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SEPTUAGESIMA
Western:
St. Ignatius of Antioch, B. M. d. Red
St. Brigid of Kildare, Abs.
St. Cinnia
St. Crewanna
St. Darulagdach
St. Jarlath
St. John of the Grating
St. Kinnia
St. Paul of Trois Chateaux
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Beginning of the Lenten Triodion
Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Martyr Tryphon of Lampsacus Near Apamea in Syria
Martyrs Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, and the Catechumens: Saturus,
Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus and Felicitas
Venerable Peter the Hermit of Galatia Near Antioch, in Syria
Venerable Vendemianus the Hermit of Bithynia
Venerable Brigid (Bridget) of Ireland
Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov
Icon of the Mother of God “Socola”
Saint Seririol of Wales
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Across the country, farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Much attention has been paid to Midwestern soybean growers, whose crop was at the heart of the trade war between the United States and China. But farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying.
Located at 225 S. Wall St., the 36-unit Wall Street Apartments has remained vacant since September 2023 when city officials emptied the building of inhabitants and boarded up its windows and doors. Code enforcement staff claimed its owner, who was escorted out of the meeting due to repeated disruptions, neglected to address code violations to the building, which prompted them to determine that the building was not fit for occupancy. Since then, First Interstate Bank foreclosed on the vacated building then sold it for $535,000 to Jonathan McKay, a tech executive based in San Francisco.
Over the course of its two annual sessions, the Washington Legislature has a chance to consider thousands of ideas. Some legislators think the issues are becoming too numerous and complicated in a growing Washington state to be handled in the currently allotted days, which are 105 in odd-numbered years when the two-year budget is written and approved while other problems are addressed, followed by 60 days in an even-numbered year when that budget might get tweaked and other issues tackled. They are proposing that sessions have no time limits, and the Legislature decide for itself how many days it will meet and when it will end.
Guest Opinion
Pakistani security forces killed 145 militants in a 40-hour battle launched as a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks across Balochistan left nearly 50 people dead, the province’s chief minister said on Sunday. Authorities in the southwestern province are battling one of the deadliest flare-ups in years, as insurgents in the resource-rich province bordering Iran and Afghanistan step up assaults on security forces, civilians and infrastructure.
Iran’s leadership warned of a regional conflict on Sunday if the U.S. were to attack it, stoking the tension between Washington and Tehran, and it designated EU armies as “terrorist groups” in a retaliatory move.
Russian drone strike on a bus carrying miners killed at least 12 people, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced new peace talks amid uncertainty over a Russian suspension of attacks on energy infrastructure.
Football Coach Jason McLean won’t ever forget the exact date he started teaching: Monday, Feb. 4, 1996. “I know that day very well,” the Moses Lake educator said. “I met some very special people.” He’d been asked to take over teaching an algebra class at Frontier Junior High the Sunday night before. “At first I wasn’t sure I was the right person for the job,” McLean recalled. “But then again, who could be?” It was just days after a 14-year-old student brought a rifle to the school and opened fire in that algebra classroom the afternoon of Feb. 2. The shooter, who remains in prison, killed teacher Leona Caires, 49, and two 14-year-old students, Arnold “Arnie” Fritz and Manuel Vela Jr. Natalie Hintz, then 13, suffered multiple bullet wounds in her arm and chest, but survived the shooting. “On that first day, I saw courage. I saw resilience that left a lasting impact,” McLean said. “Despite all the weight of the tragedy we had all just experienced, these students showed up for each other.”
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