Yeah Jeff, it does rather sound like he has put himself between a rock and a hard place now doesn't it?
Thanks Jeff!
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JW-"Principal" of Pentecostal School!
by Voyager inhttp://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881 .
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881 .
miracle ministries school closed.
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A side benefit to exiting the borg
by AK - Jeff inmy wife and i made the fade in the past year or so - a side benefit is now beginning to become apparent.
our adult daughter, who was somewhat estranged due to being df'd has come back into our lives.
[we never did completely shun her, as we never agreed fully with that, but it was always strained because we were under the guilt trip].
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Thats GREAT news Jeff! I love these encouraging situations where a family get back together! I think we all feel really good inside when we read these experiences. I wish all of us could have them. I hope things will only get better and happier for you Jeff!
Now thats what I call (The Good News)!
Thanks Jeff!
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Rape Charge Derails Lake Central Football Hire!
by Voyager inhttp://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/top_news/809378fb6fb924e586256fa9000c3a78.txt .
http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/top_news/809378fb6fb924e586256fa9000c3a78.txt .
rape charge derails lake central football hire.
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http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/top_news/809378fb6fb924e586256fa9000c3a78.txt
http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/top_news/809378fb6fb924e586256fa9000c3a78.txt
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Rape charge derails Lake Central football hire
LAKE CENTRAL: Officials charge Kevin Foster with rape of 11-year-old girl; Indians hire Melby as coach
BY JEFF CARROLL
jcarroll@nwitimes.com
219.933.3373This story ran on nwitimes.com on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:35 AM CST
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Monday was supposed to be the peak of Kevin Foster's young football coaching career. He was going to be approved as the varsity head coach at Lake Central.
Instead, Foster was in front of a judge in Coshocton County, Ohio, answering charges that he raped an 11-year-old girl."I've lived in Coshocton all my life," said Foster, informed of his release on bond by Coshocton Municipal Court Judge Dave Hostetler. "I'll be here when this gets resolved."
As recently as Friday, Foster was shopping for a suit to wear to his Monday introduction as Lake Central's new coach.
Three days later, life as he and those around him had known it had crumbled.
Monday afternoon, Foster surrendered to authorities in Coshocton County, and Lake Central introduced Bill Melby as its football coach.
When Lake Central trolled surrounding states for head coaching candidates and came up with Foster, people who knew and worked with him in Ohio were sad to see him go, though excited for him because of the opportunity.
Ridgewood High School, Foster's current employer, is a school of about 400 students, approximately the size of Wheeler. Lake Central's enrollment is listed as 2,743.
"He's ambitious, very positive," Ridgewood athletic director Todd Stoffer said last week. "He's a good community person, a good PR person. He's well-spoken, a good-looking guy. He's got a nice family."
There was good reason why the Coshocton County community was sad to see Foster leave -- he had led the school to its only two playoff appearances in the 60-year history of the Ridgewood High football program.
"You always dream of being a head coach," Foster said last fall. "First of all, I love football, but it's a lot more intricate than that. There are a lot of reasons I liked it."
In the late 1980s, Foster starred at nearby River View High School as a linebacker and running back.
He didn't live the typical exalted life of a star high school jock, however. From the time he made his first headline as a sophomore, his new fame caused friction within his family and his church.
Foster grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, which takes a hard-line interpretation of the biblical verse Galatians 5:26 in the New Testament: "Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition with one another."
Torn between his faith and football, Foster chose football, despite intense pressure from the church and from within his family.
"I ... had a strong desire and love of something I wanted to do and was made to feel it's wrong," Foster said in the midst of last year's 9-2 season. "It caused problems in our family for a while, and I was kind of the black sheep."
He went on to play at Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania, where he met his wife, Kim. After serving as an assistant coach at his high school alma mater, he was hired in 2001 to oversee the rebuilding project at Ridgewood High.
Then, last week, he landed the job at Lake Central, another reclamation project, and planned to move Kim and the couple's three children here. From the outside, everything appeared perfect.
Yet as the weekend unfolded, Coshocton authorities were putting the final touches on their investigation in preparation for Monday morning's arrest.
Foster had no prior arrest record. Hostetler set the terms of his release. Foster paid $500 of a $5,000 bond. He is to have no "social interaction" with anyone younger than 18. He also is required to keep a 100-yard distance from the alleged victim.
"That is the distance of a football field," Hostetler said at Foster's hearing.
At first, the morning announcement that Melby had supplanted Foster as Lake Central's choice looked like a cut-and-dry case of cold feet.
The story of Foster's impending hire broke in Friday's edition of The Times. The same day, a story appeared in Foster's hometown paper in Coshocton.
The Coshocton report upset Foster. Tribune sports editor Jim Barstow, a 19-year-veteran reporter, spent all night Thursday trying to reach Foster and Stoffer for comment regarding Foster's impending resignation.
Hoping to quell the story for one day, until Foster had a chance to address his players, Foster and Stoffer avoided phone calls from Barstow, who confirmed the story through other sources.
"We've got a situation here," Stoffer said in a phone message left to The Times on Friday morning. "Now Kevin truly doesn't know what he's going to do."
Over the weekend, Lake Central athletic director Mark Peterson sent a release to local media calling off Foster's planned Monday morning news conference, saying it would be rescheduled for a later date.
But Monday about 9 a.m., Lake Central Superintendent Janet Emerick announced Melby would be introduced as the school's coaching choice. Not even two hours earlier, Coshocton County police Cpt. Jon Mosier was signing a warrant for Foster's arrest on the rape charge.
Foster's alleged sexual misconduct is said to have taken place from Jan. 1, 2004, through this past Saturday.
Lake Central worked to distance itself from Foster on Monday, funneling the answers to all questions back to the hiring of Melby.
"It's been a different kind of journey," Peterson said. "Sometimes you take different kind of roads to get to the place you want to be in."
While people in St. John could turn the page, Coshocton County won't be so lucky. Foster has been placed on paid administrative leave.
"All of us are devastated by these allegations," Ridgewood Superintendent Victor Candenzana said in a prepared statement.
In Foster's community, and particularly at Ridgewood High School in the town of West Lafayette, people may never figure out how a former local football-star-made-good ended up making the worst kind of headlines.
"He gave us moral stories all the time and told us to do the right thing," student Megan McPherson told NBC 4 in Columbus, Ohio.
"Everyone who I've talked to is in a state of shock," said Barstow, the Coshocton sports editor. "I've known him since his sophomore year in high school and have always known him to be a very good person. I still hope it's not true."
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JW-"Principal" of Pentecostal School!
by Voyager inhttp://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881 .
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881 .
miracle ministries school closed.
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http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=60980881
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Miracle Ministries school closed Ministry, board in stand-off over principal By PHOOLO DANNY-MAHARAJ South Bureau
Saturday, February 12th 2005UP TO LATE yesterday there was a stand-off between the Ministry of Education and the board of Miracle Ministries over the resumption of classes at the board's Pentecostal High School, Chaguanas.
The Ministry has ordered Miracle Ministries board chairman Pastor Winston Cuffie to reopen the school on Monday.
But the board was said to be standing its ground that the school will not reopen as long as Omar Ali is the principal, the Express learned.
Up to late yesterday ministry officials and Cuffie were meeting in Port of Spain.
Ali was not at the meetings.
The ministry, through Permanent Secretary Angela Jack, on Thursday ordered Cuffie to have the school opened on Monday.
In a strongly worded letter, she made it clear the school was government-assisted and under the Education Act he did not have the power to shut the school down or fire the principal.
Letters to the ministry from the board to remove Ali have been sent to the Teaching Service Commission "for consideration", Jack said.
The school, which is fully air-conditioned, was opened in 2001. There are 300 pupils and, apart from the principal, there are 16 teachers and three administrative staffers, all paid by the ministry.
Ali and the teachers were told by Cuffie two weeks ago that the school would be closed until further notice.
The ministry was currently putting the finishing touches on another Miracle Ministries School in Central but it was not clear how that would be affected by the latest developments.
Yesterday Ali, a former vice-principal of Hillview College, and with more than 30 years in the teaching profession, said his main concern was the pupils who have to write CXC examinations next month.
"I do not wish that they suffer because of the actions of the board." More than 100 pupils are preparing for the examination. Ali said: "I am very concerned for the members of staff and pupils who have to write examinations. This action of the board to close down the school could spoil a good learning atmosphere and demotivate staff."
The Express was told that the main issue behind the board's decision to remove Ali as principal of the Pentecostal school was because, he was a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses church.
Ali said he never pretended to be a Pentecostal.
A member of the church yesterday admitted that Ali's faith was "one of the main reasons for wanting to remove Ali".
Ali said he would continue to report for duty at the Ministry of Education's Couva offices until the issue is resolved.
Cuffie remained out of reach of the Express yesterday.
Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Clyde Permel said yesterday that the board "has no authority to dismiss the principal or any teachers. The teaching staff are hired by the Teaching Service Commission, and only the TSC can fire them. The board must be able to let due process take its course."
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JW Bible Character Hand Puppets on Ebay!
by Voyager inif jws have got to go to these extremes for their kids to stay interested in their studies, perhaps some real examination of what they are studying is needed!
nothing about jws surprises me anymore!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&category=16710&item=5557715913&rd=1&tc=photo .
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Hi Devon!
The link works fine for me to, but I just got to thinking that if they are going to use puppets to keep their childrens interest at their studies, then shouldn't they be using puppets (without) beards?
I mean after all, how many beards do you see at the Kingdom Hall? Wouldn't that kind of (confuse) the kiddies a little bit?
It's really good to hear from you Devon!
Thanks my friend!
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Spirit appointed elders reveal information. Elders are disfellowshipped
by garybuss inelders meet scriptural requirements before being 'appointed .
by holy spirit.
' knowing this will strengthen your confidence.
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garybuss:
This is a fact. Thanks garybuss for posting it. In 1997 two teens in our congregation were disfellowshiped for smoking. Three days (before) they were disfellowshiped, the (entire) congregation knew the details of what these teens had done. The person who was behind informing everyone, was an (elder's) wife who was on the phone to nearly every sister in the congregation. It spread like wildwire because one of the teens, was the son of a very well respected ministerial servant.
Thanks garybuss!
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JW Bible Character Hand Puppets on Ebay!
by Voyager inif jws have got to go to these extremes for their kids to stay interested in their studies, perhaps some real examination of what they are studying is needed!
nothing about jws surprises me anymore!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&category=16710&item=5557715913&rd=1&tc=photo .
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If JWs have got to go to these extremes for their kids to stay interested in their studies, perhaps some real examination of what they are studying is needed! Nothing about JWs surprises me anymore!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16710&item=5557715913&rd=1&tc=photo
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Two Grannies Show Compassion--When JWs Will Not!
by Voyager insome soldiers who have family that are jws receive (no) mail or packages at all.
so there are two grannies who take up the slack and show compassion when the jws will not!.
http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=2928307&nav=6djhwd7s .
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Two Grannies Show Compassion--When JWs Will Not!
by Voyager insome soldiers who have family that are jws receive (no) mail or packages at all.
so there are two grannies who take up the slack and show compassion when the jws will not!.
http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=2928307&nav=6djhwd7s .
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Jury Pool Profiles Disclosed!---(Jackson article).
by Voyager inhttp://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/021005jurypool.html .
http://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/021005jurypool.html .
by dawn hobbs.
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http://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/021005jurypool.html
http://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/021005jurypool.html
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By DAWN HOBBS
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Potential jurors in the Michael Jackson case filled out questionnaires that were made public Wednesday.Prospective jurors for the Michael Jackson molestation trial include many who have visited the entertainer's Neverland Valley Ranch and others who said they had been victims of inappropriate sexual contact, according to court questionnaires released Wednesday.
The jury pool of 243 North County residents ranged from retail and service workers to professionals with graduate degrees, many of whom have lived here more than a decade.
Attorneys have been reviewing their answers in preparation for in-person questioning scheduled to begin at the Santa Maria courthouse Monday. Those selected -- 12 jurors and eight alternates -- will sit through what is expected to be a five-month trial.
The prospective jurors answered 41 questions last week as part of the process designed to reveal whether their personal histories might lead them to favor the entertainer or his prosecutors.
Most indicated that they have read or watched at least a little coverage of the high-profile case involving an accuser who is now 15.
Some scribbled explanations in the margins about their knowledge of the case or why they visited Mr. Jackson's sprawling Los Olivos ranch.
"I went to Neverland w/special ed for my sch. dist," wrote a 47-year-old Solvang teacher.
The single woman explained that she briefly spoke with a co-worker about her jury summons but that she had stopped discussing the case after learning that she might be part of the Jackson jury pool.
Instead of simply checking "Yes" or "No" about whether she had read anything related to the 1993 child molestation investigation of Mr. Jackson, the woman wrote: "Some, not very much at all. I don't pay that much attention to media. I saw a little bit. I had a TV back then."
One 18-year-old student commented that he was "too young" to know anything about the prior case.
A real estate agent who volunteers as a docent for the Sedgwick Reserve said she was Mr. Jackson's neighbor. She indicated that she had seen a lot of media coverage and discussed the case with family and friends.
At first glance, there appear to be more women than men, with the majority above 40 years old. Most are married homeowners with children.
Some gave reasons why they couldn't serve. A 58-year-old married mother of two said she has "adult A.D.D," referring to the disorder that makes it difficult for people to concentrate on a task.
And a 60-year-old homemaker wrote that her religion precluded her from passing judgment on another person: "Only the Lord can judge the innocence or guilt of another person."
A 38-year-old Lompoc woman who works as a physical education teacher said it would be "nearly impossible" for her to be impartial. "Having three children of my own, I am very sensitive to any type of child abuse," she wrote. "The actions that Mr. Jackson has admitted to with children are very disturbing to me."
Another Lompoc woman, who works as an office assistant for the county, said she could not serve because "I don't think kids would lie."
Mr. Jackson has pleaded not guilty to child molestation and conspiracy charges. He faces up to 18 years in prison if convicted.
The pool from which 12 jurors and eight alternates will be picked includes retirees, agricultural workers, custodians and teachers. People listed Target, Mervyns and the Department of Social Services as places of employment. There are therapists, engineers, maintenance workers, real estate agents and a couple of business owners.
Many have friends in law enforcement, and most said they or a family member had served in the military. One divorced woman said she worked at Vandenberg Air Force Base as an advocate for battered women and victims of child abuse.
A 48-year-old man who is a senior pastor for a police department indicated that his father served in the Italian army. He also listed several ties to the Jackson family, including a birthday party he attended for Mr. Jackson's cousin, Eli Jackson.
The pastor stated that the cousin was also a member of his church, an employee and his son's best friend. He also said he was a "really close friend" of a former ranch employee.
A 53-year-old Santa Maria man said he and his family met Mr. Jackson and his family at a Jehovah's Witnesses facility and said he would have a hard time serving on the jury because "I believe that there is a possibility he might be guilty. There are doubts."
Some potential jurors reported that they had been arrested or said they had been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.
A few wrote that they had been the victim or a witness in a serious crime, including sex offenses.
At least two said they could not fairly judge someone from another race. And a handful more indicated they "don't know" if they could be fair.
Most conceded that they knew at least a little about the case against Mr. Jackson, but a few said they knew nothing about the widely reported investigation.
One 22-year-old nanny said she had been to Mr. Jackson's Neverland Ranch but had never heard any reports of any criminal allegations against him.
Dawn Hobbs also works as a news analyst for NBC and MSNBC. E-mail her at dhobbs@newspress.com.
