Lower Cape Fear LifeCare will offer a multi-week, virtual grief care program for those coping with the death of a spouse or partner on Mondays, March 1 – 22.
The group will be held 12–1:30 p.m. in a secure virtual environment. Rgistration is required; to register, please call 1-800-379-4880.
Most of us have loved and lost special people in our lives and we understand that coping with grief is a challenging process. If you or your friends and family are having difficulty dealing with the loss of a loved one, Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (formerly Lower Cape Fear Hospice) is here to help. Throughout the year, we offer compassionate care, educational and enrichment opportunities that support many types of loss in safe and familiar environments. Because of our generous donors, these caring, no cost groups, camps and workshops are available to all. Your donation is always appreciated.
Sanctuary movement leaders sue U.S., claiming religious rights violated
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Communities and congregations around the country, some spurred to action by anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016, are working together to assist immigrants who are fighting deportation. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 1 (UPI) Four women who came to the United States seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries allege in a federal lawsuit that Trump administration officials targeted them with exorbitant civil fines because they took sanctuary in churches and spoke out against unjust and punitive deportation orders.
The Austin Sanctuary Network in Texas and the Philadelphia-based Free Migration Project also are plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, the day before President Joe Biden took the oath of office. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are named as defe
In just the first two weeks of the new year, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has seen positive results come from the work of their K-9 unit.
Monday night, a green Chevrolet pickup was circling an area near Oleander and College Road before going into a gravel parking lot next to Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church where buses, vans, and trailers for the church and Boy Scout Troop 26 were parked.
A sheriff s office deputy, his K-9 Timo, and two detectives approached on foot and found David Hansen and Johnny Willis.
Hansen and Willis had allegedly hooked up a Boy Scouts trailer to their vehicle and were in the process of stealing it when they were arrested, according to the release.