Getting hosed at the Fair

Santa Rosa – (Press Demo) Sunday July 28th witnessed two very strange events. One comforting, one threatening.

Church Goers from the local St. Eugene’s Catholic church were roused into action at their evening Mass. Roughly 140 God fearing church goers who were so enraptured by the stirring words of Father Walter Koeing that they took up candles and started a prayer march to the Sonoma County Fair.

You may wonder what kind of topic could get a church full of honest hard working Catholics into such a fuss that they marched their way down to the Fair Ground? Well, simply put the moder decay of moral values.

Father Keoing was quoted on the topic, “This decay of moral standards began as a slow creeping thing and has infiltrated itself into every aspect of our lives. It has even reached into the uppermost parts of society as we see our leaders sins publicly displayed and now glorified, as they walk away from their indiscretions relatively unharmed in the public's eye.”

So, Father Koeing wasn’t going to take it any more and he roused his Flock into action. They marched from St. Eugene’s church to the First Presbyterian Church of the Roses where they picked up about twenty-five more marchers then continued on to the Sonoma County Fair Grounds.

They marched around the Fair Grounds signing Church songs and hymns. The whole time more and more people took up candles and joined the march.

However, as is common in these modern times violence is the reaction of those that fear peaceful people. As the march went by where the Carnival people keep their RVs and Trailers the marchers were met with brutality. After one Carnival person violently blew out one of the candles he then turned a fire extinguisher on the Marchers. As the Marchers turned to flee from this attack they were met with more hostility in the form of a fire hose. Roughly thirty-five people were sent flying by the spay of water. Minor injuries were all that was caused by this appalling act.

This reporter is shocked by the behavior towards peaceful God fearing Christians and I for one will be joining them at their next rally for better Christian values in Santa Rosa.

Neighborhood safety

Now, I know that it’s not 1950 and that everyone can’t leave their doors unlocked at night but murder in the suburbs is too much.

Young Brenda Dayson, an 8-year-old girl, was walking home with her Jack Russell Terrier, Diego, from her friend’s house just five houses down from her home when she was attacked and murdered.

Two things are important that make this news worthy, ONE how far can a community slide before it will take action to stop a cute little blonde girl from being savagely murdered?

TWO, the nature of the crime speaks volumes to the moral decay of the world. In some sick and twisted Satanic Pagan ritual the girl and the dog were drained of all their blood. The police wish to cover this information up in the vain hope that the person would do it again and they could track him that way. Well, that’s not good enough! The police need to get proactive on this case and if it weren’t for a source within the police not even this information would have been released.

Think long and hard about what you are willing to let slide before action is taken.

Pet Hippo Seized From Man's Yard

California fish and game officials are investigating a Windsor-area man who kept a rare 500-pound pygmy hippopotamus as a pet in his suburban backyard for the last 6 months, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

Surprised state officials seized the female hippo, believed to be 12 to 15 years old, from Thomas Hoops, a resident of Windsor, who has more than 50 animals living on his property, including emus, peacocks, geese, goats and ducks.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it," state game warden Herbert Mole told the newspaper. "No one expects to find a giant hippo living in someone's backyard."

The newspaper reported that officials were investigating Hoops for allegedly not having a permit to own a hippo. It said officials seized the animal after a tip from a real estate agent showing a nearby home.

Neither the hippo's owner nor fish and game officials could be reached for comment.

The hippo is now at a local center for wild animals and would be shipped on August 19th to a refuge in Florida that houses other pygmy hippos, the newspaper said.

The animals, found along streams, forests and swamps in West Africa, number between 2,000 to 4,000 in the wild.

Neighbors, about 30 miles from the ranch/farm, said they had known about the hippo for months, but had never seen it, the newspaper said.

"I know he used the hippo manure on his garden," said Bill Ritcher, a neighbor. "It can smell pretty dang bad."