Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck | January 31, 2005
I talk a lot in this blog about bravery and courage. I see it in our nation’s firefighters, EMT’s and police officers. I see it in the young men and women guarding our freedom in the military at home and overseas. And yet, I am shamed, shamed, because the people of Iraq have shown courage [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 31, 2005
Look over on the left.
$831,427,479.
Americans just keep on giving for tsunami relief. My company wrote a check today, modest compared to many but our $8 an hour employees gave what they could and we matched it all.
Please don’t forget your local charities. Lots of folks right outside your door also need help. From fire companies [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 31, 2005
I previously posted about this accident here.
While on ambulance duty yesterday, I was joined by a number of other members of the corps for coffee and chatter. Our main topic was this accident. Until I opened the morning paper today, however, I had no clear concept of what had happened to the bus. I have [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 30, 2005
Yesterday, about 4:30 p.m., there was a terrible accident on I390 about 45 minutes south of Rochester. A bus rearended a parked tractor trailer. Four are reported dead at this time. Photos taken by a nearby resident show that the bus is nearly split in half lengthwise.
R News:A Coach Canada bus collided with a tractor-trailer [...]
Chuck | January 27, 2005
The three television networks have their top guys in Iraq to cover the election. Predictions are that exit polling will show John Kerry winning an overwhelming majority.
Chuck | January 27, 2005
In the New Testament, Jesus tells a parable about the value of charity. A widow gives of her need, and a rich man from his surplus, and Jesus poses the question of which is more valuable.
Princess Diana was a charitable person. Yet, I always had to note that she could afford to be. She was [...]
Chuck | January 26, 2005
Cintas Corporation: $2 million in clothing
Farmer Family Foundation: $250,000.
Seattle area sports teams: $246,100.
American State Bank Tsunami Relief Fund: $625,000.
Chuck Simmins | January 26, 2005
How does
$786,747,969.55
sound? That’s what the total contributions by Americans, individuals, groups and companies, adds up to as of this update.
One billion dollars is within striking distance. Imagine that; one billion dollars from the pockets of Americans to assist people half a planet away, who we have reason to believe don’t like Americans very much. I [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 25, 2005
USMCThe 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) recently started focusing its humanitarian aid effort in Indonesia during Operation Unified Assistance by delivering tons of supplies to a local hospital and refugee camp here. For the last week and a half, two Landing Craft Air Cushioned or LCACs depart the USS Bonhomme Richard each morning [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 24, 2005
Make that THREE families.
AP via YahooState Sen. John Ford testified in a juvenile court hearing that he keeps two homes, living with two different women whose children he fathered.
Ford’s testimony was part of his defense in a child support case. The Memphis Democrat heads a Senate committee that guides the state’s child welfare policies, [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 24, 2005
New York City’s bravest suffered three line of duty deaths yesterday. I join with their fellow firefighters in mourning their loss and saluting their bravery.
NY Post info: As flames closed in, Lt. Curtis Meyran and firefighter John Bellew ‘ who had a total of seven children ‘ made the desperate decision to leap 50 feet [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 24, 2005
My eye caught this Yahoo headline, and I pondered how much has changed in sixty years.
Quakes Spark Panic; Japanese Warships Arrive
It used to be the other way around.
Chuck | January 24, 2005
I just hate when this happens.
Zimbabwe Newspapers A SELF-STYLED Chiweshe traditional healer voluntarily surrendered his “zvikwambo” (goblins) to the local chief for destruction on the advice of the police, saying that the magical powers of supernatural creatures had become “too hot” for him to handle.
The goblins, which he reportedly used as mubobobo (magical powers [...]
