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News and Updates
Updates on the policies, news and regulations that affect your organization and community.
10/15: A federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking President Trump’s change to the public charge rule.
10/2: The Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) expanded its eligibility and affordability to include families with an income of 200% of the Federal Poverty Level or lower.
10/2: The City of Chicago will spend $2.7 million to boost U.S. Census Count in 2020. The city’s goal is to count at least 75% of the hard to reach residents or else the city risks losing $1,400 per year per person.
9/19: IDHS Secretary Grace Hou on appointment of census coordinators by Governor Pritzker: “We look forward to working with our grantees to continue our efforts and reach the communities and demographics that have previously been hard to count.”
9/4: A new law sponsored by Rep. John Connor (D-85) was introduced with the purpose of amending the Department of Human Services Act to ensure access to substance use and mental health services statewide for pregnant and postpartum women.
8/30: The Comptroller’s latest report details the financial condition of the state and cites economic factors that could impact its financial future. For details, see the Comptroller’s press release.
8/17: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently awarded grants totaling $2.1 million to address the opioid crisis in central Illinois and improve the quality of behavioral health services.
8/13: The Illinois Partners for Human Service Board of Directors announces the appointment of Lauren Wright as the organization’s new Executive Director. She succeeds founding executive director Judith Gethner who retired in June after 10 years of service. Read the new executive director press release.
8/12: Governor Pritzker creates an Elder Abuse Task Force that will report its findings and recommendations by Jan 1.
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Council abandons lynching memorial
The Jacksonville City Council spiked a plan on Tuesday to install a memorial honoring Duval County’s lynching victims in downtown’s Hemming Park alongside a 63-foot monument honoring Confederate soldiers.
Councilwoman Anna Lopez Brosche introduced the plan last year to acquire a pillar bearing the names of the seven people who were documented as lynching victims in Duval County that is currently displayed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., which commemorates more than 4,000 black people who were killed in lynchings nationwide between 1877 and 1950.
However, the legislation never received consideration by the council, which voted 14 to 0 to withdraw it without discussion.
After Brosche introduced the plan, Council President Aaron Bowman requested the legislation not advance until a special committee decided how the city should use its public spaces to commemorate the city’s history, warts and all. That committee hasn't met in months, nor has it issued a final report of recommendations that was due at the end of April.
Last week, several council committees voted to withdraw Brosche's legislation after Bowman requested they clear the council’s agenda of bills introduced by council members who will be leaving office next month. Brosche will leave her council seat after unsuccessfully challenging Mayor Lenny Curry in the March election.
The special committee, which included Brosche, discussed criteria for deciding whether to accept memorials from outside groups and said any council member was free to do so on their own.
Although Brosche agreed to not advance her legislation while the special committee performed its work, she said she now believes Bowman created it to quietly sabotage her plan. She said the council’s decision to withdraw the legislation without seeking her input — let alone debating or voting on it — is a sign it lacked enough support to pass.
“It is what it is. It's unfortunate that this is indicative of how the city of Jacksonville has addressed its racial issues since its inception,” Brosche said. She didn't attend Tuesday's meeting.
Bowman, who is traveling out of the country, couldn’t be reached for comment.
The withdrawal was supported unanimously in all but one of the three committees that were tasked with reviewing it. Councilman Garrett Dennis was the only one to oppose the decision.
Dennis left Tuesday's meeting before the council voted on the legislation, but in an interview earlier that day, he said he plans to introduce new legislation to bring the pillar to Hemming Park.
“It's history. It’s something that actually happened,” Dennis said. “It’s part of the fabric that has made the country what it is today.”
While City Hall has for now abandoned the effort to obtain the pillar from the Alabama memorial, a local group is still trying to bring it Jacksonville.
The memorial has 800 pillars hanging from the ceiling to represent each American county where a lynching occurred. The pillars bear the name of each victim and the date of their deaths.
The memorial also displays duplicates of the pillars that are available for each county to claim.
“To be walking amongst all the memorials and seeking and searching for the Duval County memorial, it's just overwhelming, the gravity of the disregard for human life,” said Brosche, who has visited the memorial twice.
The Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project hopes to complete the process of claiming the pillar by this fall. The group hasn’t found a location to display the pillar, although its working to build public interest in the project that could secure a prominent location.

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Prof Fiona Judd¹, Prof Henry Jackson², Caitlin Fraser³, Greg Murray4, Assoc Prof Garry Robins² and Angela Komiti5
¹ Centre for Women’s Mental Health, Royal Women’s Hospital
² School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne
³ Centre for Rural Mental Health, Bendigo Health Care Group
4 School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.
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It is well recognised that farming is a physically and psychologically-demanding occupation (Deary et al., 1997). In Australia, farming is now characterised by high rates of stress (Gray & Lawrence, 1996), injury and suicide (Page & Fragar, 2002). Understanding and developing interventions to promote mental health in farming communities is a matter of urgency.
This study involved farmers across north-western Victoria and western New South Wales. Using surveys, the study examined rates of psychological distress among farmers. Farmers were also interviewed about their perceptions of the impact of their lifestyle and work on mental health, and help-seeking behaviours for mental health problems.
This project identified four key issues, each of which is elaborated upon below:
Rates of psychological distress
While farming is recognised as a high-stress industry, the study did not find higher rates of psychological distress among farmers, compared with non-farmers (Judd et al., 2006). In fact, this study identified that common personality traits found among farmers may protect against psychological distress.
Resilience in the face of adversity
All the farmers interviewed were strongly attached to farming as both an occupation and a way of life. They also described an array of stressors. Despite these demands, people displayed a high level of resilience in the face of adversity. It was clear from the data that there was considerable evidence to support the stereotype of farmers as tough and resourceful.
The survey data also identified that farmers were less likely to be depressed and anxious compared with non-farmers. Participants spoke about overcoming a range of challenges through their determination and hard work, as the quote from Sally, a female farmer, highlights:
Life was pretty damn tough, it was tough for me and it was extremely tough for the kids, we had no money …we had nothing, we didn’t even have a television or a refrigerator… we had an esky from the tip! How did I cope mentally? I focused on the future and …on the job at hand…and on my own ability and I just worked my guts out.
Limited acceptance of depression and other psychological problems among individuals and the farming community
Participants identified that when faced with problems, it was important to stay positive and develop practical solutions. There was limited acceptance and acknowledgement of distressing feelings and issues such as depression. People who dwelled upon problems were described as “whingers”. This attitude was most common among male farmers, who often rejected the notion that farming difficulties affected them psychologically, as the following exchange between Paul and Alice demonstrates:
Alice: Paul, at one stage, was not sleeping. It was just dreadful. All he could talk about was water; it was not easy to live with him for quite some time. He used to lie there and toss and turn…But they don’t admit to having a problem.
Paul: There is no point going out and whinging about it, you just sort of wear it, don’t you? They don’t admit to it, but then they don’t have a problem.
Alice: It is not something you admit.
Paul: I don’t get stressed.
Alice: See, there you go!
Not all male farmers in the study reported these types of responses to stressful situations, with a number emphasising the importance of talking to others and seeking help.
They did note however, that their attitudes were not common among the farming community.
While open discussion of problems was often seen as inappropriate, alcohol use was seen as a much more acceptable response to dealing with challenging times and experiences and alcohol consumption was deeply entrenched in the farming culture.
Barriers to Care in Farming Communities
A range of barriers to mental health care were identified including:
- a preference to seek help from friends and family rather than from health professionals
- stigma associated with mental illness leading to limited acceptance of mental health care
- reduced sense of confidentiality: the population size of small farming communities typically means there is a high level of local knowledge and visibility among residents. Thus, there was a sense that maintaining anonymity and confidentiality when accessing services could be compromised. participants reported that this increased likelihood of community awareness of service utilisation, limited their access to mental health care.
- limited accessibility of formal health providers and services due to geographic distance and limited availability of providers.
Implications for Policy and Practice
Farmers do not appear to experience higher rates of psychological distress, compared with the non-farming community. However, a range of personal and structural barriers does exist for farmers in terms of accessing mental health care when mental health problems emerge.
Personal strength, independence and ‘toughing it out’ are central values in farming culture, and seeking help for mental health problems is seen as the antithesis of these values.
Further efforts need to be made to address the personal implications of acknowledging that one has mental health problems.
In addition greater availability and accessibility of mental health care providers is required.
The findings of the study have been disseminated widely throughout the rural community via the publication of reports and presentations to both research and community groups. The investigators are continuing to explore issues around stigma, attitudes toward help-seeking and suicide in Australian farmers.
About the Researchers
The DART-R (Depression, Anxiety Research and Treatment- Rural) Team have worked collaboratively for over five years focusing on a range of mental health issues in rural communities.
Previous research undertaken by the group has included the distribution of mental health problems across rural areas, help-seeking, the role of social networks and on the impact of ‘place’ on rural mental health.
DART-R is a collaboration between Monash University School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine; Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne; School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology; and the Centre for Rural Mental Health, Bendigo Health Care Group.
Deary, I., Willock, J., & McGregory, M (1997), Stress in Farming, Stress Medicine 13 (131), 136.
Gray, I., & Lawrence, G., (1996), Predictors of Stress Among Australian Farmers, Australian Journal Of Social Issues 31 (2), 173-189.
Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Murray, G., Robbins, G., & Komiti, A., (2006), Understanding suicide in Australian farmers, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology 41 (1), 1-10.
Page, A & Fragar, L (2002), Suicide in Australian farming, 1988-1997, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 36 (1), 81-5.

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Reforms in the provision of credit guarantees by the Business Development Fund (BDF) are likely after the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) poked holes in the funding extended to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
During two virtual public hearings with BDF on the public finance mismanagement cases exposed by the Office of the Auditor General’s report for the 2018/19 financial year, PAC concurred with the AG that the Fund was not doing enough to support the growth of SMEs.
Yet, they said, large enterprises that are not eligible for BDF financing received support they did not deserve.
In the first hearing held on September 17, PAC was not satisfied with the explanations given by BDF officials for the mismanagement cases, prompting the committee to adjourn the session.
The hearing resumed on October 7 and lasted more than eight hours, during which more holes were poked in the way the


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Thor Drops to Third While Priest Needs a Miracle
As expected the movie Thor lost it’s first place standing this weekend as the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie debuted. Thor fell to third place behind Pirates and Bridesmaids as it’s earnings dropped 55% and brought in $15.5 million. The movie has brought in $145.4 million in the United States and $237.5 million overseas. The cumulative $382.9 million is well above it’s cost of $150 million to make. That ensures we’ll be seeing a sequel at some point.
The other big name comic book movie debut Priest hasn’t fared as well. In it’s second week it dropped 69.2% and earned $4.6 million. In the United States the movies has earned $23.6 million and cost $60 million to produce. That means the movie will rely on DVD sales to make up the difference. Unless those sales are lucrative, we won’t likely see a sequel.

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Seniors should be some of the first prioritized to receive a vaccination for the coronavirus when it becomes available, the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living told the National Governors Association.
“Given that long term care facilities care for our most vulnerable when it comes to this virus and employ hundreds of thousands of essential health care workers, we urge that your plans to the CDC make residents and staff of these settings the highest priority for the vaccine. Long term care facilities are comprised of our nation’s nursing homes, assisted living and memory care communities, intermediate care facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities, and independent living communities,” states the letter.
Those who reside in long term care facilities are especially susceptible to this novel virus. The average age of residents in our facilities is 85 and almost every one of them has an underlying health condition, and some have multiple chronic conditions. According to CDC data, the risk of mortality in this age group is 630 times higher than those 18-29 years old.”
“I fully appreciate the perspective the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living have shared,” said Dr. Stephen Smith, president and chief operating officer, Novant Health UVA Health System Haymarket Medical Center and Novant Health UVA Health System Prince William Medical Center.
Novant operates the Caton Merchant House assisted living facility in Manassas.
“We’ve been fortunate at Caton Merchant House, as none of our residents have contracted COVID-19. ‘This can be attributed to our team’s commitment to following the best practices of social distancing, hand washing, and mask-wearing in the facility.”
“We look forward to having the opportunity to further protect our residents when a vaccine becomes available and agree that this vulnerable population should be a top priority,” Smith added.
Seven people died during a coronavirus outbreak at the Arbor Terrace Assisted Living facility on Garner Drive just outside Manassas.
He’s been politically active in numerous parts of the city for decades but has never run for office.
He’ll probably never do it again, he says.
For now though, “I’m really enjoying himself,” said Harry Clark, a candidate for the Manassas City Council.
He’s running for the council as a Republican and is the secretary for the city’s GOP committee headed by former city council member Andy Harrover.
Clark serves as the Chairman of the city’s Planning Commission charged with hearing land-use cases and making recommendations to the City Council. He’s also chairman of the Board of Equalization – which hears appeals to property assessments and sits on the Freedom Aquatic and Fitness Center Advisory Board, and the Manassas Regional Airport Commission. Clark has also been volunteering to keep score for the Stonewall Park Swim Team since 1997.
“I try to keep busy,” Clark said.
Clark and his wife, Debra, moved to Manassas in 1990. They’ve been married for 35 years and have two daughters. Their daughters went through Manassas public schools. His wife is a retired military police officer, and he is a retired military intelligence agent. Growing up, his children couldn’t get away with anything, he joked.
Clark analyzed intelligence budgets at the Pentagon for 19 years. His office was located where a Boeing 757 crashed into the building on September 11. He was not in his office that morning.
“I got lucky,” Clark said.
But Clark says the thinks the city is turning the wrong direction politically, and that the government has an increasing “appetite for high taxes.” Eight weeks into the pandemic, the city council this year hiked taxes, raising the average homeowner’s property tax bill $220 more than last year, to an average of $4,295.
At a town hall meeting at the city’s airport on Monday, September 21, he said it was apparent that the people in Georgetown South don’t like the Grant Avenue Streetscape project. The $8.1 million project aims to reduce the number of lanes on South Grant Avenue that runs past their neighborhood, from four to two lanes. The reduction will make it more difficult for residents to travel in and out of their neighborhood and will lead to traffic backups.
Higher tax rates are also driving out the city’s most poor and vulnerable residents, he said. He is also worried about increased taxes driving businesses out of the city.
“I’m retired…I plan to stay in the city,” Clark said. “It’s a vibrant and diverse community, and I want it to stay that way.”
The city has been doing a good job with its response to the coronavirus pandemic, but he thinks the local government needs to be more proactive about businesses getting the relief available from the state and the federal governments. The city’s economic development department had provided multiple grants to city businesses and has partnered with Prince William County, and Northern Virginia Community College to provide job retraining skills.
Clark said he wants the business community to have more interaction with the school system, too. While the school system has a vocational program that works with local businesses to train students, many business owners don’t understand how to access the program. He wants to aid business owners in the process of filling out the required forms and completing the background checks needed, he said.
There are four open City Council seats on the November 3 ballot, to include the mayor. Clark is joined by Republican incumbent councilman Ian Lovejoy and Lynn Forkell Greene. Incumbent council members Mark Wolfe and Pamela Sebesky are running for re-election, alongside newcomer Tom Osina, for the Democrat ticket.
Two incumbent council members, Theresa Coates Ellis and Michelle Davis Younger are seeking the mayoral seat for the Republican and Democrats, respectively.
“I know all those people, and I like them. Nobody’s getting really nasty about things [during the campaign],” Clark said. “It’s a small town, we’re all friends.”
Greg Neiss just wanted to do something nice for his community.
“I stuck a flag on the pole outside my house, and I’ve had it there for years, on and off, probably 10 years,” Neiss told PLN.
A Marine Corps veteran, Neiss started to think it would be nice if there were more U.S. Flags on his block to cheer up people during the recent coronavirus lockdown.
So he went to Costco and got a few more flags. He put them up on light poles on Clover Hill Road in Manassas. No one said anything.
It wasn’t until his neighborhood’s community forum on the website Nextdoor, started to chat about the flags, that anything happened. Neighbors posting to the forum were asking who was putting up the flags, and if it was the city government.
Someone in the forum identified Neiss as the man who was posting the flags, and then people began putting money in his mailbox to buy and erect more flags. When all was said and done, he installed 15 flags along Clover Hill Road, from Waterford Drive to Wellington Road.
“I didn’t want credit for it,” Neiss said. “I just did it.”
Neiss reiterated that it was not politically motivated. Not long after he put up the last flag, the city government received a complaint.
“The flags were put up on city street light poles by a resident without permission. Nothing, no flyers, flags, posters etc. are allowed on light posts for the safety of our electric utility workers,” states city spokeswoman Patty Prince in an email to PLN.
The decorative flags on utility poles in the city’s downtown — they’re put up by the city and are permitted, Prince states.
So the city gave Neiss an ultimatum: Remove the flags or it would.
Neiss started taking the flags down, but when he went to take one down at Clover Hill Road and Hastings Drive, neighbors urged him to fight back, he said.
He took his fight to a town hall meeting at Manassas Airport on September 21, where there was a discussion of creating an “adopt-a-pole” program, similar to when an individual, family, or business “adopts” a street and vows to keep it free of litter.
In this case, anyone who adopts a pole would promise to maintain the flag.
“I’ve got good feedback from at least half of the city council,” Neiss said, including the Mayor.
Now, Neiss will meet with City Manager Pat Pate to set up a program where residents donate flags, and Greg would have them put up. Greg said there won’t have to be any cost for the City, and he can make all the arrangements to put them up.
“It wouldn’t cost the City a penny,” Neiss said.
The City Council has scheduled a work session in October to discuss the adopt-a-pole program.
“We continue to work with the neighborhood on their request to City Council to establish a more formal program to allow American flags on the City’s utility poles. As we do every year, the American flags will be removed from the city’s poles for the winter and be reinstalled in the spring,” said Prince.
A town hall meeting will be held tonight at the Manassas Airport Main Terminal Lobby at 7 p.m. to weigh in on several topics.
According to the agenda, the items discussed will be proposed changes to the city charter, which would give the city’s mayor the power to vote on a regular basis. Democrats now hold a majority on the city council and are pushing for a change the charter.
Currently, the major votes only to break a tie vote.
Longtime Mayor Hal Parrish II is not seeking reelection this fall. Michele Davis Younger and Theresa Coates Ellis, a Democrat and Republican, respectively, seek to replace him.
Another issue that could come up during the meeting includes U.S. flags that were removed from utility poles along Cloverhill Road.
“The flags were put up on city street light poles by a resident without permission. Nothing, no flyers, flags, posters etc. are allowed on light posts for the safety of our electric utility workers…we do have flags on light poles in the historic downtown, but they were put up by the city…” said city spokeswoman Patty Prince.
Residents can also expect an update on the Grant Avenue improvement project, which is slated to remove a lane of traffic from South Grant Avenue,between Prince William Street and Wellington Road. A new two-lane facility with dedicated turn lanes would be created.
The project would add utility, pedestrian, and streetscape improvements and a pedestrian and bicycle path from Wellington Road to Prince William Street. The project has been talked about since 2000, and could cost $11 million.
Prince William County, Manassas, Manassas Park, and all the towns now have a Public Defender.
On Wednesday, September 2, Woodbridge District Supervisor Margaret Franklin hosted a virtual forum along with Chief Public Defender Tracey Lenox and Deputy Chief Public Defender Jenny Miller, as well as Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye and EJ Scott from the Prince William County NAACP.
They had over 40 participants, according to Franklin.
Franklin said she and Boddye are invested in the office because of it how affects communities of color.
Public defenders are charged with making sure residents have adequate legal defense no matter what, Boddye explained. “We don’t believe that there should be a two-tiered justice system just because of your income or access,” Boddye said.
Tracey Lenox heads the county’s public defender office and has been a criminal defense attorney for 27 years. “It’s patently and obviously an unfair system,” Lenox said.
When she looks out in courts, she said, it’s” predominantly brown and black faces.” Seeing this prompted her to run launch an unsuccessful bid to be Prince William Commonwealth’s Attorney in 2019. Lenox lost in a Primary Election to current Commonwealth Attorney Amy Ashworth.
Lenox and her Deputy Public Defender, Jenny Miller, are now hiring staff to fill the newly formed office, and diversity is a priority. Lenox said that in Northern Virginia, public defenders offices only had one African American staff member when they started.
Lenox and Miller hired the first African American senior supervisor in Northern Virginia, Ben Talley. Since then, they hired two more African Americans and so in a month, they’ve quadrupled the number of African American staff members in Northern Virginia.
Lenox said she’s only hiring people who are true defenders at heart, she would rather have inexperienced people she can train who are passionate about the role.
The community has wanted this for decades, Lenox said. Lenox the credited voters with flipping Prince William County’s delegation in the General Assembly in Richmond flipped from Republican to Democrat for making it possible for the creation of the new office.
The newly formed office is located at 7900 Sudley Road, near Manassas. Currently, they are in suite 805 on the 8th floor, but they will be on the entire 7th floor when the office is fully built out, Genevieve Miller said
The public defender is assigned to every indigent case except in case there’s a conflict – which is about 30% of the time, Lenox said. An example would be a robbery with two people. The defender can’t “do both”, so one person gets the public defender and one gets a court-appointed attorney.
The office began taking some cases in September. It will spend the next 10 weeks spending training of all new assistant public defenders. The office will slowly increase the number and types of cases, and is expected to be able to handle every case assigned to it by January 1, 2021.
“We will begin to really accelerate the number of cases we take in mid-November once we finally get into our full office space,” said Lennox.
Prince William County is the largest locality in Virginia that does not have a public defenders’ office. Public defenders’ offices are state-funded and provide legal representation to individuals who can’t afford a lawyer.
The state is providing $5.4 million in funding for the new office over the next two years for 35 full-time positions including 24 attorneys, according to the Prince William Times,
Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-2, Stafford, Woodbridge) and Sen. Scott Surovell (D-36 Lorton, Stafford, Woodbridge), carried legislation to create the new office during this year’s legislative session. The new office received support from Gov. Ralph Northam and was passed with bipartisan support in the House of Delegates and state Senate.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors included $350,000 in their 2021 budget for a 15% salary supplement for the public defenders’ office. The boost in salary will make attorneys’ salaries more competitive with other Northern Virginia localities, the Prince William Times also reported.
Manassas city residents will get some tax relief for their vehicles.
The City Council voted on Monday night to approve the allocation percentage for personal property tax relief in the City of Manassas for the 2020 tax year.
“Personal Property Tax Relief…is applied to all qualifying privately owned or leased motor vehicles used for non-business purposes in the City of Manassas,” said city spokeswoman Patty Prince.
Residents will automatically receive the relief in their respective tax bills.
Prince said that the average tax for qualifying motor vehicles is $269.52, and the average assessment for a qualifying motor vehicle is $8,260.
According to City documents,
…qualifying personal use vehicles subject to personal property taxation in the City of Manassas during tax year 2020 shall receive personal property tax relief in the following manner:
1. That qualifying personal use vehicles with an assessed value less than or equal to $1,000.00 will be eligible for 100.00 % tax relief from personal property taxation.
2. That qualifying personal use vehicles with an assessed value greater than $1,000.00 but less than or equal to $20,000.00 will be eligible for 44.78% tax relief from personal property taxation.
3. That qualifying personal use vehicles having an assessed value of greater than
$20,000.00 shall only receive 44.78% tax relief from personal property taxation on the first $20,000.00 of assessed value.
4. That all other vehicles, which do not meet the definition of “qualifying” (including, but not limited to, business use vehicles, farm use vehicles, motor homes, etc.) will not be eligible for any form of tax relief under this program.
For Manassas, it’s the bypass.
The City Council unanimously voted to support a plan to extend Godwin Drive, creating a four-lane, four-mile Route 28 bypass. Known as “alternative 2B,” the road would connect with Route 28 at Bull Run, on the Fairfax County line.
The move comes after the council in July failed to endorse the bypass plan. Later on August 4, leaders in Prince William County voted to scrap it.
But last week, those same leaders reversed course, took another vote, and revived the road by opting to spend $89 million to design the four-lane road. The decision came following threats from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that it would pull the funding and allocate it to other projects.
As Manassas Vice Mayor Pamela Sebesky had said at the July meeting, “the city needs to wait for the Board of County Supervisors to make a decision before it can weigh in.”
“I think it’s presumptive of us a council to not allow them to make that decision and then support what the Board of County Supervisors’ decision will be in the near future,” Sebesky said.
And now that the county has spoken, city leaders say wanted their chance, and passed the resolution unanimously.
According to city documents:
“The City of Manassas remains a key stakeholder in this project. The Board of County Supervisors held a public hearing on the preferred alignment on July 14, 2020. After initially denying the request to endorse the bypass, the Board of County Supervisors approved Alignment 2B on September 8, 2020.”
Business groups like the Prince William Chamber of Commerce supported the bypass because it adds to the region’s existing road network, and would ease delays on Route 28 — dubbed Nothern Virginia’s most congested road prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
The bypass is expected to cost $300 million to construct and a total of 54 homes would need to be demolished.
Once the road is designed, those plans need to be approved by the Army Corps of Eginneers becuase a portion of the road will plow through wetlands of Flat Branch, located at Bull Run Regional Park.
Manassas has a new fire chief.
During Monday night’s city council meeting, Mayor Hal Parrish swore in a new fire chief, William Garrett.
Garrett’s wife pinned the badge on her beaming husband after Mayor Parrish swore him in.=
Garrett has over 32 years of experience in public safety. Chief. Garrett will be replacing Chief Rob Clemons, who retired on August 28, Potomac Local News previously reported.
According to the City of Manassas website:
He has served in many different capacities: Fire Prevention, Emergency Medical Services, Operations, Support Services, and Strategic Planning. As Fire and Rescue Chief, Chief Garrett manages a highly progressive and professional agency and staff of 62 career members. He works in collaboration with the Manassas Volunteer Fire Company and the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad leadership teams in providing oversight of the Fire and Rescue System.
In the waning days of summer, people are flocking to area parks.
On afternoon of August 30, Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge and Great Falls National Park in McLean were at the capacity that day and visitors who didn’t make it there early were being turned away.
Chris Alford, chief of Prince William Forest Park near Dumfries, said the park has seen increased visitors as well. “At this time we are on a trend to be about 10 to 15 percent higher than last year’s visitation,” Alford said in an email to Potomac Local News.
Alford said this is likely due to the coronavirus. “Due to COVID there has been a big push for people to get out of their homes and get some fresh air. This drive has opened new visitors up to the outdoors and the value of recreational opportunities for health and wellness,” Alford said.
Alford said that he has heard that other parks are also experiencing this issue.
“At this time there are no plans to alleviate visitation at Prince William Forest Park. Our visitation regularly goes up and down due to the weather and time of year. Our peaks are usually holiday weekends between mid-May and November,” Alford said.
People have also been flocking to parks in Stafford County, too. County leaders are exploring the possibility of charging users of two popular riverside parks — Historic Port of Falmouth Park on the Rappahannock River and Aquia Landing Park on the Potomac River — $10 per car to enter the parks.


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Oldies fans are invited to wear their best fifties or sixties outfits to come hear Bucks County-based male a cappella group Cordus Mundi’s “Cordus Pops II” concert and win free prizes on Sunday, April 2 at 3:00 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury. “Cordus Pops II”, a collection of well-known popular favorites covering the past few decades, includes music from George Gershwin, Dion DiMucci, Fred Parris, Sting, John Phillips, Elton John, Doc Pomus, Erroll Garner, a couple of fellas named Lennon & McCartney, and more. Several individual Cordus Mundi members, including tenors George Caucci and Scott Totten, baritones Michael Cosdon and Eric Muth, and instrumentalists Jim Peters and Rick Rosen, will play solo roles on various pieces.
“Although it’ll have a few twists and turns, a Cordus Pops concert by definition is going to be largely about fifties and sixties oldies”, notes group artistic director Rosen. “We want to pay homage to those decades and have some fun, so we’ll be awarding limited edition, suitable-for-framing first edition Cordus concert poster collections to any/every concert-goer who comes wearing fifties or sixties attire or carrying fifties or sixties accessories.” Rosen adds, “Also, in the true spirit of the sixties, we’ll be giving away free copies of our “Unforgettable” CD to each and every attendee.”
The Cordus Pops II concert will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church, 6587 Upper York Rd. in Solebury. For those unable to attend the live performance of November 20, a video of the performance will be made available for online viewing beginning one week later. Tickets for the online video option are available at the group’s website (www.cordusmundi.com). Tickets for the live performance are $20 (no charge for children under 12) and are available rom Cordus Mundi members, at the website or at the door. Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 6587 Upper York Rd. in Solebury, PA.
For more information, contact Cordus Mundi online at www.cordusmundi.com, or at 650.219.2748.

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RENT in Limerick city has risen by 5.9% in the last twelve months, recent research has shown, making the average rent in the city €1219.
The research conducted by Daft.ie also shows that in the rest of Limerick rents were on average 12.1% higher in the third quarter of 2019 than a year previously.
The average listed rent outside the city is now €906, up 61% from its lowest point, findings of the latest quarterly Rental Report show.
In Munster, rents rose by an average of 10.1% in the year to September 2019 and are now 23% above their previous high in early 2008, while rents have risen by an average of 5.2% nationwide in the year to September 2019.
According to the report, this marks the lowest rate of rental inflation across the country since the second quarter of 2013.
At €1,403, the average monthly rent is now €373 per month higher than the previous peak in 2008 and almost €660 higher than the low seen in late 2011.
Labour Housing spokesperson Deputy Jan O’Sullivan has responded to these newly-released figures and has said it is time for a rent freeze to be introduced to give renters a much-needed break.
Deputy O’Sullivan said: “After more than three years, it is clear that this Government has failed to get the rental crisis under control.
“Rent pressure zones are failing to cap rents in an affordable way and the 4% annual increases for those that are in leases are simply too high," Deputy O'Sullivan said.
“It’s time to freeze rents and introduce maximum rents on a regional basis until enough homes have been built to get to grips with the housing crisis," she added, "renters need a break and under this Government are simply not getting one.”
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin TD for Limerick City Maurice Quinlivan has said: “Figures released by Daft.ie today show that rents in Limerick City have risen by 5.9%, breaching the rent pressure zone legislation in Limerick which is supposed to cap rent increases ay 4%.
“It’s clear that the rent pressure zone isn’t working here, but the bigger point is that rents shouldn’t be permitted to even rise by 4% at this stage. They’re already too high in Limerick as they are," Deputy Quinlivan continued.
“This legislation is actually encouraging landlords to increase by 4% each time they can, instead of stopping increases.
“Rents in Limerick City are now double what they were a few years ago," he added, "we need measures that will stop them rising, not just allow them to continue rising slower.
“Families don’t have any more money to be spending on rent. People’s household budgets are stretched to the max as it is.
“Sinn Féin have proposed solutions, such as giving renters one month’s rent back to renters, which would be worth about €1,200 a year to people renting in Limerick City. We also proposed freezing rents altogether a few years ago, but the government refused point-blank to consider this and look where things are now.
“For the next General Election, Sinn Féin will be proposing radical solutions to our housing crisis, and we will be asking people to reject the failed policies of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, and vote for a party that are willing to actually do something about the housing crisis.”
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Average rents, and year-on-year change, 2019 Q3
Commenting on the report, Raychel O'Connell, communications manager of Daft.ie, said: "For the 14th quarter in a row we have seen unprecedented high rents across the country. With rents at a record high, and availability in such short supply, it is clear that the sourcing of more rental accommodation continues to be of utmost importance for the Irish property market."
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This beautiful poster for Vicente Minelli’s 1952 drama The Bad and the Beautiful was made for the film’s French release as Les ensorceles. A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of a legendary Hollywood producer, the story is told in triptych, with each section focused on someone the producer betrayed during his rise to the top. The three sections are wrapped in a framing device wherein the betrayed have been called together to hear the producer’s pitch for working together again. Of course, all of them are too angry to consider such a collaboration—at least at first.
The real attraction here is seeing 1950s Hollywood turn its camera inward for a look at the machinations behind the magic of movies. The cast—Kirk Douglas, Dick Powell, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, and Gloria Grahame—range from excellent to adequate, and the story of ruthlessness being rewarded in Tinseltown has a contemporary feel. The saying goes that it’s best to be nice to everyone you meet on the way up because you run into the same people on the way down. Doubtless that’s true, but even better advice would be to never come down at all.
Turning our attention to the poster, you may notice that the design was inspired by the promo shot just below. Except—hold on a sec. Is that Douglas and Turner? No, it isn’t. It’s Gilbert Roland and super hottie Elaine Stewart. The producers must have liked their dance bit so much they decided to use it as inspiration for the promo art, basically putting Douglas's and Turner's heads atop Roland’s and Stewart’s bodies. That’s like being left on the cutting room floor, but somehow even worse. In Stewart’s case at least, we will be sure to get back to both her head and body. Les ensorceles premiered in France today in 1953.
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Write a check with your pecker and you may have to cash it with your ass.
We watched Pitfall for the first time yesterday, and like many noirs the main takeaway here is to be thankful for what you’ve got. Dick Powell plays an insurance investigator, and even though he’s married to Jane Wyatt, he loses a philosophical debate with his own penis and ends up in Lizabeth Scott’s bed. But these fast women are never truly single—there’s always a recent ex and a raft of current admirers. Scott’s ex isn’t the main worry, since he’s cooling his heels in county, but her number one admirer is a gumshoe played by Raymond Burr and he's the sinister scheming type who is capable of just about anything. When the ex eventually gets out of jail, Burr realizes his plan to have Scott is in jeopardy, so he decides to pit the ex against Powell, which should result in one murder and one long prison sentence. Afterward he’ll just scoop up Lizabeth and sail away with her. Did we mention she despises him? Well, no matter—like all sociopaths, Burr figures she’ll come to love him in due time, especially when she finally understands that his violent tendencies are just a symptom of his devotion. Pitfall is a serviceable noir, but it isn’t top notch. The main problem for us is simply that Lizabeth Scott isn’t alluring enough to make us believe a husband would spurn the lovely and supportive Jane Wyatt. We understand that in real life these matters are complicated, but this is a movie and if Powell is going to stray, we think his marriage should be unhappy, or Scott should have more going for her than a platinum coif. Neither is the case, and so his tumble into Scott’s arms is a bit inexplicable. But hey, we’re quibbling. This is a decent movie, and we recommend it. Pitfall premiered in the U.S. today in 1948.
Beware the man whose back is against the wall.
Above is American actor Dick Powell, née Richard Ewing Powell, seen here in a publicity photo for his 1948 film noir Pitfall. Powell’s career was slow getting started, but when he hit his forties he became a noir stalwart, starring in Murder My Sweet, Cornered, Johnny O’Clock, and Cry Danger, as well a number of more conventional melodramas. We’ll have more on Powell later.
The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1961—Soviets Launch Venus Probe
The U.S.S.R. launches the spacecraft Venera 1, equipped with scientific instruments to measure solar wind, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation, towards planet Venus. The craft is the first modern planetary probe. Among its many achievements, it confirms the presence of solar wind in deep space, but overheats due to the failure of a sensor before its Venus mission is completed.
1994—Thieves Steal Munch Masterpiece
In Oslo, Norway, a pair of art thieves steal one of the world's best-known paintings, Edvard Munch's "The Scream," from a gallery in the Norwegian capital.
The two men take less than a minute to climb a ladder, smash through a window of the National Art Museum, and remove the painting from the wall with wire cutters. After a ransom demand the museum refuses to pay, police manage to locate the panting in May, and the two thieves, as well as two accomplices, are arrested.
1938—BBC Airs First Sci-Fi Program
BBC Television produces the first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Capek's dark play R.U.R., aka, Rossum's Universal Robots. The robots in the play are not robots in the modern sense of machines, but rather are biological entities that can be mistaken for humans. Nevertheless, R.U.R. featured the first known usage of the term "robot".
1962—Powers Is Traded for Abel
Captured American spy pilot Gary Powers, who had been shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960 while flying a U-2 high-altitude jet, is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, who had been arrested in New York City in 1957.
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BWCA Entry Point, Route, and Trip Report Blog
September 23 2023
Number of Permits per Day: 5
Elevation: 1166 feet
On the Water- Monday July 20th-
On the water late considering how far we need to go today. Up the Horse river to the falls by 6pm. Started raining and NO campsites available. Mudrow-Alruss-Tin can Mike-Horse Lake-Horse River-Basswood. 13 miles by water. (not counting portages)
Tuesday July 21st-
Rain all night, all morning and all day. Went north by petroglyphs, table rock and the the Crocked Lake Narrows across Thursday bay to campsite. Basswood-Crooked Lake-Wednesday Bay-Thursday Bay. 11 miles in the rain.
Wednesday July 22nd-
Up early and calm winds to take advantage of, considering the big water we have to cross. Found beaver dam to lift over and did a portage from hell between Pandos lake and Chippewa Lake. VERY steep and slippery after rain. Many mud holes. Then the mile portage after Wagosh Lake to Gun Lake. Never saw another soul in a canoe or campsite the entire day! Thursday bay-Friday Bay-Pandos Lake-Chippewa Lake-Wagosh lake-Gun Lake. 11 miles by water.
Thursday July 23rd-
Finally had a dry night. got everything dry!!! A few portages today to Fourtown Lake campsite. Easy day by comparison. Gun Lake-Fairy Lake-Boot Lake-Fourtown Lake. 6 miles. Put the long miles at the first of the week for a buffer for contingencies!
Friday July 24th-
Last day. Stormed last night bad. A few portages today with one bad one between Fourtown Lake and Mudrow lake. To entry point by 1pm. Ready for a hot shower! 4 miles
45 miles by water
13 miles by portage (3 trips each)
58 miles total.
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Monday is my drive up day. I get up early and got over my gear one last time to ensure every last piece was present. I toss everything into the packs and bagged up clothes for the overnight, entry and exit.
I get on the road later than planned but with sufficient time to reach the Kawishiwi Ranger Station to pick up my permit after I arrive in Ely. The drive up from the cities is uneventful and I have my permit in hand by 4:00 PM, pleased that I had not been required to sit through the "bear movie".
I check in at VNO and do a little shopping at Priagis. I have dinner at the Ely Steak House and then head back to VNO to line my packs and properly load my gear for the next day's entry. I turn in around 9:00 planning an early departure in the morning.
I get up at 4:15, showered up, load my gear in the car and check out at 5:00AM. I head over to Britton's for breakfast and am waiting at Piragis before the 6:00AM for the rental office to open so I could pick up the Merlin II that I had arranged for this trip. We take care of the paperwork and load it up and I am off down the Echo Trail.
I arrive at the Mudro parking lot around 7:30. The first thing I need to do is change out the seat drops in the Merlin with a short set I had made that would raise the to the rails and allow me to kneel (my preferred paddling posture, especially in a solo). Then I need to rig the canoe with painters, lash in the spare paddle, figuring out just how all my gear would fit.
I also have to figure out what my portage routine will be. In addition to my main pack I have a day pack and my thwart bag. I also have my Cliff chair, a kneeling pad and my paddle and life jacket to contend with. Typically on tandem trips I can just lash the Chair to my pack and don't have the pad to contend with (I have glued in pads in my tandem canoes). However, the canoe was to narrow for me to keep the chair attached. That meant I had to strap the pad and chair to to pack at each portage and remove them after but those were really the only extra steps outside my normal route. My thwart bag clips on D rings on the front of my shoulder straps and I have carabiners on my life fest that clip it to my pack. I carry the day pack with the canoe on my first crossing and follow with the main pack, and its attachments and the paddle. Both loads are perhaps 60lbs.
I make the 30 rod portage to the narrows. The water is high enough that I am able to put in at the nice sandy beach at the end of the trail. At 8:27 I finally made the first stroke of my solo career. At 8:29 I paused to put on some bug dope, then resumed my journey.
My planned course for the day was to take me through Mudro and Sandpit, at least as far as Tin Can Mike.
The paddle up the Mudro narrows was peaceful. I really started to get a sense of the solitude I would experience on this trip. I soaked it all in. The windy coarse gave me a chance to use some of the freestyle strokes I have been practicing. I am pleased that the water is high enough that I can weave through the rocks at the opening into Mudro Lake rather than portage around them like we did last fall.
Heading across Mudro I realize that I am not making very good time with my C stroke. Reluctantly I change to a NAT style (sit-N-switch). While less graceful this nearly doubles my speed. I would stick with this paddling style for most of my open water paddling on this trip, throwing in freestyle moves close to landings or anywhere else delicate maneuvers were needed.
I get across Mudro to the landing to Sandpit in short order. This portage to Sandpit has a reputation of being a challenge on the Sandpit side. Yes there is a bit of a descent and yes its rocky but its a short stretch and I really didn't find it to be all that bad.
The trip across Sandpit is also pretty quick and I head over the portage to Tin Can Mike. This porage seems shorter than it is marked, maybe becuase its pretty easy, but the boardwalk at the end is as impressive as advertised, and yes, it does have a passing lane.
Its only about 10:30 when I shove off on Tin Can Mike and I've pretty much made up my mind I don't want to stop yet. I reason I'll continue on to Horse and take a camp on the south end. The paddle across Tin Can Mike is nice. From a distance the two campsites on the west side are not impressive but the one on the point to the east shows promise. No matter, I am committed to forging ahead.
When I get across to Horse its approaching noon. The first campsite is visible from the portage, not much wood around it. Not sure I'd be real interested in a tent, let alone a hammock. The second site looks better but is occupied.
So now my choice is head up the west shore of Horse to check another site, which does look open from the distance, or continue on to Fourtown. I chose to continue on.
The portage out of Horse is certainly a pretty one. Classic BWCAW stuff. Lots of ups and downs and rocks and roots and pine needles every where (I love that). The landing on the other side is really the first on of the day that wasn't just a gem. A buch of big rocks and dropped off sort of quickly. A real wet footer. By this time its almost 1:00PM, its hot (90) my gatorade is running low and I'm getting hungry. I'm ready to make camp.
Off across the small bay I go towards the marked ten rod portage around some rapids that separate this bay from the next. The landing isn't great but I deal with it. By this time I am getting tired of unloading/loading the canoe though.
Across the next little bay to a surprise, an unmarked 10 rod portage. This wasn't really all that bad but I was in no mood for surprises of this sort at the time.
I cross this bay, which is actually part of Fourtown according to my map, and land at the first campsite on Fourtown, which happens to be unoccupied, at 1:47. BTW there is a streach of rapids and a couple drops here to which are accompanied by another unmarked portage.
Aside from a lack of formidable trees in the fire area for tarp rigging this is really a nice site. It is on a little point and there is a huge clearing surrounded by a narrow band of forest. Lots of flat area for tents and some nice big trees for hanging hammocks.
I set up my camp tarp well enough to cover my gear and then rigged my hammock with a second tarp over it. This would be the first trip for my hammock, which I made myself. I was pretty exited about using it.
I had some lunch and pretty much tried to just stay out of the sun for a while. I really didn't get around the side of the camp to see the drops exiting Fourtown until around 4:00. As soon as I did I got my trunks on an proceeded to play in them. I found a number of cool spots to hang out in the current. Kind of a natural cool water whirlpool. So refreshing. I played for an hour or so and took some self portraits.
After my swim I pumped some water, had dinner and collected some firewood. No cutting/splitting on this site. Around 8:00 I started up a small fire, enjoyed a bourbon and a couple cigars and wrote in my journal. I only kept the fire going for about an hour, turning in a little after 9:00.
It was kind of hot and I had a hard time getting to sleep until it cooled down somewhat. But I sure slept good once I did. There were not swarms of mosquitoes but those that were there were certainly hungry.
[paragraph break] North end of Mudro at the portage to Sandpit. [paragraph break] My first hammock hang! [paragraph break] Relaxing in the rapids near camp.[paragraph break] A couple sunset picks[paragraph break]
I get up at around 5:20 and start packing up my camp. The hammock and its trappings are new to me and it winds up taking a lot longer to get everything packed up than I expected. This would improve each day on this trip. I'm not convinced the hammock is faster to deal with than a tent.
I finally shove of at 7:01. Destination for today, Gun Lake. At this point I am pretty glad I made it all the way to Fourtown Tuesday. The trip from Tin Can Mike to Gun would have been 10 miles, this will be much more manageable. I weave my way across Fourtown sticking relatively close to shorelines or islands. It takes me about a half hour to cross.
The landing at the portage to Boot is another one of those big rock landings. With a careful location choice and footing I manage to unload with out having to step in over my Gator Socks.
The portage to Boot is easy, but narrower than most of the earlier portages. There are also more deciduous shrubs along the trail. It has a fairly remote feeling. The Boot landing is pretty easy.
I cut across open water crossing the south end of boot then turn north and follow the east shoreline much of the way up the lake. Its getting breezy and while I don't hug the shore I don't get to far from it.
The landings on the portage to Fairy are both rock but nice and the portage is a snap. I quickly cross Fairy for an another easy carry to Gun.
On Gun I head up the west shoreline to the northern part of the lake. There is a campsite on the north shore of the southern bay of Gun. As I am paddling up Gun I see a dark canine form cross the camsite right behind the fire area. Might have been a wolf but I'm not sure. It looked a little big for a coyote to me but it was a long way off.
I paddle around the point and headed east. My intention is to check out the "trigger" site since I'd heard it was good. I paddle right past the site on the north side of that point. As I approach the trigger site I see a tandem just pulling away from it. They had been there the night before and said they thought it was a great site. I swoop right in and secured my camp for the day, it is only 9:45AM.
This is a nice campsite. There are two large primo tent pads on either side of the camp area. Suitable trees for hammock hanging are space a little wide but I can make it work. The fire area has a really slick log arrangment and there is a line of trees separating the camp from shore and providing some shade. Some one also constructed a livewell in the one spot where the water comes right up to camp.
I start setting up then take a lunch break before finishing. The I basically putz around camp all afternoon. Again, trying to stay cool.
The wind really picked up in the afternoon and that got me a little concerned. What if I got wind bound? I had plenty of food but if I couldn't make it out on time my wife would freak out. This being my first solo, I'm not sure just what my little canoe and I can handle safely in terms of waves.
I go out in the wind to pump water. Getting turned sideways in the waves while doing this was pretty uncomfortable but stable enough. Cutting into the waves was just fine. The canoe itself didn't really seem to be affected by the wind at all. I had no problem turning it any which way or keeping it on a heading. Still, the waves were a bit much for comfort.
I have supper and finish my day off with a campfire, bourbon, cigar and writing in my journal. While I am relaxing a beaver comes up on shore in front of camp and snags some branches from a shrub. He proceeds to swim around the side of the campsite and sits in a little bay munching on them. I follow him around and watched him eat from less than 20ft away. I don't think he knew I was there. I quietly head back to camp after watching a while and he just keeps on munching.
I turn in around 9:00 again. It is hot so I have trouble getting to sleep. Also the mosquitoes are out in swarms and they don't let up around 11:00 like they did back on Fourtown.
I get up around 5:30 again and pack up camp. This goes a little quicker than yesterday. I toss a couple snacks in my thwart bag and shove off at 7:00. Its clear and calm as I paddle up the "barrel" of gun.
My original plan had been to camp on Moosecamp today but I'm still concerned about getting wind bound so I will be making my way to Fourtown.
The portage into Bullet has rocky but decent landing on the Gun side. The Bullet side is also rock but a bit more of a wet footer. The trail has a remote feel to it and the stream between Gun and Bullet floods part of it.
I cross Bullet and scull up to the landing on the portage to Moosecamp. There is a small bobber floating at the landing and I snag it. Near the Moosecamp landing there is a small but steep rockface. While crossing it with the canoe and my daypack, I loose my footing and land on my backside. I'm fine but when I try to get up the canoe isn't coming along the way it should. I make another attempt but that doesn't go any better. I finally realize the problem, the portage yoke is broken. I grab the gunnels, get up and carry the canoe the rest of the portage.
I stuff the short end of the broken yoke in my day pack and load the canoe up. Fortunately there will be no more portages today. The Moosecamp landing is pretty mucky but there are some rocks to work with and it's OK if you can stay on them. I manage pretty well and paddle away from the portage. Its 8:25.
The Moosecamp river is thick with lily pads and thick grass over most of its surface which really kill your guide. There is one log jam and a huge beaver dam that require unloading the canoe. At the beaver dam I step into muck up to my knees. Good thing my shoes are on tight. Of the remaining 5 beaver dams one has enough water flowing over it that I can just push myself across. The other four require only lift overs. It takes me around two hours to traverse the Moosecamp River.
As I coast out int to Fourtown I am greeted by a stiff breeze from the south and one foot waves. I make my way across to the southern part of the lake. The canoe is plenty stable heading into the waves. I don't hug the shoreline crossing the bay north of the big island. A decision that I question a couple times when the wind picked up. I make it across to the point east of the island. I pass two occupied campsites on this point. There are supposed to be three but I recall looking for one last year there and not finding it.
I head across the southeast bay to check out the three southern most campsites. I can see the one on the inside of the piont is occupied but the one back in the bay looks like it may be open. I head that way but as I get closer I see a tent is setup there.
At this point I have been kneeling in my canoe for over three hours. My boots are on pretty tight (remember the mud) and my knees and especially my ankles are just killing me. I pull over on a ledge south of the campsite and drag myself out of the canoe.
I loosen by boots just sit there on the rock for five minutes with my legs stretched out. I get up and start pacing around. My knees and ankles just ache. After about 10 minutes of walking I'm pretty loosened up. I have a cliff bar and some gatorade before boarding the canoe again.
I head around the point to check out the campsite nearest the entry point. This one is also occupied. I decide to head over and look for the "lost site". My only other options are to back North (not what I want) or to keep going out of Fourtown and hope I can snag a site on Mudro or head back up to Sandpit etc.
I cross the bay and start up the shoreline where the "lost site" is marked. A few spots look like they have promise but nothing. Finally I happen on a site, its not the "lost site", this has another mark on my GPS. Who cares, its a very nice looking site and its open. This will be home for the next two nights. Its 12:25.
This site has a nice fire area with lots of flat "kitchen" rocks around the fire grate. There are logs angling off on each side and more flat rocks at the inside ends of each with a space between them. Very nice.
I'm able to rig the camp tarp right at the edge of the fire grate and stretch back over the middle of the seating area. The ground slopes up behind the fire area so there is lots of space under the tarp. A lone jackpine behind the tarp provides a branch to throw a cord over to pull up the center of the tarp.
I rig my hammock between a couple nice white pines, pretty close to shore. A nice breeze is blowing in so I raise the front edge of the hammock tarp to take advanate of it and give me a view.
I'm whipped. I have some lunch and again just tinker around camp trying to stay in the shade, which is pretty easy at this site. There are nice trails along the shore line. I grab my axe and saw and head down the trail. I follow it past where the "lost site" could possibly be. If there ever was a site its been gone a long time. I find a nice chunk of downed aspen in the woods and saw a few feet off of it to drag back to camp.
I head out in the cnoe and pump some water. Back at camp I make dinner. After cleaning up I cut and split my wood.
Around 8:00 I start a fire an write in my journal. I hear a noise and look up to see a doe just at the edge of camp. When she turns away I try to move toward my camera. I just about get it when she starts walking, calmly, across the back of my camp. As soon as the tarp is between us I pull out the camera. About that same time she must have winded me because I heard her woosh off into the woods.
I enjoy a bourbon and a couple cigars by the fire. I stay up a little later than I have been writing in my journal by headlamp.
I sleep in a bit this morning. No hurry getting up since I am not moving today. I heat some water for my jumbo French press mug and enjoy morning coffee. I have a hot breakfast of oatmeal and brown sugar. This is the only proper breakfast I had on the trip, all the other days wanted to get moving early so I could travel when it was cool and calm.
After cleaning up from breakfast I decide wash a change of clothes which I would put on later after cleaning up with some wipes. I went back to the aspen and cut off some more wood for the evening fire. Other than going out for a paddle near camp and getting some water I pretty much just hung around camp trying to say cool. I did take a swim in the afternoon.
A little after 2:00 I am in camp digging in my thwart bag and I hear a noise outside camp. I look up and there are two deer about 30 yards away, on the trail outside camp. This time I am right by the camera so I grab it. The deer are both bucks. They wander away from camp, I snap a few photos but they are pretty far away. They wander out onto a point down shore and I snap a couple more photos. I figured that was all I'd get but then they started back towards camp. I sat down on my chair and waited for them. Sure enough they came all the way back. I snapped couple much better photos. The hung around the edge of camp munching on shrubs. Each of them looked up at me repeatedly, but I wasn't moving and they couldn't wind me so they just kept calmly eating. Eventually they wandered in to the woods behind camp but they were around for a half hour before doing it. I never spooked them, pretty cool.
I have dinner, clean up and round out the evening with a fire, bourbon and cigars. There is some weather moving in from the west. I turn in around 9:00 but again its too hot to sleep. By the time it cools off a bit the storm is moving in. There is lots of thunder in the distance. It doesn't move in fast but by about 1:00 it starts raining. There is a lot of lightening with the storm which has me a little uneasy laying between two trees in my hammock. I don't sleep much until it passes around 3:00. By 4:45 another wave is coming in.
I get up at 4:50 and hastily start packing up my hammock. I get everything organized and loaded into the packs, except for my camp tarp. That I tightend up just as it started to rain. I sit under the tarp in my rain gear having some breakfast. As soon as it lets up I take the camp tarp down and shove off. Its 6:45.
I stick within a few minutes of shore all the way out of Fourtown. There is just a bit of breeze now and no more rain. It actually clears up nicely as I am exiting.
The short portage out of Fourtown, especially the initial vertical up the rockface is a real exercise in foot placment. It's possible to walk along the river bed and avoid this climb but I'm up to the climb.
A short paddle and I am standing on the south end of the rocky 125 rod portage. This portage has some very pretty scenery, all the portages south of Fourtown do, but you have to be mind full of your footing all the way. It seems longer than its stated length but I attribute that to shorter steps needed to keep footing.
Another short paddle and I reach the 30 rod portage into Mudro. The landing on the north side is literally a rock field. The portage is rocky but very scenic. I cross it, pausing to snap a couple pictures.
I paddle across Mudro. The skies are mostly clear now and there is a slight breeze. As I head up the narrows toward the entry I switch back to freestyle strokes and reflect on my journey. I feel a deep feeling of accomplishment. I've conquered the wilderness on my own and I know I will be back to do it gain.
I arrive at the landing and take the 30rod walk down the sandy trail to the parking lot. It is 9:58 when I cross the portage for the final time and mark the official end of my trip.
There is a weak cell signal from the parking lot. I cannot make a call out but I text my wife and let her know I'm OK. Then I put the factory seat back in to the canoe and get my gear loaded up. I have some clean dry clothes in the car so I change and pull out of the parking lot.
I drive back into Ely and drop the canoe at Piragis where I explain my incident with the portage yoke. They are quite impressed with my repair job but I still have to pay for the Yoke. They are nice and only charge me their cost. I take the broken yoke home, I'll get a new piece of wood and repair it for my own solo canoe someday.
I pop across the street to a little shop and get and iced late to start the drive home. On 35 I hit a chunk of asphalt that's sticking up a blow a tire. Kind of mood killer, good thing I checked my spare before I left. I get that changed and continue on.
On my way back in to Apple Valley I made a quick stop at "wing night" to say hi to very one and let bit of my excitement spill out. I was so pumped! Great way to cap off a trip.
I'm already pondering my route for next year's solo.


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The ‘World’s Greatest Deliberative Body’? Yeah, Right.
It’s hard to imagine the Senate being any more dysfunctional than it already is. And yet here we are. Reports indicate that Republicans, frustrated by how long it takes to confirm presidential nominations, are threatening to change the rules to make it harder for all senators to delay the process. But instead of fixing the process, their proposed plan will make things even worse in the upper chamber. Specifically, it will reduce senators’ ability to review presidential nominations while empowering Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer to decide who gets to speak on the Senate floor. Breaking the rules to pass the plan will also make it easier for future majorities to use the nuclear option to eliminate other rules that periodically frustrate them like the legislative filibuster.
The proposal, authored by Roy Blunt of Missouri and James Lankford of Oklahoma aims to make it harder for senators to delay the confirmation process after the Senate has invoked cloture on a nominee but before a final vote. Rule XXII (i.e., the cloture rule) currently limits post-cloture debate time to no more than 30 hours and stipulates that “no senator shall be entitled to speak in all more than one hour” during that period. The Blunt-Lankford proposal would cap that period at two hours for nominations to fill some executive-branch and judicial positions. The lower cap would not apply to Supreme Court, Circuit Court, or Cabinet-level nominees. However, the proposal stipulates that for nominations to fill those positions “the period of post-cloture consideration shall be equally divided between the majority leader and the minority leader.”
Changing the Senate’s rules to facilitate the confirmation of presidential nominations subject to the two-hour cap limits significantly the ability of senators to express their concerns about a nominee if they do not serve on the relevant committee of jurisdiction or in leadership. Under current practice, the majority has an incentive to end debate preemptively thanks to Democrats using the nuclear option in 2013 to lower the threshold for invoking cloture on all nominations (other than for the Supreme Court) from three-fifths of senators to a “majority vote” and Republicans using it in 2017 to lower it for Supreme Court nominees. Consequently, today’s majorities are less likely to allow meaningful debate to occur on a nominee before cloture is invoked if doing so decreases the chances that he or she will be confirmed.
And yet, Rule XXII at least guarantees senators time after cloture has been invoked to raise their concerns. By reducing that time to two hours, the Blunt-Lankford proposal effectively eliminates the ability of rank-and-file senators to participate in the confirmation process.
The proposal also authorizes McConnell and Schumer to parcel out debate time to senators of their choosing and, by extension, empowers them to prevent senators with whom they disagree from speaking on the Senate floor. It also allows them to do away with debate altogether by yielding back the time under their control.
Passing the Blunt-Lankford resolution will also have unintended consequences for how the Senate considers legislation. The nuclear option is intoxicating to senators when they are in the majority. By its very nature, its use undermines the Senate’s rules and, therefore, weakens the legislative filibuster. If Republicans go nuclear in the coming weeks, it would be the third time since 2013 that a majority has changed the rules by breaking them and the second time since 2017. This suggests that Senate majorities use the nuclear option more frequently as they grow accustomed to its use. Its repeated use also makes it harder for senators to explain to their constituents why they are unable to overcome a filibuster and pass meaningful legislation.
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The food was very good. Presentation and taste were to the point. We can recommend the "faux filet maturé" which was on the menu when we went, it was exquisite!
Definitely worth going to Strassen to eat at two6two.
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