UU aid worker gets one-year probation for 'knowingly littering'
UU aid worker sentenced for 'knowingly littering'
Walt Staton, a 27-year-old UU who was convicted of “knowingly littering” for leaving water jugs in the southern Arizona desert, was sentenced to serve one year of unsupervised probation and complete 300 hours of trash removal on public lands. Staton is part of No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group that gives aid to migrants walking across the desert. (Arizona Daily Star - 8.11.09)
See also: UU convicted of littering while supplying humanitarian aid (uuworld.org - 6.15.09)
Also in the media:
The Rev. Mike Young, the new interim minister at the UU Church of Waterville, Maine, describes an encounter with Barack Obama at his previous church in Hawaii, and explains why he and his family are looking forward to "a whole new adventure." (Central Maine Morning Sentinel - 8.14.09)
Wendy Starr, lay chaplain with the Unitarian Fellowship of Sarnia and Port Huron in Ontario, Canada, recently retired after a career that included 218 weddings and 28 funeral services in the past nine years. (Sarnia Observer - 8.14.09)
The UU Church of Hagerstown, Md., hosted a Faith in Action fair to encourage volunteerism in the community. (The Herald-Mail - MD 8.9.09)
Former students of the Jordan School in Suffolk, Va.—originally founded by Universalists in 1894 for black children who couldn't attend public school—are planning a reunion this Labor's Day. (Suffolk News-Herald - 8.11.09)
Walt Staton, a 27-year-old UU who was convicted of “knowingly littering” for leaving water jugs in the southern Arizona desert, was sentenced to serve one year of unsupervised probation and complete 300 hours of trash removal on public lands. Staton is part of No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group that gives aid to migrants walking across the desert. (Arizona Daily Star - 8.11.09)
See also: UU convicted of littering while supplying humanitarian aid (uuworld.org - 6.15.09)
Also in the media:
The Rev. Mike Young, the new interim minister at the UU Church of Waterville, Maine, describes an encounter with Barack Obama at his previous church in Hawaii, and explains why he and his family are looking forward to "a whole new adventure." (Central Maine Morning Sentinel - 8.14.09)
Wendy Starr, lay chaplain with the Unitarian Fellowship of Sarnia and Port Huron in Ontario, Canada, recently retired after a career that included 218 weddings and 28 funeral services in the past nine years. (Sarnia Observer - 8.14.09)
The UU Church of Hagerstown, Md., hosted a Faith in Action fair to encourage volunteerism in the community. (The Herald-Mail - MD 8.9.09)
Former students of the Jordan School in Suffolk, Va.—originally founded by Universalists in 1894 for black children who couldn't attend public school—are planning a reunion this Labor's Day. (Suffolk News-Herald - 8.11.09)
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