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UNION CITY The Union City High School Athletic Hall of Fame held its annual Team of Fame game this past Friday as the Chargers pulled off an epic OT thrilling victory over the Reading Rangers, winning 26-20 in overtime.

This year the Union City Athletic Hall of Fame honored three different teams from three different sports, all of whom found glory on the field of play wearing the maroon and gray of the Chargers.

The first team being honored in 2021 was the 1970 Union City Football team, a team that has cemented its legacy as one of the best teams in UCHS history with a place on the vaunted Wall, a special place inside the halls of Union City High School honoring those football teams who have ended their respective regular season unbeaten.

This team was meant to be honored last year during the 2020 ceremony, which would have been a celebration of the 50th anniversary of their undefeated season in 1970 when they finished 9-0, however the COVID-19 pandemic forced postponement to this years ceremony.

The 1970 Charger football team lived up to their pre-season goals by posting a perfect 9-0 record, claiming the Little C conference crown and finishing the season as the seventh ranked team in the state in Class C.

Tailback Al Pepper led a potent rushing attack by carrying the ball 235 times for 1351 yards, scoring 20 touchdowns and 13 two-point conversions while fullback Ron Hoover added another 502 yards and 7 TDs on 112 carries.

The Chargers were also potent through the air with quarterback Russ Freds finding talented receivers like Pepper, Cliff Heisler, Duane Watkins, and Ward Miller 41 times for another 850 yards and 11 TDs.

Supporting the overall effort was an undersized yet stout offensive line and a swarming defense that led to Union City outscoring their opponents by a margin of 260-110.

Highlights of the season were tough wins over Jonesville and Bronson, and a season ending 20-18 win over Cassopolis on the road. A defensive stop of a two-point conversion with under a minute to play secured the win and the perfect 9-0 season.

Named to the Little C All-Conference First Team were team members Al Pepper, Russ Freds, Cliff Heisler, Duane Watkins, Mike Dunn, Walt Tresenriter, and Ron Hoover. Honorable mention selections were Paul Brecheisen, Louie Denning, David Hicks, Bill Hileman, and Ward Miller.

Pepper was also selected as captain of the Class C All-State team while Freds and Heisler were named All-State Honorable Mention.

Team members for the 1970 Union City Football team include manager Randy Timperly, Jerry Avery, Steve Parks, Bill Hileman, Mike Dunn, Mike Stemaly, Cliff Heisler, Larry Cross, Al Pepper, Ron Hoover, manager Dave Emmel, Dan Arlt, Tom Brecheisen, Rick Johnson, Walt Tresenwriter, Dan Kever, Bruce Little, John Page, Chuck Swarthout, Russ Freds, Paul Brecheisen, Ward Miller, David Hicks, Duane Watkins, Jim Casteel, Bob Jasper, Kim Philson, Louie Denning and coaches Gene Pensari, Ron Gaffner, and head coach Fred Pessell.

Also being honored at the Team of Fame event was the 1971 Union City Baseball team, a team celebrating the 50th anniversary of a tremendous season.

The 1971 Charger baseball team used a combination of stingy pitching, booming bats, and stellar defense to dominate throughout the regular season schedule and finish with a record of 14-0 and a Little C conference championship.

Highlights for the season would include two victories over the defending conference champion Bronson Vikings by scores of 7-0 and 5-1. Union City continued to dominate at the district tournament by defeating Galesburg Augusta, Battle Creek Springfield, and Athens by scores of 11-0, 13-0 and 17-5 to improve to 17-0 on the season. The win streak would end in the regional tournament with a heartbreaking 4-3 eleven inning loss to Decatur. The Chargers finished the season with 17 wins and 1 loss and outscored their opponents by a 143-36 margin. Russ Freds, Dan Kever, Al Pepper, and Duane Watkins received first team berths on the all-conference team while Paul Brecheisen, Keith Patton, and Cliff Heisler were named to the second team. Vern AcMoody, Mike Dunn, and Steve Parks received honorable mention.

Handling the pitching for Union City was Dan Kever who finished with a record of 8-0, Vern AcMoody who sported a 7-1 record and Al Pepper who went 2-0. Duane Watkins led the Chargers offense with a .533 batting average.

Team members include Greg Magner, Tom Brecheisen, Dan Dunithan, Keith Patton, Steve Parks, Al Pepper, Vern AcMoody, Ward Miller, Steve Claar, Paul Brecheisen, Bob Jasper, Mike Dunn, Cliff Heisler, Duane Watkins, Russ Freds and Dan Kever along with manager Jamie Seals.

The final team to be honored on the night was the the 1991 Union City Boys Track and Field team who celebrated the 30th anniversary of their undefeated season. That year the Chargers earned the first Big 8 Conference Championship and the first Regional title in school history.

The first team to use the all weather track in Union City, the 1991 Chargers wasted no time in setting records.

The team boasted 46 members, one of the largest track teams Union City has ever had. The best dual meet team in Charger history, they could place 3 athletes in almost every event. They were undefeated in both dual meets and invitationals, winning the Big Eight Conference Championship and the Conference Meet Championship.

They also captured the first regional championship in the history of Union City Mens Track.

The team also set School Records in 10 of the 17 events in 1991.

Included in those school records were all four relay records. Setting the 400 Meter Relay record was the team of Scott Lepper, Spencer Kever, Chad Etchison and Lance Fraley while the record breaking 800 Meter Relay Team consisted of Lepper, Kever, Jim Hicks and Fraley.

The record setting 3200 Meter Relay team was made up of athletes Ken Davenport, Steve Funk, Cody Claar, and Chris Lloyd while the 1600 Meter Relay team consisted of Lepper, Davenport, Lloyd and Fraley who set the record with a time of 3 minutes, 27.6 seconds, which is still a record today.

Individual school records were set in 1991 by Spencer Kever in the Pole Vault at 13 feet, 4 inches; Josh Miller in the High Jump at 6 feet, 5 inches which is still a record to this day; Lance Fraley in the 200 Meter Dash at 22.5 seconds and in the 400 Meter Dash in a time of 49.8 seconds; Chris Lloyd in the 1600 Meter Run at 4 minutes, 25.8 seconds, which also is still a record; and Justin Alford in the 300 Meter Hurdles.

Members of the 1991 Union City Charger Track and Field team included Justin Alford, Ben Bishop, Marvin Boyes, Andrew Burgett, Chad Campbell, Cody Claar, Kent Clayton, Brandon Coats, Mason Converse, Trevor Curtis, Eric Davenport, Ken Davenport, Eric Dunithan, Chad Etchison, Mike Eyre, Theo Foote, Joe Fraley, Lance Fraley, Steve Funk, Mike Gaborink, Jon Halder, Steve Herman, Damon Hicks, Jim Hicks, William Jeager, Chris Jones, Spencer Kever, Karl Koch, Scott Lepper, Chris Lloyd, Matt Luna, Pete Mathis, Shawn Mears, Don Moss, Ryan Nagel, Randy ODell, Jamie Palmer, Jason Parks, Ronnie Peet, Nathan Rutan, Rick Simington, Noel Spooner, Ryan Tundevold, Jessie Underwood, Mark Valentine, Sean Whitcomb, Coach Garry Parks and head coach Chris Katz.

Congratulations to the 2021 Union City High School Teams of Fame.

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At the age of 89, Jimmy Carter believes the time is right to release his first solo album.

"I've always wanted to do one, though I knew it would be a challenge," said Carter, who asthe eldestmember of the esteemed Blind Boys of Alabama, has sung for threepresidents, won fiveGrammy Awards and collaborated with musical legends like Peter Gabriel and Willie Nelson.

Carter's new and roots-y gospel album, "Blind Faith," cameout Sept. 21, bearingthe considerable imprint of South Beaver Township songwriter Ron Pullman, who wrote all ninesongs.

"Jimmy gave me full creative freedom in that regard," Pullman, a Blackhawk graduate, said."I spent a lot time trying to understand what Jimmy wanted; thefeel and message, andthe overall sound."

Pullman originals like "After The Storm," "Love to Pray"and the "Blind Faith" title track find Carter singing witha weathered-many-hardshipsrawness and upliftingpositivity.

Instrumentation rangesfrom country-western fiddle and dobro, to New Orleans piano, to Spanish flamenco guitar andblues harmonica.

On bluesy closing track "Why Me," Carter suddenly breaks away from singing, talking conversationally to listeners as he admits he's askedGod why he was the only one of six siblings born blind. As a listener, it stops you in your tracks you mean after eight straight faith-filled songs, Carter is now questioning his divine destiny?

But then Carter explains, in thelargely improvised passage,how he came to understand he was born blind to beput on hisamazing journey that has inspired countless people.

"It hasn't been easy, but God has been faithful," he says in the song.

Carter joined the Blind Boys of Alabama in 1982, helpingthe groupemergefrom Southern church concert circuitto globallyrecognized stature. Carter technically was there at the group's onset in 1939, one of thekids at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind who would sing for fun. A few of the older kids there forgeda gospel group that began playing church engagements in the Deep South. Carter was too young to join them on the road.

The Blind Boyspersevered through an unparalleled eightdecades to become one of the most recognized and decorated gospel music groups.

As the band's bio states, "Its almost unbelievable that a group of blind, African-American singers, who started out touring during a time of whites-only bathrooms, restaurants and hotels, went on to win five GrammyAwards, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and to perform at the White House for three different presidents (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.)"

Musical stalwartslike Mavis Staples, Ben Harper and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver enlisted the Blind Boys' vocal talents. The group toured internationally, playing a2011 headlining show at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh.

Well aware of the Blind Boys' prodigious talents and stellar reputation, Pullman hired the group to sing on one of his solo songs,Crossing The Threshold, in a Columbus, Ohio, recording session on June 5 (his birthday)2017.

"That was to be the first song on my first gospel record that I was writing," Pullman said.

Jimmy Hoyson, of The Vault recordingstudio on Neville Island, did the producing,havingworked with the Blind Boys on their Grammy-winning 2001 traditional Southern gospel recordSpirit of the Century.

Pullman had collaboratedwith rock stars before, co-writing withDenny Laineof The Moody Blues and the Paul McCartney-ledWings, and writing for Lenny Zakatek, lead vocalist for The Alan Parsons Project ("I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You.")

"I initially asked The Blind Boys to sing on another song that was to be on my soft-rock record, but they turned me down, citing they dont sing on love songs," Pullman said.

"Theirmanager, Charles Driebe, later wrote me and said,'Please dont be discouraged because we have refused to sing on other peoples songs, the likes of Elton John and Jimmy Buffett.'"

Driebe said the Blind Boys would consider singing on othergospel songs.

Pullman stayed in touch with the group, mainlyCarter, the longest-tenured member who called him in 2020 saying he was readyto record asolo album.

"I liked his material, he liked my voice, and the rest is history," Carter said in a phone interview.

Their"Blind Faith" sessions would include guest vocals from the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, and the choir at the now-namedAlabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, whichCarter and theBlind Boys of Alabama founders attended.

With "Blind Faith"out now on major platforms, Carter and Pullman will focus on promotion, hoping to score TV or radio interviews. Carter, who recalls a trip to Pittsburgh's Hill District to try Willie Stargell's chicken restaurant, says he hopes to appear on KDKA-AM because he's listened to it often.

"We'd also really like to do some nice-end tour dates sprinkled here and there," Pullman,who made a guest appearance this summer at the Tribute to The Music of Elton John show at Beaver's Linn Park,said.

"The knowledge I have gained from these experiences is that every good and perfect gift is from above," Pullman said.I think of my gift of songwriting as a vessel, being used by the Lord to promote His message of peace."

For Carter, a new album is the latest chapter of a musical journey begun 80 years ago.

"I have always wanted to help people. I love people," Carter said. "I hope this project will energize people and change lives. Where there is light, there is hope; and where there is hope, there is a chance."

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A student activist organisation has blamed US President Joe Biden administration for using the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan and the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points instead of handling the situation. Russian news agency Sputnik cited a statement by Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) published on September 15 which stated that the Taliban is holding more than 100 Americans hostage to gain recognition from the outside world. The YAL statement also accused Biden of covering up the hostage crisis for re-election and using the COVID-19 vaccine mandate to distract the US citizens from the developing situation on the ground.

The student activist group has blamed the Biden administration for Americas complete mishandling of the situation in Afghanistan while also claiming that the Taliban is using Americans as leverage in the talks with US State Department. As per the report, YAL senior spokesperson Eric Barkey said that US citizens deserve leadership and accountability but the White House has instead chosen to distract from its failures abroad by instituting sweeping, unconstitutional vaccine mandates at home. The student activist organisation, YAL was founded in 2008 at the end of Congressman Ron Pauls first presidential campaign.

YALs remarks came after on Wednesday, Quinnipiac University released the results of a poll stating that every second American disapproved of theway Biden handled his presidency after starting US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. On September 14, the statement read, Americans' views have dimmed on the way President Joe Biden is handling his job as president, with 42% approving and 50 per cent disapproving, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll.

Notably, regarding Afghanistan, the poll results revealed that over half of US citizens, 54-41%, say they approve of Bidens decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan. The University stated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans, 69-24%, say it was the right thing to do to end the war in Afghanistan. However, it added, Americans give Biden a negative 31 - 65% score for the way he handled withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

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While it is only game two of the 2021 NFL season, it feels like it is one of the bigger games in the last five seasons for the Arizona Cardinals.

That is because since Bruce Arians and the 2016 season, there has not been expectations.

This year for Kliff Kingsbury, Kyler Murray and Steve Keim is make or break. They need the playoffs, they need to be NFC contenders.

In week one, they looked just like that, now they need to keep it rolling.

Here is everything you need to know about the game.

Who: Arizona Cardinals (1-0) vs Minnesota Vikings (0-1)

Where: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ

When: September 19, 2021 - 1:05 p.m. Arizona Time

TV: Fox (Channel 10 Locally) - Gus Johnson (play-by-play) Aqib Talib (analyst) Megan Olivi (sideline reporter)

Streaming: Fubo TV

Local Radio: Arizona Sports 98.7 FM - Dave Pasch (play-by-play) Ron Wolfley (analyst) and Paul Calvisi (sideline)

Spanish Radio: KQMR 100.3 FM - Luis Hernandez (Play-by-Play) Rolando Cantu (Color Analyst)

Odds: Cardinals -3.5Over/Under: 50.5

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In August 2011, I was ready to give up on politics. Id gone so far as to set up a blog called Why Fucking Bother? and invited some writers I admire to convince me not to throw in the towel. Among those responding: Bhaskar Sunkara, whose contribution opened, Because were on the right side of History. I admired the optimism, but I was unconvinced.

I was pitched into this gloom because after three decades of neoliberalism, capitals political advantages seemed insurmountable. It wasnt just its control of politics and production, but it seemed like it had won the battle for our minds. Margaret Thatchers sharp observation, made two years after she took office, that economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul, seemed prescient. In my gloom of ten years ago, it felt like she and her class comrades had won, minds as well as hearts and souls had been won, and no one on our side had either the clarity of vision or the political means to reverse the trend.

And then, on September 17, 2011, a small crowd took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, sparking a movement that would quickly be imitated around the country and the world.

Zuccotti is hardly a conventional urban park, with far more concrete than greenery. Its history is highly relevant to the political movement that would emerge around its occupation. Originally known as Liberty Park, it was built in 1972 as part of a deal which allowed the developer to add seven stories to a tower being built across the street. (Its whats known in city parlance as a Privately Owned Public Space, one established and maintained by developers in return for a break on height or other revenue-enhancing characteristics. There are over 550 of them now.)

It was renovated in 2006 by its current owner, Brookfield Properties, and renamed after its then-chair, John Zuccotti. Zuccotti, who died in 2015, was a classic example of power in New York City a lawyer who ran City Planning in the early 1970s, he later became a deputy mayor and eventually moved where the money is, real estate development. He and his eponymous park were perfect embodiments of the system Occupy targeted, the revolving doors of public and private power. But the parks private ownership was a blessing: the cops couldnt clear it out without a request from Brookfield, which didnt come for two months.

Occupys origins are usually traced to Adbusters, the Vancouver-based magazine, which issued a call to its email list in July 2011 to emulate the protests of the Arab Spring and bring popular occupation to the heart of finance capital. While all kinds of tendencies eventually took part in the movement, it retained some of the vague anti-consumerist politics of that origin throughout its brief life.

Despite that political squishiness, it was nonetheless very good to see a turn towards targeting ownership the 1 percent and away from the complaints about globalization that characterized the movements of the 1990s that culminated in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle in December 1999.

We were a couple of years out of the Great Recession, but jobs were frequently terrible, if there were jobs at all. The unemployment rate was still 9 percent by the official count (and over 16 percent by the broadest measure); lots of people were broke and in debt. Barack Obama, elected with the hope that hed bring about a more peaceful and egalitarian world, turned out to be a crushing disappointment. All that was very much on the minds of the occupiers from the first.

While the diagnosis was often sharp, goals were amorphous. The prevailing ideology was a fusion of anarchism and populism, with a few Fed-hating Ron Paul hard-money types thrown in. (Thank God almost no one was talking about Bitcoin in 2011, or it probably would have been big.) There was an obsession with debt which is odious, no doubt about it but much less interest in talking about what produced debt, the fact that incomes were not keeping pace with costs and that public benefits sucked, nor was there much serious analysis of how a capitalist economy was organized.

Processes were painfully verbose and time-consuming. Decisions had to be made by consensus at a General Assembly, which was basically whoever was in the park when issues were raised. According to a sixteen-page outline of Occupys governance principles in New York, voting is a competitive process, while consensus is a process of synthesizing many diverse elements together without some position or candidate winning and others losing.

Consensus may sound hyper-democratic in principle, but it turns out to be anything but in action. According to the anarchist writer Murray Bookchin, consensus was never an anarchist practice, but was instead imported into the tendency by a group of cynical Quakers in the 1970s, who used it to manipulate members of the antinuclear power Clamshell Alliance into yielding to their preferences.

Bookchin, who lamented the decay of anarchism from a social (and socialist) movement into a libertarian demand for individual autonomy, saw consensus as fine for small groups that know each other well, but not for larger groups. When large assemblies of strangers try to make decisions by consensus, it usually obliges them to arrive at the lowest common intellectual denominator in their decision-making: the least controversial or even the most mediocre decision that a sizable assembly of people can attain is adopted precisely because everyone must agree with it or else withdraw from voting on that issue.

I was part of a working group that was formulating demands a hefty social democratic package featuring public investment and greatly expanded social benefits. That approach, and notion of demands itself, were not welcome by the consensus-makers, and somehow our proposals routinely fell off the discussion agenda of the General Assembly. It was all too statist and poisoned by talk about money and budgets, which was the language of The Man.

But even our hearty band of statist nonconformists fell prey to Occupys tedious proceduralism. I arrived at one meeting of the Demands group in Tompkins Square Park at around 6 PM. As discussion began, some participants worried that the meeting might not be done by the time the park closed at midnight. The prospect of six hours of meeting filled me with dread. When I left around 7:30, the group was still working on the discussion agenda.

These governance practices point to the central problem of Occupy: it had no vision of life beyond the parks and other spaces it was occupying (a term that drew some criticism for its militarist and colonialist connotations). There was no sense of how an economy could have been organized on its principles or how a society larger than a handful of people could be governed by consensus. (And how would anyone with a job and/or family have time for all those meetings?)

Nor was there any sense of how the larger world would be transformed along Occupys principles; there was no serious theory of social change circulating. Some participants saw the occupied parks as the new society in embryo, but it was hard to imagine how these autonomous zones would ever be able to feed themselves without the continued existence of money and supermarkets. But bringing up questions like this was unwelcome. It contravened the movements foundational reticence about goals and organization, because to talk about such things was to step onto the slippery slope to authoritarianism.

And when Brookfield management finally tired of having its park be so troublesome for them and their class, the New York Police Department came in and cleared it, as police forces did elsewhere where public spaces were being occupied. Since there was no organization that could last beyond the forcible dispersal, Occupy vanished. There were attempts to revive it through brief occupations of other spaces like office buildings and foreclosed-upon houses, but the dynamism of the early months was unrecoverable.

But, but, but Having registered all these complaints, Occupy, for all its shortcomings, was a transformative event.

It injected issues of wealth concentration and financial power into public discourse with a salience they hadnt had in decades. And it marked an end to a long period of political quiescence. My question of why fucking bother? was answered.

The movements of the 1990s that culminated in Seattle were lively but never moved beyond a niche market. With Occupy, the idea of the 1 percent was suddenly on everyones mind. The problem is larger than the top 1 percent; among other things, percentiles 90 to 98, what might be thought of as the mass base for the ruling elite, must be contended with too. But shifting popular focus to the tiny sliver that owns and runs society was a major accomplishment.

During occupy, Frances Fox Piven, a scholar of social movements, often made the point that periods of major activism proceed in waves. Outsiders might think the movements have petered out, but then they reappear in different form. According to Piven, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s was often declared dead, only to resurrect even more strongly.

You could read Occupy in that spirit. It petered out, but two years later came Black Lives Matter. BLM shared the decentralized structure of Occupy, but despite that lack of formal organization, it has persisted for years, and sparked the largest demonstrations in US history in the summer of 2020.

And without Occupy, its hard to imagine the emergence of the Bernie Sanders campaign less than four years after Zuccotti was taken over and the subsequent growth of the strongest US socialist movement since the 1960s, or maybe even the 1930s a movement that thankfully isnt shy about organization or agendas.

Ten years later, were living in a political world that Occupy helped establish. For all my kvetching, its an anniversary worth celebrating enthusiastically. Im glad I didnt throw in the towel.

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The Crown took the Best Drama crown, while the Jason Sudeikis comedy Ted Lasso had a winning first season and nabbed the award for Best Comedy at the 2021 Emmy Awards Sunday night.

Meanwhile, multiple nominee The Queens Gambit took home the gold for Outstanding Limited Series, as well as Outstanding Director for a Limited or Anthology Series.

The ceremony, featuring first-time host Cedric the Entertainer, was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and aired live on CBS and streamed on sister network Paramount+.

Two big winners of the night were Ted Lasso star Sudeikis and Hacks lead Jean Smart, who took home their respective awards for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

An emotional Smart, 70, mentioned the support of her late husband, Richard Gilliland, who died in March at age 71.I would not be here without him putting his career on the back burner so that I could take advantage of all of the incredible opportunities I had, she said before also thanking her children. (Smart was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her role in Mare of Easttown, but lost to co-star Julianne Nicholson.)

Meanwhile, Sudeikis, 46, found a real-life comparison to his sports-themed sitcom. Heck of a year. I would say this shows about family, this shows about mentors and teachers, this shows about teammates and I wouldnt be here without those three things in my life, the dapper-dressed actor said.

In an early poignant moment, presenter and Emmy-winner Kerry Washington paid tribute to 54-year-old Lovecraft Country star Michael K. Williams, who unexpectedly died Sept. 6 in Brooklyn and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama.

Michael was a brilliantly talented actor and a generous human being who has left us far too soon, Washington said. Michael, we know youre here; you wouldnt miss this.

Your excellence, your artistry will endure. We love you, she added before announcing the category winner, The Crown star Tobias Menzies.

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Ronald Dickison

Nov. 11, 1942Sept. 11, 2021

Ronald Leland Dickison, of Ironton, passed away Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at home surrounded by his family.

Ronald was born Nov. 11, 1942, in Ashland, Kentucky. He was the son of the late Ben Dickison and Dorothy Gillium.

He was a member of the National Guard of Kentucky and a reservist with the United States Army.

He retired from McGinnis Inc. and was known as Captain Ron.

He is a member of Saint Paul Lutheran Church in Ironton.

He was an active member of St. Paul and volunteered his time with the food pantry and Amazing Day Camp.

He is survived by his wife Barbara Sue Lewis Dickison of 59 years; three daughters, Veronica Sue Dickison, Cheryl Ann Dickison Robbins, (husband, Sam), and Kristie Lynn Dickison Perry; two grandsons, Kyle Christopher Perry and Jonathan David Robbins; and three great grandchildren Joel, Jackson and Jensen.

There will be a celebration of life at 1 p.m. Saturday, September 25, 2021, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 101 S. Sixth St., Ironton, and visitation will be noon until time of the service at the church.

In lieu of flowers, the family ask that donations be made in Rons name to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Phillips Funeral Home, 1004 S. Seventh St., Ironton, is honored to be assisting the family.

To offer the Dickison family condolences, please visit http://www.phillipsfuneralhome.net.

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Its not too unusual to see someone outside of professional wrestling enter the ring. You see it quite often in places like WWE, who had Bad Bunny in a huge spot at Wrestlemania earlier this year. However, seeing this on an independent show is where things get interesting, so when actor Ron Funches started to beef with Tony Deppen, no one knew what to expect. However the outcome at GCW Highest In The Room proved that Funches put the work in.

For GCW: Art Of War Games, Ron Funches was on commentary. Throughout the show, hed bump heads with the always crazy Tony Deppen, and theyd enter an unusual feud. Deppen was even called out on The Late Late Show with James Corden by Funches. Funches got some mentoring from Danhausen ahead of this match, and really showed up.

Hed do everything from slamming the head of Deppen through a door and nailing a Canadian Destroyer, but was unable to get the win. However, going for almost 15 minutes with someone like Tony Deppen isnt easy for trained wrestlers. That alone was impressive to see even when the match was heavy on comedy. Funches is unlikely to pursue a full career in wrestling, but did earn respect.

After the dust settled Deppen still didnt like Funches. However, as told on Twitter they had a moment of peace. After getting in the back, Ron Funches handed me a peace treaty; but it was disguised as a blunt. We smoked, I calmed down, and thanked him for taking our sport serious by putting in the work. Doesnt mean I like him, but I have a little respect for him.

Funches would respond with the following I knew I didnt have a shot taking on a true professional wrestler by myself and turned to help from my famous friends Danhausen & paul scheer and that was ultimately a mistake cuz Paul sucks! Tony Deppen is a great wrestler and it was an honor to lose to him.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Its official. The Staten Island Republican Partys candidates for the New York Supreme Court, Richmond County, will be on the ballot in Novembers general election.

Judge Ron Castorina and attorney Paul Marrone will represent the party in hopes of filling the two vacant seats on the New York Supreme Court in the 13th Judicial District (Richmond County).

On Wednesday, the 1st Department of the NY Supreme Courts Appellate Division ruled in favor of the Republican Partys appeal to have their candidates, Castorina and Marrone, on the ballot for the general election this November.

The Staten Island Republican candidate nomination documents filed this past spring were initially deemed invalid by the NYC Board of Elections (BOE), resulting in the candidates being left off of the primary election ballot in June. Last month, the BOE commissioners convened to review the case, and ultimately affirmed the validity of the documents.

Some Democrats contested the BOE commissioners decision. But with the Appellate Division ruling in their favor, Anthony Reinhart, chairman of the Staten Island Republican Party, told the Advance/SILive.com that the GOP prevailed.

We have successfully defeated Staten Island Democrats attempt to throw our qualified candidates off the ballot, Reinhart said.

Staten Islanders have proven repeatedly that they want sensible jurists who will uphold the rule of law and keep the socialist, anti-law enforcement agenda out of the courtroom. The Staten Island Republican Party is continuing its tradition of putting forward well-qualified candidates who will serve this community with honor, integrity and fairness, he continued.

Local Democratic Party Executive Director James Clinton shot back at local Republicans, and touted his partys candidates Charles Troia, a court of claims judge. and Ann Thompson, a criminal court judge.

He pointed to Castorinas failed 2018 Surrogate Court bid when the New York City Bar Association declared him unqualified for the position, and the Richmond County Bar Association didnt offer an opinion. The candidate lost that race to former Assemblyman Matt Titone.

Both of our Democratic candidates are sitting judges and have been deemed qualified by bar associations in the past. I cannot say the same for my Republican friends, he said. Its a shame that Mr. Reinhart is seeking to politicize the bench with unqualified candidates for the Supreme Court.

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Nothing upset the Washington Beltway elites more than when in a 2007 presidential debate I pointed out the truth about the 9/11 attacks: they attacked us because weve been in the Middle East, sanctioning and bombing the civilian population, for decades. The 9/11 attackers were not motivated to commit suicide terrorism on the Twin Towers and Pentagon because they dislike our freedoms, as then-President Bush claimed. That was a self-serving lie.

They hated and hate us because we kill them for no reason. Day after day. Year after year. Right up until just a few days ago, when President Biden slaughtered Zemari Ahmadi and nine members of his family including seven children in Afghanistan. The Administration bragged about taking out a top ISIS target. But they lied. Ahmadi was just an aid worker, working for a California-based organization, bringing water to suffering Afghan village residents.

This horror has been repeated thousands of times, over and over, for decades. Does Washington believe these people are subhuman? That they somehow dont care about their relatives being killed? That they dont react as we would react if a foreign power slaughtered our families?

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously suggested in an interview that killing half a million Iraqi children with sanctions designed to remove Saddam Hussein from power was worth it. It was an admission that the lives of innocents mean nothing to the Washington elite, even as they paint their murderous interventions as some kind of humanitarian liberation. The slogan of the US foreign policy establishment really should be, No Lives Matter.

The Washington foreign policy elites Republicans and Democrats are deeply corrupt and act contrary to US national interests. They pretend that decades of indiscriminate bombing overseas are beneficial to the victims and keep us safer as well. That is how they are able, year after year, to convince Congress to hand over a trillion dollars money taken directly and indirectly from average Americans. They use fear and lies for their own profit. And they call themselves patriots.

The Washington establishment lied to us because they did not want us to stop for a second and try to understand the motive for the 9/11 attacks. Police detectives are not apologists for killers when they try to look for a motive for the crime. But the Washington elite did not want us to think about why people might be motivated to suicide attack. That might endanger their 100-year gravy train.

What was the real message of 9/11 to Americans? Give up your freedoms for the false promise of security. Its OK for the government to spy on all of us. Its OK for the TSA to abuse us for the privilege of traveling in our own country. We must continue to bomb people overseas. Dont worry its only temporary.

So, twenty years on what have we learned from 9/11? Absolutely nothing. And we all know what the philosopher George Santayana said about those incapable of learning from history. I desperately hope that somehow the United States will adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy, which would actually protect us from another attack. I truly wish Americans would demand that their leaders learn from history. The only way to make us safe is to end the reign of the Washington killing machine.

This article was published by RonPaul Institute.

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