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Lake School Baord Continues to debate “offensive” wording in the mission statement
By Erika Irwin
The Suburbanite
Lake TWP, Ohio —
The community spoke up again at this month’s Lake Local board of education meeting urging the board to fight the removal of the “offensive” wording in the mission statement.
Several community members addressed the board as well, including one member of an atheist group.
“We had no [...]
The Lake Township (Ohio) Board of Education has dropped “belief in God” from its mission statement.
On behalf of some local atheists, the Board decided December 14 to temporarily remove the phrase, but the Freedom from Religion Foundation is threatening to sue if the phrase is not kept out permanently. Pastor Jack Coontz of Uniontown Chapel of Faith suggests that majority rules.
“We have many churches; [we are] building new churches in [...]
Lion help Hault the Transmission of River Blindness
Ecuador has become the second nation in the Americas to halt the transmission of onchocerciasis, according to a press release from the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based sponsoring agency for the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program in the Americas.
The Onchocerciasis Elimination Program in the Americas is a community-based partnership that includes volunteers in the endemic countries of Brazil, [...]
