Saint John, NB, Canada / The Wave
Feb 9, 2021 7:54 PM
Reverend James Jim Gordon Fudge served with the Saint John Police Force for 32 years as an Inspector and a Chaplain. He died February 4th at the age of 84. (Photo courtesy of the Saint John Police Force)
The Saint John Police Force paid tribute to
Fudge spent 32 years with the force, retiring as a divisional inspector, and 21 years as the force chaplain.
He was fondly remembered by Inspector Tanya Leblanc who said he officiated wedding ceremonies for some of their members.
“He presided over family funerals, the funerals of our retired members. He was just a really great man, a tremendous ambassador for the Saint John Police Force,” Leblanc said.
Rome, Italy, Dec 14, 2017 / 12:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and longtime pro-life advocate, has it in her blood to fight for the causes she believes in, one of which is to promote “civil rights” for the unborn.
King, 66, grew up in the heat of the civil rights battle led by her uncle, and surrounded by the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Eager to stand for a cause she believed would liberate women, she joined the budding “pro-choice” movement at a young age.
But after experiencing the crushing physical and emotional effects of two abortions, and receiving what she believes was a prophetic intervention from her grandfather, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., she had a change of heart. She became pro-life and committed herself to carrying forward what she feels is a mission to defend the rights of the unborn.
In the 1940s, Nick Gabaldón, an athletic, handsome student at Santa Monica High School, would often escape class to Bay Street Beach, a half-mile stretch of shoreline roughly between Pico and Bicknell Streets, by the Casa Del Mar hotel. Derisively called the Inkwell by some white Angelenos, Bay Street Beach was a haven for people of color.
Here, Gabaldón would bodysurf for hours, impressing two white lifeguards who loaned him a rescue board. With this heavy, 13-foot board, Gabaldón taught himself to surf, becoming the first documented Black surfer in America. He eventually took to riding the waves in Malibu, paddling six miles north and another six miles back, because he knew he would not be welcome walking on most of Santa Monica s beaches.