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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com September 22, 2013 Volume 105, No. 224
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Stopover Tour banners for sale online Melanie Yingst Staff Writer
Watchdog gets details of Syrian arsenal Technical experts at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were reviewing Saturday a further disclosure from Syria about its chemical weapons program. A day earlier, the body that polices the global treaty outlawing chemical weapons said it had received a preliminary submission from Syria. No details have been released of what is in the Syrian declarations, and OPCW spokesman Michael Luhan refused to give any more information about the latest submission. See Page A6
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TROY — Waving high above the Troy skyline, eight flags, seven banners and 10 side arm banners welcomed the thousands music lovers from all over the country to Troy’s Stopover for the Gentlemen of the Road music festival. The colorful 25 flags and banners were always out of reach from those trying to take a piece of the music festival home with them — until the city of Troy put them up for bid on eBay last week.
The 25 banners and flags commemorating the Gentlemen of the Road music festival held in Troy on Labor Day weekend went to the online auction block last week. Final bids must be submitted by noon Thursday. According to Patrick Titterington, director of public safety and services, all the flags and banners from the concert are up for grabs on eBay. “It’s the first time we’ve used eBay,” Titterington said. “We thought we’d reach a wider audience through eBay.” Titterington said he
had a lot of interest in the concert memorabilia from visitors who came from around the country. Most were curious about what the city was going to do with all the flags and banners and many expressed interest in the banners that hung around the concert venue and around town. Titterington said many people left phone numbers and email addresses for the city to notify them how to get a banner or flag after the concert was over on Labor Day weekend.
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In this file photo, City of Troy Electrical Department including Daryl Williams and Brian Ferree (not pictured) hang Gentlemen of the Road Stopover banners along Adams Street and Market Street bridges as well as throughout the downtown area prior to last month’s Gentlemen of the Road Stopover Tour. Those banners • See BANNERS on page A2 currently are being sold on E-bay.
The gift of caring
Valero Miami Jacobs Career College donates to food pantry robbed twice in one week Andrew Wilson For the Troy Daily News
Pope’s blunt remarks pose challenge for bishops In recent years, many American bishops have drawn a harder line with parishioners on what could be considered truly Roman Catholic, adopting a more aggressive style of correction and telling abortion rights supporters to stay away from the sacrament of Communion. Liberal-minded Catholics derided the approach as tone-deaf. Church leaders said they had no choice given what was happening around them: growing secularism, increasing acceptance of gay marriage, and a broader culture they considered more and more hostile to Christianity. They felt they were following the lead of the pontiffs who elevated them. But in blunt terms, in an interview published Thursday in 16 Jesuit journals worldwide, the new pope, Francis called the church’s focus on abortion, marriage and contraception narrow and said it was driving people away. Now, the U.S. bishops face a challenge to rethink a strategy many considered essential for preserving the faith. See Page A6
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Looking to put business management principals to use in a setting outside the classroom, Miami Jacobs Career College students collected more than 5,000 items for New Path’s Choice Food Pantry. Over the course of the last six weeks, the Troy campus students collected 5,236 cans and boxed food. They delivered the goods at the pantry, located at the old Ginghamsburg Chrurch on S. County Road 25-A, on Thursday. The project was initiated by Sandra Streitenberger, instructor of business management at Miami Jacobs College. Streitenberger wanted to incorporate a project to practice the business management principals that would be taught in her class. Streitenberger proposed a food drive campaign, and New Path jumped on board. The collcetions began at the end of July. Students were given six weeks to plan, organize, implement, control and analyze the project. During her lecture in class each week, Streitenberger would relate the principals in her lecture to the food drive. Once students reached the end of the project, they had an objective and a goal Staff Photo/ANTHONY WEBER that would have been planned and implement- Applied business management and criminal justice students at Miami-Jacobs Career ed, much like in a real job. College organized a campus-wide food campaign recently. Students delivered the donations
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For the second time in less than a week, an armed robbery at the Valero gas station on West Market Street in Troy, according to the Troy Police Department. Around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, a lone gunman came into the store wearing a mask and demanded money. The suspect fled from the store on foot with an undetermined amount of cash, according to Troy Police reports. The Troy Police Department said the only description it had of the alleged robber was that he was wearing a mask. The Valero also was robbed on Thursday. The suspect in that robbery was described as a white male approximately 5-foot-10. He was wearing a plaid long sleeve shirt, black sweatpants with a white stripe down the side and black shoes. Troy detectives say there is a possibility the robber this morning could be the same suspect. Anyone with any information on the incident is asked to contact Troy of 5, 236 canned foods, non perishable foods and hygiene items to New Path Inc., Thursday Police Department at • See GIFT on page A2 after collecting over a period of five weeks. (937) 339-7525.
39 dead in Kenya mall attack; hostages still held NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi’s top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall. At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya’s president announced on national
TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead. Foreigners were among the casualties. France’s president said that two French women were killed. American citizens were reported injured but not killed in the attack, the State Department said Saturday, but did not release further details. Early Sunday morning, 12 hours after the attack began, gunmen remained holed up inside the mall with an unknown number of hostages. President Uhuru Kenyatta called the
security operation under way “delicate” and said a top priority was to safeguard hostages. As the attack began shortly after noon Saturday, the al-Qaidalinked gunmen asked the victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: Those who answered yes were free to go, several witnesses said. The nonMuslims were not. Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility and said the attack was retribution for Kenyan forces’ 2011 push
into Somalia. The rebels threatened more attacks. Al-Shabab said on its Twitter feed that Kenyan security officials were trying to open negotiations. “There will be no negotiations whatsoever,” alShabab tweeted. As night fell in Kenya’s capital, two contingents of army special forces troops moved inside the mall. Police and military surrounded the huge shopping complex as helicopters buzzed overhead. An Associated Press reporter said he saw a wounded Kenyan soldier put into
an ambulance at nightfall, an indication, perhaps, of a continuing shoot-out inside. Witnesses said at least five gunmen — including at least one woman — first attacked an outdoor cafe at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, a shiny, new shopping center that includes Nike, Adidas and Bose stores. The mall’s ownership is Israeli, and security experts have long said the structure made an attractive terrorist target. • See KENYA on page A2
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