Roberta
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Post by Roberta on Feb 4, 2020 8:20:48 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Feb 8, 2020 0:00:09 GMT -8
Wednesday's Reject the Cover Up demonstration on the northwest corner of Ocean View and Honolulu in Montrose, CA drew at least five times the number of people as we average weekly at Montrose Peace Vigil. Some of them set up on the northeast corner as well. Six Montrose Peace Vigil regulars were there. You can see a video and get a link to the Crescenta Valley Weekly's photo of the demonstration right here on this message board: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/1027/reject-cover-rally-2-20Traffic was brisk at this Friday's Montrose Peace Vigil. When I arrived at 6 p.m., parking was scarce, which means that there were a lot more pedestrians on the sidewalks and in the crosswalks than usual. Twelve regulars came to the corner -- our unwavering average for a decade. Since October 2011, we have printed and displayed every Defense Department news release announcing the deaths of soldiers, sailors and airmen in our many wars during the vigils. The Pentagon reported no uniformed casualties in the previous seven days. |
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Post by Brian on Feb 15, 2020 0:47:07 GMT -8
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Post by Sharon W on Feb 21, 2020 21:22:03 GMT -8
The story I was telling you about this evening, Brian, www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/story/2020-02-19/glendale-detective-suspected-mobster-mexican-mafia?fbclid=IwAR3iKXzs8AwlhG2dSnOl7pU1zZI5z-vX2_a0uNMiZBA19K9Gf4rjOen3L-IBill's FB comment, Kudos to Los Angeles Times reporter Matthew Ormseth for this incredible jaw-dropping story. My mind is reeling from this bizarre mashup of a corrupt Glendale PD officer, millions and billions of stolen money, the Mexican Mafia and its assassins, Armenian organized crime, betrayals and lies, Mormon fundamentalists, botched kidnappings, Bugattis, Lamborghinis, Maybachs and Rolls Royces, murders and attempted murders, the IRS, the EPA, Homeland Security, and the FBI, money laundering and tax evasion, Mark Geragos, a Turkish Judge, and the prime minister-elect of Belize. If this was a screenplay, it would be immediately spiked for being too unbelievable. Although they would have to cast Danny DeVito as "Gordo" |
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Post by Brian on Feb 22, 2020 1:17:09 GMT -8
That was fantastic! Thank you, Sharon and Bill. Technically, it rained on this Friday's Montrose Peace Vigil. Big drops fell for a minute around 5:45, and a half hour later, it spritzed enough to wet the nearly vacant sidewalks. By then, our friend, neighbor and street performer Katherine Terrien had packed her $400 amp and left. But the vigil turnout was good -- 14 demonstrators. The printout of the Pentagon news release linked below stayed dry throughout the vigil, taped to the utility poll. I can't recall a casualty in Operation Enduring Freedom-Horn of Africa in the eight and a half years that we have honored the service members who have died, not far from the Vietnam War Memorial on the corner of Ocean View and Honolulu. According to Stars and Stripes, Lewark served in the New Mexico Army National Guard and he "was also a member of the Mountainair Police Department and was married in September, according to his Facebook page." www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2085550/dod-identifies-army-casualty/ Pfc. Walter Lewark |
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Post by Brian on Feb 29, 2020 0:00:20 GMT -8
The weather was great and so was the passing foot and wheel traffic throughout this Friday's Montrose Peace Vigil, especially during the first half when we still had some daylight. And, despite the absence of two vigil stalwarts, the turnout reached our historical average: - Feb. 7 - 12
- Feb. 14 - 11
- Feb. 21 - 14
- Feb. 28 - 12
The weekly average for February rounds down to 12 participants, after averaging 12 in January, 13 in December, 12 in November, 13 in October, 12 in September, August and July, 14 in June and May, 11 in April and 12 each month in March, February and January 2019.
In the previous seven days, the Department of Defense reported no military deaths in Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan, Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and Syria or in any of the many other U.S. operations underway around the world.
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