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On the article What Should Be The Outdoor Movie This Year?
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On the article Is Main Street Safe For Pedestrians?
EC
9:35 am on Friday, April 5, 2013
ReplyI don't think we need to eliminate parking on Main St., that would be overkill. But I do think removing spaces that abut too closely to the crosswalks would help. I also think better lighting is needed at night. As a driver, it is very hard to see pedestrians trying to cross with the glare of lights from oncoming traffic. There needs to be specific lighting directed at the pedestrians and crosswalks.
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On the article Would You Miss Saturday Mail Delivery?
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On the article [VIDEO] Councilors, Fire Commissioners Spar Over Merger
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On the Blog Post Avenger Pride
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11:00 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
ReplyGreat, article, Andrew. I hope my son will be fortunate enough to have Mr. George when he gets to the high school, as a teacher or coach.
Congratulations on a great season!
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On the article St. Luke’s Tells Cub Scouts They Have To Go
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10:48 am on Monday, September 3, 2012
ReplyThank you, Katie! We all seem to disagree with the national "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the BSA, but we are stuck on the local decision of St. Luke's and how it is negatively impacting our local cub scouts.
I mentioned in an earlier post that the national BSA administration will probably not even hear about the St. Luke's decision. But, why shouldn't they? A more productive action would be for us all to sign Zach Wahls’ petition on change.org (Boy Scouts: Stop the secrecy! Allow your Board to VOTE to end the ban on gay scouts and leaders) and the ones Katie mentions by Jennifer Tyrrell (“CEO of AT&T: Urge the Boy Scouts to Drop Ban on Gay Leaders and Troops” and “Boy Scouts of America: Reinstate Cub Scout leader who was removed for being gay”). We can share these petitions on our Facebook pages. We can even write old fashioned letters to the BSA:
Bob Mazzuca is the chief executive and Wayne Perry is national president of the Boy Scouts of America. The HQ address is:The National Boy Scouts of America
1325 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75015-2079Whether you have children in scouting or not, these are things we can all do to help change the policy. Kicking our young cub scouts out of St. Luke's won't have a direct impact. I suspect that the St. Luke's decision makers hoped that an indirect grass roots effort might result, and while I might not agree with St. Luke's approach, I can't argue with their desired outcome.
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On the article St. Luke’s Tells Cub Scouts They Have To Go
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10:17 am on Monday, September 3, 2012
Jim, den meetings are smaller groups of up to 8-10 cub scouts and are frequently held at the homes of the parent volunteers. The larger pack meetings are not because they are in the range of 50 scouts plus the parents.
St. Luke's has been very generous in the sharing of their space for us. I do hope that we can find another equally generous partner that we can both afford and fit into. My fear is that there aren't any local facilities who are going to want to jump into this controversial fire. Accepting us into their space will be construed by many as condoning the national BSA policy at this point.
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On the article St. Luke’s Tells Cub Scouts They Have To Go
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10:07 am on Monday, September 3, 2012
Jim,
How ironic it was for me to see your David and Goliath analogy. I was thinking of the same analogy, only I had labeled our little cub scouts as David against the Goliath of St. Luke's.
What might seem like a great teaching moment, I'm afraid, might have the wrong effect. My family belongs to one of the most socially liberal churches you can find so my son, who is only 8, has been raised with an all-inclusive way of thinking from the start. If I were to explain to him that his cub scout pack is no longer being allowed to meet at the same location he's been going to since joining as a little tiger cub because the Boy Scout organization has a national policy against gay people, what worries me is that the discrimination at the national level would actually turn him off to scouting. He is a very empathetic kid for his age and might take the side of St. Luke's and wonder why he should be involved in an organization that does not treat everyone equally. While I condemn the BSA stance on this topic, I value the benefits that he gets from scouting to the point where it outweighs my willingness to allow him (or me) to withdraw himself from scouting in order to take a stance against the discrimination.
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On the article St. Luke’s Tells Cub Scouts They Have To Go
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8:41 am on Monday, September 3, 2012
Who is being punished here? What lesson is this teaching the 6-11 year old cub scouts who are not even capable of the bias that we all want to change? I agree with and applaud the church's stance on the topic at the national level but I am very disappointed in the way this is being handled locally. I doubt that the national Boy Scout policy makers will even know that St. Luke's is doing this.
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On the article Students Limited To Single Bus Pickup, Drop Off Come September
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4:20 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
ReplyThey are trying to hide behind the word "safety"? Really? Were there that many kids that ended up missing, hurt, or worse last year with the old policy in place?
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10:33 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
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