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D4 Saturday, Oct ber 29, 2016 ecatur Herald eview 1 BIRTHDAYS Betty Gentry, 92 DECATUR Betty L. Gentry of Decatur will celebrate her 92nd birthday with a family gathering. Mrs. Gentry was born Oct. 29, 1924, in Decatur.

She worked at General Electric Co. She is the mother of Michael (Shelly) Gentry of Maroa; Kathy Born and Randy (Denise) Gentry, both of Decatur. She has 11 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. Daughters, Karen Lee Gentry and Janie Wallis and one grandchild are deceased. Betty Gentry Helen Morrow, 95 DECATUR Helen Maxine Morrow of Decatur will celebrate her 95th birthday with a family gathering.

Cards may be sent to 1827 Albany Court, Decatur, IL 62521. Mrs. Morrow was born Nov. 5, 1921, in Harristown. She married Leland Wayne Morrow on May 26, 1946, in Decatur.

He is deceased. She is the mother of Bev (Dirk) Shelton, Les (Susie) Morrow, Keith (Mary) Morrow, Jenny (Tim) Littrell and Mick (Debbie) Morrow. She has 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Helen Morrow James Leach, 90 MAROA James W. Leach of Maroa will observe his 90th birthday.

Cards may be sent to Box 244, Maroa, IL 61756. Mr. Leach was born Nov. 9, 1926, in Denver, Colo. He married Mary Agee on June 5, 1949, in Maroa.

He is retired from Caterpillar Inc. He is the father of Jim (Ariel) Leach of Jacksonville, AR; John (Diana) Leach of Maroa and Karen (Randy) Melvin of West Lafayette, Ind. He has four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, one step grandchild and four great-step grandchildren. James Leach Nadine Elder, 90 BLUE MOUND V. Nadine Elder of Blue Mound will celebrate her 90th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.

Satu rday, Nov. 5, in Ber ea Christian Church, Mount Auburn. Mrs. Elder was born Nov. 2, 1926, in Irishtown Township.

She married Donald Elder on June 17, 1950, in Decatur. He is deceased. She is a homemaker. She is the mother of Calvin (Sandee) Elder of Mount Auburn, Alice (Leland) Miller of Mahomet, Veda (Don) Cooling of St. Joseph, Raymond Elder, Blue Mound and Gary Elder of Pulaski, Tenn.

She has four grandchildren, ve great-grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren and eight great-stepgrandchil dren. Nadine Elder Audrey Geddes, 90 DECATUR Audrey Nell Geddes of Decatur will celebrate her 90th birthday with an open reception from 2 to 4 Saturday, Oct. 29, in First Free Will Baptist Church. Mrs. Geddes was born Oct.

25, 1926, in Waynesville. She married William Henry Dempsey II. She later married Wilbur Guy Redman in Decatur. He is deceased. She later married Donald Oval Geddes in Las Vegas, Nev.

He is deceased. She is a homemaker. She is the mother of Mary Jo (Mike) Brace and Carla Dempsey, both of Decatur and Linda Orr of Niantic. She has seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Sons, Donald Wayne Redman and William Henry Dempsey III, are deceased.

Audrey Geddes Brandon Matthew Kyle Lynch, Oreana; Ashley Elizabeth Baker, Oreana Michael Todd Tucker, Decatur; Violet Jean Gossett, Decatur Joseph Lee Morris, Decatur; Lori Ann Huddleston, Decatur Benjamin Neal Smeltzer, Decatur; Julie Kristen Bilbrey, Decatur Mark Allen Campbell, Moweaqua; Morgan Rae Ravelo, Moweaqua Casey Lee Bardfield, Decatur; Alley Elizabeth Flanagan, Decatur Michael Allen Heiser, Decatur; Patricia Rosann Rhoades, Decatur MARRIAGE LICENSES HISSONG LOVINGTON Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hissong of Lovington will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, The Depot, Bethany.

Mr. Hissong and Pamela L. Cole were married Nov. 6, 1966, in Dalton City. They are farmers.

They are the parents of Julie (Mark) Gwaltney of Ellisville, and Jacqui (Wayne) Heyen of Medora. They have four grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. arry Hissong ANNIVERSARY Anniversaries a nniversary announcements are published in the ednesday if section beginning at 25-plus years.

i you choose you may submit one photo or two photos (a and Forms with details and prices are available at the Herald evie 601 illiam St or by mail or fax by calling (217) 421-6979. forms are available for download at www.herald-review. com. NICOLE BRODEUR Tribune News Service Writer SEATTLE trying to get a sense of the mind of a 13-year- old girl, I told a clutch of parents standing in Westlake Park the other morning. are, Jessica Dunn deadpanned.

you find out, let us Turns out we found out together, when the seventh-grade class of Seattle School (and these daughters) marched into Westlake Park to stand on a stage and deliver speeches urging people to vote. Their minds were on veterans services. Climate change. vote! Our the girls chanted, carrying handmade signs. They had walked the 2.5 miles fr om the Central District school to downtown in the rain.

And man, was I glad to see them. The night before, the third and final presidential debate left phrases like and leave you in hanging in the air like noxious fumes from a passing bus. But these 12- and 13-year-old girls reminded me and everyone else at Westlake that no matter how raw and wretched things get over the next few weeks, the ending is in our hands. Student Drew Sherrard took the stage wearing a camouflage cap and spoke of the five veterans in her family. Affairs facilities have scheduling she said.

veterans have a health problem, sometimes they have to wait days or weeks for a doctor to help them through the VA system. Voting can help fix that. she finished. one of the best thank-you gifts you can give someone who has Others spoke of global warming and climate change. But all urged voters to exercise their right something they longed to do.

you vote, you can make your voice heard and help the issues you think are big problems in this country be said a student named Ally (who want her last name used). why voting is your Reese McDowell ended her speech this way: rights are like she said. you use them you lose Performing-arts teacher Lulu Carpenter said the students worked on their two-minute speeches for six weeks in social studies, language arts and performance classes. were learning not to demonize any candidate, but to speak to the issues they care Carpenter said. the research, get the historical That done, they had to prepare to stand up in front of a crowd and deliver.

are some who are Carpenter said. all of them are Indeed, the girls cited voting numbers in previous elections, knew the years when women and African Americans won the right to vote and when Susan B. Anthony was arrested. They quoted from everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maya Angelou. And they got to develop their political muscle, even though they are several years away from the voting booth.

Middle-school girls have strong opinions especially about their parents, said Kelly Cundiff, whose daughter, Dylan, 12, was one of the speakers. But not so much when it comes to politics. has helped them synthesize their she said, to know their own This being Westlake Park, there was a man who circled the crowd on a bicycle during most of the speeches, hollering about Obama and women. No need to repeat. Another man walked through and bellowed, supposed to vote for One man holding a cardboard sign asking for money appro ached the girls who had lined up to speak.

They swerved away from him as one. But Luna Russell, 13, handed him a lavender flier that listed ve reasons people should vote (ex: you have a voice that needs to be and the address of the King County Voter Registration Annex. not the (registration) form, the man said, looking it over. can register right down the street, Russell said, Fourth The man tossed the flier in the garbage, and Luna retreated. A couple of girls approached to pat her back.

Their teacher, Wendy Ewbank, stood at the side of the stag urging each girl on and then being first to cheer when they came off the stage, relieved but energized. Ewbank has had students research, write and deliver speeches on the importance of voting every presidential election year since 2004. believe that if girls see the power of their own voices and what issues are at she said, will participate for the rest of their While most of the audience was made up of the parents, those standing in line at the food trucks nearby were captive and happy for it. impressed because they tell anyone who to vote said Wendy Lamb, an architect who works nearby. She glanced down at her lavender flier and noticed the date for Election Day.

November 8. Lamb said. thought it was the 15th. My vote really have Beside her, interior designer Melissa Fedorchenko watched the girls and thought of her own. awesome to see them out she said.

like looking at the If that motivation to fill out your ballot, I know what is. vote! Our Why you should vote, from the voices of seventh-grade girls TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE PHOTOS Seventh-graders at Seattle School arrive at estlake ark in Seattle, where they delivered speeches on the importance of voting. Seattle School seventh-grader Sumeya lock gives a passionate speech about why oting is important. DAVID J. NEAL Tribune News Service Writer PESTEL, Haiti Helping Haiti after Hurricane Matthew can be a Herculean ordeal.

true for Coconut Creek, Food for the Poor despite being permanently on the ground in the country with the largest of its satellite offices. But, by scale, the natural disaster was manageable compared to the 2010 earthquake. earthquake there were almost 250,000 who died and 1.3 million left homeless, living in tents or whatever they could get said Food for the Poor Executive Director Angel Aloma. There were areas where open land you saw was covered by people living that way. It was difficult just to get into the country.

We had to get things in through the Dominican Republic. one is smaller in scope 1,000 deaths and there could be as many as 100,000 displaced or homeless Less raw, brutal carnage still meant widespread major hardship for Haiti. The storm in early October wiped out crops, killed farm animals that fed families and forced close-quarters living, often in less than sanitary conditions. Standing water invited cholera. To help deal with water-borne diseases, Food for the Poor shipped and set up eight solar powered water-filtration systems, each able to pump 10,000 gallons of filtered water per day.

As elsewhere, the work in Haiti goes well beyond the elements in its name. The Matthew relief goods sent to Haiti included hygiene kits with soap, toothpaste and tooth brushes and 5,000 cases of oral rehydration salts to treat cholera victims. One of the post-Matthew goals is to build 1,000 homes in 100 days. the earthquake we were able to build 6,200 Aloma said. we have a strong push, we could manage 1,000 homes.

a reachable goal, but a stretch goal financially and in the construction of the Both come back to the fundamental that dominates helping in Haiti: logistics. Getting what you need is one thing. Getting what you need to where you need it is something else. Aloma said the greatest ini tial problem after the hurricane was lack of communication because of the destruction of the bridge the most affected and the roads. We had to wait to get an idea of how bad it As the government rebuilt the roads, a Food for the Poor barge came into Pestel with a truck and forklift.

Trucks rolled into Jeremie with food, hygiene kits, blankets, they might Logistics is why nothing beats cash for medium- and small- scale giving from individuals. In fact, Food for the Poor accepting clothing donations for Haiti at all. Aloma explained one large do nor contributes loads of clothes that come sterilized and packed in bales. The donor pays half the shipping. So, Food for the Poor need clothes.

It needs money. Hormel Foods contributed 5,000 cases of food, mostly canned meats with a generous storage life. Food for the Poor just has to get that contribution to storage or to people in need. Delivery costs money. Whether an area is impoverished, recovering from disaster or both, the rules remain the same: cash talks.

As Matthew hit on Oct. 4, Food for the public relations arms began reaching out via mail, e-mail, public service announcements, the media. the media picks up a story, the American people respond Aloma said. Ask Aloma how much cash Food for the Poor needs in Haiti and you understand how the task there can seem Sisyphean as well as Herculean. normal is crisis.

If we were to take every dollar we raise for the 17 countries we serve and poured them into Haiti, it still be Aloma said. reason is the government they have the will, but they have the resources because 80 percent of the people are getting by on less than $2 per day. billions of dollars of infrastructure Narrowing the scope to Matthew recovery, raised $20.7 million after the earthquake. The press stayed with that story for a month. If the press does the same for this, like to raise a few being $5 million for housing and $10 million overall.

What Haiti needs most after the hurricane TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Men unload food from Food for the Poor off a barge to the coastal town of Pestel, Haiti. Pestel was damaged severely by the passing of Hurricane Matthew. earthquake there were almost 250,000 who died and 1.3 million left homeless, living in tents or whatever they could get Angel Aloma HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for hacking into the email and online accounts of several female celebrities and stealing private information, including nude photos and videos. Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster, was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge in Harrisburg to the prison term prosecutors agreed to recommend as part of a plea bargain.

Collins, a married father of 4-year-old twins, was a pornography addict who acknowledged getting involved in the hacking activity sexual according to pre-sentencing memos filed by prosecutors and his attorney. wife, a hospital psychologist, has stuck by him and incr edibly and has participated in his addiction counseling, according to the defense memo. Collins pleaded guilty in May to one count of gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information for gaining access to more than 100 Google and Apple accounts from November 2012 to September 2014. Many of the accounts belonged to famous women, though no celebrities were identified in his plea agreement and the FBI could find no evidence that Collins posted any of the pilfered images online or shared any information he obtained with others, court records show. Celebrity hacker gets prison time LIFE.