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President says people who want to love U.S. welcome MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — President Trump on Monday vowed to allow into the United States people who “want to love our country,” defending his immigration and refugee restrictions as he made his first visit to the headquarters Monday for U.S. Central Command. Trump reaffirmed his support for NATO before military leaders and troops and laced his speech with references to homeland security amid a court battle over his travel ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries. He did not directly mention the case now before a federal appeals court after a lower court
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No arrests from 7 nations in travel ban? Not quite WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who halted President Trump’s travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump’s order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Just last October, an Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to the Islamic State group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to blow himself up in an act of martyrdom. In November, a Somali refugee injured 11 in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University, and he surely would have been arrested had he not been killed by an officer.
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Penny Greer, left, and Mary Bailey enjoy their lunch Saturday at Golden Corral for the 300th meeting of Campbell’s Soup Friends’ Lunch Group. Kathryn Godwin has been organizing the meetings since the year after the plant closed in 1991.
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Campbell’s Soup Friends’ Lunch Group wasn’t one to be missed. Twenty-six years nearly to the day after the closing of Campbell’s Soup in Sumter, about 100 former employees showed their dedication to their former workplace for the 25th anniversary of Campbell’s Soup Friends’ Lunch Group’s monthly meetings at Golden Corral on Saturday. That’s 300 monthly meetings exactly by Kathryn “Kathy” Godwin’s count. Godwin has been solely organizing the monthly meetings since the one-year anniversary of the plant’s closing in 1991. “I’m glad to see everybody, and I hope we remain friends,” Godwin said.
Del Royer, the first supervisor in place at Campbell’s Soup in Sumter, greets one of his former co-workers, Dorothy Mitchell, during the meeting. last four years, they’ve been gathering at Golden Corral at 11:30 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month. “We’re still going strong,” Godwin said. “Many churches cannot keep their group together for that long.”
That camaraderie seemed to echo through the voices of other former Campbell’s employees. Many attendees spoke fondly of their time at Campbell’s and said that it was a great place to work. The monthly meetings initially started as breakfast gatherings, but soon the group got too big. For the
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Fund helps family of 6 stay warm after mother’s job loss BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Fireside Fund continues to help Sumter folks stay warm, Sumter United Ministries Crisis Relief Director Kevin Howell said. He said a single mother of five children was doing just fine until a car wreck put her out of work. “As we all know, transportation is critical for continuous employment,”
he said. Howell said the woman’s injuries and lack of transportation made it difficult for her to keep her job, and very soon, she was in financial difficulty.
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All of her children, ranging from 8 to 16, are doing well in school, and the mother is a student at one of Sumter’s colleges. However, with very limited income, the mother was not able to pay her winter electric bill, which meant the family would lose its lighting and heating resources, Howell said. It was essential to keep the power on to keep the house warm because electricity was the family’s only source of
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heat, he said. Fireside Fund afforded Sumter United Ministries the ability to pay a portion of the family’s electric bill, and the family was able to keep the lights on and the house warm, he said. Once again, Sumter folks helping Sumter folks kept the home fires burning, Howell said. God bless all those who donate, he said.
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