in the new 2013-2014 state budget year that begins July 1.
McKown said "each agency did something different" and noted that the most common move was to eliminate budgeted positions that are vacant. He said public education, Medicaid and the Division of Corrections are exempt from the spending cuts so other agencies that account for about one-fourth of the state's $4.6 billion budget will absorb the brunt of these cuts.
Deputy Secretary of Revenue Mark Muchow and McKown explained the next fiscal year budget to members of the respective finance committees in the House of Delegates and State Senate later in the week. The new budget does not include any cuts for the PROMISE scholarship program, aid to schools, mine safety programs, Medicaid or the State Police. And it does not include any new taxes.
Among the new initiatives for public education, according to the governor, will be a requirement that all counties offer full-day pre-kindergarten to four-year-olds He also wants a program to assure that all children are reading at a third grade level at the end of their year in the third grade.
"If a child cannot read at grade level at the end of the third grade, bad things happen," Tomblin said.
Among the other initiatives he outlined, the most controversial one may be his proposal to change teacher hiring practices in the public schools so that seniority is now the primary determining factor in hiring or promoting teachers. The state's teacher unions have traditionally opposed this idea.
The other major item in the governor's program is an effort to reduce overcrowding in the state's prisons which will require an all-out war on the current growing problem of substance abuse that is identified with causing the soaring numbers of people sent to prison in the state.
"Substance abuse is a huge part of prison overcrowding, and the high re-offending rate intensifies the problem," the Governor said.
Tomblin also promised to continue his clash with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and "its misguided attempts to cripple" this state's coal industry which is such an integral part of the state. He also said he wants to see toughening natural gas pipelines safety standards in light of the pipeline explosion at nearby Sissonville.
Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, said after the governor's speech that he agrees with the governor's plan to end substance abuse which Kessler said has reached "epidemic proportions." Kessler said the problem is "devastating our communities."
Members of the House of Delegates and state Senate convened the 60-day session at noon last Wednesday. House Republicans, after substantial gains in the 2010 general election, now hold 46 of the 100 seats in that chamber compared to only 35 in the 2011 and 2012 sessions.
Legislative sessions last week were mostly limited to the introduction of bills with the 100 House of Delegates members introducing a total of 470 bills the first two days while the 34 members of the state Senate introduced 163. The topics ranged from prohibiting minors from getting a tattoo (SB28 sponsored by Sen. Mike Green, D-Raleigh) to legislation that would allow football players to wear neck braces (HB2002 sponsored by Delegate Mike Caputo, D-Marion).
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Dog Day Afternoon
Sunday is going to the dogs. After closing to humans for the season, the water park at Wannamaker County Park will open its doors to dogs and their owners for a day of fun. With the Big Kahuna wave pool, the Rollin' River lazy river and the Otter Bay kiddie pool, there's a place for dogs of all ages and sizes. The fifth annual event requires all dogs to be up-to-date on their vaccinations and encourages owners to keep dogs close at hand and in control at all times. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. And don't forget your towel!
When: Noon-5 p.m. Sunday
Where: Whirlin' Waters Adventure Waterpark, 8888 University Blvd., North Charleston
Price: Owners get in free; admission is $10 per dog, $8 per dog for Charleston County residents
For more info: 795-4386, www.ccprc.com
Taste of the Town Festival
Food fans will get their fill of reasonably priced samples at the family-friendly Taste of the Town Festival. In addition to food and beverages, attendees will enjoy the Heart and Stroke Survivor Parade, arts and craft vendors, live entertainment, jump castles, a water slide (bring your towel), games, a kids corner and more. Those who attend are asked to leave pets and coolers at home.
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Old Santee Canal Park, 900 Stony Landing Road, Moncks Corner
Price: Free
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Abbey Road LIVE!
Fans of the Fab Four are in for a treat as this Athens, Ga.-based Beatles tribute band will be performing the "Abbey Road" album live from start to finish. In addition to hearing the Beatles' final studio recording in its entirety, a second set from Abbey Road LIVE! will include songs that span the Beatles' 14 album-career. While the tunes are dedicated to the Beatles, don't expect to see a group of mop-tops sporting phony British accents.
When: Saturday, doors open at 8 p.m. with the show starting at 9 p.m.
Where: Music Farm, 32 Ann St.
Price: $10-$20
For more info: www.musicfarm.com, www.AbbeyRoadLive.com
Fort Sumter Tour & Dinner Cruise
"At 1 a.m. Sept. 9, 1863, 500 U.S. sailors and marines made a valiant and heroic assault against Fort Sumter. In 20 minutes of fierce combat, the assault was defeated by the fort's Confederate garrison." Learn all about the events on this special dinner cruise that will feature National Park Service Historian Rick Hatcher giving background on the events of the day, a living history program while at Fort Sumter and a three-course southern-style dinner. A cash bar will be available onboard. A limited number of tickets are available.
When: Saturday; boarding time is 5:30 p.m. with departure at 5:45 p.m.
Where: Departs from Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center, 340 Concord St.
Price: $65
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Charleston Gun and Knife Show
Swap, buy, sell or browse the hundreds of tables of shooting and hunting gear that will be on hand at the Charleston Gun and Knife Show. Running throughout the weekend, the event offers patrons a chance to peruse 300 tables of guns, knives, ammo, surplus, reloading supplies and shooting accessories from some of South Carolina's biggest dealers.
When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday
Where: Exchange Park Fairgrounds, 9850 U.S. Highway 78, Ladson
Price: $8 for adults, kids 12 and under get in free
For more info: 770-630-7296
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Novant Health's 40,000-square- foot Clemmons Medical Center is scheduled to open at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
The first phase cost about $27.7 million, and the center includes a "no wait" emergency department, outpatient surgery center and imaging center. Novant is also planning a 20,000 square-foot medical office building next door, which is scheduled to be added in 2017.
The new medical center is located in Clemmons, about a 25-minute drive from the center of Yadkinville. It is the anchor for the Village Point Master Plan, a 125-acre mixed-use development site near Harper Road and the Interstate 40 interchange in Clemmons.
The medical center is meant to service western Forsyth and Davie counties and Yadkin County.
Chad Setliff, vice president for Clemmons Medical Center, stops briefly after giving a tour of the new facility. It's a few days before the new medical center's official opening, but employees are already at work.
In one of the waiting rooms, Setliff points at the different colors. He mentions how earth-toned colors are especially good for patients and their families. Studying the colors in the rooms is one of several ways the medical center's leaders have done their homework.
Another relatively new concept that they've been studying is the "no wait'" emergency department.
With a "no wait" ED, when a patient first enters the main admitting area, a nurse determines the treatment the patient needs. Next, patients go into an examination room to visit with a physician. After examination and if needed, the patient can go to a post-exam room while the physicians wait for lab tests or X-rays. This method is meant to save time from the initial examination room so physicians can see the next patients more quickly.
Pat York is the manager of radiology and a long-time Yadkin County resident, said she believes Yadkin County residents will be able to make good use of the facility.
"I know people who think, "Oh my, I have to go to Winston to get a procedure done,'" she says. "They really dread driving into a metropolitan area," she says in a promotional piece released from Clemmons Medical Center.
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