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Baseball Meeting
Come hear Coach Johnson and
members of the baseball team
talk about the 2002 season!
When:
Wednesday, February 27
@ 7:00
Where:
Rudder 601
Don’t forget!
There will be a pizza social with
the team on Thursday, February 28
@ 5:30 at Olsen Pavilion!
6B
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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THE BAT!
Fund-raising high
after Sent. 11 attad
<AP>The post-Sept. 11
drop-off in donations to chari
ties not serving the victims of
the terrorist attacks apparently
did not last long.
Many nonprofit organiza
tions are reporting to their sur
prise that 2001 contributions
were equal to or even higher
than the previous year’s.
“Frankly, we’re not seeing a
crisis in fund-raising.” said
Michael Nilsen, spokesperson for
the Association of Fundraising
Professionals in Alexandria, Va.
In Hagerstown, Md., for
example. Salvation Army Capt.
Butch Mallard was deciding
where to put the Christmas ket
tles last September when the
terrorists struck. He assumed
that people who gave to Sept.
Frankly, we're
not seeing a crisis in
fund-raising.
— Michael Nilsen
AFP spokesperson
11 victim relief funds would
contribute less to the charities
they usually support.
“We were looking at, if we
could come up to anywhere
close to last year, it would be a
good year,” Mallard said.
Instead, donations to organi
zation’s Hagerstown-area unit
in 2001 came in 4 percent
above the previous year, includ
ing a 21 percent jump in kettle
receipts. Mallard said.
Many charities around the
country were similarly sur
prised to find that they were not
seriously undercut by the fund
raising for the Sept. 11 victims.
Preliminary results from a
survey by the Association of
Fundraising Professionals of its
25,000 North American mem
bers indicate 60 percent raised
as much as or more than last
year, Nilsen said. Most of the
others reported drops of 10 per
cent or less, he said.
The Chronicle of
Philanthropy reported Feb. 7
that for many charities, strong
returns in November and
December helped offset a drop
in contributions immediately
after the attacks. The newspa
per interviewed more than 60
charity officials and consultants
and found that while gains over
2000 were generally modest,
few organizations reported sig
nificant declines.
World Neighbors, an interna
tional development group in
Oklahoma City, saw a 77 percent
drop in donations in the first two
weeks after the attacks but ended
up receiving more money in the
fourth quarter of 2001 than in the
same period a year earlier,
spokeswoman Kendra Fox said.
The total for the period was
$253,000, compared with
$243,000 a year earlier.
“In the context of the slow
ing economy, that’s really
encouraging,” Fox said.
When donations to Freedom
from Hunger, an international
organization in Davis, Calif.,
stalled in early autumn, leaders
made a special appeal to their
most loyal donors. The group
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LaFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities filed
100 more criminal charges Tuesday against the
operator of a crematory where hundreds of
corpses have been discovered.
Ray Brent Marsh already faced 16 counts
of theft by deception for allegedly taking
money for cremations he never performed at
Tri-State Crematory.
The 100 additional theft by deception charges
were filed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
and issued in a warrant by Walker County
Magistrate Judge Shelia Thompson.
The new counts were connected to 50 of the
corpses found at Tri-State. For each body, one
count was filed for taking money from the fami
lies and another for failing to give the ashes to the
families, officials said.
So far, 331 corpses have been found on the
crematory grounds. Only 70 of the bodies have
been identified.
The latest charges were filed just hours after a
separate judge ruled Marsh could leave jail on
$100,000 bond on the original 16 theft charges.
Marsh was still in jail Tuesday afternoon and
could be arrested again if he makes bail.
Meanwhile, recovery workers began another
day of clear-cutting the 16-acre crematory grounds.
Authorities have said it could 1
before all the bodies are identified,
ers are growing weary and occasio
the emotional toll mounts.
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word go, is suffering some kind olw
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suffering some kind of
emotional strain.
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strain,” said David Ashburn, the Walk
emergency director. “It’s things
were never meant to be exposed to."
Officials estimated they had seal,
three or four acres of the Tri-Siait
which comprise at least eight acres.?
buildings and a small lake. Authorilie
ing on a plan to drain the lake.
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