Preliminary West Nile virus positives in Arkansas cases
Two Arkansas residents tested positive in preliminary West Nile virus screenings, with samples to be sent to the CDC in Atlanta for confirmation. One patient is from Houston and ill while visiting Arkansas. both are fine and have returned home. The state notes low risk of severe symptoms, especially among the elderly and ill, as the virus spreads from the East Coast to the South and now the West, with seven deaths in Louisiana this year.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
State Health Department
Fay Boozman
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
Houston
Boozman
Texas
Union County
CDC
Louisiana
Cerny outlines Val Verde zoning near Amistad area
County health department warns builders in Val Verde County to obtain a $100 permit and follow Amistad Land Use and Zoning rules. Roger Cerny, assistant county health inspector, explains this is the only zoning area in the county and emphasizes state legislation backs orderly development for the Amistad Recreation Area.
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Val Verde
Amistad
Amistad Land Use
Texas
Amistad Recreation Area
Val Verde County
Recre
Cerny
Actress Lois Pope donates 2 million to disabled veteran memorial
Lois Pope and her Florida foundation donated 2 million dollars to a Washington DC memorial honoring the nation's 2.3 million disabled veterans. The fund-raising push aims to kick start a 60 million dollar campaign with the memorial planned near the Capitol by 2005 after Clinton signed the memorial into law in 2000. Veterans at the Dallas convention welcomed the donation and urged greater support for veterans' healthcare and rights.
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Dallas
New York
Lois Pope
Washington, D.C
Pope
Clinton
National Capital Memorial
WHO seeks sponsors for Casa de Nifios orphanage project
World Harvest Outreach seeks sponsors for Casa de Nifios in San Salvador to fund a community center day care and orphanage. Land of nine acres is donated but ongoing costs are about five thousand dollars monthly. John Compton, a Del Rio native now in Pasadena Texas, leads the effort inspired by his nephew Adrian brian of Adrian y Destino who aided quake relief.
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World Harvest Outreach
WHO
Casa de Nifios
San Salvador
el Salvador
John Compton
Pasadena
Texas
Compton
Adrian
Adrian Y Destino
Adrian Brian
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Abilene
Morgan
Air Force
Vietnam
Thailand
David Autry
National Park Service
Interior Department
Disabled Veterans Memorial
Rroa Mohd Det
Ats
Alejandra Valdez
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