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3 days ago
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Second faith fest spring event discusses pilgrimage
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — It's a gathering grounded in faith and unity. In Owensboro, people of different religious backgrounds came together for the second annual Faith Fest spring leaders explored a shared spiritual tradition and invited the community to reflect. Faith Fest spring is in its second year, but the efforts that led to its creation started over a decade ago. It's centered around a theme sacred to both the Islamic and Christian faith: pilgrimage. Everything from reflection to celebration. This year's faith fest brings together two spiritual voices: Dr. Aseedu Kalik and Father Larry Hostetter. Fosters urgently needed after Davies County animal hoarding incident Officials say the message is simple: faith can unite. 'Christians, Muslims and Jews live together in Spain for centuries in peace and harmony. This is an old idea that we need to return to,' says Claudia Ramisch, the event's organizer. The two speakers dove deep into the topic of pilgrimage as over 4 dozen people listened. For Muslims, Hajj begins June 4. It's an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. People are required to travel to the mecca at least once in their life. Dr. Kalik says he saw the mecca in December. 'We believe it's built by the angels and prophets. You see how the religion evolved, and how it spread the message of commonness [and] equality,' says Dr. Kalik, the spring event's speaker. Father Hostetter's speech focused on the attitude of a pilgrim and what it means to walk together toward God from the catholic perspective. His last pilgrimage was in Rome, Italy, but he says the practice can start small. 'Sometimes, I do a little chapel in the woods, and that's the pilgrimage for an afternoon. Then other times, I might be part of a group that travels to Rome,' says Father Hostetter, another speaker at the event. Officials say it reminds Owensboro that we all have a journey and sometimes the most powerful steps are taken together. 'It's really important right now that we know our neighbors, and religion is one of those things that sometimes is a taboo topic. We should be talking about [religion] because that's the source of our values and our interests,' says Ramisch. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
14-04-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Online auction taking place for items once owned by Triangle Tech
After 80 years of training trade professionals across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Triangle Tech has closed its doors, and certain items that belonged to the school are now available via online auction . In June 2024, Triangle Tech announced they were shuttering campuses in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, DuBois, Sunbury, Chambersburg, and Bethlehem. School officials cited complications due to the COVID-19 pandemic, declining enrollment, and "strenuous government regulations." Hostetter Auctioneers, based in Beaver Falls, has been contracted to auction off certain assets to the public. Items range from raw building materials to power tools to laptop computers, all available with just a few clicks. "There's plenty of material here," said Luis Cheng, Hostetter's Lead Auction Coordinator. "There's good lumber, there's insulation behind me, all sorts of materials. Up top, there's PVC for plumbing, whatever you need. There's a wide array of all sorts of materials." The company's website lists items for auction in three separate auctions from Triangle Tech properties this month. The first two will auction off items from the North Side campus located off Perrysville Avenue, while the third will feature items from the DuBois campus. Cheng says the process for logging on and making a bid is simple: sign up with an email address, link a credit card for potential payment for a successful bid, and then search the various auction dates and events to find items. There's even a keyword search on the website to simplify the search. Potential buyers could be anyone from contractors to company offices to individual buyers looking to purchase things for their homes. But it's important to keep track of your bids since they're happening online 24 hours a day. "They're trying to accumulate tools and stuff to better themselves and their company," Cheng said. "They can come to auctions like this and benefit through buying used but still very good tools. On the other hand, there's individuals who are just trying to do simple work at home: fix up your balcony, your deck, or stuff like that, so it kind of affects a broad spectrum of buyers." Cheng said an online auction typically runs for two weeks, given the nature of the items available. The 12th day of the process is the "preview" period, where potential buyers can come to a specific location and physically see the items for auction up close. "We help answer questions, we show people around, we make sure people are looking at the right lots that they're bidding on," he said. "Shortly after that, the auction ends on Day 14. We come back with the paperwork, John Doe comes in, and he signs his invoice. We give half the copy to him. We show him, say, he bought 'Lot 55,' and a couple of other tools. We help him load, and then he's on his way."
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Climate
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Disaster team begins work on Brescia University's hail damage
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — Owensboro's Brescia University was damaged in this weekend's storm, but are finding ways to ensure classes resume as normal on Monday, March 16. School officials are grateful it's spring break and no students were on campus. 'There's going to be a lot of work involved. It's going to be a long and very expensive process,' says Father Larry Hostetter, the president of the university. Since Saturday morning, teachers, staff and students have been working quickly to make repairs to the school in an effort to keep academics on track. As hail as large as baseballs plummeted toward the building, the university's president says they quickly realized their roof wouldn't be able to take the load. 'We had water here in our cardio room, throughout this whole floor. Water was just coming down in sheets…going to the floor. We had pretty significant damage. Our greenhouse at the science building, some cars and houses' siding [were also damage],' says Father Hostetter. Officials say the student center, known as the Moore Center, took the hardest hit. Despite it being Spring Break, everyone jumped in to help vacuum up water and drain out rooms, as ceiling tiles hung out of place above them. 'It was a kind of a losing battle because it was raining all day,' says Father Hostetter. A disaster team will step in Sunday to take over recovery efforts before classes resume Monday. Students won't be able to use the cardio room, and athletes won't be lifting weights in their usual space. 'All of our academic buildings are okay. There was a little water in there, but not enough to cancel classes. We fortunately were able to cover up all of our exercise machines quickly, so they won't be damaged,' says Hostetter. Downstairs, one thing the storm didn't affect was the hosting of Youth 2000. Youth 2000 is a retreat for over 600 catholic youth annually held for over a decade. 'The gym is unscathed. That has a new a roof on it. There's no damage at the gym at all. In other places, they just had to walk around some buckets of water here and there,' says Hostetter. The university president says in terms of what happens next, there's one thing they can always be certain of. 'I think the community will rally around us. So, we have a special place on [ for people who want to donate to help with the disaster relief. We really appreciate any help we can get along those lines,' says Hostetter. Officials say Owensboro Catholic Middle School was also damaged. OCMS will be closed on Monday and students will have an NTI day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Business
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Daycares still waiting on subsidy payments from the state
AURORA, Mo. – The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is continuing to struggle to pay daycares and foster parents. As Ozarks First reported in July, the money is there, DESE just hasn't gotten the payments out on time. 'I need that money if I want to stay open,' says Aurora daycare owner Elizabeth Hostetter. Hostetter says she hasn't been paid since October. She says she needs at least $10,000 or she might have to shut down. 'We don't make money,' Hostetter said. 'Everything I get, I pour right back into the daycare kids like because I feel like they're my own. I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing it because I love the kids.' Local union members striking at Fort Leonard Wood Hostetter has operated her daycare, The Wild Ones, out of her home for 10 years. She says it costs about $4,000 a month to operate her daycare. 'I'm trying to push the issue so that everybody knows what's going on so we can get DESE to pay,' Hostetter said. She takes in a wide range of ages, from newborn to 10 years old. She also takes care of kids with special needs or autism. 'Her routine, her schedule is so important,' Hostetter said, referencing a 4-year-old she takes care of with stage two autism. 'If you take that away from her, especially somebody with autism, it's going to throw off their whole family, because they have to have that routine.' She says the parents who rely on state subsidies have expressed their concerns to her. 'They've talked to me about it, like, 'I don't know what I would do,'' Hostetter said. 'I don't know what they would do either, because I'm not taking any more state children. I would imagine other facilities are not either. We're not getting paid. We're not going to take those children.' Anti-Trump protestors gather at Missouri Capitol in '50 protests, 50 states, One Day' rally Kaitlin Shepard, a parent at The Wild Ones, says daycare these days is extremely expensive. 'We need the daycares to be open to help take care of our children so we can continue our economy growing and keep the whole world going on,' Shepard said. Shepard decided to go back to college in December, and that's when she enrolled her 1-year-old son at The Wild Ones. 'I finally got to start my dream career, going to college and my husband working,' Shepard said. 'If we want to be able to do any of that, I can't just wait for him to get off work to go to college.' Shepard was a stay-at-home mom for six years before deciding to go to college. 'For us to be able to be a family together, we have to have someone to be of watch our kids,' Shepard said. 'Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but I'm ready to start living. To be able to provide for my family as well and help put income into our home.' Missouri launches DOGE portal, users asked to report 'government inefficiencies' Both women emphasize the importance of reliable daycare on the workforce. 'You're not going to have any of that because they're not going to have anybody to watch your kids,' Hostetter said. Shepard agrees. 'When you don't have someone to watch your kids and you can't go to work all the time, you're going to lose your job,' Shepard said. DESE tells Ozarks First the Office of Childhood fixed nearly all of the technical issues, so they don't expect any future backlogs. They say they are making progress and have cleared 70%. Per the information shared in DESE's 1/24 news release, DESE's Office of Childhood (OOC) and its vendors resolved nearly all necessary technical issues within the new Child Care Data System last month (January 2025), which will help prevent any future backlog. The OOC shares a weekly report on the DESE website to track the status and progress of the work to address the backlog. Family Applications & Provider Contracts: The most recent backlog report shows the OOC is processing cases within the last few weeks for family applications and provider contract applications, which is near the OOC's expected processing time. Payment Corrections: It is important to note that currently, subsidy payments are being processed correctly each day for providers' attendance claims since fixing the payment calculator in the system in summer 2024. While there continues to be a backlog in payment resolution requests from the time the system wasn't working properly, the OOC is making progress reviewing these requests. To date, team members have closed out or paid approximately 70 percent of all payment resolution requests in the backlog queue. The team anticipates the majority of the work will be accomplished by the end of this month (February 2025). DESE Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
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Brescia celebrates Founder's Day with centennial at Winter Convocation
Owensboro's Brescia University hosted its annual Winter Convocation ceremony on Tuesday, but this ceremony just so happened to be presented on the university's Founder's Day. And this year the school will celebrate its 100th anniversary of opening its doors. Brescia University, a Catholic university, was founded by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph as the Mount Saint Joseph Junior College for Women in 1925. Establishing the college was a way for the sisters to showcase their dedication to education. Following World War II, Owensboro expressed a need for co-educational extension courses and asked the Ursuline sisters to create a second campus site in downtown Owensboro. The two campuses consolidated in 1950 at the school's current location off of Frederica Street in downtown Owensboro. The Ursuline Sisters were founded by Saint Angela Merici who was known for her ministry of service to marginalized groups including the displaced, the poor, the orphaned and the sick. She saw women as a means to promote and provide change in a world seeking love, unity and harmony. Throughout the years, the sisters established themselves as educators and founded communities and schools to educate women and girls. Leading from the example set by Saint Angela Merici and the Ursuline Sisters, Brescia University has made its mission to provide students with a personal and social transformation through education. The school recognized two students, both a male and a female, with the Spirit of Angela Merici Award during the Winter Convocation. 'By recognizing these two students, we're paying homage to our roots and keeping with the tradition established by Saint Angela Merici,' said the school's vice president for student affairs, Lori Etheridge. This year's award recipients were Daniel Rusiecki and Sr. Chanh Ngo. 'These students exemplify the spirit of St. Angela through their service to others and to the entire community,' said Etheridge. Etheridge said that the selection process for this year's award recipients was 'tough' because 'many students are deserving of the honor.' Current Brescia president, Father Larry Hostetter, who will retire from his position at the end of the spring semester, said that the Spirit of Angela Merici Award is 'the most prestigious award for students' at Brescia. Twenty-four additional students were recognized as student leaders during the ceremony. 'Student leadership is valuable for a lifetime,' said Isaac Duncan, the assistant dean of students for student activities and leadership development. 'Leadership helps students to build valuable skills and achieve new heights.' Hostetter also discussed the school's centennial and introduced the university's new ceremonial mace, designed and crafted by Brescia alumnus Jim Barr. 'Our old one was getting worn out, so I thought it made sense to replace it during this year's centennial,' Hostetter said. 'And I want to thank Jim Barr on an excellent job.' Hostetter said that the mace features several important symbols for the university including four cords standing for the school's founding principles, laurel leaves for the Ursuline sisters and the addition of the colors blue and gold, the school's designated color scheme. Hostetter mentioned some positives for the university during his address to the crowd. 'I'm happy to report positive enrollment statistics and retention numbers at 91%,' he said. 'Those numbers show that we're moving in the right direction.' Hostetter also touched on a recent executive order to come from the Trump administration's White House which will issue a pause on federal grant spending. 'Luckily for Brescia, we don't have any big research grant funding that impacted,' he said. 'But I know everyone is worried about whether the executive order will affect student loans and the PELL Grant. And I can only say that we all hope it doesn't.' Hostetter said that Brescia students should face the current uncertain circumstances with fortitude, resilience and strength. 'I know how strong Brescia students are and I know that we have always adapted and overcome,' he said. 'And we will continue to do so because that's the Brescia way.' Brescia plans to have more events throughout the year to highlight its centennial celebration.
