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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Yahoo
Dave Garman is Jefferson Ruritan Club's Ruritan of the Year,
In February, the Jefferson Ruritan Club awarded the 2024 Ruritan of the Year to Dave Garman. Garman has been a member of the Jefferson Ruritan for several years, but actively supported the club as Boy Scout Leader of Troop 1066 for many years prior to joining the Ruritan. Garman has assisted at all of the club's carnivals, managing the parking lots and seeing that the grounds are kept immaculate at the annual event. During the planning for the 250th Jefferson Anniversary, Garman's contributions included his research, writing, and production of the Anniversary Book. He currently serves as the chairperson for the Ruritan's History and Archives Committee.
CBS News
05-03-2025
- CBS News
Palisades residents feel forgotten after LA County wildfires
Amid the gray ash of the Palisdes Fire burn zone, survivors are trying to find the basics needed to survive. Many of these neighbors feel increasingly forgotten as the days pass. "I just feel like we are already forgotten," resident Megan Garman said. "Like on to the next story, and we are still here just picking up the pieces." Desperate for help, Garman and her neighbors, who all rented in the Palisades, are pleading for their voices to be heard. "I lost my job," she said. "I was a caregiver to this wonderful woman and her house burned down." While some have received help from FEMA, it hasn't been enough to help them recover. "I got a whopping $700 from FEMA," survivor Michele Garman said. "We haven't really received any help." Krissy Simmel lost her job after the Palisades Fire destroyed the local supermarket she worked at. "We are humble renters. We are just community members. We are at the bottom of the food chain here," she said. "My job burned down. I can't get unemployment." With little in their pockets, they returned to the rubble of the apartment building they once called home. "Besides FEMA and the Red Cross," resident Nadine Rimvisbacher said. "I really don't know where else. I really don't know." Many share Rimvisbacher's sentiment of feeling lost while searching for more help. "I know there was FireAid," resident Tami McGuirt said. "I know there was money collected, but I'm not sure how to retrieve any of that." FireAid has posted information on nonprofits for funding through the fundraiser. On the website, under the "grantees" section, are different clusters of organizations from children and family support, disaster relief, food access, employment help, health and housing, and others. From there, it lists organizations that are available and will direct users to a website for additional help. "I've reached out to so many organizations and only that I was able to receive any money at all was $1000," survivor Bruce Lurie said. Lurie, who lost his home and art gallery business, said that getting financial assistance has been complicated. "It's a full-time job to try to find assistance," Simmel said. "You have to spend hours and hours to go to each of those websites, calling people." Even with the help out there, for the victims of one of California's biggest disasters, it has not been enough to pick their lives back up. "I feel like more should be done to really help people like us in our situation," Megan Gorman said. "We have just become, like, left out to hang dry."
Boston Globe
05-12-2024
- Boston Globe
Harvard's Peabody museum returns Native American burial remains
The human remains and other objects were originally removed in 1878 by Samuel W. Garman from their burial sites at Brier Hill in Upstate New York. Garman, who was appointed assistant director of herpetology and ichthyology at the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1870, later presented them to Alexander Agassiz, who in turn donated them to the Peabody, according to John C.P. Goldberg, interim dean of the Harvard Law School, described how the law school has had a 'special relationship' with the Oneida Indian Nation for decades. He added that the school's 'Oneida professors have ensured that cutting-edge research on American Indian law is taking place here.' Advertisement 'We are so grateful to the Oneida Indian Nation and to Representative Ray Halbritter for making this possible,' he said in a statement. The returns come as the Peabody and other cultural institutions have sought to increase returns from their collections of human remains and associated funerary objects to Native American tribes. The change has been driven in part by The current returns come three years after Oneida tribal representatives contacted Harvard about culturally affiliated objects in the school's collections. Tribal representatives said the Oneida Nation would continue other work with Harvard to identify other burial remains and culturally relevant objects within the school's collections for repatriation. Advertisement The Oneida Nation has prioritized repatriations, and in recent years has successfully sought returns from a variety of New York-based institutions, including the American Museum of Natural History, Cornell University, and Colgate University, among others. Tribal representatives said that successful working relationships with museums such as the Peabody play a critical role 'affirming the sovereignty and dignity of Native people.' 'From ensuring that one day no Native American ancestors are insensitively displayed or forgotten in storage rooms to prioritizing our voices in discourses of history and culture,' said Halbritter, 'this is a unique opportunity to forge a better future as partners.' Malcolm Gay can be reached at
