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Thanks, Vel!
Weekly chemo really isn't too bad...I'm just really busy taking care of my mother.
Great news to hear that ExSoldier is home and on the mend! Prayers continued!
You're quite welcome crabbie.
I will not forget to pray for you.
God hears our prayers.
Thanks MD!
Yes, my shots of procrit and neupogen really help keep me going. Got a new stove and I actually am cooking up a storm...(who would have thought??!!:-) )
So glad to hear Jim dodged the bullet!
"Yep, I was out spraying rose bushes today.
Tomorrow is spraying fruit trees."
Our trees were sprayed with 3 inches of snow today...no spring here yet!
It is 5 years next week that I was first diagnosed.
I am living proof that He hears our prayers (including all the prayers from my FReeper family.)
Smiling at you....we have a snow alert tonight....but my rose bushes and fruit trees are all sprayed.
I am very optimistic that spring will come.
5 years....praying for a cure, too.
Bless the NATO troops. Thanks for posting Cindy.
Did I read that correctly? The article is referring to Columbia, Missouri, right?
Thank you, IT and Cindy. Irish priest missionaries are some of the best people in the world; they have a long tradition that has done much good.
I can't imagine how people can go so low as to rob a HOSPICE and shoot a priest in the bargain...
Prayers for Father Creagh's recovery.
BIG story... just saw it in the Google news moments ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796886/posts
Arrest mars gang success story [Los Angeles, drugs, gangs, illegals]
By Richard Winton and Amanda Covarrubias, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
March 6, 2007
Mario Corona was lauded as one of Los Angeles' top gang success stories.
Newspaper articles told of how Corona spent his youth on the streets as a gangster dubbed "Spider" for a Pacoima gang before going straight and rising in the ranks of gang intervention specialists. He spoke on panels and to students.
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But Corona was arrested last week on suspicion of possessing a pound of methamphetamine, and now could face deportation. His arrest has saddened and shocked people who are involved in gang prevention in the San Fernando Valley and elsewhere.
"I am blown away. I didn't see this coming," said Bobby Arias, president of Communities in Schools, where Corona is director of the job development program, which finds jobs for former gang members.
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Arias said Corona trained a group of youths in the program to work as stagehands at the recent Academy Awards show. LAPD Capt. Joe Curreri said that Foothill Division narcotics detectives stopped Corona on Wednesday in Panorama City, and that the drug was found in his car. He said the stop was part of a larger investigation.
Corona's arrest is the third to involve employees of the L.A. Bridges anti-gang program in the last two years, raising questions among some elected officials about giving city taxpayer dollars to former gang members.
"If we investigated others, I think we would probably find more problems," Councilman Dennis Zine said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-corona6mar06,1,6798885.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
[3/7/07] FOR THE RECORD:
Mario Corona: An article in Tuesday's California section about the arrest of gang-intervention worker Mario Corona stated that he was the third person employed through the L.A. Bridges anti-gang project to be arrested in the last two years. The organization Corona works for —Communities in Schools -- receives funds from L.A. Bridges, but Corona's salary was paid by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writer
March 3, 2007
After huddling with visiting U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales on efforts to keep kids out of gangs, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Friday that the city would increase dramatically the number of jobs offered to young people this year, to 10,000 — four times the number provided two years ago.
The mayor announced the increase after he and Gonzales toured a silk-screening plant run by Homeboy Industries in South Los Angeles.
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The attorney general had been in Los Angeles nearly a year ago to announce a separate $2.5-million federal grant for gang intervention, suppression and prevention programs in South Los Angeles, but officials conceded recently that the money has not yet gone out to local programs.
You really are living proof that prayers are answered.
Continued prayers for you, Crabbie.
Columbia, Mo. Mr. RR and I were there last fall for an Alumni Association meeting. We were both appalled at the number of "dark, swarthy" types we saw. So very different from when we graduated in 1969. Kinda scary.
Thanks, RR, Ireally appreciate them.
Will be one to watch play out... could be a big story in the making if we get a better picture of how far along Iran is with their nuclear weapons program. In the first Memri piece Hamid Reza Zakiri's statement, "I went to North Korea twice, as our relations with it are special,” should give some indication Iran is probably further along than the general belief here has been.
The Hizballah angle is possibly quite scary.
I just reread it.
I don't know...maybe I was/am reading it wrong.
I thought it was Columbia -- as in the country.
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