Gaston County budget trims target emergency and police funding
Commissioners cut nearly 200000 from Gaston Emergency Medical Services and eliminated four vacant paramedic posts to restore police funding. The police budget remains under tight control as officers and civilians await recruitment, while other departments face shifts and private sponsorships to maintain services amid tax pressure.
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Rick Branson
Gaston County
Gaston Emergency Medical Services
Jeff Waldrep
GEMS
Waldrep
Farley
Recreation and Parks
Betty Wilson
Wilson
Poston Park
Public Works Department
Bill Beasley
Beasley
Bb&t
Baptist leader urges end to targeting Jews in dialogue
At the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting in Atlanta, R Alan Culpepper urged Baptists to renounce targeting Jews for evangelism. He spoke with Rabbi Michael S Miller of New York on building respectful Jewish-Baptist relations and creating local community through nonproselytizing dialogue.
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Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
United States
R. Alan Culpepper
McAfee School of Theology
Mercer University
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Michael S. Miller
Jewish Community Relations Council of
New York
Culpepper
Georgia World Congress Center
Miller
Baptist Fellowship
Philip D. Abramowitz
Council
Daniel Vestal
Vestal
White House distances itself from Clinton-appointed surgeon general
The White House signaled President Bush's frustration with Surgeon General David Satcher after his report on sex education urged abstinence alongside birth control and questioned abstinence programs. Bush officials distanced the president and asserted Satcher was appointed by the previous administration.
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White House
Clinton
Washington
Bush
David Satcher
Ari Fleischer
Satcher
Fleischer
Surgeons General
Joycelyn Elders
Senate
John Ashcroft
R-Mo
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Stanley D. Hoffman
M.D
Charles H. Hutchins
W. David White
DDS
Petre Itn Tre
Franklin Bouleviend
Sutte
Diabetes Supplies
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