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Harrison announces affilation deal with Franciscan Health System
Those wondering about what the future of Harrison Medical Center will look like received their answer this week in an announcement made Tuesday afternoon.
Harrison has signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate with the Tacoma-based Franciscan Health System to expand services, improve the delivery and quality of care and broaden access to services for individuals, employers and communities in the South Puget Sound and on the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas.
"This is a very positive thing for the communities we serve that can potentially very much enhance quality and reduce costs," said Harrison Medical Center President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Bosch.
Leaders of the two nonprofit health systems expect to complete the affiliation process by June 30, 2013. That work will include hammering out an actual agreement, getting approval from state and federal regulators and finalizing the deal.
Harrison's board of directors hired a consultant a year ago to look at merging or selling and decided in January that they would pursue an affiliation.
"It's a long process that should take a while," Bosch said. "This is a very long-term commitment that we're making."
With an affiliation with Franciscan, Harrison will become part of an integrated health system in Washington state with nearly 11,000 employees, 2,000 medical staff members and projected annual net revenues of $2 billion. The affiliation will enable physicians and employees at Harrison and Franciscan to collaborate and innovate in order to improve the delivery of efficient and effective inpatient, outpatient and in-home care across a broad geographic region.
"Harrison Medical Center and Franciscan Health System share similar cultures, values and goals," said David Veterane, chair of the Harrison Medical Center Board of Directors. "We see this relationship as a way to expand the good work that has been done in our community for the past 95 years."
The Franciscan Health System is, of course, a Catholic organization and Bosch noted that Harrison will remain a private nonprofit, secular and charitable organization.
"We are not becoming a Catholic hospital, but we will be influenced by our parent company being a Catholic organization," Bosch said, noting that the Franciscans' ethical and moral objectives to abortion and assisted suicides was a non-issue because Harrison already prohibits those things.
Bosch also said that Harrison will continue to focus on community service and providing a safety net.
"People fall through the cracks and we catch them," he said.
The new affiliation will also be good for business.
"We can enhance the services that we offer and build on the economies of scale that a larger organization can provide," Bosch said. "In light of upcoming national reforms, this partnership helps ensure we keep our enduring promise of exceptional health care to the residents of the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas and North Mason County."
When asked about what the affiliation would mean for Harrison employees and local jobs, Bosch said he wasn't certain.
"I think we don't know exactly how that will play out," Bosch said. "Nothing will happen till next July when we change control. We'll plan collaboratively with the Franciscans, to see what services should be consolidated. On the other hand, we also plan on collaborating for growth which could mean more locations and more jobs. It could take both forms, but we just don't have the answer to that right yet."
One thing that will not be affected by the proposed affiliation is a 54,000-square-foot Silverdale expansion to create a new multi-story orthopedic center that Bosch says remains on schedule. Harrison will also continue to maintain digital medical records, something that they were early adaptors of, but will eventually migrate to Franciscans' Epic Model System that has become the gold standard in Puget Sound.
Franciscan Health System Chief Executive Officer Joe Wilczek also expressed optimism about the deal with Harrison.
"An affiliation between our organizations will benefit the community for generations," Wilczek said. "Both Harrison and Franciscan have long traditions of service. Each provides health care to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Our shared mission and values, as well as our shared commitment to excellence, will allow us to work together to better serve residents throughout the region."
The letter of intent is the first step in the affiliation process. The affiliation must be approved by both the Harrison and Franciscan boards and will be reviewed by the Washington State Department of Health and other regulatory agencies before taking effect. The integration of the two organizations is expected to take place over time according to a plan that will be developed during the next phase of the affiliation process.
Affiliation discussions were prompted by the changing national and local health care environments, combined with the need to ensure that exceptional health care is available for residents of our community well into the future. This relationship will achieve that goal.
Harrison entities that will be part of the affiliation with Franciscan include Harrison Medical Center campuses in Bremerton and Silverdale, Harrison's Urgent Care Centers in Belfair and Port Orchard, Harrison HealthPartners medical group, and Harrison Home Health. The Harrison Foundation will remain independent. Harrison, which has about 2,400 employees, is the largest private employer in Kitsap County. It has a medical staff of more than 400 physicians representing 40 medical specialties. Founded in 1918, Harrison has evolved from a small community hospital into a regional medical center serving patients from Kitsap, North Mason, Clallam and Jefferson counties with locations in Bremerton, Silverdale, Port Orchard, Belfair, Poulsbo and Forks. To learn about Harrison's many health care services, call 866-844-WELL or visit www.harrisonmedical.org.
Franciscan Health System includes St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor; St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma; St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood; St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way; St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw; Franciscan Hospice House in University Place; and the Franciscan Medical Group network of primary- and specialty-care clinics in Kitsap, Pierce and King counties. Franciscan has 8,400 employees and 1,550 medical staff members representing nearly 45 medical specialties. The organization has served the community since 1891. Franciscan is part of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a national non-profit health organization with headquarters in Englewood, Colo. CHI is the nation's second-largest Catholic health care system. Franciscan online: www.FHShealth.org


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Translated by Dalya Danish
For the Jews of Bessarabia, the Jewish community was the heart of everything. It was Jewish tradition and folklore, saturated with longing for liberation since always and until the Zionist movement. But not lost to its life were digressions and aberrations. There this community was etched in history by the pogrom that occurred in 1903, in which tens of single Jews were murdered. ( Until then small dimensions was this event compared to what happened years later.) At the time, it infuriated the whole world. The Kishinev pogrom had vast influence on the development of ideas of the Jews of Eastern Europe and the tightening connections to Eretz Yisroel.
T. Herzl declared in one of his speeches that the Kishinev incident was actually a mirror of the life of Yisrael in every corner of the Diaspora. Kishinev became the symbol of Jewish suffering in the time of the tsar. This event was also an important factor in the primacy of the 2nd Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel.
Every community and its unique fate: There are communities whose history and events get to be inscribed for generations. There are large communities which are destined to be forgotten in silence. Before the pogrom, the Kishinev community was among the latter. Even so, in the span of many years, it was a lively Jewish center, creative and original in the life of the Jews of southern Russia. After this, it was also a wellspring of spirituality for all Romanian Jews.
Jewish Kishinev, within it a wide spectrum of institutions and enterprises, was destroyed and ruined during the Holocaust. Jewish Kishinev, which numbered more than 50,000 souls, was felled by the war. Only piles of rocks tell of the ruination. In November 1941, most Jews were sent to the ravines of extermination in Transnistria. In this book we will also bring the testimonies of eye witnesses of the last days of Jewish Kishinev and the cruel liquidation of the ghetto.
The Kishinev historians[1] indicate that the capital of Bessarabia was once a little village on the banks of the river Byk, in the province of Lapusna, established by Veliky, uncle of Stefan Cel Mare.
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Ion Nestor mentions a document from the year 1436, in which it is the first time the village of Kishinev is mentioned. In later documents, (in the year 1576 and also the year 1617) it is mentioned that the village of Kishinev was sold several times to relatives of the king of those times. Only in the year 1666 in document (Ispisoc) of Duka- Vida, Kishinev is mentioned. The historians emphasize that Istrarivadia- Daviza was the one who elevated Kishinev from a village to a little town in the years 1661-1665. It is supposed that in this period approximately the first Jewish traders appeared in this little town. They tried by themselves to put in the foundation for Jewish life in this area.
In the same period, Kishinev was destroyed by Tatars after which it was rebuilt. In the Romanian sources about the discovery of Jews in Kishinev, one must mention the chronicles of Dimitrie Cantemire (1673-1723), one of the important historians and scholars of Romania who wrote about Kishinev as a little town whose population contains Christians, Armenians and Jews. To our sorrow, sparse sources are available to show exactly when Kishinev started to have a more organized Jewish community. According to the above, it is possible to suppose that at the end of the 17th century, the first development of the Jewish community occurs.
In the 17th century, Russian influence was felt all over Moldava and Bessarabia, especially starting in the reign of Vasile Lupu (1634-1653) and after riots Bogdan Khmelnytsky (1648-1649) awakened Jews in the Ukraine. Many escaped towards Bessarabia and Moldava. This influence increased in the days of Peter the Great in Russia until the Prince of Moldava, Dimitrie Cantemire arrived to sign a secret treaty with Russia.[2] In the aftermath of these connections, the number of Jews increased in the area of Moldava and Bessarabia, especially in Kishinev. There is no exact data on the first arrival of Jews to Kishinev. But it is proper to rely on the documents from the middle of the 18th century which mentions Kishinev Jews. The Romanian historian Y.Biano[3] mentions a legal judgement from the year 1742 in favor of the Jew David from Kishinev in reference to stolen goods which requires that the other side pay a penalty and return the goods.
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Also the noted historian Nicolae Iorga mentions in his book Old documents of Romanian Law, 2nd volume, page 428, a document which requires Kishinev Jews, in the year 1743, to pay every year, additional Lei to the other taxes applicable to the rest of the citizens in the same place. In the book of the traveler V. Rennes, vol 1, page 83, in the year 1793, he tells of Kishinev, a small town in which were Moldovans, Greeks and Jews.
In accordance with the few documents that have survived the Jewish community of Kishinev has existed for about 250 years. In comparison to other communities in Bessarabia such as Akkerman, Lapusna, Khotin, etc.… which have documents that indicate they are over 500 years old. Kishinev is considered a young community in this region. Even so, it succeeded mainly in the last century to develop and establish highly valued Jewish projects. The chronicler of the history of Jews in Bessarabia, A. Leon, indicates based on the codex of Chevra Kadishe that in the year 1773, there were no more than 144 families.
Until the end of the 18th century, the political situation in Bessarabia didn't permit the development of the Kishinev Jewish community. Study of the history of this community brings us to the inference that the peak of prosperity and growth was in the 2nd half of the 19th century not from only a numerical aspect but also economic and cultural aspects.
In the table shown below it is possible to see the increases and decreases in the numbers of the Jewish population in Kishinev from the first emergence of this settlement.
|% Total
|540 souls
|10,509 souls
|18,327 souls
|50,537 souls
|52,000 souls
|42,000 souls
|July 1940
|75,000 souls[4]
|5,500 souls
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Like many communities in Eastern Europe, the 19th century brought prosperity and flourishing to the Kishinev community. The annexation of Bessarabia to Russia in the year 1812 and the close connections with Russian Jewry were a valuable change in the life of the Jews in this region. The bastion of closed Jewish religious life in Bessarabia was opened, which was tied until 1812 to the rabbinate in Iasi. In the period after this annexation, an attempt was made to push further the Haskala in the midst of the Jewish multitudes. In the year 1838, under the reign of the Prince Voronezev in Novo-Russia especially Bessarabia, the first Jewish cultural school was opened with the support of the government.[5]
Justifiably, it is possible to mention, that from the 40's of the previous century, started an era of awakening in the development of the first social streams in the midst of the Jews of Kishinev.
The conflicts between groups of Maskilim and Kishinev Hasidim are reflected in the writings of Hamelitz starting in the year 5624. Though the tension was also felt in other corners of the life of the community. This wellspring streamed new blood into its arteries. The Jewish group that had been under the reign of the Hasidic stream, absorbed for the first time, sounds of new reality of other dynamics and awakening.
Over time, Kishinev became a spiritual and economic center for the Jews of Bessarabia. In Bessarabia, in that time, the Jewish agriculture influenced the image and character of Jewish Kishinev. This mutuality didn't stop until the last days of Kishinev. The deep thinker can see the ruralism which accompanied the Jewish urbanism in Kishinev. Simplicity, devotion, faithfulness and sometimes primitive traits of humans are as if formed from lumps of the black earth of Bessarabia. The Chernozem were sunken in the character and soul of the Jews of Kishinev from the certain bind of insularity which was preserved even as it transferred to a big and busy metropolis.
But the rural traits didn't delay the advance of the Jews of Kishinev. Over the generations we are witness to continual unrest, sometimes without emphasizing the rest of the dimension.
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Not only did Hasidim and Maskilim find an echo in their conflicts, but also in the attempts of other groups, such as the attempt of the way of the religious reform which had in its time ruffled public opinion emphasized the public tension of the Jews of Kishinev.
Kishinev the village did its share, not only in our national movement but also found its place in the midst of the revolutionary workers' movement. Maybe only a few know that Kishinev Jews were not delayed in advancing the movement and spirit of freedom that blew over many of the Oheli Yisrael in Kishinev, starting from the middle of the previous century.
For 200 years Kishinev had been lacking large industry. It was crowned with surrounding vineyards, gardens and extensive fields. A large number of Kishinev Jews were given to leasing and working fallow fields. But with all the rural traits they did not suffer cultural stagnation. Many felt the need to discover themselves under the blanket of the Torah. They took care that at the head of their group would be one of the great rabbis of their time. This explains the fact of officialdom in Kishinev of famous rabbis as early as the middle of the 18>sup>th century. Among them were Rabbi Chaim Chernovitzer, Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Melnezhot, Rabbi Moshe Mosbran, and others. It was known that in their zeal, the Jews of Kishinev fought to keep Rabbi Y.L. Tzirelson as their chief rabbi. The first generation bequeathed to the next after them, the thirst to know and the strong will to widen their horizons. Below the level of consciousness was a sense of delay compared to others. That pushed many to join the social movements which stormed the Jewish public in the 19th century, more than most, the Zionist movement and especially the Zionist workers' movement. That was to the younger generation like a vital and nourishing dew. There was no lack of digressions and periods of slack. But, in summation, with the addition of line to line for completion of the spiritual image of the Jews of Kishinev, it is possible to say, without fear of exaggeration, that the spirit of freedom and progressive nationalism prevailed.
It is important to remember the fact that for tens of years, Kishinev was a place of exile in tsarist Russia. Sent there were mainly accused and suspected revolutionaries from progressive movements. The existence of exiled revolutionaries in Kishinev served, in most cases, as a seed for unrest. This era of exiled revolutionaries in Kishinev did not pass without marked notice among the Jews of Kishinev. But also, the exiles soon found encouragement and sympathy for their activities. Not a few of them knew well the image of the Jews of southern Russia. These Jews with their innocence and devotion left a withered impression indelibly on many of them.
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Among the first exiles (1825-7) was the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. In our time, during his residence in Kishinev, he tells also of his first meeting with Jews in the city[6].
At the beginning the path of the Jewish community enveloped obscurity. Starting from the Romanian government era, 180 years before in the year 5533 (1773). The Jewish congregation burial society Chevra Kadishe was preserved. In it was decided which were the internal arrangements of the congregation. It seems that it was the first codex for Jews in Kishinev, who were connected at that time to the Rabbinate in Iasi, the capital of Moldava. The codex treats only the religious affairs and the social relations between the members of Chevra Kadishe[7]. In this it is possible to make a clear assumption that already the Jews of Kishinev tried to appear as an organized congregation. The very fact that Chevra Kadishe imposed its full authority on all Kishinev Jews in the religious needs and determined the regimen of equality in the chance that every member could participate in managing the interests. It proves that already there existed in the city a developed congregation that demanded this internal order. One can regret that details are missing from the life of Kishinev Jews in this era, but it is know that the life of the public was concentrated then mainly around the religious needs of the members of the community. The storm of wars that passed through Moldava-Bessarabia in that era, including the Russo-Turkey war in the years 1806-1812, didn't give a chance to Kishinev Jews to develop their special institutions. In this it is probable that the lack of ministration in every area linked to the special social assistance to the Jewish congregation.
After the year 1812 the year that Kishinev became part of Russia there was an extended peaceful period. Little by little, the different institutions of the Kishinev community deteriorated and disappeared. At the beginning of the 19th century, the supporters of the community started to care about, in addition to the religious needs, also the other vital needs especially in the social spheres; so assistance was promised to study Torah for the poor children.
Precisely when the Kishinev community stared to develop and put down roots; the extent of activities expanded, it was overtaken by Russian government decrees. From the 1830s, when the Tsar turned an evil eye on the community causing segregation from the whole society.[8] The decree stated that it was unacceptable to have a regime within a regime. As a result, the Tsar decided to cancel the
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independence of the management of the communities except for the religious needs, for appearance, to allow the Jews to be active in the general life of the selected cities and to promise them government supported education (1840-1844). The destruction of the communities' autonomy actually began at this time, around the year 1839, when they began to decide the levying and distribution of taxes that the community collected from the sale of meat (tax that a Jew would pay for buying kosher meat) and the sale of candles. The law of meat tax that appeared at this same time by the government was a big blow to the life of the community, not only outwardly, also inwardly. The regime would pass the right to sell meat to a lessee, in most cases, after the powerful of the Jewish congregation, who exploited the poor people without mercy and without fulfilling the vital needs of the community. The bitter struggle between the lessees and the members of the community in Kishinev didn't cease for tens of years. There were groups of local rich people who were financed as an advisory committee by the city government and were involved in preventing exploitation by the meat lessees. They would set meat prices at a reasonable level. This we read in Hamelitz in the year 1865, an essay from Kishinev:
with the will of the enlightened city officials, order was introduced to the taksa (licensure) in meat selling for set prices, in putting the supervision to the kosher faithful: the elderly financier, Mr Yehuda Polinovski; the scholar, Nachman Zidivtski; the famous, Mr Ahron Rabinowitz; the marvelous, Vinberg; Mr Ephraim Teitleman; Alter Gelantiro and Mr Chaim Lerner. Despite the grievance of the tax collector and the meat vendors, prices of meat are steady and reasonable with accurate weights. In this way it is possible and necessary to bring order in all city affairs and to clean up those who would interfere with the law and burden others, as the wishes of the public would be.
The mode of monetary distribution korovka (Russian candy) (the institution for community affairs management and distribution of money for varied goals) raised a lively debate and caused a constant tension between those who wanted to increase the number of klei kodesh (holy objects) in the community and those who wanted most of the money to go to support the poorer Jews and first of all care for the hungry ones. In Hamelitz from the year 1802 we read a letter from Kishinev:
…members of the congregation complain about the meat tax, that it is a cursed plague. In place of spending it on important items, it is spend on completely excessive items for poor people. Get four more religious dayanim and other morei zedek. Add to every shochet ten rubles per month. 500 cash rubles were budgeted for a cantor with a choir. For the souls of the starving, the songs of a choir are as kikol hasirim takhat hasir (biblical reference from Ecclesiastes 7:6 to the laughter of fools) .
One can emphasize here that those wanting to increase the mechanism of klei kodesh put too big a burden on the gaunt body of the community. There was almost no consideration as to a mutiny and they continued on their path. This was the situation in most of the Jewish communities in Russia
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In the year 1880-90, with the emergence of varied social movements in the Jewish thoroughfare, the drastic question of character and planning was raised in the community, the Zionists, the Bund and the Charedim (ultra orthodoxy) everyone made many efforts to control the community, to be the sole institution that reigned over the internal affairs of the Jewish congregation. This struggle was reflected in the life of the Jews of Kishinev. But, as long as the Tsarist regime existed, there was no room for change in the life of the community because the regime refused to give up any authority and did not permit the claim that collecting the taxes for the special Jewish institutions should be done with a progressive tax which obliges the whole population. Because not a few were recently evading paying the meat tax and it ended that these taxes were levied indirectly on the masses whose economic situation was dire. The principal demand from those who wanted to change the image of the community was, to promise free elections, in order to give it a democratic character and to free it from the burden of the financiers.
The year of the Russian Revolution, 1917, hinted at the big opportunities also in the sphere of establishing a democratic community. The Jewish public in Kishinev was already alerted to rush toward these changes. The democratic community that was selected after a short period didn't continue for long. In the next 20 years, until the holocaust, it was in a constant struggle establishing and competing with itself without a durable result all the public forces that were in Kishinev.
Jewish Kishinev felt itself from the first establishment, as an inseparable part of the whole nation. The feeling of national solidarity always resided in the Jews of Kishinev. National troubles were also their troubles. Kishinev was the first Jewish community in Russia that thanked Moses Montefiore for his work and loyalty toward saving the Jews of Morocco. Following is a version of a letter from the Jews of Kishinev to Montefiore and his enthusiastic response:
In the 26th day of the month of Adar Shani in the year 5624 (April 3, 1864) Kishinev
Long live our master, crown of our head, glory of our people, Sir Moses Montefiore,
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From a far land, came your brothers, from the land of Bessarabia, the city of Kishinev, to thank you and bless your name for all the benevolent and charitable deeds for your people in those days at that time. Saving them from sorrow and turning their mourning into celebration and happiness. We heard all this and our hearts were very happy. And our brothers said to us: please take in your hands a blessing and please bless our master for all his benevolence and charity for his bountiful compassion and gentle heart. And this is the blessing which today we blessed him in our name and the name of our congregation: Baruch Atah Le El Elyon, Adon Ram V'Nisah; (Blessed art thou to highest God, Lord high up above) On you the heavens will look, from the heights his sign, he will watch over all your deeds and will reward you for all you did. Grace and kindness will follow you. Honor and glory will be your crown. For the length and years of your life, blessing and peace and all the gifts of the heavens will give you our God as we ask and request of him. And you Moses, man of our God!. Being master of your brothers and redeemer of your people and their lives many times and be a blessing in all the land. We, your brothers, sons of Jacob, love you. Remember we will remember you in all the days of our lives and also your deeds. That which your do every day is etched on our hearts and those of our seed and after us will remember forever. Amen.
(the Rabbi and 3 sages of the city signed their names and after them city dignitaries)
Moses Montefiore answers:
With the help of God here, the holy congregation of London, Monday, 12th of Nisan, 5624 (April 18th, 1864)
Long live the honored Rabbis, and leaders of the Kishinev Jewish Congregation
The blessing which you have brought us in the name of all our brothers who settled in your midst is liked by myself indeed. Because I heard of your good reputation and your souls' desire for Torah and fear of God is mighty. I knew that your hearts are loyal and with God therefore I didn't come to say to say today grace from on high and to tell of goodness (here the command by the regime in all the places of his government).------and now our heart carries unto our God in heaven and thank him and bless all the good he does with us to keep alive the souls of our brothers. Thus gave the Lord and thus he will continue to have mercy on the rest and say among the nations how great is God to do for our people. These are the sayings coming from Moses Montefiore.
In the years of the 1780s, it was already felt the fervency in the midst of the Jewish intelligentsia in Kishinev against the cosmopolitan strains of the Haskala against assimilation that tried to instill into the midst of the flock, the false belief in misleading solutions to the problems of the Jews. This viewpoint was strengthened by the wave of pogroms which flooded the Jewish neighborhoods in those days in Russia. A bitter argument broke out in that period between this side and their enlightened opposition. We find the echo of the struggle in the newspapers:
After the events in which we were disillusioned of the great euphoria of the Haskala…. We saw and proved that we are not worldly, but Jews, so soulful ones decided to open up to a different way: different education, Judaism, Jewish history and Hebrew language. There is between us a connection
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some how. They were sure that the Haskala will fill all the land with ideas and then the Jewish question would be moot. 'and a wolf would live with a lamb'. But this would take many generations. The deluded believed that the Jews had mission in the world, to be a torch to light the way for the nations. The truth was that the nations do not want our illumination and give us a struggle because of this. Which is shameful is to bless oneself in one's heart that one is an honored guest, while being shown the door. But it is also not correct to announce that we don't need the Haskala. This is the ploy of desperation. We need the Haskala, not for others but for ourselves. We don't want to stay ignorant and not up-to-date. But at the beginning of every wise saying is a Jewish one. The first sentence is in the Hebrew language. In our work of Tikkun Olam we shouldn't forget our world full of light, grace, splendor and awe inspiring reverence.[9]
This group was not diminished in simple discussions, on the contrary, it started realization of its goals. At the same time, it organized a Hebrew language society. At the founding assembly participated Dr Y. Bernstein-Cohen, Dr Mutchnik, Dr Grinberg, Dr Efrati, Attorney Yosselvitz, Pharmacist Perlmutter and others. The goals of the society were as follows:
Life in the Kishinev community was full of suffering which continued without any letup. Outside the city only the 1903-5 pogroms were noticed. Closeup the easing of life in the community was underestimated, which the instigation against it was non stop between the era of the Tsarist regime to the days of the Romanian regime. Many were the attempts at pogroms that were only stopped at the very last minute. In most of the cases, the pogroms were deterred and the rioters themselves saw the courage of the convictions of the Kishinev Jews to respond actively to every attack. Even though, the regime immediately called out the army to repress every organized uprising from the Jews. Not many know that also in the year 1881, the year of pogroms in many cities in Russia, Kishinev also stood to be
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assaulted but the rioters left after being shamed thanks to courageous self defense by the local Jews. Dr Bernstein-Cohen wrote interesting details about this.[10]
People of Kishinev were prepared for the appearance of the rioters. Eminent businesspeople---Abraham Grinberg, Dinen, Kupervaser etc.… established a fund to bribe the regime that will prevent the pogrom despite the permit that it received from above. Jewish butchers were sharpening their knives and cleavers, in order to repel the attack as soon as it broke out. In all Bessarabia, in the cities and the towns, strange persons wandered about in civilian and army uniforms. They called themselves Tsar's envoys and they asked the farmers, especially the Christians, to sign in the name of the village communities on the edicts, to throw out the Jews and to butcher them in case they won't agree willingly to leave the place…. Even so most of the Moldavians did not subscribe to this 'advice' so 'devotees' were brought from distant places. Groups of coarse townspeople, brutes from the commune of Uriul (It was immediately noticed from their appearance that they were outsiders); supported and invited by the 'rulers'. They were getting drunk in the taverns until they were out of their minds. And here on Sunday, the first day, a large group of Orlovians went to the market, toward a line of butcher stores, one of them so drunk that he entered the butcher shop of Noah Kutchener, struck with an iron club on the table and yelled: 'Zhedova! Come, butcher, give your prutot (pennies)! ' At the same time his friends burst into the neighboring butcher shops. A struggle ensued. Noah Kutchener stared at the gentile a look of negation, took his sharpened axe and brought it down on the head of the rioter. His skull split, the Orlovian collapsed and breathed his last. The rioters rushed to his aid but the butchers attacked them. They struck them and pushed them into the slaughterhouses (not to the police). It took a lot of work for the police to free them and send them off on the train that same night with escort of guarding soldiers, in order to cover up the proof of the dirty business. Noah Kutchener, who found a radical solution to this painful question, disappeared in a day (after a while he arranged a trip to America). For a long time public opinion was interested in Noah Kutchener who saved the Jews of Kishinev from their first pogrom; it was generally understood that all the residents of Kishinev celebrated for many years and remembered with feeling of thanks, the names of the heroes and their families in this episode, the only one that was wise and proper. After 30+ years in April 1903, the terrible pogrom broke out whose results were 49 killed and hundreds of wounded Jews. About the reaction of the Kishinev Jews to the acts of the pogrom, there is indistinct knowledge.
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Maybe because of that: N. Bialik, after his visit in the year 1903 in Kishinev, publicized his In the city of killing and in this way imprinted on the Jews of Kishinev, the stamp of cowardice and lack of national and human honor. This awakened heavy resentment among the national Bessarabian youth who were convinced that Bialik was not just in this harsh judgment.
And now you brought with you to all the hiding places,
latrines, pig styes and all their fecal
places and you saw where were the concealed
your brothers, sons of your people and descendants of the Maccabees
scions of lions who in 'merciful father' and seeds of 'saints'
20 souls in a hole and thirty thirty
and my honor will be increased in the world
and my name will be sanctified by many
escape of mice attempted
hiding of fleas concealed
and they died the death of dogs
that where they lie
The guilt was seen by many as not established, after they took into account the given conditions of the Jews of Kishinev in those days. Dr Bernstein-Cohen wrote in his memoirs:
At 4 o'clock, the defense units were surrounded by the police and army, their weapons were taken away and they were sent to large yards and from there as prisoners so the police could protect them. Allegedly because of the public anger and riots, as they apologized later from the governing forces.
That same evening, the pogrom broke out and the rioters were free to perform their deadly acts. In these conditions, one cannot blame the defenseless Jews. If only a possibility of self defense by the Jews of Kishinev prevailed, the rioters , without a doubt, would have been repelled as in the days of Noah Kutchener and his friends in the years of the 1880s. But against a standing army and organized rioters from the Krushevan group under the aegis of the Tsar from Petersburg, there was no possibility of defense. The Prince Orosov who was appointed immediately after the 1903 riots as governor of Bessarabia, blamed the tsarist government with inciting the pogroms and wrote in his memoirs[11] that the Jewish defense prepared weapons, although primitive, against the rioters.
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In almost identical conditions the pogroms resumed in 1905. But, after this, for about 35 years, when the government did not organize the riots in a direct way and relied on merely private initiative, not one attempt succeeded by the rioters. The Jews of Kishinev were always ready to stand on their own. After Bessarabia became part of Romania, the antisemites' movement did not hesitate even for a moment. There were no lack of Romanian Krushevans, but not enough to cause riots. It seems that the grandson of Noah Kutchener scared them. In the winter months of the year 5688 (1927-8) when the Cuzist students organized riots in the cities of Romania, there was also open incitement in the anti-semitic newspapers in Bucharest and Iasi. The rioters were forced to overlook Kishinev despite much grumbling, because it was a known truism that the Jews would put up a strong defense.
The years 1919-22 were bloody years in Ukraine where whole Jewish communities were cut down at the hands of the armies of Petlura, Denikin and other gangs. Many more were victims of starvation and disease a stream of refugees reached Bessarabia, after they crossed the border over the River Dniester in great danger, with the hope of continuing away to Eretz Yisroel and the United States. After the first hundreds passed peacefully over the river and rushed many to the border to be saved. Most of them were broken in spirit and lacking everything. The Jews of Bessarabia met them with a true spirit of brotherly love and presented them with assistance to the best of their ability. Many thousands continued to the center, to Kishinev, that there they hoped to find more contacts and care focused on their needs.
Jewish Kishinev was the first to face the responsible question: how to help and assist, to direct and guide the many fellow refugees? Despite the difficulties that the Jews of Kishinev themselves faced in those years, which came at the end of the war. Poverty and suffering still prevailed in thousands of bereaved families, orphans, widows lacking in arrangements and shattered from the war. There was a need to organized help for the war wounded. Heavy was the burden and great was the responsibility. At the onset, the aid agencies from abroad tried to make a clear separation between aid to the war wounded and that of help for the refugees. But the Kishinev businesspeople did not deem it right to discrimination among kinsfolk and among the needy families. Because of the stance of the Junt two separate committees formed: one Ukrainian committee for assistance to Jews hurt by the pogroms, at the head was Dr Yakov Bernstein-Cohen and the other to help the Jews hurt by the war. At this head was N. Aharonovitz.
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The Ukrainian committee concentrated all the best of the Jewish public-spirited citizens in Kishinev:
in addition to the chairman were: Helena Babitz, Y. Sinilevitz, N.M. Roitman the Shochet, V. Alexandrovitz (who was killed in the year 1941 in the Kishinev Ghetto), D. Schechter, L. Trachtenberg and the author Shlomo Hellas who resides today in Israel and many others. Rabbi Y.L. Tzirelson donated his large share to the aid organization.
When a group of Kishinev business people decided to care for the Ukrainian refugees, they weren't satisfied with just knowing the situation from the arrivals into Bessarabia, but decided also to send a special delegation to Ukraine in the year 1919 Benzion Balzan and Shochetman (Aligon) so as to check on the situation and assist the departure organization.
In the development of the aid strategy, there was a need to get a permit from the Romanian government and also to arrange easements in the entrance of refugees to Bessarabia. The Ukrainian committee in Kishinev decided to send a delegation to Bucharest comprised of Dr Y. Bernstein-Cohen and the Senator Alexandri who had good relations with General Averescu. The efforts of the delegation came to fruition. The Prime Minister General Averescu permitted the entrance of the refugees to Bessarabia for 3 months. Up until the pogroms of Denikin and Petlura stopped it. It was in the great interest of the general to make a humanitarian gesture toward the refugees, in order to create a good impression on different factions in Europe. He imposed on Dr Y. Bernstein-Cohen that he would make sure that his kindnesses would reach the ears of those factions in Paris, London and other places.[12]
Anyway, the refugees had their passage eased because of this saving act, because not a few were sacrificed in the hour of need when they were went back from the middle of the journey. The accepted strategy in those cases was matan b'seter (anonymous gift) and was used this time and many Jews crossed the Dniester and escaped the Ukrainian hell.
The Ukrainian committee in Kishinev stood to act quickly in light of the situation, that within its means, it could not give the minimal help demanded to many. It was decided on that to turn to the Jews of Bessarabia and Romania and to other Jewish communities abroad. The cries of kinsfolk from Kishinev brought waves and generous sums started to stream to the capital of Bessarabia from the Jews of the Diaspora. The Ukrainian committee in Kishinev, which until December 1920 acted also as a central committee for all of Bessarabia, organized all the activity, put together the needed apparatus and concentrated the businesspeople in places in order to carry out the great mission that fate had dropped on the Jews of Kishinev in the presentation of help to many kinsfolk.[13]
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And maybe for greater results, that are not given to be reported, was the atmosphere of brotherly love which accompanied the activities for the Ukrainian refugees. The Jews of Kishinev took in thousands of refugees to their homes. Many people, not only those of means, received the refugee-kinsfolk with great affection and gave them shelter and sustenance.
There was a need to bring the suffering of the refugees before the aid agencies abroad and so was sent Dr Y. Bernstein-Cohen to Paris as an emissary. A window was opened to Jewish philanthropy and it focused interest on the fate of many victims of the Ukrainian destruction. Alarm about the desperate situation of the Jews of Ukraine woke a large response to render aid across the Dniester. Be, even though great exertions were made, there was no guarantee that all the aid that had been sent to Ukraine arrived at anything documented. In addition to the activities of the Ukrainian committee, also the strength of organized refugees cared for their kinsfolk in Ukraine. It was decided by those to send a mission from among them the writer, Shlomo Hellas and Vy Alterman to the aid conference convening in Prague. At the conference, S. Hellas spoke about the distress of the refugees and about the terrible situation of the Jews of Ukraine and demanded that urgent assistance be sent by way of the Dniester. After a short time, the first transport was sent in that direction but most of it never arrived to the Jews and there was no reason to continue this activity.
A year later, the Junt took more responsibility in helping and eased those interested in continuing their journey to Eretz Yisroel and also across the ocean to America. The visit of Vladimir Tiomkin in the year 1921 under the auspices of the aid committee abroad was great support for activity in Kishinev and increased in all of Bessarabia. But as many of the activities of the aid committee increased, so too, increased the needs of supporting the refugees who streamed into Bessarabia. In 1922, the vigilance increased at the borders and almost stopped the passage over the Dniester. In addition, the Romania government started to pursue the refugees, in order to pressure them to leave the country and undertook drastic measures to repatriate them or bounce them from place to place. Difficult times were had by the Ukrainian refugees. The Kishinev businesspeople worked and toiled to overcome the worst of the decree. A huge effort and heavy toll was imposed in order to postpone the decree or at least soften it.
A significant portion of the refugees were able to stay in Romania but some of them were forced to expedite their departure. Also in the years 1922-3 the hardship continued and increased the torture and suffering from the repressive Romanian regime. In these years, an important aid activity was by
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Aika to end the refugee problem by hurrying up their immigration and mostly it succeeded.
At the end of this chapter, both famous and tragic as one, it is important to note that the Jews of Kishinev were not only donors to the refugees, they also received social and spiritual value in return.
It was of great worth that the stream of Ukrainian refugees arrived then in Kishinev isolated from the Jews of Russia. It brought them to a crossroads. For more than 100 years, they were connected to the Jews of Russia and here, in one night, they were faced with an attempt to follow a new path, independent, to be a center for Jewish spirituality in greater Romania and were forced to show strength and inspiration in order to face these great tasks. In those days it was a blessing, despite the difficult burden, in the large number of the public who were experience businesspeople, writers and educators in the pioneer spirit of the young Jews---which came to Kishinev. Although a large portion of them did not stay long, they still had positive influences. They inspired public works. There were important ones who found a way to stay longer and were, in their deeds, a great blessing to the Jewish community spirit there. From the distance of later years, it seems that the Ukrainian refugees in Kishinev took a large part in widening and increasing the many activities in public life. This mutual help in the era of the Ukrainian refugees is one of the wonderful chapters in the history of the Kishinev community. Justifiably, the Jews of Kishinev remember the days of the Ukrainian refugees as a way station when they stood at the crossroads at the end of the first world war.
With the end of the first world war, significant were changes in the borders of European states. Kishinev, in all of Bessarabia, was included in Romania. The Jews of Romania who were numbered upwards of 800,000 souls, were not a socially united and solidified group. Not only differences in political outlook were between them but also language, culture, behavior and environmental conditions.
At first it was not easy to find a common ground for cooperation between the Jewish experience and disposition, who resided for a long period in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, for example, the Jews of Transylvania and Bukovina and the Jews of Russia and Romania. There was tremendous effort to narrow the differences and to find a common ground between the Jews of Romania. This great mission was filled by Kishinev and the rest of the Jews of Bessarabia in all. Primarily and responsibly, Kishinev brought the traditions of the Jewish national current to the realm of the Jews of Romania. Upright in the claim for political rights, they were an appearance of a minority, proud in their origins.
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This stance brought great loyalty to the Zionist movement which was expressed in the equipping of the Jewish person for self realization, drafting most of the youth to Chalutz(pioneer), Hebrew culture and education all these were a refreshing direction. The Hebrew teacher, a zionist publicist from Kishinev, appeared on the general stage of the Romanian Jews. He brought with him a new progressive, nationalist, Zionist tune. And slowly was Kishinev a main support in the war for zionist national consolidation of Romanian Jews. Many among Romanian Jews saw in this new direction that came from the borders of Bessarabia and Kishinev, tremendous damage to the Jews, that they chose spiritual slavery. Overtly and internally they supported the assimilation stream. Here came the Kishinev Jews and spoiled their party. In the Jewish political arena two trends materialized among the Jews: one that proudly flew the Jewish banner and taught the masses in this spirit. This one concentrated around the Zionist federation and after a number of years, around the Jewish political party. The other side a bold assimilationist sect and their followers, who organized around unionya federation which arose long before the first world war, among the old-time Romanian Jews. These two trends started a fight for the tag: the face of Romanian Jewry. The contribution was great by Kishinev Jewry during this struggle in the years 1918-40, in order to promise victory for the national Zionist trend. As a symbol of the Jewish communal fate in the diaspora, the fact remains, that after 20 years, at the time that the Kishinev community was starting on the path to being the important and independent Jewish center and increase their influence only that these years of increase were taken away by the days of the Shoah and ruin overnight the communal and spiritual life which was designated for this community stopped. It was erased by the Nazi-Romanian vandals in the year 1941. The construct of more than 200 years was destroyed down to the foundation. With the return of the Russians to Kishinev in the year 1944, a new chapter was opened in the book of the community sated with suffering and hardship. This chapter does not interface with the past design of community life. The impression of the history of wandering of the Jewish people in the diaspora will be supplemented by the story of the Kishinev community in the last era. Note the development of a Jewish hub there that during generations filled a significant need in the life of the Jewish nation in the diaspora in the struggle for survival and ambition for its redemption.
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We were wondering what our threshold would be for boring news. We've found it. Yes we're desperate for any news on the Mighty Oil but this is just so... so meh.
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Awesome picture. Come on September!
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I saw the line at the end of 'Brule part II'.
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I am not bored, Willis and I have some great players to compare him to, and our future segment is gold.
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"We're thrilled at the opportunity to play a larger part in the 2005 SEMA show as Vehicle Manufacturer of the Show with the 2006 Civic as Vehicle of the Show," said John Mendel, senior vice president of American Honda. "The performance aftermarket has played a big part in the image of Honda with young buyers and performance enthusiasts. SEMA is the perfect venue to highlight our company's commitment to the market and the exciting new products we're building, including our all-new Civic and the new Ridgeline truck."
Honda has long been a leader in the compact performance market. According to the latest figures from SEMA, Honda and Acura products account for almost 40 percent of the total vehicles in this segment.
In 2001, Honda debuted the all-new 2002 Civic Si at SEMA. The company has also selected SEMA as the venue to debut new Honda Factory Performance accessory kits for models like the Civic Coupe, the Accord Coupe and the Acura RSX.
In addition to hosting the world debut of the 2006 Civic Si production model, the 2005 SEMA show will feature a wide assortment of Honda and Acura models modified by some of the import performance market's leading tuner companies. Models on display will include the all-new 2006 Ridgeline, Honda's first entry in the pickup truck segment, the always-popular S2000 sports car and the Element SUV. Acura division is expected to feature modified versions of the RSX, the TSX sports sedan and the RL luxury performance sedan.
Additional media information and photography of the Civic Si Concept and the full line of Honda and Acura vehicles are available at www.hondanews.com.


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I also would love to see the police department representatives and the mayor there, working with the citizens in coming up with solutions to violence by brainstorming solutions that will prevent the violence.
I have made a list of all the violent acts committed in Fort Wayne the past few months and do not need to repeat that list here. We all know that drugs, theft, home invasions and murders are all catalysts in keeping our city unsafe. Much as I like you, Mr. Mayor, Fort Wayne is not the safest place to be. People aren't comfortable with all these murders, thefts and drug deals, and we all become victims when we have robberies of drug stores, banks, other businesses and our homes.
Innocent citizens are drawn into this violence just by hearing about it on the news, reading the papers or social media. It doesn't matter how much you are trying to comfort people, the violence is rampant, and it must stop. It affects us physically, emotionally and psychologically, and until it is stopped the private citizens remain victimized.
I cannot imagine the trauma the passengers on the bus who witnessed that poor woman being murdered were experiencing! How will that affect them? Will they be able to forget it and go on as though nothing happened? I don't think that will be very easy.
My deepest appreciation and thanks to all our police officers, whether on foot, in patrol cars or in special operation teams for all they do for our city. The hours of training, meetings and preparing are invaluable to us as a community. I thank you for your many, many hours of hard work, stress and abilities to solve heinous crimes. We pray for your safety. God bless you all!
Learn to trust your law enforcement people. Their job is to keep us safe. If you see criminal behavior, report it. Call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 436-7867.
We need to understand how criminal behavior begins, and if we can do that, we might have a good chance of stopping it before it does begin in the future. You know, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." We all know that the family environment is critical to raising children, problems such as poverty, education, parental support and love, and family, all contribute to the child's well-being. If these are not positive, caring and on-going, then the child gets acceptance in other ways.
How a child is punished after breaking rules is all part of how the child will behave in later years. Child neglect, abuse, etc., are some of the reasons why children develop criminal behavior. Peer pressure is another reason that some of our children engage in activities they normally would not engage in. Peer pressure is extremely powerful, and I've seen many students in my classes over the years cave in to peer pressure and some have lost their lives. So heart-breaking!
The environment is the greatest factor that accounts for our children's behaviors. If a young child has aggressive behavior in preschool, kindergarten, etc., and it's not dealt with, chances are, they will become outcasts, and this often pushes them toward children with the same negative tendencies. Stop this before it takes hold.
Let's begin to form neighborhood groups that meet and help each other with seeing potential problems in neighborhoods and developing support systems with each other. In addition to the neighborhood meetings, people can come together to discuss what they've seen in their neighborhoods, and discuss potential solutions.
I believe having school counselors available at these meetings would be helpful. They are able to describe the negative behaviors in children, and ways to stop them. There are some extremely strong, knowledgeable counselors in high schools who have dealt with violence (several come to mind who have been invaluable), and violence therapists in our community, who may be able to advise our community. Use these resources, their expertise. We have very talented people out there.
Form your committees, assess home behaviors and how they are dealt with, and be watchful in your neighborhoods. (Remember the Neighborhood Watch Committees in the '80s?) Number one priority is the safety of the community, and especially your children and your elderly who live alone. Keep your houses locked, and your garage doors down. Don't invite crime.
We all need to meet and discuss how to disarm and how to prevent this violence.
Together we can make a difference.


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Urinary and Genital Disorders (Children)
Flomax Used for Children
My 11 year old daughter has a kidney stone this is #2. the er doctor prescribed flomax to help her reduce inflamation in the bladder to help her pass the stone. Is this safe?
Yes--Flomax has been used safely in children, although it is not FDA-approved. It seems to increase the likelihood that the ureteral stone will pass, assuming it is small (< 5 mm), and in the lower ureter, near the bladder. If this is her second urinary stone, she should undergo a metabolic evaluation to determine why she is getting kidney stones. Also, she should strain her urine, and if the stone is retrieved, it should be submitted for stone analysis.
Jack S Elder, MD, FACS, FAAP
Clinical Professor of Urology
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Part 2: Knowing when to call in an outside expert can be crucial to getting a vessel launched on schedule.
By Capt. Ken Kreisler
Phase three includes preparing a detailed bid package with recommendations that may not have been included in the original plans, such as alternative placing of a complex entertainment center, not only to better accommodate wiring runs but also to create a more efficient layout. After all, interior designers are artists but sometimes can overlook engineering problems. In phase four, the company presents mockups and may suggest substitutions for some of those materials. The contracts are finalized at the end of phase four.
Besides the obvious work of choosing hardware; soft goods; floor, bulkhead, and overhead coverings; and solid surfaces such as marble and stone, plus creating furniture and cabinets, Westhoff also often assists in planning entertainment and lighting plans, which means the company gets involved in electrical layouts. In fact, there's little that goes into a yacht interior that Westhoff can't do. Many of those skills are employed in Westhoff's current projects, which include refits on a 105-foot classic tugboat, a 150-foot trideck for Northern Marine, and two Pacific Mariner 85s, as well as an 85-foot Nordland sportfisherman. The tug conversion is a good example of how detailed Westhoff's services can be. "That project presented problems inherent in taking a vessel that was not built to be a yacht and turning it into one," Westhoff explains. His comments refer specifically to the spatial considerations given the more-or-less fixed room he and his fabricators would have to work with. "Once the interior was gutted, our task was to work with the interior designer, owners, and the refit yard to get the built-ins, cabinets, stairways, and any other fabrication needs coordinated with all the other projects going on. Remember, this boat was being built from the inside out," he adds.
In the complex world of building or refitting a yacht, knowing when to call in an outside expert can be crucial to getting a vessel launched on schedule. "We like to get in as early as possible on a project so that our services can be utilized to the fullest. In this kind of business, time is money, and quite often lots of it," Westhoff says
Consulting services such as those provided by Westhoff can not only expedite the complex process associated with these kinds of projects, they can allow the yard to concentrate on the things it does best. And that means a better yacht and a satisfied owner.
J.S. Westhoff & Co. Phone: (913) 663-9900. www.westhoffco.com.
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This article originally appeared in the April 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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SANTA CRUZ -- A memorial arose on a downtown corner Sunday in honor of a local man gunned down there early Saturday, as residents were left wondering about the motive behind the shooting and whether the homicide is a reflection of the area's safety.
Pauly Silva, 32, of Santa Cruz was shot several times while standing on the sidewalk outside Red Restaurant & Bar on Locust Street near Cedar Street about 12:30 a.m., in what police believe was a crime committed by gang members.
Witnesses reported seeing shots fired from a gray or green 1990s model Mercedes, and Watsonville police arrested two men in a similar car a short while later off South Green Valley Road. A third man was arrested in Santa Cruz. They are being held on gang and other charges as investigators look at their possible involvement in the shooting, police said.
No developments were announced by police Sunday in the county's second slaying this year. The first was the unsolved alleged gang-related slaying of Marco Topete on Second Street in Watsonville on Jan. 18.
One woman interviewed downtown Sunday said she is afraid to allow her teenage son to be downtown after a certain hour; others said they believe it is as safe as most other towns of its size.
Rayne Marr of Santa Cruz said she doesn't believe downtown is safe at night, a point of contention with her 15-year-old son.
"Even during the day at times I don't feel safe downtown," Marr said. "With gang violence and the prevalence of drugs here, it's a real danger. And I think it affects other kids, too -- kids who aren't involved.
"It's truly heartbreaking -- it seems like there has been an upswing in violence in the last few years, particularly violence against young people."
Nathan Zuniga, a young man who lives downtown, said he feels safe downtown. Yet he said he does stick to well-lit areas late at night.
"I was surprised to hear it happened here," he said. "I feel safe; I haven't had any problems."
Another man, a 32-year-old who said he grew up in Santa Cruz, said he believes you have to be careful at any bar. But he said he sees a lot of police downtown and feels it is safe.
"But alcohol is a breeding ground for not thinking before you act," he said. "And I grew up on the Westside and there has always been some territorial stuff."
Zachary Davis, an owner of The Penny Ice Creamery around the corner from Red Restaurant & Bar and its downstairs sister, The Red Room, said he doesn't think the shooting represents downtown.
Penny closes at 11 p.m., and while they have had "occasional altercations," none have approached the level of a homicide, he said. Davis said he and his employees go out after work sometimes and have gone to Red Restaurant & Bar, The Red Room and other downtown bars.
"Something like that gets a lot of attention, and headlines, but I think downtown is generally a safe place to be," Davis said. "People feel badly this happened, but I don't think it will change our behavior. It's tough; every town deals with things like this. It's challenging for everyone not to let an isolated, tragic incident define us."
Davis said he thinks it's important people talk about it and take time to consider ways they could help decrease violence.
At Planet Fresh Gourmet Burritos, downstairs from Red Restaurant & Bar and next door to The Red Room, an employee said he was too busy to talk, and that business was as brisk as ever Sunday.
The owner of Red Restaurant & Bar and The Red Room did not return a message seeking comment.
Deputy Chief Steve Clark said the two establishments generate a lot of calls for police service, adding that he was looking at statistics to see how those calls for service compare to other downtown bars.
The calls have included responses to past violent crimes.
In 2008, Justin Zuk, 26, was stabbed to death by his former roommate in a downtown parking lot after a confrontation outside the Red Restaurant & Bar.
Dylan Bayly, 29, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of manslaughter two years later.
In February 2010, four men were stabbed in a gang-related brawl that erupted in the early morning hours near Locust and Cedar streets.
Clark said Santa Cruz police often get asked whether downtown is safe.
"It's hard to imagine how to quantify that," he said. "I go down there at night; it's safe enough for me to take my family there."
He said some of the late-night businesses downtown are very responsible, while others have room for improvement.
Detectives worked on the homicide all weekend and developed some good leads, Clark said. He said they were looking at a number of possible motives.
"I don't think Pauly was a gang member," Clark said. "But the manner in which this was carried out, and his brother's shooting, any intuitive investigator would take a good hard look at that angle. But I don't think he would have been targeted as a gang member."
Silva's twin brother was shot at while walking on Laurel Street on Jan. 18, police said. He was shot by a man driving a Volkswagen Jetta and police said they arrested 20-year-old Jonah Namauu in connection with that shooting.
Friends say Silva was a father of two young children who was dedicated to his family, worked as a plumber and was exceptional at mixed martial arts. They said he was a longtime Santa Cruz resident whose father once owned a studio in Santa Cruz.
Sunday, Aaron Siegel of Scotts Valley dropped off a bouquet at a memorial for his friend near Locust and Cedar streets. Siegel said that his friend's old arrests are irrelevant and that earlier police statements about Silva having gang associations is something that could be said about many people, depending on their friends or family or neighbors.
"He lit up my day; he was always smiling and shaking hands," Siegel said. "He was a good man and a special guy, a charismatic guy."
Clark said he thinks there are more people who saw the shooting, or heard something about it, who haven't yet come forward to help.
He asked anyone with information to call the anonymous tipline at 831-420-5995 or leave a tip at www.santacruzpolice.com or on its cellphone application at http://m.santacruzpolice.com.
Editor's Note: This story has been updated. Pauly Silva had an arrest record in Santa Cruz. In 2001, he went on trial for mayhem and two counts of assault. A mistrial was declared on the mayhem count and one of the assault charges. He was convicted on the other assault charge and sentenced to time served.
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