Gloucester supervisors look to clean up local waters

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By Matt Sabo, msabo@dailypress.com | 757-247-7872

10:21 p.m. EDT, August 7, 2012

GLOUCESTER ——

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Tuesday night moving forward with the establishment of No Discharge zones in Gloucester County's waters.

Establishing No Discharge zones in Gloucester County means boaters would be prohibited from dumping human sewage in rivers, streams and creeks. The county's Go Green Committee began working on the process last year before coming before the supervisors for approval to continue the work.

The zone areas would include the Piankatank River, Mobjack Bay and the York River and all of their tributaries. Establishing the zones on some of the waterways — including the Piankatank and upper North rivers and Adams and Poropotank creeks and Morris Bay — will require coordination with neighboring counties.

Phil Olekszyk, a member of the Go Green Committee said boaters whose vessels are equipped with marine sanitation devices can discharge without penalty in Gloucester waters. He showed a map that highlighted thousands of acres ofGloucester rivers, streams, creeks and bays that are off-limits to shellfish harvesting due to polluted waters.

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We wish the board good luck with this.  How do they propose to stop people from dumping?  Will dumping police now be patrolling all the water ways?  This looks like a forced business that people now have to use if they want to own and use a boat.   More of your freedoms being taken away in the name of environmental correctness.  Just wear orange to protest the go green movement.

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Gloucester, VA - Tracking down toll violators a costly operation

English: The Coleman Bridge as seen from Yorktown as it connects with Gloucester Point. © 2005 Wyatt Greene (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

State study says VDOT loses out on more than $10,000 per month in revenue from toll violators at the Coleman Bridge in Gloucester

By Matt Sabo and >, msabo@dailypress.com | 757-247-7872

August 6, 2012

GLOUCESTER — About every seven minutes a motorist passes through the Route 17 toll booths at the George P. Coleman Bridge without paying, a scene that repeats itself more than 75,000 times a year.

The numbers of Coleman Bridge tolls processed in 2011 is a staggering 5.5 million, an average of more than 15,000 per day, according to figures provided by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Motorists who run the toll booths without paying account for only a fraction of the total number of vehicles driving northbound on Route 17 into Gloucester.

Yet each time a motorist zips through the toll booths without paying — it happens on average more than 200 times per day — the action triggers a process of tracking down violators that has become a lucrative source of income for a Hampton-based firm, and a potentially devastating tally of fines and fees for drivers who are repeat offenders.

A Daily Press analysis of data and documents provided viaFreedom of Information Act request to VDOT and the state court system, and interviews with drivers — who in some cases had hundreds of violations — reveals the lengths the state goes to track down toll booth violators. The examination also shows how costly a relatively minor infraction can ultimately become for drivers running the toll booths.

Gloucester resident Crystal Donoflio is among the thousands of motorists who have run the Coleman Bridge toll booths. She appeared in court in March in connection with toll violations dating back to 2000. Court records show 293 toll violations for Donoflio.

Donoflio said she had an EZPass toll-collection sensor at the time, but on some occasions, there wasn't enough money linked to her account when she crossed the bridge into the county. She added that she is behind on paying, is unemployed and is trying to get on disability.

"I'll be glad when it's all over," she said.

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Court appearance Thursday in Route 17 pedestrian fatality

11:21 a.m. EDT, August 2, 2012

A Gloucester woman charged with allegeldy killing a pedestrian on Route 17 while driving drunk will remain under court supervision pending an October hearing.

Debora Sue Auman, 52, allegedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.08 on the morning of June 7 when she struck and killed Alvin Darnell Wilson, 54.

Wilson lived just north of the area where he was struck near the intersection of Route 17. Gloucester General District Court Judge Jeffrey W. Shaw denied a request through Auman's attorney to change her court supervision, which may include random substance abuse tests.

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GVLN - Twitter confronts ethics of commercial pressures in wake of Guy Adams 'mess'

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The social media site took a hit to its reputation as a home to free speech as the fight for internet freedom enters new stage.

In January 2011 Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, together with the site's "trust and safety" arbiter Alex Macgillivray, posted a paean to freedom of expression under the portentous title: The Tweets Must Flow. They promised they would respect everyone's human right to unimpeded speech, vowing only to remove tweets that were illegal, spam or in breach of privacy.

Fine words. But this week the tweets stopped flowing for one of Twitter's users. When Guy Adams, the Independent's Los Angeles correspondent, went to issue his latest gobbet of wisdom in 140 characters on Monday he found his Twitter stream well and truly dammed.

The suspension of Adams' account, and its reinstatement on Tuesday, led to a storm of indignation culminating with an apology from Twitter. "We did mess up," admitted Macgillivray – now Twitter's general counsel – "and we will actively work to ensure this does not happen again".

The most toxic aspect of the affair was the whiff of a commercial incentive. Adams was blocked after he posted a succession of tweets heavily critical of NBC for its tape-delayed broadcasts of the Olympics. When it was revealed that Twitter and NBC had entered into a business partnership for the Games, and that Twitter had tipped off the TV network to Adams's tweets, prompting the complaint that would lead to his suspension, the Twittersphere turned blue with rage.

Twitter's quick and abject apology may have nipped in the bud the suspicion that it censored Adams for commercial gain, but doubts will remain. "The whole incident reveals how easily people can be silenced in social media for commercial reasons if we are not vigilant in preventing it," says Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked who sits on the board of Global Network Initiative, a body that fights internet censorship.

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Gloucester, VA Chick-Fil-A Continues In The News

Chick-fil-A Kiss-Ins Divide LGBT Movement

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Posted: 08/03/2012 6:22 pm Updated: 08/03/2012 9:57 pm

Carly McGehee, 24, had been trying for months to plan a "kiss-in" to protest fried-chicken chain Chick-fil-A's long history of donating money to groups that oppose same-sex marriage and promote conversion therapy, a controversial practice intended to "cure" gay people.

But there was no real catalyst for the event until now.

This summer, the company's chief executive Dan Cathy gave a pair of interviews saying he was “guilty as charged” of supporting “the biblical definition of the family unit" and that gay marriage invites "God's judgment on our nation."

The company now sits at the center of a furious debate over same-sex marriage, gay rights and free speech while some politicians rally around it and others urge the company to stay out of their cities. McGehee, of Dallas, thought the time was right.

On Friday night, she estimates about 15,000 same-sex supporters will show up at Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide to snap photos, and hug, kiss or hold hands with someone of the same-sex. One of her main goals for the event is to give hope to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth living in the South, who hear messages condemning gay marriage more often than words of support, McGehee said.

"Tonight is for those kids that are growing up in, say, a small town in Texas, like I did, so that they can see that they're not different, that they're loved and accepted and they shouldn't be ashamed of who they are," McGehee said. She also hopes to show the world that the American people "aren't going stand for discrimination and intolerance."

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As I have said before, let those in the gay community convert to the Wicca religion or the Satanist religion.  Those are the two religions that recognize same sex marriages.  We do not need to create extra laws for minorities that are not already in existence.  I have a zero sum issue for gay rights.  Gay marriage is not a gay right according to the state.  Want to argue that on the proper end?  1st Amendment, to the bill of rights, Congress shall make no law respecting establishment of religion nor  prohibiting the free exercise thereof.  Gay marriage is not a Christian value, therefore the need to recognize it as such does not exist.

 It is a recognized value under Wicca and Satanism.  Paganism may also recognize it as well.  Therein lies the answers to this dilemma.  The state is under no obligation whatsoever to recognize the issues and to do so is to go against the Constitution of the Untied States and also the Bill of Rights of the US.  If gay people wish to get married, then let them follow the paths where it is accepted.  No issues there.  

  Gay marriage is a privilege, not a right.  Now here is what is really going on with the protests.  It's an attempt to silence the freedom of speech made by the owner of the Chick-Fil-A franchise as well as a very blatant attack on Christianity itself.  Just because you do not like his view does not give you the right to attack him for it.  Any gay person who protests the owners right to the freedom of speech attacks themselves for the right to be gay openly.  Think about it.  

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American Christianity"A History of American Christianity from Chuck Thompson

More on pre American and early American history.  This e-book is a special edition created for this web site and is re published by us.  Free downloads are available on this e-book straight from Slideshare.  This book covers William Penn and also the history of the Separation of Church and State in the United States.  What we found interesting is that this book credits the Baptists with the Separation of Church and State.  Not an item you find in the vast majority of history books.  This book covers a lot of history you will not learn anywhere else.   There is a lot of history about a lot of Christian religious sects and how they have had significant influences on the founding of this nation and it's political systems.  Everything from the Quakers, Pilgrims, Methodists and Catholics to Baptists, Episcopalians and more.  258 pages total.  Remember, on our additional resources site, we have an e-book converter.  You can download a free copy of that software and convert this PDF to another file format to work on your Kindle, Nook, iPad and more.

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Gloucester, VA History And Politics of Our Nation

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Patrick Henry's Famous speech on Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.  Not a part of Gloucester History, but a major part of British American Colonial history.  We decided that this being election season, now is a great time to remind people of our founding history.  The picture in this PDF file is a scene from the Battle of the Hook.  You are welcome to download a free copy of this PDF file from Slideshare.  Just click on the Slideshare link and when you get to the page it is hosted on, at the top of the container, there is an option to download.

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