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Recommended motion: That the board approves the agreement with Mr. Chuck Tooley, Tooley Communications, PO Box 555, Billings, MO 52913, to present two keynote addresses and follow-up student workshops on enviromental issues on Wellness Day at Fox Lane High School at the fee of $1,000 plus $400 in travel expenses; Mr. Tooley works closely with former vice-president Al Gore on his environmental project and presents information around the country.

An official with the Institute on Religion and Democracy says it is outrageous that a leader in the United Methodist Church has called for the removal of U.S. flags from the denomination's churches. Minister Clayton Childers of the Capitol Hill-based United Methodist Board of Church and Society said the presence of a national flag can imply endorsement of national policies, which often are counter to the teachings of Christ. Childers even noted that the Swastika flag was displayed prominently in German churches during the Nazi era. Mark Tooley is with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD). "Obviously," he notes,...

National Council of Churches Ignores Christian Suffering By Mark D. Tooley FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006 The head of the U.S. National Council of Churches (NCC) has a burden on his heart for prison inmates...if they are former al-Qaeda or Taliban operatives at Guantanamo Bay. In his www.middlechurch.net blog, NCC General Secretary Bob Edgar records his chagrin that the U.S. government has denied his request for a visit with the Gitmo prisoners. “’I was in prison and you visited me,’ Jesus says in Matthew 25:36. But the detainees at Guantánamo are not permitted visitors. I know this from personal experience,”...

2 jurors held out giving Tooley death penalty By Lisa Napersky , Citizens' Voice Staff Writer 09/17/2003 A man who served on the jury that found Larry Tooley guilty of first-degree murder said he deeply regrets that the panel failed to sentence the defendant to death. "I am very, very disappointed," said the juror, a 43-year old Mountain Top resident. "It will bother me for the rest of my life." Tooley, 46, of Wilkes-Barre, was convicted last week of shooting to death 16-year-old Casey Zalenski during a burglary of the victim's Franklin Township home on Nov. 8, 2002. The...