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5 days ago
- Business
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Millions approved to fund hurricane resilience projects across Orange County
More than $85 million in federal funds will soon be used to improve Orange County communities that were hit hard by Hurricane Ian. Orange County Commissioners approved funding on Tuesday to help communities prepare for and withstand future storms. It will support 14 local projects, including four in the City of Orlando, two in the City of Ocoee and one in Winter Garden, Winter Park and the Town of Eatonville. Orange County will also use a portion of the funding to improve stormwater infrastructure in Orlo Vista, Long Lake, Verona Park and the Bonnie Brook communities. Longtime Bonnie Brook resident Jim Tadlock told Channel 9 he's still rebuying furniture after losing everything during Hurricane Ian nearly three years ago. 'I bought a living room, dining room and all new appliances,' said Tadlock, 'Everybody on this street lost everything.' But Tadlock is hopeful that a new project set to upgrade existing pumps and construct a new stormwater pump station at the west end of Applecross Street could make a big difference. Commissioners approved $1.5 million for the project as part of the Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. Tadlock, along with Bonnie Brook resident Denise George and Bonnie Brook Homeowners Association President Deborah Marley, had advocated for improvement for years. 'We just started pushing and nagging, and I guess it worked,' said Marley. This funding is part of a $219.7 million allocation received by Orange County through HUD. In addition to awards for public infrastructure, $35 million remains, as part of the CDBG-DR program, available for homeowners with unresolved Hurricane Ian damage through the Orange County Recovers program. Applications are open through the summer. Marley continues, 'You still have people trying to get back into their houses. We've got one guy that just moved back in.' You can learn more about the help for homeowners still recovering here. And explore the other projects via this link. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Sport
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Tim Tadlock ticked at curfew for Texas Tech baseball game
The Texas Tech baseball team has stumbled out of the gate, and not even facing a similarly struggling opponent was enough to snap the Red Raiders out of it. Colton Bower, Malakhi Knight and A.J. Guerrero hit home runs, and Washington beat the Red Raiders' 12-8 Sunday in a curfew-shortened final game at the Las Vegas College Baseball Classic. The game ended after Tech's turn at-bat in the top of the eighth inning to enable the Huskies to make their Sunday night flight home. Washington finished 19-31-1 last season and is 4-8 this year. Tech is 2-7 for the first time since 1974. Both teams went 1-2 in the four-team event with Texas and Illinois at Las Vegas Ballpark. Tech's win was a come-from-behind 10-6 conquest of Illinois on Friday in which Damian Bravo's game-tying homer triggered a six-run ninth inning. "Give credit to Washington, give credit to Texas for outplaying us on the days we played them," Tech coach Tim Tadlock said, "and be thankful for Damian Bravo walking up there in the ninth on Friday. Obviously, that little rally did put together something for us." More: Texas Tech breaks even on expected lower athletics budget in fiscal 2024 More: Tim Tadlock sought RPI boost in building Texas Tech baseball schedule Here are key developments from the weekend. Sunday's game started at 3:21 p.m. Las Vegas time with a predetermined decision that no inning would start after 6:30 p.m. so that the Huskies could make their return flight at 9:30 p.m. Tech turned an inning-ending double play in the bottom of the seventh just in time to earn another chance in the eighth. Tadlock wasn't happy about the setup. "You always want to have a four-hour window to play a baseball game," he said, "especially when the wind's blowing out 30 (mph) and you're in Vegas. Or even a Sunday baseball game at the tail-end of the weekend when pitching staffs maybe are a little thin. And so we went back and forth on 6:30. We wanted a four-hour window, and I think we got 3 hours and 15 minutes maybe, something like that." Tech-Washington was the second game of the day, after Texas beat Illinois 15-6 in a 3-hour, 24-minute game that started at 11 a.m. local time. Twice more in the post-game media session, Tadlock said the two teams should "be playing the ninth inning right now." Starting with the previous Sunday's game against UC Irvine, Tech outfielder Damian Bravo has four consecutive multi-hit games. He's 10 for 19 in that stretch with two home runs and six batted in. Bravo and first baseman Robin Villeneuve made the all-tournament team. Villaneuve went 6 for 12 in Vegas with three RBI. His two-run single in the sixth Sunday brought Tech within 11-7. Junior lefthander Zach Crotchfelt made scoreless appearances against Illinois and Washington that covered 4 1/3 innings. The transfer from Auburn and has a 1.54 ERA in four appearances. Tadlock said Crotchfelt "showed a lot of toughness." Zane Petty made his first start and was tagged for five earned runs. The junior righthander went 2 1/3 innings, extending Tech's season-long streak of no starter making it past four innings. Trevor Kole's two-run triple in the third came on a ball right fielder Damian Bravo lost in the sun. Petty (0-1) gave up solo homers in the first and second innings. "I thought it was competitive," Tadlock said. "I think he's going to be just fine." Tech went into Sunday at the bottom of the Big 12 in team fielding and team ERA. The Red Raiders' 12 errors have led to 15 unearned runs. The team ERA is 6.99 and the ERA of starting pitchers is 12.38. "We're going into week four, right?" Tadlock said. "You obviously want to put together who your starters are for conference play in two weeks, but we also knew with such a new staff and really with one guy that started on a weekend last year coming back in Mac (Heuer) that you're going to have maybe a little bit of this. "And so we're going to keep believing in them and keep believing that guys are going to start throwing the ball good. There's a little give-and-take there, too. We've had some plays that you need to make. You need to get outs when outs are presented to you. So would like to do both. Would like to pitch better. Would like to get outs when they're there." Texas Tech has five games this week, starting with the Red Raiders' first midweek games of the season. They host UC San Diego (7-4) at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Former Tech pitcher and Tech graduate Eric Newman is in his 14th season as the Tritons' coach with a 428-265 record. Tech then plays a three-game series Friday through Sunday at Grand Canyon. This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tim Tadlock ticked at curfew for Texas Tech baseball game
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Health
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Being prepared is an antidote to high opioid overdose rate
Public health professionals and addiction services agencies continue to distribute Narcan to the public as Niagara County experiences high rates of opioid overdoses. Volunteers receiving Narcan training Wednesday for the Niagara County Medical Reserve Corps, a health department program, learned that Niagara County's 2020 overdose rate of 39.1 per 100,000 surpassed that of Manhattan at 22 per 100,000. Trainer Bryan Tadlock of the Niagara County Department of Health said males ages 30-35 are the group at highest risk. According to the New York Office of Addiction Services, Niagara County's opioid overdose death rate outpaced the rest of the state from 2017 to 2020. At a rate of 30.7 per 100,000 in 2020, Niagara County exceeded Erie County's 2020 rate of 24.6. Making Narcan available is an important strategy, said Emily Buteyn, program director of Save the Michaels Lockport Recovery Center, a non-profit that provides addiction services. She said she would like to see as many people trained and supplied with the overdose antidote as possible to save lives. Doug Bisher, who celebrates his ninth year of recovery Thursday, is among the saved. 'A perfect stranger saved my life with Narcan,' Bisher said. 'I was knocked out in my front seat in the Tops parking lot in Lockport. I came to and I didn't know what was going on. It was shortly after that that I got clean.' Now, as a peer support specialist for Addict to Addict in Lockport, Bisher distributes Narcan and educates people about its use and the opioid addiction problem. He recognizes that many people have heard that addicts can be unhappy when Narcan reverses their high. 'I know personally, I would rather you brought me back to get sick, than (let me) overdose,' he said. 'It was one of the things that made my recovery possible.' At the county's Narcan training, overdose rescue kits were provided that included two nasal doses of Narcan. Tadlock discussed the symptoms of opioid overdose, and the steps an individual should take when administering Narcan. In responding to an overdose, Padlock said a person should always call 911 if they provide Narcan, since drug users may need more doses to fully withdraw. Tadlock said Narcan has no effect on a person who is To make Narcan more widely available, Save the Michaels has installed 8-by-8-inch red boxes outdoors at businesses around Lockport containing free Narcan. Other free Narcan sources include a purple box located outside the Marathon gas station on Walnut Street and a vending machine outside Save the Michaels on Walnut Street, which also provides fentanyl and xylazine test strips. Buteyn said data shows that narcotics overdoses in Lockport are similar to those in Niagara Falls. 'The statistics were pretty scary for Lockport,' she said. 'We don't have the population that Niagara Falls has.' With the problem of overdoses so near, Buteyn recommends that everyone educate themselves about Narcan. 'Substance use is no longer something that we can pretend doesn't exist in our own family group, friend group, and among coworkers,' she said. 'If somebody is not willing to be part of the solution, it's only going to get worse.'
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
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Board chair: Festival of the Arts died of old age
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The way the board chair describes it, after 55 years, Grand Rapids' Festival of the Arts died of old age. Some longtime volunteers were leaving and new volunteers were hard to find, Chairman Eddie Tadlock told News 8 in a phone interview. 'Basically, the volunteers were saying, 'You know what? We're tired,'' Tadlock said. 'That's it. And if you don't have volunteers who are willing to move the ball forward, it's not going to happen, and that is basically what it came down to.' Festival of the Arts ending after 55 years The board announced Saturday that it was ending the festival, though a statement didn't say why. Launched in 1970, Festival of the Arts was ArtPrize before — the city of Grand Rapids' biggest summer draw by far. At its peak, some 250,000 people descended on the city every first weekend of June for the art, live performance and food booths (not necessarily in that order). Lately, though, attendance had been cut in half. But the biggest challenge, the board chair said, was getting new volunteers and new ideas. 'They just started hitting roadblocks, 'Well, we're not going to change this because we've always done it this way,'' he said. 'It was like an undercurrent of resistance to change,' he said. There's also the money: higher costs, less cash coming in. Tax records obtained by Target 8 show the nonprofit 501(c)(3) got much of its funding from private foundations and sales and just a few thousand from government grants. 'A lot of the foundations, the usual suspects, a lot of them have changed their focus on what they're going to fund, and Festival was falling out of that footprint,' Tadlock said. From 2019 to 2021, Festival usually ended the year with about $200,000 in its fund balance. But by the end of 2022, the last year for which records were available, that fund balance was about $10,000. Festival took in nearly $247,000 that year, but spent $424,000, about half of that on labor and equipment. That's a $177,000 loss. 'Things change': Grand Rapids church reflects on years of service at Festival of the Arts Tadlock said finances had improved somewhat since then. Still, Festival was already planning on a smaller event this year: fewer stages and a smaller downtown foot print, Tadlock said. Then on Thursday, the board gathered for a Zoom meeting, along with some longtime volunteers. 'It's a big thing in the region. It's a really big thing,' Tadlock said. 'I was kind of hoping that we could, if nothing else, put it on pause. Say, OK, we're not going to do it in 2025. We need to get our ducks in a row and get our collective stuff together and come back reimagined in 2026. 'The rest (of those at the meeting) were just like, 'We're done.' These are folks who've been with Festival for years.' The vote to shut it down, he said, was unanimous. 'It was very sad,' Tadlock said. 'I've been going to Festival since I moved to Grand Rapids in 2008 and it was always a highlight for me.' In a written statement, longtime volunteer and former board co-chair Mark Azkoul wondered if Festival was the victim of changing times. 'Somewhere,' he wrote, 'too many of us stopped finding community by working shoulder to shoulder as volunteers… Perhaps today, we find that community through our phones instead.' The board chair said he still hopes Festival could return, reimagined, in 2026. 'We haven't dissolved our 501(c)(3) status,' he said. 'My hope is to regroup, build a new board, build some new committees with some fresh blood, with people who have ideas and who have experience in doing different types of festivals and just reimagine Festival and be the phoenix rising out of the ashes.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
