Pacific NW News Service

Pacific NW News Service
Nov 17,2013

Rick Price

Tornado alert by Ron Rattray
Our own EXCLUSIVE Pic
from Kentucky...

 

States affected were IL, OH, MO, KY, TN worst seems in IL 60-70 tornadoes reported
Video from Washington IL /CBS
Death toll now 3 one dead near Peoria IL
2 dead near St Louis at New Minden
Parts of Washington IL leveled
Widespread tornado damage in central Illinois 2 repoted dead near St Louis w/video
Video of some damage from Coal City Ill
Tornadoes touch down in Illinois w/video

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What will matter most about Ted Turner's life story when they roll the final credits?

That he started the first 24-hour news network? Built a fortune once worth $10 billion? Was Time magazine's "Man of the Year"? Received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame? Made The New York Times best-seller list?
Maybe it was that time he raced a sailboat faster than anyone else. Or the year his baseball team won the World Series. Impressed yet? Did you know he had a president for a fishing buddy and won the heart of a movie star?
Turner turns 75 on Nov.19 and yes, he has done or been all of these things. There's also his "Captain Outrageous" side. He kept a pet alligator, compared rival Rupert Murdoch to Hitler and called Christianity "a religion for losers." He stuck his foot in his mouth -- and apologized -- too many times to count. 
Ted Turner wants to go to Heaven

Bob Shannon wordspics

The day after the typhoon, Father Edwin Bacaltos stepped out of the compound of the Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in central Tacloban and began his work.

The scene was one of unspeakable horror. Dead bodies were strewn all over the place. The debris of shattered buildings and their contents filled the street.

Father Bacaltos' self-appointed task that day was to bless the bodies that lay scattered around his parish.

He crossed the road to the hospital opposite the church compound, tending to each of the corpses in its grounds. He then moved onto other areas that weren't blocked off by walls of wreckage.

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His day of work took a heavy mental toll.

"It was difficult for me," he said. "It was a really emotional experience."

Where was God?

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Kathy Meader

The Chamber of Commerce is working with the City of Republic to revive a tradition and have a community caroling/tree lighting evening in the park. We are tentatively scheduled for December 7. The plan is for the city to decorate the live tree at the north end of the park. They will probably need quite a few more lights and ornaments due to the amount the tree has grown since the last time this happened. If anyone would like to donate lights or ornaments, or make any ornaments for our town Christmas tree, please take them to City Hall. I will post more details here (and a flyer around town) as we work them out. Please share this information and plan to attend and participate!

Margo Marshall