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before that date to be con- sidered for the loan. The owner must be the one occupying the resi- dence within city limits and repairs must be on the list of items eligible for fund- ing, Planning Consultant John Stoufer previously told the Daily News. Qualified homeowners will have the opportunity to improve the quality of life for themselves and their neighbors with upgraded items around their homes providing a more efficient environment, Stoufer said. "The city also tries to en- courage the use of local con- tractors and the purchase of materials from local suppli- ers so that the money helps improve the local economy," Stoufer said. The loan administra- tor, Consultant JoAnn An- ders, has confirmed that the loan applicant, who was approved, qualified for the program as stipulated by the department. The city's appointed loan review committee, consist- ing of Stoufer, the Building Official and the City Clerk, had reviewed and recom- mended approval. The loan was approved by with a 5-0 vote. For more information and to learn how to apply, visit Corning City Hall at 794 Third St. or call 824- 7029. Repairs FROMPAGE1 of crayons donated and now she's working on a much larger project. I hope the community will rally around her and help her reach her goal of 100 back- packs. In addition to that, she wants to donate her time to hand them out at the Cuts for Kids event this year. She's an inspiration." The 11-year-old Red Bluff girl has set a new goal of not just the 100 backpacks, but filling each one of them with supplies. So far, she has gathered 82 backpacks along with supplies. "Last year she donated crayons after hearing a little boy in Walmart ask his mom for crayons," said Christi Szychulda, Mati- lyn's mother. "She told him they couldn't afford it." Matilyn went to the Cuts For Kids event, which gave out a few backpacks, and came up with the idea to set a goal of 100 backpacks to donate, she said. "We made a Facebook page for it and she has had teachers as well as local businesses donate," Christi said. "We've even had dona- tions from Corning." Christi and Matilyn have been thrilled by the com- munity response, Christi said. "Every child deserves a new backpack for the school year," Matilyn said. "It is a great way to start off the year." Application for the non- profit program are sub- mitted in June with appli- cants, selected based upon income, to be given $100 per child at the Great Shop- ping Day. There is a need for volunteer shoppers to be paired up with families, especially those who are bilingual, starting at 6:45 a.m. Interested persons can call Neva at 527-0826. The Cuts For Kids event, which is 2-6 p.m. Sunday and is open to all children, is in need of hairstylists to give haircuts. Interested parties can call Debbie at 567-5946. Matilyn will be handing out the backpacks and sup- plies at Cuts for Kids Sun- day. Backpacks and money to purchase more are being collected at Little Scholars Preschool, 1605 Kimball Road. Interested parties can call 527-3932. To keep up on the latest progress of the collections, visit the Packs For Kids Facebook page. Backpacks FROM PAGE 1 will be teaching the pre- vention education curric- ulum Relationship Smart Plus through the Red Bluff Union High School Dis- trict thanks to a three-year grant. "We will speak to the culture and the role each teen plays in determining the pace and direction of their relationships," Parker said. "Our goal is to change the adverse social norms in terms of unhealthy rela- tionships." The class started with an assessment consisting of 45 yes or no questions to help instructors determine which topics to cover from the list of lessons, includ- ing self-awareness, goals, maturity, values, principles of a smart relationship and family dynamics. Topics in- cluded healthy versus un- healthy relationships, fam- ily dynamics and breaking up. The class "brings things back to the basics and that you decide each relation- ship that you go into and you are in charge of your value system, relationship circles and your future," Parker said. The class will help stu- dents develop their future both in setting goals and providing mentors, Parker said. "What we're really hop- ing is that ultimately with this handbook that you have a reference point if you get knocked off your axis," Parker said. The partnership will be bringing a new club to Salisbury in the form of a youth leadership team called Love Equals Re- spect, which has 12 mem- bers so far. The club pro- vides opportunities for stu- dents to be ambassadors for teen dating violence prevention as well as men- tors. "One of the important things we want you to know is when to say when and what boundaries are," Schwaller said. "We want to bring awareness to the community, but also have fun things to do to- gether. We want to show that there are alternatives to the social norm of 'it's Friday and we party.' To be able to have you say it's okay to go hiking with friends." Home-schooled students are invited to become a part of the leadership club, Parker said. "We want this group of individuals to take active roles in decision-making and educating us as advi- sors what teens respond best to in terms of as- similating information," Parker said. "These youth leaders will be joining us in the presenting preven- tion education on and off their campuses. Lastly, our YLT will be learn- ing essential soft skills that will carry over into their post-secondary ed- ucation or jobs and there will be opportunities to earn scholarships with faithful stewardship and focus." For more information on the teen dating vio- lence prevention program, call Parker at 727-9423, ext. 209, or Schwaller at 727- 9423, ext. 208. Dating FROM PAGE 1 Findusonline! By David A. Lieb TheAssociatedPress JEFFERSON CITY, MO. In the final days before Mis- souri's Republican guber- natorial primary, candidate Eric Greitens responded to a Democratic attack ad by firing more than 100 rounds from a machine gun as an announcer declared in a rebuttal ad that he would bring out "the big guns" to "fight Obama's Democrat machine." Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, prevailed in a hard- fought, four-way primary Tuesday, earning the right to face Democratic Attor- ney General Chris Koster in a Nov. 8 gubernatorial election. The race features many of the same under- currents as the presidential campaign between Repub- lican businessman Donald Trump and Democratic for- mer Secretary of State Hill- ary Clinton. Like Trump, Greitens portrays himself as a ma- cho outsider ready to blow up politics as usual. And the early attack ad hinted that the brash Greitens is per- haps the one Republican that Koster, who carries decades of political experi- ence, least wanted to face. Greitens' message amounts to nothing more than 'let's fire machine guns and do sit-ups into the camera,'" Koster said while launching his general elec- tion campaign Wednesday. "I don't get what this has to do with running the gov- ernment," said Koster, a for- mer Republican state sena- tor and prosecuting attor- ney. Yet Greitens noted that attack ads were not launched by Democratic- leaning groups against any of the other Republi- can primary candidates — businessman John Brun- ner, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder or former Missouri House Speaker and U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway. "Chris Koster was so afraid of our campaign that he felt that the only way that he could win is by trying to rig the election by choosing the opponent that he was going to run against," Greitens said late Tuesday night, using simi- lar rhetoric about a rigged political system as Trump and Democratic presiden- tial runner-up Bernie Sand- ers. Greitens, 42, of St. Louis, has a remarkable resume. He's been a Rhodes scholar, White House fellow, boxer, martial arts expert and best-selling author. He has traveled the world as a pho- tographer on humanitarian missions documenting the conditions of war refugees and homeless children. He joined the Navy in 2001, just months before the Sept. 11 attacks, and later was chlo- rine-gassed in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq. After his military ca- reer, he founded The Mis- sion Continues, a nonprofit that connects veterans with volunteer work to ease their transition back home. Gre- itens developed a nation- wide network of donors for the organization, some of whom have helped finance his gubernatorial cam- paign. Missouri has no limits on how much candidates can receive from donors. Gre- itens got $1 million from California venture capital- ist Michael Goguen, who has been sued by a woman alleging he sexually abused her for years. Goguen has denied the abuse allega- tions, which were cited in the attack ad. Greitens has declined calls by political rivals to return the money, saying he won't rush to judgment while the case is pending. Greitens won the split Republican primary with less than 35 percent of the vote. Many voters inter- viewed by The Associated Press said they were drawn to Greitens by his outsider's call to shake up the political establishment. "I think if we were able to measure it, we'd find that a lot of the Trump vot- ers in the spring were Gre- itens voters in the August primary," said Dave Robert- son, a political science pro- fessor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Greitens and the other GOP candidates sought to tap into anger among some conservatives about the handling of several racial incidents in the state. MACHINE GUN FIRE GOP candidate goes macho to win Missouri primary MICHAELTHOMAS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens speaks to a crowd of supporters at the DoubleTree Hotel Chesterfield on Tuesday in Chesterfield, Missouri. By Jay Reeves The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, ALA. The lone surviving Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for killing four black girls in a church bombing in 1963 will remain behind bars af- ter Alabama's parole board heededthevictims'families Wednesday and refused an early release. The board rejected pa- role for Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., 78, who has served 15 years of a life term for being part of a group of Klansmen who plantedabomboutsideBir- mingham's16thStreetBap- tist Church during the civil rights movement. Lisa McNair, a sister of bombingvictimDeniseMc- Nair,wasrelievedbythede- cision. "Justice is served," she said afterward. Blanton, who lives in a one-person cell and rarely has contact with other in- mates at St. Clair prison, will again be eligible for parole consideration in five years, the board said. The automatic review was the first for Blanton. Blanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for his role in theSept.15,1963,bombing. The blast killed the 11-year- old McNair and 14-year- olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cyn- thia Morris, also known as Cynthia Wesley. The girls were inside the church preparing for wor- ship when the bomb went off,sendingstoneandbrick flying. They died instantly, and Collins' sister Sarah Collins Rudolph was seri- ously injured. Left with only one eye and recurrent problems with post-traumatic stress syndrome, the 65-year-old Rudolph asked the board to keep Blanton in prison. "We were at that church learning about love and forgiveness when someone was outside doing hateful things," she said. Inmates do not attend parole hearings under Al- abama law, and no one showed up to speak on Blanton's behalf. Oppo- nents took up seats nor- mally reserved for in- mates' relatives, and mem- bers of the Birmingham NAACP chapter rode to Montgomery on a bus to be there. Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney who pros- ecuted Blanton on the state charge, said Blanton shouldn't be released since he has neither accepted re- sponsibility for the bomb- ing nor expressed any re- morse. "Whether it's racial is- sues, whether it's gender issues, whether it is terror- ist activity similar to what Mr. Blanton perpetrated in 1963, the message is we have to stop the hate and we will punish those who kill or maim in the name of hate," Jones said. 1963 EXPLOSION Al ab am a bo ar d de ni es parole for Birmingham KK K ch ur ch b om be r By Erica Werner and Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press COLUMBUS, OHIO Republi- can Sen. Rob Portman won the support of another Ohio labor union Wednesday, fu- eling GOP optimism about hanging onto the swing- state seat and Senate con- trol in November. The union endorsement also added to Democrats' concerns about their candidate, former Gov. Ted Strickland. The endorsement from Local 18 of the Interna- tional Union of Operating Engineers, which backed Strickland for governor in 2006, comes after Portman also announced support from branches of the Team- sters and the Mine Workers, which also switched their allegiance from Strickland. Portman also is over- whelming Strickland in fundraising, reporting $13.2 million cash on-hand com- pared to just $3.8 million for Strickland. Now some Democrats are voicing con- cerns about the campaign being run by the former governor, who turns 75 on Thursday and whose pub- lic campaign appearances have been minimal. Strick- land is getting hit with pre- dictable attacks over his record as governor, which saw Ohio bleeding jobs amid a national recession, and Democrats grouse he hasn't done enough to crit- icize Portman over the Re- publican's support for Don- ald Trump. "They haven't made Port- man and Trump the same person, which is certainly something I would do," said Democratic strategist Ger- ald Austin of Cleveland, who backed Strickland's op- ponent in the March Demo- cratic primary. "He was gov- ernor for four years, he got beat,they'regoingtorunthe governor'scampaignagainst him like it was still 2010. And that's what they're do- ing," Austin added. Austin's comments echo concerns being voiced pri- vately by Democrats on Cap- itol Hill, who've been watch- ing Strickland's campaign with concern for months, and working with the for- mergovernor'steamtotryto improve matters. Neverthe- less, Democrats remain opti- misticabouttheirchancesin Ohio, which has voted Dem- ocratic in the past two pres- idential elections, though Ohiovotershavealsobacked winning Republicans in the past. Some Democrats con- cede that the 60-year-old Portman is running a very strong campaign, but argue that nothing he does can save him if Democrat Hill- ary Clinton soundly beats Republican Trump in Ohio. UNION ENDORSEMENT Key Senate race in Ohio showing increasing promise for GOP The Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, VA. Prosecu- tors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol of- ficer with the D.C. region's transit police bought about $250 worth of gift cards for someone he thought was working with the Islamic State group. NicholasYoung,36,ofFair- fax,wasarrestedWednesday atMetroTransitPolicehead- quarters in Washington and charged with a single count of attempting to provide ma- terial support to a terrorist group. According to an FBI affidavit , Young bought the gift cards last month that he intendedfortheIslamicState to use to purchase mobile messaging apps. Young ac- tually gave the codes for the gift cards to an undercover FBI officer. 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