Say goodbye to a man who is being remembered as a hero. One of lieutenant steven floyds final acts was saving his fellow Corrections Officers when inmates took over at a delaware prison last week. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. It was the first chance for the public to say goodbye to the 16 year veteran. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has more for us tonight from dover. Reporter Law Enforcement from across the region and several states came to pay tribute to lieutenant steven floyd, delawares first corrections officer killed in the line of duty. He saved a lot of people. I think that needs to be recognized. Reporter sacrifice honore honored. Hundreds gathering in Delaware State University for the public viewing for lieutenant steven floyd. The 47yearold corrections officer was killed during a prison up riding at the james t. Vaughn correctional facility in smyrna, delaware, last week. Good brother thats gone too soon. Reporter floyd was prisoners took him and thr
And shortly after that, i winded up in vietnam as an infantryman. And i justit changed my whole life, and i never knew that kind of way of living. And it stayed with me, so i kept reenlisting. Damian well, cause i was going to say people usually who were drafted, the veterans who were drafted, they serve their time, and then they say, im getting out. But you said, im staying in. Miguel yes, like i said, it had a big impact in my life because i grew up in the fields picking cotton, and we were raised very poor, lived in the farm labor camps. And when i went in the army, it justfirst time that i had ever been out of the county. And i winded up at fort lewis, washington. I had never seen snow before. That was the first time id seen snow. Damian marching right through it. Well, thank you again for your service. Armand, what about you, tell us about your military career. Armand guerrero i joined the marine corps. I, as a child, wanted to be a marine. Dont ask me why, but i found it very fas
And on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca talks about the feminist movement. That is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And welcome to tucson and the university of arizona campus. This is the tucson festival of books. Booktv is live today from the gallagher theater and for the next 7 and a half hours you will hear from authors and have a chance to talk with them as well. Heres our lineup for today. In just a few minutes the first author panel will begin. It is on japanese internment during world war ii. Followed by your opportunity to talk with historian Richard Reeves. After that a panel on lgbt q rights and a calling program with panelists lillian vitamin and you will hear from authors later today discussing slavery in america, the history of women in sciences and philanthropy. And several other
Yes. And commissioner pearlman. Yes. So moved commissioners. That motion moves unanimously. Commissioners that places us on general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission on the items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction Commission Exceptions and with respect to agenda items your opportunity so address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. Okay. Seeing no one from the public to speak on items not on the agenda we will close Public Comment. Commissioners that places Us Department matters. Number one rec reak report. Good afternoon tim frye, Department Staff. The report is in your packets as you have seen. There is a short matter about our attendance about the preervation awards in anaheim last month and i am happy to answer questions if you have them. Item 2 review of the past event at hat Planning Commis
Cultural strategy resolution passed narm nam and the Planning Department has been directed to work with the Mayors Office for a working group to outline a cultural strategy citywide for the Lgbtq Community which you will see after we have actually prepared something but that should be the deadline of having a Progress Report or Implementation Plan is six months from yesterday so you will be seeing that shortly. I also wanted to make you aware that the lgbtq Historic Context statement is the civic center of a governors preservation award and that will occur next month so congratulations to the consultants and the Department Staff that worked on that effort. Also 140 lane and the gift shop and the proas Presbyterian Church pending this was scheduled at the Land Use Committee on monday. There was hold up in the language of the ordinance and sponsorship and theyre ironed out so staff is representing you monday at Land Use Committee. We dont anticipate there to be any changes to the designa