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by Laura Bean The Courier Your Messenger For The River Valley

The commission voted to grant the Russellville Recreation and Parks Commission $4,000 from general funds to buy four new portable fences for tournament use.

Assistant Director Terry Thomas said the commission currently has two new fences and four old fences, which are in poor shape and need to be replaced. Thomas said the new fences are easier to store and have a longer durability.

The commission approved a $1,999 grant for the Arkansas Events and Festivals Association for its annual conference and trade show Jan. 29-30 at Lake Point Conference Center.

"These event planners are exactly who we want coming to our community," Director Christie Graham said.

The commission approved a $500 grant for an Arkansas Bass Team Trail tournament Feb. 21 at Lake Dardanelle State Park.

Because the event is a one-day tournament and would not result in participants staying more than one day in the area, the commission granted $500 rather than the $1,999 it granted in 2014.

The commission is expected to vote on awarding grants to the River Valley Stroke Play, Red Ball Express Convoy and Vintage Open Golf Tournament during its next meeting at 2 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Chamber of Commerce.

Graham, Amanda Johnson, Al Brown, Shawn Gordon, Sarah Keating, Dusti Yarber and Tyler Riley were present.

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Pope Francis has electrified Roman Catholics in the United States with the open, accepting tone he has brought to the role, and his first visit later this year is expected to draw more than a million followers eager to set eyes on him.

The leader of the 1.2 billion-member church will also face a challenge in improving relations with conservative US Catholics, who have expressed dismay at his shift in focus away from issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, which the church has long opposed but Francis contends need not obsess about.

The city of Philadelphia began preparations more than a year ago for the pontiff's visit in September, at the end of the weeklong World Meeting of Families.

"What fascinates me is the degree to which he has captured the attention of Catholics and non-Catholics. I find myself in social meetings with non-Catholics talking about the Pope, and he's the subject of great hope," said Mark Mullaney, chairman of Voice of the Faithful, a lay Catholic organization founded in Boston in 2002 in response to the clergy sex abuse scandal.

"He's opened doors and windows that have not been open in a long time, and encouraged discussion."

Some 74 per cent of non-Catholics in America view Francis favorably, with some 93 per cent of Catholics reporting a favorable view, according to a 2014 poll by the Pew Research Center. Both findings were well above his 60 percent favorability rating worldwide.

Francis is also more popular with the roughly 76 million US Catholics than his predecessor, Benedict XVI, according to Pew, though not so beloved as John Paul II, who held the papacy for more than a quarter-century until his death in 2005. He was elevated to sainthood in 2014.

A vocal advocate of human rights, John Paul II drew crowds of over a million at outdoor events during his five formal US visits, while Benedict's 2008 trip was less grand in scale.

Francis has won praise for his decision to live in a simple Vatican guesthouse and not the palace his predecessors have called home for centuries. He has also captured Americans' attention by showing a more tolerant side of the church, famously answering a question on homosexuality: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?"

Like his predecessors, Francis has used his influence to improve diplomatic relations between countries and played a key role in last month's restoration of US-Cuba ties. Francis wrote personal letters urging rapprochement to US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, and allowed the Vatican to host secret talks. Before his visit to Asia this week, Francis urged a similar thaw between North Korea and South Korea.

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Updated: Thursday, 15 Jan 2015 10:36 | Comments Deep Trouble (centre in yellow in black) has not won yet over fences

Ben Case has not lost faith in Punchestown Festival winner Deep Trouble despite him failing to win in his first three outings over fences.

Third to the useful Three Kingdoms on his chasing debut, he was then pulled up behind Coneygree before shaping much better at Kempton over Christmas when he would have been placed in the Wayward Lad Chase won by Vibrato Valtat but for falling at the last.

He will head to Huntingdon next month before Case decides on a Cheltenham target.

"He ran very well first time at Leicester behind Three Kingdoms but it turned into a sprint and then I ran him back too quick at Newbury, where he was keen on dead ground so I put a line through that," said Case.

"He showed what he was capable of at Kempton and he still had a bit left when he fell. He would have been second at least I think. "After that fall he was a bit stiff and sore so we gave him a little break.

"He'll go to Huntingdon in mid-February and after that we'll decide on the Arkle or the Grand Annual.

"We know he goes on better ground so he'll have plenty of options in the spring."

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As church settings go, it was grim - high cinder block walls, surrounded by tall fences and coils of razor wire.

No light shone through stained-glass images of Christ. And no choir boys appeared in white, their places assumed by unsmiling officers in black shirts who kept watch on a congregation arrayed in a prison gym.

Into that environ stepped the archbishop of Philadelphia, who on Thursday offered a message of faith, hope and charity to inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. The hour-long mass drew about 80 inmates, all wearing standard sky-blue shirts and navy pants, the only adornments the tattoos on their arms and necks.

"It's a special event," one inmate enthused.

"It's a show," another griped.

Archbishop Charles Chaput came as part of the Archdiocese's Prison Ministry Program, which carries out the biblical mandate to visit people in jail. The church maintains a presence in prisons located within its boundaries.

"God loves us," Chaput told the men, who sat before him in plastic chairs. "He loves us each individually, whether we're sinners or not, whether we're in prison or not."

Prison staffers attended the mass too, stopping Chaput afterward to pose for pictures. Inmates shook his hand, seeking a word of comfort from the leader of their faith.

Almost all the prisoners there had "CATH" stamped on their identification wristbands.

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OREM --The fences are up and the construction has begun on one of five new office buildings at University Place.

The new building is located just east of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant and south of the Macy's department store.

The construction signals the beginning of a busy year for the Woodbury Corporation and Ivory Homes partnership. The two groups will bring to the area a new mixed-used development including business offices, luxury apartment living, a hotel and a large public park.

NorthStar Alarm, currently housed at the Bank of American Fork building on the mall property's southeast corner, has announced its intention to be the anchor business for the new building. NorthStar has grown extensively since it was founded in 2000 and continues to annually expand at 25 percent or more. The company will occupy 30,000 square feet on the top floor of the new building that faces the intersection of State State and University Parkway.

In 2013, financial investment giants Goldman Sachs and The Beekman Group became financial partners with NorthStar and expanded its credit facility to $40 million. NorthStar has more than 44,000 customers in 28 states through a recent acquisition. It is the 18th largest residential security provider in the nation, according to SDM Magazine.

NorthStar Alarm was founded in 2000 when CEO Jason Christensen opened its first corporate office on the top floor of the Cougar Dental office in Provo on the south side of the Brigham Young University campus. NorthStar occupied about 500 square feet of space in the building, which had walls narrow enough to be touched if arms were outstretched.

Soon after NorthStar installed its first home security system in 2001, the companys growth accelerated and its original four corporate employees turned into several. To accommodate the growth, NorthStar moved up the street to its current corporate office in 2004.

We love our current location in Orem between two major universities. We have the luxury of being able to hire incredible people here in Utah County that share the core values of our company, Christensen said. I had been searching for some time for new space, and when this was presented we realized we would only have to move our offices across the parking lot 500 yards to the west."

Other tenants have signed contract agreements for the building, but the company names have not been released by Woodbury.

Orem Mayor Richard Brunst says he loves the fact the Woodburys are willing to reinvent the mall to bring new business and life to the city.

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SAN DIEGO Schools throughout San Diego have taken on a new look in recent months since tall chain-link fencing has been installed to secure campus perimeters in the name of safety.

Residents in some areas have complained to the San Diego Unified School District that the metal fencing is over the top, making schools look more like prisons that centers of education. Others say they feel safer knowing that students and teachers might be less vulnerable to potentially dangerous intruders.

The San Diego Unified School District has budgeted fencing projects along with other campus improvements to be paid for with the proceeds of recent general obligation bond measures and other funds. School security upgrades, however, were stepped up at the request of the school board and employees two years ago after 20 children and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

We are looking for that balance. Keeping our children safe during the school day, that is our priority, said Drew Rowlands, the districts top operations officer. But we also want to be a center of the community. How do we keep the school that looks inviting while also keeping it safe? In some cases, the new chain-link replaced modest wooden fences and spaces that offered open views into neighborhood campuses. At other schools, new fences sealed unofficial points of entry.

I mean, I understand that we probably need the fences and gates these days given everything that can and does happen in this world, said Gabby Sanchez-Washington, who noticed the fences at Pershing Middle School in San Carlos while picking up her nephew on Friday. But I hate the way it looks, like a cage or something. When I was a kid, schools were welcoming places that you didnt lock people out of. But again, those were different times.

The district wants every school to funnel visitors through a single point of entry once classes begin. Most require parents and volunteers to check in and show identification before entering classrooms. Franklin Elementary School in Kensington requires visitors to buzz a door bell at the front door, and request entry through a speaker.

A long-awaited districtwide security assessment and safety plan requested by the board in January 2012 in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting will be released and discussed at a board workshop set for Jan. 20.

The district police force worked with administrators on the security initiative, which included an analysis of everything from neighborhood and campus crime data to the architecture of schools. The district also commissioned a formal safety assessment that identifies potential vulnerabilities and recommended improvements for each of its some 200 schools.

The board is expected to discuss how far it wants to go when it comes to securing its schools, which could include installing electronic entries and barriers in front offices, outfitting classrooms and exterior gates with new lock systems, and installing security cameras.

Since Sandy Hook, the district has spent millions of dollars on safety projects, including the fencing. A detailed accounting of the cost of the projects is expected to be released at the workshop later this month, Rowlands said.

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