Sunday, 31 January 2010
Where s George
ST. GEORGE — St. George’s seventh yearly Winter Bird Festival force wrap up Sunday with excursions to Zion nationalized recreational area and the Parowan Gap area that are designed to appeal a broad variety of birders.The four-day festival incorporated field trips to watch and identify Southern Utah’s bird species, plus lectures on everything from bird-watching equipment to how birds think and they territory they live in.
“This trip is to Toquerville, Grafton and Springdale,” said Kristine Crandall, who moved to St. George six weeks previously from Colorado, as she waited on behalf of an excursion to depart Saturday morning from Tonaquint recreational area. “I’m only this minute starting to really discover the area and this is a impressive way.”
Dawn Eide-Albrecht, one of the festival’s volunteers, assumed some of the countryside trips, such as the Zion excursion, required pre-registration and limited the amount of participants because of the special locations.
“All of the pre-registered field trips … have been maxed out for at least two to three weeks,” she said.
Kurt and patrice Marcks alleged they made the six-hour drive from Riverside, Calif., after learning about the festival online.
“It’s fun to go someplace unique to go birding,” Patrice said as her spouse unloaded equipment from the car for his photography field trip.
Kurt and Patrice Marcks said they made the six-hour drive from Riverside, Calif., taking into account learning with reference to the festival online.
“It’s fun to go someplace distinctive to go birding,” Patrice said as her spouse unloaded equipment from the car for his photography field trip.
For the complete story, see tomorrow’s edition of The Spectrum.
(thespectrum.Com)
Swift justice: Doctor`s murderer convicted, fast
The man who shot and killed Dr George Tiller has been named as Scott Roeder. The Doctor was shot and killed while he was attending his Whichita church. The killer Scot Roeder protrayed himself as a holy warrior, bent on saving the lives of the unborn.
Dr George Tiller on the other hand was a well known provider of abortions in Kansas and was constantly harassed and threatened. The U.S Supreme Court ruled almost 40 years ago that women had the right to a safe and legal abortion. This is an about-face from years of back alley abortionists, the secret "old wives tales" inspired poisonings and self mutilation using sharp objects.
Woman have emerged from this nightmare thanks to the court who saw it as a private matter.To be honest in my opinion and in most others its between a woman, her doctor, her god, and her moral compass. For those who still rail about abortions there are alternatives: Abortion will never disappear. It can be safe and legal for those who choose it - or unsafe and illegal.
These are the alternatives.The law of the land is clear on these issues. But the dander to those men and women who provide this legal service is also clear. In 1993, Dr David Gunn was murdered. This Florida doctor was pictured on "wanted" posters by Operation Rescue. Dr John Britton and a colleague were shot and killed by a minister in Florida the next year. Two clinic secretaries were murdered in Massachusetts in 1994. An off-duty police officer, working security at an abortion clinc in 1998 in Alabama was murdered when the facility was bombed.
Most people who wanted to protect a woman's rights to choose were justifiably alarmed by the Dr Tiller case. Tiller had been shot but survived in 1993. Also he survived a clinic bombing in 1996. He had been dubbed the "Baby Killer". Randal Terry Of Operation Rescue called him a "mass murderer" after his death.
But thankfully today we live in a land of laws. These laws extend to women, and those laws protect their right to choose a safe and legal type of abortion. Murder, even by a holy warrior, is still illegal.The jury spent just 37 minutes discussing Roeder's murder of Dr. Tiller.
Dr George Tiller on the other hand was a well known provider of abortions in Kansas and was constantly harassed and threatened. The U.S Supreme Court ruled almost 40 years ago that women had the right to a safe and legal abortion. This is an about-face from years of back alley abortionists, the secret "old wives tales" inspired poisonings and self mutilation using sharp objects.
Woman have emerged from this nightmare thanks to the court who saw it as a private matter.To be honest in my opinion and in most others its between a woman, her doctor, her god, and her moral compass. For those who still rail about abortions there are alternatives: Abortion will never disappear. It can be safe and legal for those who choose it - or unsafe and illegal.
These are the alternatives.The law of the land is clear on these issues. But the dander to those men and women who provide this legal service is also clear. In 1993, Dr David Gunn was murdered. This Florida doctor was pictured on "wanted" posters by Operation Rescue. Dr John Britton and a colleague were shot and killed by a minister in Florida the next year. Two clinic secretaries were murdered in Massachusetts in 1994. An off-duty police officer, working security at an abortion clinc in 1998 in Alabama was murdered when the facility was bombed.
Most people who wanted to protect a woman's rights to choose were justifiably alarmed by the Dr Tiller case. Tiller had been shot but survived in 1993. Also he survived a clinic bombing in 1996. He had been dubbed the "Baby Killer". Randal Terry Of Operation Rescue called him a "mass murderer" after his death.
But thankfully today we live in a land of laws. These laws extend to women, and those laws protect their right to choose a safe and legal type of abortion. Murder, even by a holy warrior, is still illegal.The jury spent just 37 minutes discussing Roeder's murder of Dr. Tiller.
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