#Rochester Fire Department

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Rochester, NY

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Conditions were especially bad in company-​owned towns, where a majority of the country's miners lived during the 1920s and 1930s, and remained that way to a large degree into the 1940s. Brian Kelly notes that in Alabama, epidemics caused by unsanitary conditions and unsafe drinking water ended up affecting productivity Hevener describes conditions in Harlan County, Kentucky, an important coal mining area. While housing varied considerably from camp to camp, "the county's provisions for sanitation, disease prevention, and health care were generally poor". Few of the outdoor privies were sanitary. Since these towns were controlled by coal companies, the responsibility and decisions were theirs. Hevener notes that it was only during World War II, when one-​third of Harlan County's military draftees were rejected because of venereal disease, that the county became the last in Kentucky to form a health department.

However, the biggest grievances of miners and their families were over company control of all facets of non-​working life. Company stores and payment in scrip rather than cash were major issues, especially in West Virginia and Alabama mining towns. Boyd notes that they played only a small role in Ohio and Illinois, places where mining camps tended to be closer to established towns. Although company stores were illegal in Pennsylvania, Rochester claims that many companies there got around the law by setting up subsidiaries. As John Brophy relates in his description of his upbringing in Pennsylvania coal country, prices were considerably higher at the company stores, "and if a miner got caught bringing in things he had bought out of town, he might get fired".

Company housing was also a central issue, even in those rare instances when its quality was good. Shifflett, whose work leans heavily on company-​sponsored oral history, misses the point when he describes the physical conditions as often superior to those that rural families had experienced before they came to the mines. Yes, and slaves before the Civil War often ate better than northern urban workers—​a "fact" that apologists for slavery often asserted in defense of the institution—​though this did little to diminish slaves' desire for freedom. Company leases were draconian, although judges always ruled that they had been signed freely. If a worker went on strike, had visitors (especially unionists), died, went looking for another job, or did not buy enough at a company store, he was liable to eviction. The company always knew where you were. Occasionally, company agents and thugs pulled sick miners out of bed and sent them to work. In Alabama mining towns, they were called "Shack Rousters".

In virtually all mining towns, the control by the companies was absolute. The political offices of the towns, including that of the police chief, were almost always controlled by the mine owners. Policemen themselves were often subsidized by the mining companies. Police and company guards would force any stranger who could not explain his or her business sufficiently to leave town. In Verna, Harlan County, Kentucky, for example, the sheriff pistol-​whipped a job applicant because he came from an adjacent union community. Companies also often controlled the post office. During a 1931–​32 Harlan County coal miners' strike, owners cut off the delivery of "the miners' favorite newspaper, the Knoxville News-​Sentinel, because it was critical of local operators". Companies also often selected the teachers, social workers, and ministers. Many company towns were surrounded by barbed wire with a single gate manned by guards. Union organizers when discovered were occasionally murdered. Needless to say, prominent among the stated demands of many mining strikes were the abolition of this pervasive control and the mine-​guard system.

Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

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Three people escaped without major injuries after a hot air balloon they were in struck a power line and crashed along a Minnesota highway, police say.

The hot air balloon was attempting to land Wednesday, March 20, in Rochester when a gust of wind pushed it into the power line, according to the Rochester Police Department.

Video shared on social media shows sparks fly before the balloon becomes detached from the basket carrying three people.

“I was driving home on (U.S. Highway) 63 there and as soon as I saw the hot air balloon going in the air I was like, ‘Okay they’re gonna land in the field.’” Brady Ploenzke told KAAL. “I was like, ‘Okay it’s getting a little closer,’ then I saw a huge flash of light.”

The basket landed in the grass beside the highway as traffic stopped to help the people inside. The crash caused the basket to catch fire, leading to a smoky scene.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, police said. The balloon was later found a couple of miles away.

Two of the three people inside the basket suffered minor injuries, according to police.

Mike Lesmeister, the balloon’s pilot, told KSTP it was his first issue in 27 years as a hot air balloon operator.

The crash is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Rochester is about a 90-mile drive southeast of Minneapolis.

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A “McCarthyite Backlash” Against Pro-Palestine Speech

From university disciplinary hearings to death threats, supporters of Palestinian rights are facing a wave of reprisals.

Alex Kane

October 20, 2023

Students rally for Palestine at Harvard University on October 14th, 2023.

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IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, a religious center received enough threats around an in-person event about Palestine that the program had to be moved online. In Arlington, Virginia, bomb threats forced the country’s largest American Muslim civil rights group to move a banquet partially focused on Gaza to an undisclosed location. In Houston, a hotel pulled out of hosting a conference organized by a prominent Palestinian rights group due to “escalating security concerns.” In Brooklyn, a right-wing City Councilperson brought a gun to a student protest for Gaza. And in Washington, DC, a United States senator called for a Justice Department investigation into student supporters of Palestine.

As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues, Americans are expressing their opposition on college campuses, on social media, and in the streets. But the dissent has come with a cost. Across the US, supporters of Palestinian rights are facing a severe and unprecedented backlash to their speech and activism, ranging from university condemnations of student protest to death threats and intimidation from pro-Israel groups. “We’ve had an exponential surge in requests for legal help. It has been like nothing we’ve seen before,” said Radhika Sainath, a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, which defends the free speech rights of Palestine advocates. Since October 8th, the group has responded to nearly 200 reports of “suppression of Palestinian rights advocacy”—almost as many incidents as they addressed in all of last year. According to Sainath, attorneys have spoken to everyone from “people being fired from their jobs for tweets or social media messages that support Palestinian human rights” to student critics of Israel who are being “doxxed and put on a website called ‘College Terror List,’” which seeks to make them unemployable. “There is an increase in people who are really concerned with the genocidal intentions of Israel right now—and they’re being met with immense McCarthyite backlash and suppression,” Sainath said.

Colleges and universities are the epicenter of this renewed Palestine solidarity activism, and have quickly become prime sites of the reprisals against it. For years, Israel-advocacy groups have worked to police public discourse on campuses, where pro-Palestinian sentiment is more visible than in perhaps any other forum of American life. Supporters of Israel have urged institutions to cancel pro-Palestine events, created blacklists of students deemed “antisemitic” for their Palestine activism, filed civil rights complaints against universities for allowing such activism, and pressed universities to fire professors who criticize Israel. And since October 7th—when Hamas attacked Israel, and Israel began bombing Gaza—a new wave of activism has garnered fresh backlash.

Last week, student groups at Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton, among others, posted statements of solidarity with Palestine, arguing that the present violence in Israel/Palestine has its roots in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians; many specifically cited Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and the 16-year blockade of the Gaza Strip as catalysts for recent events. On October 8th, in a statement co-signed by 34 other student groups, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee said that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The next day, Yale’s pro-Palestinian student group, Yalies4Palestine, released a statement that read: “We mourn the tragic loss of civilian lives, and for this we hold the Zionist regime accountable.”

The backlash to these efforts has been swift and resounding. Two days after the Harvard students released their statement, for instance, more than 350 Harvard faculty signed a letter saying that the activists’ stance amounted to “nothing less than condoning the mass murder” of Israelis. Several US lawmakers issued similar denunciations. And the opposition did not stop there. On October 12th, the right-wing group Accuracy in Media dispatched a truck to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to publicize images of students who were thought to be part of signatory organizations. The truck was emblazoned with the URL “HarvardHatesJews.com,” which redirected to the Accuracy in Media site. According to a former American Civil Liberties Union president who spoke to the New York Times, such actions aim to suppress students’ speech. They may also be impacting their employment prospects: After the Harvard students’ letter was published, CEOs at multiple companies publicly demanded that the university release the names of students whose groups had signed the statement so that they could be sure not to hire them. And the prominent law firm Davis Polk rescinded three job offers it had made to students suspected of signing the Harvard statement and a similar statement at Columbia University. (After two of the students said they had not been involved in their groups’ decisions to sign, the firm said it would reconsider.)

Such job offer revocations are sometimes accompanied by further harassment, as in the case of New York University Law School’s student body president Ryna Workman. On October 10th, Workman sent a newsletter to the law school’s student body expressing solidarity with Palestinians and blaming the “tremendous loss of life” in the region on Israel’s apartheid regime. In a statement sent to journalists, Workman said their message was “inspired [by] what many Jewish peace activists and Israelis, including the editorial board of Israel’s largest newspaper, have voiced over the past week in response to the violence.” However, in response to their newsletter, Workman lost a job offer at the law firm Winston & Strawn. The law school’s Student Bar Association also voted to begin the process of ousting Workman as student body president, and NYU law alumni have since called for their expulsion from the university. “I’ve been getting death threats online,” Workman said in the statement, adding that they have been attacked for being Black, queer, and nonbinary. “The harassment campaign against me has targeted all facets of my identity.”

Students say that educational institutions have not done enough to protect them from such harassment. For instance, at an October 12th pro-Israel gathering at Columbia University, a self-described Columbia administrative employee told student reporters that he wished students at the Palestine rally would “die.” Pro-Palestine student activists at Columbia told Jewish Currents that the incident was only one example of the harassment they had faced. “Students on campus have been taunted in the dining hall, hijabs have been ripped off, students have been spat on, just for things like wearing a keffiyeh,” one member of the Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), who wished to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation, said in an interview. Students said the Columbia administration’s response had fallen short. On October 18th, the university’s president sent a message to Columbia staff and students lamenting those who “are using this moment to spread antisemitism, Islamophobia, bigotry against Palestinians and Israelis, and various other forms of hate,” and referenced “that some of this abhorrent rhetoric is coming from members of our community, including members of our faculty and staff,” but the message did not specifically address the threat to pro-Palestine ralliers or other incidents of harassment on campus. (In response to questions from Jewish Currents, a Columbia spokesperson said “the safety of our campus community is our primary and ongoing concern.”)

Some institutions have themselves cracked down on students’ political expression. A high school student in Frankfort, Illinois, who requested anonymity because they are applying to universities, said that on October 13th, school officials told a group of Palestinian students to stop wearing keffiyehs—scarves that are a Palestinian national symbol.

Such policing of expression is sometimes backed up by disciplinary actions. Maddy Ward, a student at Rockland Community College at the State University of New York, told Jewish Currents that when she interrupted a “unity gathering for Israel” by walking in and shouting, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Jews for Palestine,” campus police officers told her that she would be subject to a campus disciplinary hearing, and that her actions could also be investigated as a crime. Ward was punished in advance of the October 19th disciplinary hearing by not being permitted to register for classes or obtain a transcript, according to a letter from a school official that Ward shared with Jewish Currents. Palestine Legal said that this move raised concerns about due process—as did the university’s denial of Ward’s request to have Sainath, the Palestine Legal attorney, present via speakerphone during the hearing. “They’re trying to criminalize and suppress people for speaking out,” Ward said. In a letter to the college, Palestine Legal said the administration’s actions raise “serious First Amendment and due process concerns.” (A spokesperson for the university told Jewish Currents that “officials are investigating an incident involving an allegation of disruption at an on-campus event” and that the school “is following applicable procedures set forth in the Student Code of Conduct.”)

On other campuses, the threats to Palestine activists have been even more severe, such as the October 12th rally at Brooklyn College where Inna Vernikov, a Republican New York City Councilwoman, showed up openly carrying a gun. Vernikov filmed herself calling the student ralliers “pro-Hamas” and “nothing short of terrorists without the bombs.” (The councilwoman was later arrested for openly carrying a weapon at a rally, which is prohibited in New York.) One member of Brooklyn College’s SJP chapter, who asked to remain anonymous due to safety concerns, said that students were alarmed by Vernikov’s presence. “We felt threatened. A lot of students felt like their lives were in danger,” they said. SJP leaders at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recounted similar fears amid the barrage of death threats that followed their Instagram posts defending Palestinians’ “right to resist.” “We haven’t been to classes in a week because we feel unsafe,” said Ruya Hazeyen, a co-president of the school’s SJP chapter. Hazeyan said that the university administration has temporarily exempted her from attending class, but that she hasn’t received any further information from the school on what she and the other students should be doing in response to the threats.

While many of these threats have been aimed at student activists, Palestine Legal’s Sainath said the climate of repression has also affected professors and university administrators. “Professors are being questioned, their classes are being canceled, and they are being locked out of their emails over supporting Palestinian rights,” she said. “Some university administrators have reported to us that they feel that they can’t even publicly support their Palestinian students right now.” Pro-Israel donors have also put pressure on institutions themselves. Multiple donors to Harvard said they would cut off their funds because the university had been too slow to condemn the Hamas attack and the student groups’ statement. Some donors to the University of Pennsylvania have also said they will no longer fund the school because of what they described as its “silence” on the Hamas attacks, though the president in fact condemned Hamas’s “abhorrent attacks” three days after the assault.

While campuses are at the center of the clash over pro-Palestinian speech, human rights groups and other non-academic institutions have also been targeted by harassment campaigns. A co-leader of local solidarity group Rochester Witness Palestine, who requested anonymity due to safety concerns, told Jewish Currents that Ahmad Abuznaid, the executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), was scheduled to give an in-person keynote speech in Rochester, New York, during an October 13th event. The speech was slated to be held at an Islamic center in Rochester; however, the center had to pull out of hosting the event because of threats it received. (Abuznaid spoke online instead.) Such concerns have also affected other events in Rochester, with a Palestinian film festival organized by Witness Palestine also being moved online after the host theater pulled out for safety reasons.

The Rochester talk featuring Abuznaid was not the only USCPR event that was affected. In Texas, a Hilton hotel canceled the group’s upcoming conference, saying that it posed “potential risks to our Team Members and guests.” But the hotel did not cite “any specific threats or provid[e] any record of the threats received,” Abuznaid said, noting that “without any of that information, it’s hard to believe they didn’t simply cave to anti-Palestinian racists.” Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised the hotel for canceling an event he said was put on by “Hamas supporters,” adding that “no location in Texas should host or sponsor USCPR.” Meanwhile, in Virginia, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim American civil rights group, said it had to move the location of an annual banquet because, after it updated the event programming to focus on Palestinian human rights, the hotel hosting the event received calls from anonymous people threatening “to plant bombs in the hotel’s parking garage, kill specific hotel staff in their homes, and storm the hotel.”

As the Israeli bombing of Gaza continues with no end in sight, Sainath said she is bracing for more such instances. “The repression we’re seeing is different in nature and more intense than anything we have witnessed in recent years,” she said. At the same time, Sainath predicts the crackdown on speech won’t stop dissent. “People of conscience—particularly of the youngest generations—are continuing to speak out despite immense personal risk,” she said.

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The early history of the Penn Yan Fire Department

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Penn Yan has had some sort of organized fire protection since shortly after its incorporation as a village in 1833. In fact, the Penn Yan Fire Department of today can trace its origins to an organization established in 1835.

That fall, after a fire destroyed an early Yates County courthouse building, a meeting took place at the American Hotel (the modern-day site of Long’s Cards & Books) in which Thomas Locke called for volunteers to join what was then called Fire Engine Company No. 1. With a certificate signed by Village President Abraham Wagener – the man considered the founding father of Penn Yan – the company purchased a brake and suction engine called the Neptune. The engine, stored in a building on Elm Street (coincidentally, likely near the site of the present firehouse), joined a hand engine called the Cataract, which was kept in a shack on North Avenue.

That Cataract was part of the village’s earliest firefighting efforts, which involved the mythical but real bucket brigade. During the earliest days of the settlement that became Penn Yan, the residents of the time sought a form of fire protection and organized themselves into a bucket brigade. Leather buckets were distributed to the 300 or so homeowners who lived in the Penn Yan area at the time, and when a fire erupted in the village they were expected to seize their buckets, head to the scene of the fire, and form a bucket brigade.

It was not just a sense of duty but a local ordinance that called upon residents to keep their buckets at the ready in their homes and respond to fires with their buckets, ready to take their places in the line and hand the bucket to fight the fire. Supporting these efforts, with the rapid growth in population and constant increase in buildings, was the purchase of the Cataract. However, the Cataract complemented rather than replaced the efforts of the bucket brigade, as Lewis Cass Aldrich describes the Cataract as “but little greater power than a large ‘squirt-gun’” in his 1892 History of Yates County. Nevertheless, the Cataract was the first piece of firefighting equipment in Penn Yan and was used for 20 or so years.

While Company No. 1, with Locke as the chief engineer, continued operating the Neptune, another group of volunteers formed Cataract Company No. 2 in 1838 to take charge of that engine. In the 1840s, a wooden building went up on the north side of Chapel Street to store the engine along with a homemade hook-and-ladder truck. In those days, firefighters drew water from the Keuka Lake Outlet with leather firehoses and had just enough hose to blast a stream of water 330 feet in any direction from the corner of Main and Elm streets.

Starting in the 1850s, and into the 1860s and 1870s, the village began installing underground pipes and reservoirs to improve the water supply. However, it wasn’t until 1894 – when the system was completed – that firefighters had ample access to this water supply. In the meantime, a group of citizens formed Keuka No. 1 in 1851 and Excelsior No. 2 in 1855. While Excelsior No. 2 was situated in an engine house at the corner of Main Street and North Avenue, Keuka No. 1 was located on Main Street at the firehouse that eventually burned in 1967. During this time, the fire department purchased its third brake engine – from Wright and Company, of Rochester – in 1856 and a Button and Blake machine from Waterford in 1858.

With the purchase of Penn Yan’s first steam engine in 1871, 83 members organized Keuka Engine Company that October. The steam engine was purchased from Silsby Manufacturing Company, of Seneca Falls, a renowned manufacturer of firefighting equipment of the time. The Keuka Engine members sought permission to take charge of Keuka No. 1 and Excelsior No. 2, and later they formed themselves into a hose company called Ellsworth Hose Company. Gen. S.S. Ellsworth, the namesake, was a Civil War hero from Penn Yan.

Meanwhile, the Hydraulic Hose Company – later and still called Hydrant Hose Company – began in 1866, initially using a force pump installed in the building that became The Birkett Mills to fight fires. A hose was attached to the force pump until hydrants were placed along downtown Main Street. Early on, fire hydrants were installed only on Main Street, so Hydrant Hose responded only to fires on Main Street while Ellsworth operated the steam engine throughout the rest of the village.

The Hunter Hook and Ladder Company – named after Yates County Treasurer Charles Hunter – started in 1880 with the purchase of the fire department’s first truck. The company also took charge of the department’s ladders and other equipment. While this company and Ellsworth met in separate rooms of the Main Street firehouse, Hydrant Hose had headquarters that opened in 1886 in Struble’s Arcade. Meanwhile, the Sheldon Hose Company – named after William Sheldon – formed in 1895 and occupied the engine house on Main Street and North Avenue.

In 1905, Hydrant Hose moved its offices from the Arcade to the municipal building on Maiden Lane. About a decade later, in 1916, the company bought the department’s first motorized equipment, a Brockway hose truck with attached chemical tanks.

These four companies – Hydrant Hose, Ellsworth Hose, Hunter Hook and Ladder, and Sheldon Hose, listed in order of establishment – still make up the modern-day Penn Yan Fire Department, with the main firehouse located on Elm Street that opened in June 1969. In 1914, Penn Yan historian Walter Wolcott noted the “(Penn Yan) department of today is an active, alert organization,” with a steam fire engine, a chemical engine, a hook and ladder truck, and three hose companies. With 60 hydrants and several outlying hose houses throughout the village, as well as the water supply from Keuka Lake, “the village is capable of successfully coping with the more serious fires.”

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1 Killed, 6 Injured In Mass Shooting At Park In New York: Report

The Rochester Police said they responded to the Maplewood Park around 6:20 pm for the report of a large gathering with shots fired. New Delhi:  One person was killed and six others were injured following a mass shooting at a park in New York’s Rochester city today, according to local media. Rochester Police Department Captain Greg Bello told reporters at a press briefing that police responded…

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1 Killed, 6 Injured In Mass Shooting At Park In New York: Report

New Delhi: One person was killed and six others were injured following a mass shooting at a park in New York’s Rochester city today, according to local media. Rochester Police Department Captain Greg Bello told reporters at a press briefing that police responded to Maplewood Park at about 6:20 pm on Sunday after receiving reports that shots were fired during a large gathering. They found several…

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Welcome.

Assuming you stumbled here because you either know me or are curious about my background and who am I really, well this is going to be the place.

My name is Amanda, I am a complicated bundle of raging dumpster fires. When I’m asked what’s wrong by with me I usually have to joke the list of things wrong with me is probably shorter.

I feel like I have so much to say and the only way I can possibly get my thoughts and feelings down will truly be by writing it out.

Today was difficult because honestly my body has been slowing down and it’s scaring me. For those of you who are not aware, I am currently almost 4 years into a debilitating condition that is still being diagnosed and treated. I was finally able to get into the Mayo Clinic at Rochester after what felt like an eternity of waiting and being bad enough that I had to finally be seen.

My current diagnosis list includes: idiopathic gastroparesis, autonomic dysfunction/neuropathy, neurocardiogenic syncope, physical deconditioning, hyopkalemia due to excessive gastrointestinal loss of potassium… and a whole lot more but this is just the main tip of the iceberg.

My episodes has included blacking out/passing out, shortness of breath, chest pain, pounding heart, sweaty and clammy and unable to regulate my body temperature and vomiting.

I am currently waiting to be seen by the GI department at Mayo Clinic, as June was the first availability. Unfortunately dealing with the healthcare system for the last 4 years, the waiting and trying to find the answers has been the hardest part.

My brain has been in some of the darkest places lately and I hate it. Every day lately I have felt like I am just counting down the days until my body just stops and I can’t keep going anymore.

With a 200 lb weight loss from being unable to tolerate food and certain beverages anymore, my life doesn’t even look anything like what it used to. I so badly crave stability and wanting to be able to physically handle things again. I want to be able to drive again.. even just be able to walk without needing to rest. Half of me is begging not to give up while the other half is literally just too tired to want to try anymore.

But, I continue one day and one step at a time. And now, one blog at a time.

I apologize in advance for the dark moments, probably swearing and profanity that will end up here. But, you have been warned.

Goodnight. More soon.

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The Old Salem Post

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EDITOR: I used to tell a sweet older friend of mine “ Don’t let her keep you out of heaven!”  I was referring to her sister, with whom she had long since had a “falling out.” This is a southern term for disowning each other.  This happens in the best of families.  Usually over money or land. The parents had maybe favored one child over another.  Or, they failed to divide their assets before they died, thus, leaving the siblings to squabble.  That is not a gift to leave your family. This often leads to a complete break in the ties that once bound them in love.  I hope to leave my family united in love, not enemies. I want us united in heaven and on earth!  LynneRMartin

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Jottings from Miz Jeannie  by Jeannie Barnwell.  TIME TO FLUNK SOME TEACHERS!! It makes me so sad to learn that many brilliant,  dedicated future nurses are dropping their life-long dreams because their NURSING instructors set up the students to fail.  In some cases, students are tested on material that has never been covered. Some instructors are not skilled in explaining health care procedures.  As an English instructor, I've been shocked that some of my A+ students-- hardworking, stable, dedicated future nurses, dropped out in tears.  Instead of helping, the  instructors bullied students to the point that the students would WITHDRAW, abandoning lifetime goals.  I called Tri-County Tech to ask: How many students originally  enrolled in the Nursing Program? How many successfully completed the semester?  NO ONE HAD THIS INFORMATION.  NO ONE CALLED ME BACK.  The USA has a nursing shortage, and it will only grow worse as the population ages.  I blame the administrators for allowing nursing instructors to discourage so many future nurses.  MIZ JEANNIE NEEDS YOU TO CONTACT COLUMBIA IF YOU, TOO, ARE APOPLECTIC ABOUT THIS SITUATION.  Love y'all and especially sending love out to our nurses.  Miz Jeannie         ** Editor’s note:  Jeannie—I am still a nurse, and still would be working at our local OMH, but the BIG BOYs of the universe bought out our community hospital and ran off about every  seasoned, experienced, loyal, hard-working nurse there.  Older nurses had worked hard and earned good salaries. But younger novice nurses are less expensive to employ.  This is a self-created shortage that was allowed to happen by hospital administration, who should have seen all this coming.  LRM

ASHTON RECALLS    by Ashton Hester      SALEM SCHOOL NEWS, APRIL 1, 1964 - (Following are some items from the "Salem School News" column, written by Mrs. Nelle Rochester, in the April 1, 1964 Keowee Courier). . .STUDENT COUNCIL RALLY. . .Lynn Smith, president of the Student Council, along with Mrs. Mary Whitten, chaperone, and 11 other Student Council members attended the District Rally at Daniel High School on Wednesday afternoon, March 18. . .Students attending and representing their classes from grades 7 through 12 were: Jimmy Dean Strickland and Michael Towe, 7th grade; Anne Alexander and Patsy Burrell, 8th grade; Terrell Campbell and Walter Hines, 9th grade; Sue Rogers, 10th grade; Ruth Childress, Roger Moore and Leland Talley, 11th grade; and Marie Galloway, 12th grade. . .FHA DISTRICT MEETING. . .Angela Sexton will be modeling a white wool shift with three-quarters length sleeves and tie belt with a sleeveless coat in the District 1 FHA contest in Anderson on April 4. Her accessories are white hat and gloves and black patent shoes and bag. . .Misses Mary Littleton and Sharon Rankin will be representing Salem as voting delegates at the meeting. . .The FHA scrapbook, yearbook, home experiences, and year's activities will be judged and rated. . .These girls worked hard and long, and we hope they will come out on top…..   To be continued next week

JOCASSEE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY,(JVBC) & COFFEE SHOP* 13412 N Hwy 11 Open Wed–Sat 9am-9pm and Sunday 12pm-7pm   Events this week:  Wed:  Wing Wednesday by Blue Ridge Grill at 6:30pm. Thursday: Old Time Jam 6:30pm Food: Blue Ridge Grill  Fri:  Music:  Mark Campbell  at 6:30pm Food: Carolina Classic Diner  Sat– Music: Jaguar 4 Acoustic  at 6:30pm Food: Rad Dads BBQ   Sun:  12pm-7pm. Blue Ridge Grill 1pm-6pm Special Sunday Spaghetti menu and more! More info 864-873-0048  

2024 UPCOMING EVENTS                                                        April 20th 7pm– The War Cry Band will host a benefit for Ralph Turpin medical expenses at the ENAC venue.                                  April 26th, 7 PM Friday Evening Wellness Event:  Reclaiming Our Inalienable Wellness  Doors open at 6:30 PM  Free event hosted by ENAC featuring speaker Meredith Orlowski, AFMC, INHC.  Bring your friends and family along. Gain Energy, Lose Weight, Feel Happy, & Save the World While Doing it!                                         Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea on Saturday, May 4th  from 2 PM-4 PM:   Join us for a special afternoon and treat yourself to delicious goodies, hot tea, and a guest speaker!  Our youngest guests will enjoy manicures and a craft!  $10 per guest.  All funds will be donated to support the Eagles Nest Art Center.  There are also opportunities to sponsor a table for the event.   To RSVP or find more information:  Kayla or Emma Lusk at 864-903-0681                              Oconee Mountain Opry:  May 18th at 7PM.   Jef Wilson, West End String Band, Mystery guests, comedy and more.                                                                                                                               The Eagles Nest Treasure Store is open every Saturday morning 9AM-12PM.  We are accepting donations during that time or call 864-557-2462.  We still have many beautiful gowns short and long to choose from.

For Information on sponsorships, events, volunteering, donations, or rentals call 864-280-1258 or email us at eaglesnestartcenter@gmail.com.  Check out our website Eaglesnestartcenter.org as future events are added.     

                                          CHURCH NEWS                Bethel Presbyterian Church (PCUSA),  580 Bethel Church Rd Walhalla, 29691. Worship at 10:30 a.m.   Come visit us. All are welcomed!   Mel Davis  will give the message April 14.               Boones Creek Baptist Church, 264 Boones Creek Road, Salem invites you to join us for regular worship service on Sunday morning with Sunday School at 10am and followed by worship at 11am.

Salem Methodist Church: 520 Church Street, Salem.  9AM for breakfast, 9:30AM for Sunday School, and 10:30AM for Worship.  You may tune in to our live service on Facebook or view it later on our website.  Women’s Monday morning Bible Study with Sherill Carothers at 10 AM Please know all are welcomed!

Calvary Baptist Church in downtown Salem is inviting you to attend a special Bluegrass Gospel Singing featuring, "The Tugaloo Holler Band" on Saturday, May 11th at 6 PM. You will be blessed so come worship God with us through singing and fellowshipping with believers

OPUS TRUST, a local 501c3 will host a Unique Wine Tasting on April 9th>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>5PM-7PM.  Supporting Local to Save Local.  Tickets must be purchased prior to the event.                                           Learn about OPUS Trust and be a part of saving our local farmlands, open spaces, natural landscapes and resources and our unique upstate. 

Scripture John 13:34-35 NIV: Jesus said.   “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Have a blessed week….Seek to help one another and love! LRM    

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Kodak Park in Rochester, near the banks of the Genesee River in close proximity to Lake Ontario, was established in 1890. It became an immense manufacturing and research center, which at its peak was the major such facility in New York State with 30,000 employees, with its own electrical and steam generation plants, water supply, railroad, fire department, 30 miles of roads, 2000-seat theater, gymnasiums, restaurants, bowling alleys, a rifle range, a pool hall, and the camera club with the most members in the world. In 2001 when production of film peaked, Kodak’s revenue was $19 billion, the year it was the world’s major consumer of silver. The following year revenue dropped to a nearly profitless $13 billion, and market analysts were making pessimistic speculations about the company’s ability to meet the challenges of digital photography (Hill 2008). Today, Eastman Kodak, the company that once was the world’s photochemical imaging leader, is greatly reduced in size and revenue. It is no longer one of the world’s most important corporations, having been eclipsed by Pacific Rim companies that see themselves as being in the business of electronic and digital imaging. By 2007 all film production, which it had been manufacturing in factories in different parts of the world, had been confined to two adjacent buildings located within the sprawling 1200 acres of Eastman Business Park, Building 38 and the curiously named 14-Room (Shanebrook 2010). Kodak Park was renamed Eastman Business Park in 2009, probably to deemphasize its role as a manufacturer. In its decline, to reduce its City of Rochester property tax base, the company blew up unused buildings.

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Family Dog Dies in Fire at Rochester Residence

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Family Dog Dies in Fire at Rochester Residence

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) – The Rochester Fire Department responded to a residential fire Saturday afternoon in southwest Rochester that resulted in the death of the family dog.

RFD was dispatched to a home in the 6100 block of Pointe Dr. around 1:45 p.m. to a report of a fire on the main floor of a residence, with a dog still possibly still inside.

Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the front door and immediately entered the home to put out the fire. Once more firefighters arrived at the scene, they began a primary search of the residence. The first arriving crew extinguished a fire in the kitchen, and then placed a fan in the front door to ventilate smoke and heat out of an open window.

Rochester Fire Department

Rochester Fire Department

While on the second floor of the residence, the primary search team located a dog and took the dog outside where firefighters began life-saving efforts. The efforts were unsuccessful.

Crews continued to check for other fires in the structure, but none were found.

Rochester Fire Department

Rochester Fire Department

RFD said there was significant smoke and fire damage in the kitchen, and some light damage throughout the residence. One person was checked by Mayo Clinic Ambulance for smoke inhalation.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

RFD also noted that they are saddened by the unfortunate passing of the residents’ pet dog and that the fire department carries life-saving equipment that is designed and used on animals including oxygen masks designed to fit cats and dogs. This equipment was deployed by firefighters in this instance.

Minnesota’s Longest Drive-Thru Light Show Is In Mankato

The Kiwanis Holiday Light Display is located at Sibley Park in Mankato. The holiday display is free to the public but cash donations are accepted. All money collected is given to area non-profits.

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There’s no evidence of terrorism in the fiery New Year’s Day crash that saw the driver of an SUV stashed with gas canisters speed toward pedestrians and collide with a car, killing two people and injuring several more after a concert in Rochester, New York, police said.

The suspect, identified as Michael Avery, 35, of the Syracuse area, died Monday night from injuries sustained in the crash, officials said.

Rochester Police Chief David M. Smith said in an update Tuesday that Avery's motive is not clear and urged the public to come forward with information.

However, authorities have spoken with Avery's family and they believed he “may have been suffering from possible undiagnosed mental health issues,” Smith said.

"We have not recovered any information that his actions were motivated by any form of political or social biases," he added, noting it is believed Avery acted alone.

The crash happened shortly before 1 a.m. as police officers were directing traffic after a concert by the band "moe" at the Kodak Center theater complex, Rochester police previously said.

At 12:52 a.m., Avery drove the Ford Expedition on West Ridge Road toward where police officers were stopping traffic to allow pedestrians to cross.

“At this time, Avery sped up, crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic and appears to have intentionally been driving towards the pedestrian crossing,” Smith said. 

That’s when he crashed into the Outlander, sending both vehicles “through a group of pedestrians that were in the crosswalk,” police said in a statement. The two passengers in the Outlander were killed and the driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

The collision caused an explosion and a large blaze that took the fire department more than an hour to extinguish.

Once the flames were doused, firefighters “located at least a dozen gasoline canisters in and around” the Expedition, the police statement said. That prompted police to bring in an arson team and alert the FBI, police said.

The FBI Buffalo Field Office confirmed in a statement that the agency is assisting the Rochester Police Department in the investigation.

Police initially said three pedestrians were struck and hospitalized. That number rose to nine pedestrians, Smith said Tuesday, noting one pedestrian suffered life-altering injuries, and the rest should make full recoveries.

He added that Avery had traveled to Rochester in his personal vehicle on or about Dec. 27 and checked into the WoodSpring Suites in Greece, a suburb of Rochester.

Two days later, Smith said, Avery rented a Ford Expedition from a car rental agency at the Rochester airport and left his personal car in the airport parking garage. Between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Dec. 30, he made “at least half a dozen purchases of gasoline and gas containers at different locations” throughout Monroe and Ontario counties. 

A search warrant was executed on Avery’s hotel room Monday and no suicide note was recovered, Smith said. Another was executed on his personal vehicle, which is still being searched and has not yielded any insight into a motive so far. 

Investigators asked witnesses or anyone with information to reach out to police. Rochester is about 340 miles northwest of Manhattan.

The band "moe" said in a statement late Monday the fiery crash left them “in profound shock and sadness.”

“On a night that was meant for celebration and togetherness, we are faced instead with tragedy that defies understanding,” the statement said. “Our hearts go out to the family and friends of those who lost their lives, and our thoughts are with those who were injured.”

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans said a statement: My heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims who were killed in the fiery crash that occurred on West Ridge Road last night. I pray for the victims who are still fighting for their lives and whose who are working to recover.”

He asked for patience as investigators piece together the details of the crash and asked for anyone with information to contact 911. 

President Joe Biden has been briefed on the Rochester crash, according to a White House official.

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Rochester Hills Fire Department reports gas main break; South Blvd shut down

Rochester Hills Fire Department reports gas main break; South Blvd shut down - https://www.wxyz.com/news/rochester-hills-fire-department-reports-gas-main-break-part-of-south-boulevard-shut-down

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Documenting local history as it happened

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Although I had seen the box before, or at least the name of it on a list of archive boxes, it was while searching for photos of St. Mark’s Terrace that I first encountered and browsed our Dick Eisenhart collection of photos. And I found not only photos of St. Mark’s Terrace – both during and after its construction on the corner of Chapel and Liberty streets more than 50 years ago – but also photos of the fire that destroyed the Penn Yan fire station on Main Street in 1967 and photos of the dedication of the current Elm Street firehouse the following year. There were photos of well-known people, such as Finger Lakes resident and former New York State Lt. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak, and photos of ordinary people who are, often and unfortunately, unidentified in the collection.

Looking through our subject files that contain clippings of newspaper stories, I see Dick Eisenhart’s byline on articles quite frequently, as often what I am researching now is what he was reporting on then. He covered the news of Penn Yan and Yates County for the Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union, the morning and evening newspapers, respectively, in Rochester. For more than three decades, from 1952 to 1986, Eisenhart served as both reporter and photographer as he worked out of his Keuka Street home office, capturing the events and happenings of the Penn Yan area and thus documenting our local history as it happened. Though I neither met Eisenhart during his lifetime (he died in January 2018) nor was alive during his newspaper career (I was born two years after he retired), I feel a kindred spirit with him – from one who documented local history as it happened to one who interprets that local history to this day.

Now, if you follow our Facebook and Instagram pages (“Yates County History Center” and “yates_county_history_center,” respectively), you will soon see we are sharing some photos from our Eisenhart collection – photos he took himself in the course of his work as a news reporter and photographer – in order to display but also identify the people in these photos. As we begin sharing these photos and seeing your comments and memories about Eisenhart’s life and work, I wanted to once again dive into our subject files – this time to find out more about the man behind the stories and the photos.

And in doing so, I was treated to a walk down memory lane with Eisenhart himself; prominently located in the Eisenhart family file is an April 2000 article in the Finger Lakes Times discussing Eisenhart’s donation to the Yates County History Center of his personal collection of his photos while telling the story of his lengthy and distinguished news career. Of course, the article begins with the infamous Penn Yan Fire Department fire and Eisenhart’s eyewitness account of the blaze – including his paying a stranger to deliver his rolls of film to the Democrat & Chronicle office for the newspaper to publish. While a prominent example indeed, the fire is just one example – as even the Times article attests – of the many moments Eisenhart covered and captured during his career. From fires, accidents, and court trials to county, village, town, and school board meetings and anything and everything in between, Eisenhart was there to document it for more than 30 years.

With credentials like that, one might believe Eisenhart to be a candidate for Mr. Penn Yan or Mr. Yates County, if ever there were such a contest or competition. However, he actually did not grow up in Penn Yan or Yates County; according to his obituary, he was born in Horseheads and grew up in Watkins Glen. After graduating from Watkins Glen High School, he served in the Philippines and Japan during World War II – a service that included an encounter with one of the women accused of being Tokyo Rose, the Allied term for a group of female Japanese radio broadcasters who targeted Allied troops with propaganda messages. Eisenhart even testified for the prosecution when this woman – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, whom Eisenhart had met during his stint as a guard at a Japanese prison where she was an inmate – was convicted and then imprisoned for treason against the U.S. government.

Coming home from his service, Eisenhart graduated from Rochester Business Institute and then followed his childhood dream of becoming a news reporter. He married his wife, Sylvia, and they settled in Penn Yan with their three children, Susan, Steve, and Donald. That news career spanned from exclusive interviews with Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to local residents on the street exclaiming, “Hey, Mr. Eisenhart, take my picture!”

The Times article refers to Eisenhart as “one of the last old-time newsmen who felt strongly that news should be covered in person, rather than by phone,” meaning Eisenhart appeared in person to the events he covered instead of interviewing people about it afterward. Old-time is indeed an apt description; he covered his beat in the days before the prevalence of computers and the internet. He tapped out his stories to meet the evening deadline first on his L.C. Smith typewriter and then on a teletype machine that transmitted his stories to the Rochester newsroom. He even processed his own film and printed his own glossy black-and-white photos in a darkroom adjoining his home office. This entailed his rushing the prints to Penn Yan’s downtown bus stop by late afternoon so a Greyhound bus could transport them to Rochester, where a courier waited to pick them up and deliver them to the newspaper.

Despite meeting King following his 1963 baccalaureate address at Keuka College and Kennedy during his 1964 U.S. Senate campaign, Eisenhart told the Times it was the ordinary, everyday people – probably many of the people depicted in the photos in his collection – whom he enjoyed meeting the most: “I met so many people and built so many great friendships. The people are what make the job, and the fact that you are learning something new every day.”

It is these people – Eisenhart’s friends and fellow Penn Yan and Yates County residents – whom you will find in the photos we are sharing. We hope you enjoy seeing these photos, and if you know something about – or someone in – any of the photos, please let us know.

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