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  Two Area Churches Burglarized!

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  not sure if this thread will work or not.. http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/satellite?pagename=wpn/mgarticle/wpn_basicarticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no .

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  Englishman:

  Hey Enghishman, how have you been doing? Taking any more of those train rides with Norm? Norm told me the (ale) is a lot better over there! At least your version of the word (burglarized) is shorter!

  Thanks my friend!
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  Two Area Churches Burglarized!

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  not sure if this thread will work or not.. http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/satellite?pagename=wpn/mgarticle/wpn_basicarticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no .

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  badboy:

  Guess your right badboy! Better start from scratch and build a new one! Of course, there were (bad spirits) there to begin with. Right?

  Thanks badboy!
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  Two Area Churches Burglarized!

  by Voyager in

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  not sure if this thread will work or not.. http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/satellite?pagename=wpn/mgarticle/wpn_basicarticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no .

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  I'll try and see if this one will work. The other thread didn't work for me.

  http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no

  Thanks!
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  Two Area Churches Burglarized!

  by Voyager in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if this thread will work or not.. http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/satellite?pagename=wpn/mgarticle/wpn_basicarticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no .

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  Not sure if this thread will work or not.

  http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&cid=1031780701433&path=&tacodalogin=no

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  Two area churches burglarized

  
  David Stegon Potomac News Tuesday, February 8, 2005

  At least seven area churches have been burglarized after two more were hit this past weekend, Prince William police said.

  Seventh-day Adventist in Lake Ridge and the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Lake Ridge were both burglarized, said Detective Dennis Mangan, police spokesman.

  In each incident, as in the others reported, burglars broke into the church, but did not steal anything, police said.

  "They came in through a front door and then went through the church," said Rick Jordan, Pastor at Seventh-day Adventist, which was burglarized between 5 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday. "They broke doors throughout the building, but never took anything."

  The burglars also went through Jordan's office, passing computers and audio visual equipment, looking for something, but Jordan doesn't know what.

  "I guess they were looking for money, but we don't have any in the church," Jordan said. "I have no idea why they were in there."

  A similar situation occurred at Mount Olive on Telegraph Road between 9 p.m. Friday and 8:55 a.m. Saturday.

  Burglars entered through a bathroom window and then went though the building, breaking office doors, but never taking anything.

  Burglars also tried to break into a Jehovah's Witness church, which is being built near Seventh-day Adventist, Jordan said. They reported a door handle being broken off the church's front door.

  The two incidents are the latest in a string in the Woodbridge, Lake Ridge and Dale City areas the past month.

  In each incident burglars break through a window or a door and then go through the building. Rarely, though, do they take anything.

  Twice laptops were reported stolen, but otherwise nothing is taken.

  "It's weird that nothing is taken," Mangan said. "We have no idea what these guys are looking for, but we're doing the best we can to try to find them."

  Police believe them to be connected and are looking for patterns to catch the burglars.

  On Jan. 26, burglars broke into the First Church of Christ Scientist on York Drive in Woodbridge and on Jan. 24, caused almost $3,000 in damage to Christ Our Lord Church on Omisol Road in Lake Ridge.

  Similar incidents were reported early last month at Bethel United Methodist Church on Minnieville Road in Lake Ridge, Hillendale Baptist Church on Hillendale Drive in Dale City and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge.

  All the churches are within a few miles of each other.

  Police ask that anyone with information call Crime Solvers at (703) 670-3700. Callers do not have to give their names or testify in court and may receive a reward of up to $1,000 for information that results in an arrest.

  Staff writer David Stegon can be reached at (703) 878-8065.
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  JWs Are "Still Collecting"---(Relief Fund Article)!

  by Voyager in

  1. jw
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  appears that the jws don't even want to reveal their figures!

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

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  Voyager

  Friends, I didn't see that (DazedAndConfused) had already posted this article before I had posted it also. So I apologize to Dazed for that!

  Thanks!
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  Tsunami Donations and the Witlesses

  by DazedAndConfused in

  1. social
  2. current

  i just saw a news article listing organisations that had given to the tsunami victims.

  it is interesting:.

  "collections include: tenterfield shire council $2,500; rotary club $5,000 (both included in the total figure and tenterfield community tsunami appeal of $16,580.55 going to red cross australia); bowling club $2,080; golf club $250; seventh day adventists $500; st mary's catholic church $4,600; uniting church $750; anglican church $590; salvation army $457; jehovah's witnesses continuing to collect; assemblies of god church $200; lions club $490; drake red cross $3,645.".

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  DazedAndConfused:

  Sorry Dazed, I didn't see that you had already posted the article, and I posted it over on (Friends) section. I apologize!

  Thanks!
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  JWs Are "Still Collecting"---(Relief Fund Article)!

  by Voyager in

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  appears that the jws don't even want to reveal their figures!

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

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  Kenneson:

  I think your right to Ken. That money will go right into the (Printing Department)!

  Thanks!
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  JWs Are "Still Collecting"---(Relief Fund Article)!

  by Voyager in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  appears that the jws don't even want to reveal their figures!

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

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  MerryMagdalene:

  Your right, it smells! In fact, it stinks to high heaven! As they say: "I smell a cover-up!

  Thanks!
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  JWs Are "Still Collecting"---(Relief Fund Article)!

  by Voyager in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  appears that the jws don't even want to reveal their figures!

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2.

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  Appears that the JWs don't even want to reveal their figures!
  

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2

  http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=369622&y=2005&m=2

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  Helping the Red Cross help tsunami victims: Tenterfield Shire Mayor Keith Pickstone (left) and General Manager Mark Arnold (right) present $16,580.55 to Tenterfield Red Cross President Marlene Feltis on behalf of the Tenterfield community.
  
  Tenterfield just keeps digging deeper for tsunami victims
  Tuesday, 8 February 2005
  
  IN a wave of generosity and compassion that has just kept gaining momentum since Boxing Day, members of the Tenterfield community have continued to keep digging deeper into their pockets to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
  
  The Tenterfield Shire Council kicked off the appeal with $2,500 and congratulates everyone on his or her generosity.
  
  Tenterfield's overall Tsunami total (distributed through various aid groups) is $30,142.55 since collection to help victims of the Boxing Day disaster began in early January.
  
  Collections include: Tenterfield Shire Council $2,500; Rotary Club $5,000 (both included in the total figure and Tenterfield community Tsunami appeal of $16,580.55 going to Red Cross Australia); Bowling Club $2,080; Golf Club $250; Seventh Day Adventists $500; St Mary's Catholic Church $4,600; Uniting Church $750; Anglican Church $590; Salvation Army $457; Jehovah's witnesses continuing to collect; Assemblies of God Church $200; Lions Club $490; Drake Red Cross $3,645.
  
  If any group not listed has also contributed to the appeal they are asked to contact the Tenterfield Star office on 67361799 so their efforts can be recognised too.
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  Judge Delays Decision if Sex Offender "Verse" Can Move!

  by Voyager in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/bagdgb6kkf1.dtl .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/bagdgb6kkf1.dtl .

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  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6KKF1.DTL

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  MARTINEZ
  Judge delays deciding if sex offender can move
  Verse tells crowd at public hearing he's also been abused

  Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer

  Saturday, February 5, 2005

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  Cary Verse faced a roomful of angry detractors Friday who do not want the five-time convicted sex offender to move to east Contra Costa County and said he is a changed man who is "not a danger to anyone's children or their family."

  The emotional and sometimes raucous three-hour public hearing in a jury room at the Martinez courthouse ended with Verse's telling the crowd that he, too, had been a victim of molestation and was looking for a new start.

  "I was sexually assaulted, and I thought that's what you did to other people. ... It's just a negative cycle," he told the crowd of about 100 people, many of whom spoke at the hearing.

  Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge John Minney was expected to decide Friday whether to allow Verse to move from San Jose to Bay Point, but he delayed the decision to study the dozens of remarks made by residents and lawyers.

  Minney said he would issue a written decision soon.

  Verse has tried to make a home in Mill Valley, Oakland and San Jose since his release from Atascadero State Hospital a year ago as the second graduate of the state's violent sex predator program, but his presence was always greeted with protests from residents.

  He could end up in Bay Point, where a couple have offered to rent him a cottage behind their law firm, because a new state law requires that sexually violent predators who have completed mental treatment return to the county where they lived before confinement.

  Verse committed his last sexual assault in Richmond in 1992 on a 22-year- old homeless man who was living in the same shelter as him.

  Pittsburg and Bay Point residents Friday protested Verse's potential move to their neighborhood and instead suggested he be moved to Richmond, to a field or even a deserted island.

  "It's absurd that he's been run out of every other community," said George Robles, whose daughter attends a grammar school blocks away from where Verse may live. "What makes our community any different?"

  Many came armed with statistics about how many sex offenders already lived in their area. Others had calculated exactly how many minutes it takes to walk from Verse's potential home to the nearby school in hopes of persuading the judge not to move him there.

  "I don't want my child or anyone else to be his next victim when he relapses," said Pittsburg resident Marissa Angeles.

  Hoping to allay any possible misconceptions about Verse's criminal history, Contra Costa Deputy District Attorney Brian Haynes presented Verse's record to the crowd.

  In addition to attacking the homeless man, at age 17 Verse assaulted a 14- year-old male teammate on his high school track team, and between the ages of 18 and 21, he assaulted three teenage boys.

  Verse knew, at least casually, all of his victims prior to the assaults and has an attraction to forced sex, Haynes said.

  "Mr. Verse has never been diagnosed by any health professional as a pedophile," said Haynes, who also urged the state Department of Mental Health to continue searching for a "less urbanized" location to move Verse.

  But Deputy Attorney General Susan King, who is representing the department, said there might be no choice other than Bay Point.

  "No one with the county has come forward with a suggestion for any other housing for Mr. Verse that might be appropriate," King said.

  Verse, who will live in a San Jose motel until Minney decides where to place him, has been chemically castrated and carries a satellite monitoring system.

  Throughout the hearing, Verse sat quietly next to his attorney with a Bible on the table in front of him.

  A Jehovah's Witness, he told the crowd that he had been raised in a "Christian military family" and never told anyone he had been molested at age 6 and then raped by peers at 14 until later in life.

  Verse said no one has the right to be hurt.

  "I've been on both sides of abuse," he said.

  E-mail Cecilia M. Vega at [email protected].