Military Single: Mosers touched many
Friends say their "community" attitude made couple different. By JAY KENWORTHY news(at)thestarpress.com (CORRECTION 05-20-2003 An article in Monday's edition reported that an airplane that crashed Friday in South Carolina, killing four Portland residents, had been 'home-built.' The plane's pilot, Portland businessman Greg Moser, did not build the aircraft, instead hiring a professional to complete that task, according...
Military Single: IPD casts wider net in candidate search
Chief forms panel with goal of diversifying Ithaca force By JODY ROSELLE Journal Staff ITHACA - The Ithaca Police Department is hoping to cast its gaze wider the next time it goes looking for a few good women and men.IPD Chief Lauren Signer has launched a campaign to increase the pool of applicants, with a greater goal of making the department more diverse."We want to have the police department reflect the community and the people they work for," said...
Military Single: Humanity during Holocaust-editorial
Humanity during Holocaust-editorial Tyler Chandler Guest Columnist The stories of those who sheltered and rescued the Jews during World War II teach man that force is not the only response to evil in the world. As a combat soldier in the Second World War, Dr. Philip Hallie believed that weapons and a sheer force of arms were the exclusive tools needed to defeat the Nazi Empire and thus stop the murder of millions of innocent victims of the war. Long after the war,...
Military Single: New NCUA Website Offers Nearly 300 Best Practices
On the one-year anniversary of NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz' introduction of the PALS program, Matz unveiled a new website developed as a result of the PALS workshops featuring best practices on everything from member business loans and mortgages to serving the underserved and marketing to latinos.In her remarks before CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference, Matz demonstrated the new website that is designed to help those credit unions who can't make...
Military Single: GULF DUTY LEAVES 17,500 CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS, PENTAGON SAYS
Some 16,300 military single parents and 1,200 military couples with children have been assigned to duty in the Persian Gulf theater, according to Pentagon statistics.Contrary to the image of mothers in camouflage fatigues kissing their youngsters goodbye, a majority of the single-parent families separated by the war are headed by fathers, not mothers. In civilian society, 87 percent of single-parent families are headed by a woman, but in the military it's the other way around....