Wendy's assistant manager participates in jail fundraiser event
Mindy Calumet, Wendy’s assistant manager and Muscular Dystrophy Association volunteer known as a jail bird, rode Thursday in a limousine wearing an orange prison outfit to the Carnegie Cultural Center at 501 S Main St. About 70 local leaders gathered and surpassed $16,000, with each asked to raise $600 to send a neuro muscular disease patient to summer camp for a week.
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Mindy Calumet
Wendy's
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Carnagie Cultural Center
S. Main St
Regional jail plans move forward with March talks
Franklin County officials will meet with three other counties in March to discuss a regional jail and feasibility study funding. The group, including Miami County host, would seek legislative approval. Anderson County declines, citing space for its own prisoners. Johnson County houses 300 inmates daily elsewhere.
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Franklin County
Commission
Don Stottlemire
Stottlemire
Miami County
Franklin
Johnson, Linn
Anderson
Ed Taylor
Anderson County
Taylor
Johnson County
Veteran diplomat Negroponte headed to Senate confirmation
John Negroponte, Bush’s pick to lead the new national intelligence directorate, heads to Senate confirmation. The 65 year old ambassador to Iraq faces a tough vote as Republicans and Democrats on the Intelligence Committee caution about the role, while he cites decades of intelligence service and past U.N. work in building a united case.
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Washington
John Negroponte
Bush
Senate
U.S
Senate Intelligence Committee
Pat Roberts
Kansas
Jay Rockefeller
West Virginia
Iraq
Negroponte
United Nations
Donald H. Rumsfeld
CIA
Porter Goss
U.N
Honduras
Welcome Home Chloe Highlights Volunteer Cleaning Aid
Chloe Robinson an 18 month old whose life centers on hospitals benefits from a free duct cleaning by Barry Banzet of B and B Professional Cleaning at 825 W Seventh St Ottawa. The gesture saves about 400 and aims to improve air quality after a hospital environment. Chloe’s family hopes better air and a new filter will ease her medical condition and tubes.
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Chrissy Robinson
Chloe Robinson
Duke University Hopital
Barry Banzet
B & B Cleaning
Banzet
Y Vickie
Seventh St
Ottawa
Banzer
Bush signs bill to curb class action lawsuits
President Bush moves to curb multimillion-dollar class actions saying the measure will curb frivolous suits and protect workers. The House passed the bill 279 to 149, sending to Bush for signature with immediate help promised for cases in progress.
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Jesse J. Holland
Washington
Bush
America
House
Dennis Hastert
Pope recalls 1981 shooting with faith and fear
In Memory and Identity the pope describes the moments after Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. He notes fear and pain yet a "strange feeling of confidence" he would live, and recalls forgiving the assassin and divine intervention guiding the bullet away from vital organs. He cites Fatima's Virgin Mary as central to his belief.
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Warsaw
Poland
John Paul II
Associated Press
Mehmet Ali
Agca
John Paul Wro
Isi Tially
John Paul
St. Peter's Square
Stanislaw Dziwisz
Fatima
Portugal
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Cleon Rickel
Weldon Padgett
Senate UK
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Sean McGuerry
Ottawa Herald
Chloe
Pope
Krzysztof Michalski
Jozef Tischner
Rome
Italy
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