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Charles Hartman - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Homer New Life Church of Faith, 505 W. Crittenden St., Homer, IL 61849. Memorial donations may be made to Homer New Life Church of Faith. Sunset Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 3940 N. Vermilion St., Danville, IL 61834, is assisting the family in making arrangements. Please join Charlie's family in sharing memories, photos and videos on his tribute wall at sunsetfunealhome. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2019-03-26/charles-hartman.html

Catherine J. (Newcomer) Stratton - Sandusky Register

VERMILION - Catherine J. (Newcomer) Stratton, 90, Vermilion, passed away peacefully Tuesday morning, Feb. 5, 2019, in Stein Hospice Care Center surrounded by her loving family. She was born Sept. 9, 1928, in Sandusky, to Charles and Alberta (Coombs) Newcomer. Catherine graduated from Sandusky High School. She retired as a custodian from EHOVE Career Center, and during her retirement worked at Kiddie Korral as a nursery aide. Catherine was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church and Parents Without Partners. In her spare time, she enjoyed bowling, gardening, baking, traveling and attending country music concerts. She was an avid Cleveland Browns and Indians fan. Her greatest joy was spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. Catherine is survived by her daughters, Charlene (Bill) May of Tavernier, Fla., Ann (David) Ireland of Butler, Pa., and Holly (Michael) Protzek of Reidsville, N.C.; sons, Leo Jr. (Frieda) of Castalia, Paul (Sally) of Collins, William (Jul...
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201902060019

This Land Is Their Land - Foreign Policy (blog)

Bombay. We were dressed in new, heavy, uncomfortable clothes and had been seen off by our entire extended family, who had come to the airport with garlands and lamps; our foreheads were anointed with vermilion. We were going to America.To get the cheapest tickets, our travel agent had arranged a circuitous journey in which we disembarked in Frankfurt, then were to take an internal flight to Cologne, and onward to New York. In Frankfurt, the German border officer scrutinized the Indian passports for my father, my sisters, and me and stamped them. Then he held up my mother’s passport with distaste. “You are not allowed to enter Germany,” he said.It was a British passport, given to citizens of Indian origin who had been born in Kenya before independence from the British, like my mother. But in 1968 the Conservative Party parliamentarian Enoch Powell made his “Rivers of Blood” speech, warning against taking in brown- and black-skinned people, and Parliament passed an act summarily depriving hundreds of thousands of British passport holders in East Africa of their right to live in the country that conferred their nationality. The passport was literally not worth the paper it was printed on; it had become, in fact, a mark of Cain. The German officer decided that because of her uncertain...
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/12/this-land-is-their-land-america-europe-fear-of-migrants-trump/

Support floods in for homicide victim and family - Vermilion Standard

VERMILION,Alta. -  Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A GoFundMe fundraiser for Nichole Clifford and her family has collected over $9,000 in three days.Clifford was found dead in her Wainwright, Alta. home, situated at 1206 – 8 Avenue, by members of the Wainwright RCMP detachment last Friday, after it was reported she had not arrived at work at approximately 10:30 a.m.Clifford’s death has been deemed a homicide and a murder investigation is underway, by Members of the Wainwright RCMP, as well as investigators from the RCMP’s Major Crime Unit (MCU, following confirmation from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Edmonton on Tuesday.The RCMP’s Forensic Identification Section has been involved in examining the scene and gathering evidence in the process.The money from the Love for Nichole and family GoFundMe fundraiser, which has a goal of $10,000, will help alleviate the costs associated with her funeral, and s...
http://www.vermilionstandard.com/2017/03/01/support-floods-in-for-homicide-victim-and-family

Davis' 'laid-back' approach worked well in South Louisiana - The Daily Advertiser

Most recently, Davis was coaching girls basketball, girls track and teaching special education at Abbeville High.But his career also took him to A.B. Ware in Opelousas, Delcambre, Kaplan, North Vermilion, Vermilion Catholic and Lafayette High.“I’ve always been drawn to people that have good body language,” Indest said. “That was Jeff. He was always smiling.”Let's block ads! (Why?)...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/06/10/jeff-davis/381102001/

Charles Hartman - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Charlie " Hartman, 75, of Collison went to be with the Lord on Thursday (March 21, 2019) at home surrounded by his wife and daughters. He was bornon Nov. 5, 1943, in Champaign, the son of Ernest and Alberta (Grove) Hartman. He was united in marriage to Ruth Troxell on Nov. 26, 1994. She survives. Also surviving are his daughters, Jessica (Rick) Breitenfeldt, Kristin (Mitch) Allen, Kate (Leon) Jess and Teresa (Steve) Evans. Papa's grandchildren loved him to the moon and back. He was always full of life's loving stories for them. He believed children are the heritage of the Lord. He loved Cameron Ackerson, Kaitlyn Breitenfeldt, Colton Breitenfeldt, Lillian Jess, Khloe Jess, Brinley Allen, Steele Allen, Jacob Evans and Joshua Evans. His surviving siblings are Mary Hafner, Patty Wakefield, Diana Thrush, Rob Hartman, Sue Hartman and Judy Lynn. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandsons, Cody Breitenfeldt and Zachery Evans. Charlie loved Jesus with his whole heart. He was a steadfast man of God. As a boy he worked tirelessly alongside his dad. He worked as a carpenter before going on to manage the horse farm at the University of Illinois until retirement in 2002. Charlie was a gifted horseman and cowboy. His entire life was spent pulling ponies, t...
http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2019-03-26/charles-hartman.html

Convoy evokes Canadian pride in North Bay - Vermilion Standard

Monday afternoon.Caron, of North Bay, was waiting in the parking lot at Motion Canada on Gormanville Road for almost 100 vehicles, from small cars to big rigs, to pull in on their journey from Alberta to Parliament Hill with a message for federal politicians. Alexandre Caron "This is about more than pipelines," Caron says. "This is about government. This is about all the provinces having different issues. It's about getting back the political process."The United We Roll Convoy for Canada, a caravan of transports, work vehicles and personal automobiles, left Red Deer, Alta., last Thursday bound for Ottawa and a protest on Parliament Hill Tuesday."The media and the government have divided the provinces," Caron says. "We want to fight for our freedoms and our rights. We want fair government.""We are watching Justin Trudeau slowly strip away every right we had," Sarah Zaldinger, of Timmins, said as about two dozen supporters waited for the convoy to arrive, sharing updates on when the parade would roll into town."He is stripping the future of my children and their children and their children," Zaldinger said. "They are being set up for failure. Their rights, their future, will all be destroyed if we don't stand up now."Although she was not part of the convoy to North Bay, Zaldinger was going to join it Tuesday morning for the rally in Ottawa as part of her own objective of "direct democracy."And direct democracy is possible, she said.Zaldinger pointed to a recent Amber Alert sent to cellphone users across the province ...
https://www.vermilionstandard.com/news/national/convoy-evokes-canadian-pride-in-north-bay-2

Joan Elnora Mahovlic - Alberni Valley News

Morse, all from Nova Scotia; and sons Shawn Coffill, Nanoose Bay, B.C., and Mark Coffill, Port Alberni, B.C.; step-daughter Trish (Rick) McCrate, Coquitlam; step-son Jim (Lori) Mahovlic, Calgary, Alberta; step-daughter Meg (John) Belanger, Campbell River, B.C.; step-son Paul Mahovlic, New Westminster, B.C. and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is also survived by brother Gerald (Janet) Salsman, Coldbrook, N.S.; brother Ronald (Jeanette) Salsman, Port Alberni, B.C.; sister Madelyn Wiles, Morristown, N.S.; brother Leo (Adele) Salsman, Trail, B.C.; sister Marilyn (Allan) Teal, Trenton, Ontario; and sister Freda Salsman, Waterville, N.S. as well as numerous nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank all the caring staff at Echo Village for everything, also to Pastor Platz for his spiritual support. There will be a funeral service for Joan at Grace Lutheran Church, 4408 Redford Street, Port Alberni, B.C. on Monday, March 25, 2019, at 1:30 pm with a tea to follow. Flowers are gratefully declined but if you wish to do so, donations to Grace Lutheran Church Memorial Fund would be greatly appreciated. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/obituaries/joan-elnora-mahovlic/