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Chicago Tribune
14-06-2025
- Health
- Chicago Tribune
Two Chicago-area women desperately search for a living kidney donor: ‘I'm going kicking and screaming'
Katie Pappas had kept a secret for weeks from her students at northwest suburban Timber Trails Elementary. The 40-year-old health teacher's kidney was failing, and she spent around eight to 11 hours every night tethered to a dialysis machine. Eventually, the time came to confide in her students, and she explained that their usually bubbly, upbeat teacher was struggling. Her kindergarteners at the Hoffman Estates school didn't understand kidney disease, but they did understand pollution, Pappas said. 'So Miss Pappas' kidney is not cleaning the pollution in her blood, that's why I'm tired all the time. We understand that,' Pappas said. 'Fourth grade and up, they know the body systems.' Pappas, described by her family and former students as a 'giver,' 'role model' and 'inspiration,' is one of about 3,500 Illinoisans waiting for a kidney transplant in a state where, according to the American Kidney Fund, the average wait time is five to seven years. But Pappas, along with another Chicago mother of four that the Tribune spoke with, may not have that long to wait. They are desperately searching and hoping for their best option, a living donor. 'God, the universe, whatever, has already decided whether I'm getting a kidney or not, and if this is how I'm going out, I am going to shout it from the rooftops. I'm going kicking and screaming,' Pappas said. 'Maybe that's another reason I'm still here, is because I will talk about this to whoever will listen, to bring awareness to the situation,' Pappas continued. 'It's not (just) me. There's so many people and everybody is worth a chance to live their lives with a new kidney.' Experts have been sounding the alarm for years on the severe shortage of kidneys available to transplant, with about 90,000 patients across the country waiting for one. There are lengthy waiting lists for deceased donors at area hospitals, from about 310 people at Rush to 800 at Northwestern, according to data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The other type of kidney transplant is a living donor transplant, which is from someone who has two healthy kidneys, and donates one to a person in need. While these donations are less common, Dr. Raquel Garcia-Roca, an abdominal transplant surgeon at Loyola University, said they are 'far better quality.' There's more time to learn about the anatomy of the kidney and the donor, including risk factors that may impact kidney function, such as age or diabetes, she said. The kidney also stays outside the body for less time due to advanced planning. 'You don't have to even know the individual that wants to keep your kidney so it's important to be out there and express the need,' Garcia-Roca said. 'Not doing anything is worse than actually trying.' This isn't Pappas' first go-around with a kidney donation. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes before her senior year of high school, and received a dual kidney and pancreas transplant from a deceased donor about seven years ago. Afterward, she said, she adopted a mindset of 'earning her organs.' 'It's like: OK, I'm still here, I'm still here,' she said. 'What are you gonna do with it?' For some of Pappas' students, she's more than exceeded this goal. Summer Parker-Hall had Pappas as her fifth grade teacher at St. Helen Catholic School in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood. Parker-Hall, now 22, said she was a talkative, easily distracted student, but that Pappas helped change her mindset and improve her schoolwork. Parker-Hall remembers Pappas gifting her a cross necklace when she was her confirmation sponsor. Parker-Hall said she lost the necklace after gym class and was scared to tell her teacher. But when she mustered up the courage, Pappas gave her a hug and later bought her a new one. The two grew even closer while Parker-Hall attended Cornell University, she added. 'If I'm going through anything or just need someone to talk to, or just a simple text — I love you, I'm thinking of you, have a great day — it just means so much, especially being so far from home,' she said. Pappas was also Aaron Trinidad's teacher at St. Helen, and later became his godmother. She helped him bump up his grades, 'completely changing my life,' and when he was an adult took him to his first drag show. 'I felt really loved, understood, I felt seen and really comfortable with her,' Trinidad said. 'It showed me how much she supported me and who I was, especially me being a queer person and coming out at Catholic school. It was everything I needed.' At the beginning of last year, Pappas said her kidney function rapidly declined yet again, a 'heartbreaking' development. Her best chance at survival, Pappas recalled her doctors telling her, is getting a kidney from a living donor. Some doctors have recommended she stop teaching while spending hours on dialysis every night, a treatment that's 'very hard on (her) body,' but Pappas knows she'd be depressed staying home all the time. Dialysis filters waste and excess fluid from the blood. 'Two nights ago, I had 29 alarms go off,' Pappas recounted. 'How do you sleep? You don't. You get up the next morning and crawl to Starbucks … but the second the buses come up (at school), it's like a switch in my brain.' At school, Pappas teaches about five classes a day, and even adopted uplifting affirmations into her curriculum. At the beginning and end of class, students recite, 'I'm stronger than I think, I'm braver than I see, I'm stronger than I feel and I can do hard things.' This spring, she helped out with the school's production of 'The Lion King' before coming home and hooking up to the dialysis machine around 6 p.m. 'I have no regular life. There's no regular life anymore,' she said. 'I don't really have time to, like, go shopping or do laundry.' Dana Nikoloulis, Pappas' aunt, is just one of her family members who've stepped up to try to find Pappas a kidney, from helping organize fundraisers to running marketing campaigns. Nikoloulis said it's difficult to watch someone she loves, who enjoys ballet and watching the Rockettes as much as she does, struggle so much. 'I know that there's so much more she has to give,' Nikoloulis said. 'She's meant to have this transplant and live a long, fruitful life and inspire others.' Anyone interested in donating a kidney to Pappas can fill out a kidney donor questionnaire through Northwestern Medicine and enter her name when asked. With prospective living donors, Garcia-Roca, the surgeon from Loyola, said programs operate under the principle of 'do no harm,' meaning they wouldn't take a kidney to benefit someone else if they believe it could harm the donor. Donors go through a fairly in-depth process to evaluate their health and support systems, everything from tissue typing to checking that they have family or friends for emotional support, Garcia-Roca said. At Loyola, about 20% of people who express interest ultimately donate the kidney, she said. 'A good donor is an individual that has normal kidney function, it doesn't really matter the age,' she said. 'That has a renal function that we know when we remove one of the kidneys the other kidney will gain enough function to sustain long-term the kidney function overall.' Christine Hernandez, a 50-year-old former Northwestern nurse and Galewood mother to four, has been searching for years for a donor. She decided to get a kidney biopsy in 2016 because her brothers had kidney disease, and learned that she had lost 60% of her kidney function. She was also diagnosed with the rare MUC1 kidney disease, an inherited condition that causes her kidneys to shrivel up. Within about four years, or what felt like 'a blink of an eye,' she had to go on dialysis. She spends her free time supporting other kidney patients through various organizations, and is known as a 'very special person' and 'very appreciative' by one advocate. 'Everything I had planned for my future, the trips I wanted to take my daughter on, everything stopped. Everything stopped,' Hernandez said. 'Right now I'm a prisoner of my own body.' Hernandez has waited on the transplant for six years, but said her doctor believes a living donor is likely the best option because she has rare antibodies. Potential donors for Hernandez can call UI Health Chicago's transplant coordinator Anita Pakrasi at 312-355-9820. Sometimes Hernandez feels like breaking down and stopping dialysis, especially after she started having 'nightmare' allergic reactions to the treatment. Her face turns red and hives cover her body. But her mom and kids convinced her to keep fighting and holding out hope that her kidney is coming soon. 'My doctor says there's a needle in a haystack and your donor is here in the U.S.,' she said. 'Somewhere.'
Business Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Times
Do world fairs still matter?
IN MID-APRIL, the 2025 World Expo opened in Osaka, Japan. With an estimated US$66 billion price tag and unique setting on an artificial island called Yumeshima, it's the follow-up to the famous 1970 World Expo held in that city – the first such event in Asia, remembered now for its wild futuristic architecture that conveyed the sweeping ambitions of postwar Japan. Till Oct 13, visitors can step into the national pavilions of 158 different countries, each designed to respond to the fair's theme – 'Designing Future Society for Our Lives'. Sub-themes include 'saving', 'empowering' and 'connecting' lives. Like the comparatively safe architecture of its pavilions, the theme is no match for the grandiose 1970 event, which celebrated 'Progress and Harmony for Mankind'. The starry history of these international spectacles, which trace their roots back to 1851, haunts their modern analogues, says Charles Pappas, a World Expo historian and consultant. The World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and the world's fairs that came to New York City in 1939 and 1964 still linger in the collective imagination; few outside of eastern Tennessee are likely to recall Knoxville's World's Fair of 1982, and many more recent expos have been held in emerging-market cities like Astana, Kazakhstan. 'When I talk to an American about an expo,' he says, 'the response I usually get is, 'My grandmother went to one!' or 'They still have those?'' Pappas' new book, Nobody Sits Like The French: Exploring Paris Through Its World Expos, makes the case that international expositions matter, by tracing their effect on a European capital that really went all-in on them: Paris hosted major expos in 1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900, 1925 and 1937. (The city withdrew a bid for this year's expo in 2018, choosing to prioritise the 2024 Summer Olympics.) These are presented not only as milestones of industrial capitalism that introduced scores of new products to the world, but also as shapers of infrastructure that transformed Parisian life. Baron Haussmann, Gustave Eiffel and Louis Vuitton, among many others, used these expos as chances to build, invent and promote new ideas. Without them, Paris wouldn't have the tower that serves as its most powerful symbol; the rest of the world might not have known the specific pleasure of eating blue cheese from the caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. Pappas, also the author of the 2017 book Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords: How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World, recently spoke with Bloomberg CityLab to discuss Paris's historic fairs, Osaka's current one, and why international expos are worth having in an ever-more-fractious world. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity: BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up How did Paris's seven universal expositions change the city? The Paris typically imagined by a visitor traces back to its seven World Expos, starting with 1855. Baron Haussmann at the time had been given the go-ahead by Napoleon III to remake the city, with the expo as the catalyst. Haussmann engineered around 20 per cent of the streets in central Paris, increased the arrondissements from 12 to 20, and took a wrecking ball to about 20,000 buildings which contained roughly 120,000 homes inside them. He replaced them with 34,000 new buildings, housing roughly 215,000 apartments. The ancient winding streets and narrow corridors Paris was known for were removed from the central part of the city. Eighty-five miles of new boulevards would, as the phrase of the day went, 'air, unify and beautify' Paris. Conveniently, as historians often note, this also allowed a wide row of troops to more easily quell social disturbances like the uprising of 1848. Haussmann also substantially increased the water supply and even oversaw minutiae like redecorating bandstands in city parks according to his whims. 'Hausmann Style' buildings – four-sided, cream-colored limestone buildings with mansard roofs – have since become quintessentially Paris. So has its cafe culture, formed by the 85 miles of new boulevards he built. The ripple effect of that first exposition and the remaking of Paris itself solidified what an expo could do and became a reason to hold more of them. Louis Vuitton showcased his luggage trunks at the 1867 expo. The No 14 bistro chair was the first mass-produced piece of furniture and earned a gold medal at the 1867 expo. It was made by a German-Austrian designer, Michael Thonet, but was such a hit at the expo that one cannot separate it from Paris. Pavel Yablochkov's early electric candle – an electric carbon arc lamp – was a hit at the 1878 expo when he put up 64 of them in Paris. Roquefort cheese was promoted at these expos and was marketed at the 1900 expo through reproductions of the caves in which the cheese is aged – what we would call an immersive experience today. Art Nouveau took off thanks to the 1900 expo, remnants of it include Maxim's bistro and Hector Guimard's Metro entrances. Art Deco was prevalent at the 1925 expo and the name itself traces back to the event. And of course, the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 expo. Were any of the Paris expos initially received poorly or deemed not worth the investment? Expos do not necessarily make a profit, but there is a long-term payoff. The 1984 expo in New Orleans went bankrupt before it was even over. Four decades later, the area of the site – which includes the Warehouse District and a convention centre built because of the expo – has generated some US$90 billion in revenue. Shanghai spent as much as US$90 billion on the 2010 fair, much of which was infrastructure improvements, and was estimated to eventually generate a 10-to-1 payoff. But analysts say they were way off, and it only ends up being 4-to-1. That's still huge. The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 expo. PHOTO: AFP Many saw the payoff of 1855 at the time. The Eiffel Tower, which, although so incredibly reviled when it was first proposed, became everyone's favorite once it went up in 1889. Today, its estimated value is over US$500 billion and generates an estimated US$100 million a year in revenue. The expos changed Paris and became the template for what other cities should do. Are there any temporary structures from these fairs that people would like to see rebuilt, like what happened with the pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition? I don't think there's anything that qualifies in that narrow definition. Grand Palais and Petit Palais were meant to last from the get-go. The Eiffel Tower was originally supposed to last 20 years. There was an effort to dismantle and reassemble it in St Louis for the 1904 World's Fair. But Gustave Eiffel, who designed and built the tower, thought there was still enough bureaucratic opposition in Paris that he might not be able to bring it back. So he didn't dare take it down, and then it found further utility as a radio broadcasting outlet in the early 20th century, providing yet another reason to keep it up. Paris was further ahead than modern expos when it comes to creating buildings to last. Temporary structures were prevalent elsewhere, like in Chicago for the 1893 expo, where plaster structures were assembled to resemble ancient Greek architecture. That's changed in recent years, like at Dubai 2020 where 80 per cent of the structures were planned to be repurposed or reused. Paris initially put in a bid to host the 2025 expo. What would you have wanted to see from it had they hosted it? I don't know how much bureaucratic resistance there would be to new buildings that could be as loved as the old ones. Could something as dramatic and as radical as the Eiffel Tower be built? What kind of architectural boundaries would they have pushed and who would they have brought in to pull it off? Regardless, it probably would have been quite fashionable. The French pavilion in Osaka, designed by Coldefy and Carlo Ratti, shows the kind of elegance Paris would have brought as the host city. What would you say to someone who admires the architecture of Osaka 1970 but is unimpressed with what they've seen online so far from Osaka 2025? I haven't visited yet, but I want to see if it celebrates anything that makes people collectively look to the future. World expos often commemorate disasters the host cities survived; the 1893 expo in Chicago reflected its recovery from the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, and the 1915 expo in San Francisco celebrated the city's revival after the terrible earthquake of 1906. The 1970 expo partly celebrated Japan's post-war renaissance during the heyday of Japan's Metabolist movement. There were a lot of pavilions with organic or organic-inspired shapes. The Swiss pavilion looked like a Cubist swarm of fireflies, the Toshiba pavilion looked like black and orange arachnids. It was cutting edge and had a real joy to it all. I want to walk a fine line and not insult anybody here. There's some really interesting, challenging architecture at Osaka 2025. France's pavilion is cool. Saudi Arabia's, designed by Norman Foster, resembles a traditional Saudi village. The Italy pavilion, designed by Mario Cucinella, looks like something Julius Caesar would be able to recognise. The China pavilion is in the shape of a bamboo scroll and has a section with 3D-printed biodegradable structures to relax in. To build Expo '70, Japan spent about nearly US$16.5 billion in today's figures, upgrading the city's transportation infrastructure and adding a cutting-edge telecommunications network. These improvements helped usher in an era of world-straddling economic growth for the country. And the expo site was roughly twice as big as 2025's. The 1970 expo was the beginning of a trend towards non-Western locations, which will continue in 2030 with Riyadh. Non-Western countries see the value in expos as an opportunity to build infrastructure and launch themselves on the world stage. I expect Riyadh to welcome people in a way it hasn't been known for, as Dubai did in 2020 when it modified its laws to be more Western for things like pot possession and public displays of affection. Whether it's Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates or Kazakhstan, these non-democratic host countries have no illusions about real politics or their place in the world. They know the value of an expo and the soft power it can yield. It's the old 'attraction versus coercion' equation. Milan 2015 was an exception to that non-Western shift. Pope Francis famously said at the time that the event represented a 'culture of waste'. Do his words ring true to expos in general today? They're not a waste of money, time, or effort. But they must be judged by their impact after the fact: Did they change public opinion? Did they help the public accept new ideas and technologies? Did they accomplish what they set out to do? If the answer to those questions is 'yes' then they deserve an 'A' grade. The history of expos fall into three categories: products, progress, and panic. Product expos, which spanned from 1851 to 1939, showed what the industrial world could do and create. That could be seen through early forms of the fax machine at the first expo in 1851, in London, to the introduction of television at New York's 1939 expo. Progress expos showed off what the future would bring, starting with Chicago in 1933, presenting an industrial future that looked a lot better than the Great Depression. General Motors really hit that out of the park in 1939 with Futurama, when they showed what the world would be like in 1960 via a 35,000-square-foot diorama. That continued until 1974 in Spokane, which was the first expo to really focus on environmental problems. These expos point out environmental problems and big decisions that have to be made quickly to fix them. With the prevailing pessimism around the postwar world order, what could make an expo worth the investment in a Western democracy today? Western countries generally think of expos as an item of nostalgia, something whose time has gone by, especially with the Internet making the rest of the world so much more accessible. Cities that host expos profit when they create long-term infrastructure as opposed to a theme park of sorts. Olympics and Super Bowls are too limited and short term to create long-lasting good. BLOOMBERG
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Popular Texas restaurant chain will buy Dallas-based On the Border
In a surprise move by Houston-based Pappas Restaurants, the owner of Pappasito's Cantina is buying Dallas-based On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, a 1980s fajitas-and-margaritas chain that had fallen on hard times. The Pappas family has been in the food business and dining business since the 19th century. It started Pappasito's in 1983 just before adding the popular Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. In the announcement, Pappas Restaurants described On the Border as 'value-driven' and serving at an 'accessible' price point. The restaurants can be strengthened with Pappas' business model and an enhanced menu, the company announcement said. On the Border, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, operates nine restaurants in the Fort Worth area. Pappasito's has two, one in Fort Worth and one in Arlington. At the time, On the Border closed its landmark No. 1 and No. 2 locations on Knox Street in Dallas and at 2011 E. Copeland Road, Arlington. The company has been owned by an Atlanta-based franchisee for Applebee's and IHoP since 2014 after operating for most of its history as a Brinker International affiliate of Chili's. It is unclear how the Pappas Restaurants will position On the Border, although technically Pappasitos is a sharply more expensive restaurant. For example, Pappasito's charges $29.95 at dinner and $17.95 at lunch for its least expensive fajitas platter, and $17.95/$16.95 for enchiladas. On the Border charges $19.95 at dinner and $14.79 at lunch for chicken fajitas, and $12.49/$10.99 for enchiladas. 'On The Border has always stood out for its energy and bold flavors — it's a brand we've known and respected for years,' Pappas co-owner Chris Pappas was quoted as saying in the announcement. 'This gives us the chance to bring our passion for Tex-Mex to more guests.' Pappasito's Cantina locations in Tarrant County are at 321 W. Road to Six Flags St., Arlington, and 2704 West Freeway, Fort Worth. On The Border has three Fort Worth restaurants plus Lake Worth, Bedford, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Mansfield and Weatherford. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
CBS News
05-05-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Nearly $2 billion in Cook County property taxes shifted from businesses to low-income homeowners, study finds
A study from the Cook County Treasurer's Office found nearly $2 billion in property taxes shifted from county businesses to the lowest income homeowners over just three years. The study found property tax assessment appeals submitted by businesses in Cook County caused their collective tax bill to drop by $3.3 billion, while residential tax bills went up $1.9 billion. The study also found the additional tax burden on homeowners fell mainly on low-income Black and Latin homeowners who make less than $50,000 a year, who contested their assessed values at a much lower rate than wealthier white homeowners. Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said she has found that most homeowners are overwhelmed by the daily tasks in their lives and so taking actions like appealing your property assessment or taxes are simply not on their radar. Pappas' office said the study suggests current efforts by the Assessor's Office and the Board of Review to standardize their methodology and share date could lead to fewer and smaller small business assessment reductions which could, in turn, reduce the shifts in the tax burden onto low-income homeowners. Her office also suggests outreach to low-income homeowners so they have the knowledge and tools to appeal their assessments.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Sullivan splashes endorsements for 1st District seat as others mull run
Hoping to send an early warning message to other potential Democratic primary opponents, First Congressional District candidate Maura Sullivan of Portsmouth announced more than 30 endorsements from elected officials, small business owners and veterans. Among those on the list are former House Speaker Steve Shurtleff of Penacook, former party chairman and U.S. ambassador to Belize George Bruno, State Sen. and Ward 3 Alderman Pat Long, D-Manchester, and former Executive Councilor and Army Reserve Ambassador Jim Normand. A Merrimack County commissioner, Shurtleff lives in the Second Congressional District. The group also includes five school board members and two aldermen from Manchester, the largest city in the district and Pappas' hometown. Earlier this month, Sullivan became the first candidate in either major party to declare her candidacy for the seat that four-term U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., will vacate to run for the U.S. Senate. In 2018, Sullivan finished second to Pappas in his first primary for this seat in a race that attracted 11 candidates. Sullivan outperformed expectations in that race but had to overcome criticism that she had only lived in the state for a few months before the campaign and done little grass roots work in New Hampshire in contrast to Pappas who had been an elected official and campaign volunteer for two decades. Since her loss seven years ago, Sullivan has gotten intensely involved in party politics and last month got elected as one of the state's two vice chairmen of the New Hampshire Democratic Party along with Sen. Donovan Fenton, D-Keene. She also raised more than $400,000 in the week after she announced for the seat and has won the support of VoteVets, a Democratic political action committee that spent significant resources in support of Navy Reserves veteran Maggie Goodlander of Nashua who won the Second Congressional District seat last November. Sullivan is a combat Marine Corps veteran who rose to the rank of captain and had several foreign deployments including one to Iraq. After her service, Sullivan worked in the federal Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense during the Obama administration. Her endorsement list also includes five school board members and two aldermen from Manchester, the largest city in the district and Pappas' hometown. This open seat is sure to attract other Democratic hopefuls. Potential tough race with Stefany Shaheen looms Stefany Shaheen, a former Portsmouth city councilor and police commissioner, recently confirmed she's considering her own campaign. She's the eldest daughter of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen who will retire in 2026 after five decades of serving in elective office and working on campaigns. Chris Bright, a Derry businessman who finished fourth in the 2024 Republican primary for this seat, is expected to run again. Some activists are encouraging the second and third place finishers in that primary, Greenland business owner Hollie Noveletsky and Manchester Aldermanic President Joe Kelly Levasseur, to run. Other Democrats who are on this latest list to endorse Sullivan include: ● State Rep. Luz Bay of Dover; ● Rep. Charlie St. Clair of Laconia, executive director of Laconia Bike Week; ● Rep. David Meuse of Portsmouth; ● Ex-Rep. Kate Miller of Laconia; ● Ex-Rep. Gerri Cannon of Somersworth; ● Ward 1 Manchester School Board member Julie Turner; ● Ward 2 Manchester School Board Sean Parr; ● Ward 7 Manchester School Board Chris Potter; ● Ward 8 Manchester School Board Jessica Spillers; ● Ward 11 Manchester School Board Liz O'Neil; ● Ward 2 Manchester Alderman Dan Goonan; ● City Councilor Eric Hoffman of Laconia; ● City Councilor Tony Felch of Laconia; ● Town Councilor Mackenzie Murphy of Merrimack; ● Retired Lieut. Col. Andy Corrow of Durham; ● N.H. AFL-CIO Executive Council member John MacNeil of Bedford; ● Moms Demand Action activist Robin Skudlarek of Londonderry; ● Belknap County Democratic Chair Johnna Davis of Gilford; ● Rockingham County Democrats Secretary Trish Tidd of Kingston; ● Carroll County Dems Vice Chair Tom Randell of Moultonborough; ● Former town chair George Hamblen of Plaistow; ● Town Chair Reva Tankle of Gilford; ● Town Chair Carrie Duran of Wolfeboro; ● USMC veteran Bill Kingston of New Castle; ● Navy veteran and businessman Gray Chynoweth of Manchester; ● Holly Henshaw, Navy Veteran and Community Leader, Dover and, ● Katelyn and Michael Wilson, activists from Newfields. klandrigan@
