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2A Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Lansing State Journal www.lsj.com MSU I Tom Izzo sign brigade STORYCHATS the LSJ. vounTake Here are a few of your comments. To see more or share your own comments, look at the bottom of any story posted online. use, so I say let the Saints come marching in. Southside sure can use some prayer! From "Roachcoach:" Thank you for buying the building Abundant Grace Faith Church.

From "Progressl:" Keep in mind that churches do not pay property taxes. It said that the city collected $109,000 in taxes for 2009, even with the building sitting empty. If rezoned to allow a church, the city loses that revenue. Now does it make sense that the zoning administrator does not want it rezoned? From "PeeDeel4-l:" While we were looking at an empty building and that is not great, at least the citizenry received financial benefit Another property is being taken off the tax rolls and we receive what benefit? IN RESPONSE TO Lansing church sets its sights on remodeling empty store From "Johoedeman:" This space has been empty for nearly 10 years. Sue Stachowiak doesn't support the building being used for a church? Does she prefer the blight? There are too many abandoned buildings in Lansing.

From "FlyontheWalll:" This can only help south Lansing and boy, does south Lansing need help. From "Auntiefish:" I ditto both Fly and Johoe. South Lansing has needed a lift for years. The building in question has been empty for a long time and no one has jumped at the commercial Jfj ii df- ii in- Have Did you Give us you MATTHEW DAE SMITHFor the Lansing State Journal Love note: Mike Sternik (left) and Gordon Ferguson were part of a "We (heart) Izzo" sign brigade that placed signs and banners in the area Sunday afternoon. See more images at www.lsj.comphotos.

GET PUBLISHED Submit news, photos and events for our community pages at www.lsj.comgetpublished oo: Potter Park IV 7 1 I Arbon: Toddler also fell a week before incident, mom says expand exhibit can see the owls from all different angles," Bennett said. Zoo visitors also will see more active birds. "It will give a lot more room for the birds to fly," Harrison said. In addition, the new exhibit is an opportunity for Potter Park to step up its owl breeding program. The new exhibit, which costs about $60,000, will have more natural trees and a nest box up high for its current female and male owl.

A water feature might be installed. "A male is with her now, but he hasn't been very interested," Harrison said. He'll be sent to another zoo and Potter Park likely will get a new male from a zoo in Canada. More to come Potter Park's biggest project, though, is it's long-awaited rhino exhibit expansion. Potter Park lost its only specimens two black rhinos in 2008.

The zoo's 17-year-old male died in Feb- GREG DeRUITERAansing State Journal Get moving! A broom is used to get a parakeet off the floor for its own safety at the Wings Down Under exhibit at the Potter Park Zoo. looks to its rhino Continued From 1A Zoos are opting to give animals more space and visitors more close-up encounters. Potter Park is following in that trend. Popular exhibits Just as the Indianapolis Zoo has sharks that can be petted, Lansing's zoo has its expanded Wings exhibit, where exotic birds fly down from the trees to feed from the hands of paying customers. "They've all been conditioned to come down and land on you," said Willis Bennett, parks director for Ingham County, which runs the zoo.

"Interactions are very, very popular throughout the The under-construction owl exhibit, though, will offer a different kind of interaction. Set to open in late August, Potter Park visitors will get to see the owls in a more natural setting. "It's more enjoyable for the guests, because visitors Monday lottery i Midday Daily-3: 864 i Evening Daily-3: 039 Midday Daily-4: 0838 Evening Daily-4: 2890 i Fantasy 5: 1, 8,9,17,24 Today's jackpot: $105,000 21,26,32,34,37,41,45, 48,49,58,62,71,72,73, 77,79 For lottery results 24 hours a day, call 335 Saturday's Classic Power I Friday's Mega Mega Ball: Winners: Today's ruary of that year and its 14-year-old female died two months later. Potter Park plans to nearly double both its indoor rhino stall barn and its outdoor exhibit area. It will give the zoo space not only to handle black rhinos but also the much larger white rhino, which can tip the scales at up to 6,000 pounds, according to the International Rhi LSJ's ONLINE POLL ever played golf? 1,174 responses 71 Yes Today's question ever eat at Dimitri's Restaurant? YOUR TAKE at www.lsj.comnews.

Ion has acknowledged, from day one, that the actions he took that day were wrong. He wishes he could undo this situation" Ron Zawacki Jon Arbon's attorney no coming back from that," Kasie Arbon said. Authorities said the autopsy report indicated that the first head injury was a minor one. The couple has been married for more than a year and were living with Kasie's mother. Kasie said Jon Arbon was "the only father (Tricia's) ever known." Arbon's attorney, Ron Zawacki, said, "Jon has acknowledged, from day one, that the actions he took that day were wrong.

He wishes he could undo this situation." for re-election by filing an incumbent's affidavit by July 5. Both she and Young would be designated as incumbents on the Nov. 2 ballot. Young is main target If Weaver does nominate herself for a final eight-year term, Republicans at their late August convention could nominate Young for re-election and a second candidate to run against Weaver. Brewer wouldn't say if his party would nominate just one challenger, rather than two, in an effort to knock off Young and leave Weaver on the court.

"Whatever strategy is best to take out Bob Young, that's our strategy," he said. gnanisian was too aangerous and there were no houses and basic services for people to rebuild their lives. Fleeing in Somalia In Somalia, where Islamist insurgents have been fighting the Western-backed government and gained control over large parts of the center and south, over half a million people have fled to neighboring countries. More Somalis continue to flee the violence, with an estimated 200,000 uprooted this year alone, according to UNHCR. The agency counts as refugees people who flee across international borders.

But the report also mentions 27.1 million internal refugees or "displaced people," who were driven from their homes but remained within their own country. 1 3 LJ 29 No Court: Brewer spreading lies, justice says no Foundation. Black rhinos weigh about half that. Construction on the new exhibit is likely to start this year. Zoo officials are accepting bids through June 23 on general contractor services.

About 20 contractors showed up two weeks ago to a pre-bid meeting, officials said. Potter Park has close to $1.4 million set aside for construction of the rhino exhibit "The people of Michigan don't want a liberal Mark Brewer judge who will coddle criminals, make up their own laws and ignore the rule of law." Balance at stake At stake is the political balance of the court, which was solidly Republican before Taylor's loss. With Hathaway on the bench, three of the Republicans Young, Maura Cor-rigan and Stephen Markman find themselves writing dissents rather than majority opinions in many cases, because Republican Justice Elizabeth Weaver sometimes sides with the Democrats. Weaver has such a prickly relationship with her fellow Republicans that they results Lotto 47: 12, 24, 26, 35, 36,39 Six-Number winners: None Wednesday's jackpot: $L4 million Ball: 30 Power Play: 10 Wednesday's jackpot: $60 million results Millions: 6, 13, 33, 34, 42 25 One (Kalamazoo) jackpot: $12 million Continued From 1A of a coffee table, and she was knocked unconscious. She died the next day.

When Tahvonen asked Arbon if he shoved her intentionally, Arbon said he had. Arbon first reported that Tricia had fallen down a flight of stairs while he was in a bathroom, police said. A few weeks later, Arbon admitted what he had done, police said, and he was charged with first-degree child abuse and second-degree murder. Arbon also described in court how Tricia had suffered a head injury about a week before the Jan. 23 incident.

He was alone with her then, as well. Tricia fell into a staircase after a dog knocked her down, said Kasie, who works as a surgical assistant. The Jan. 23 incident "was the second fall within a week which together caused extensive swelling to her brain, and there was filed a misconduct grievance against her earlier this year. The party in control of the court could decide how lines for congressional and state legislative districts will be redrawn after the 2010 Census and before the 2012 elections.

Their decision could affect whether Republicans or Democrats have a larger share of safe seats for the next decade and even which member of Congress gets squeezed out if Michigan drops from 15 to 14 U.S. House seats. The Democrats aren't going after Weaver, who might not get renominated by the Republicans now that Young has made it clear he doesn't want to share the ticket with her. She can nominate herself according to the 32-page report. There are no more massive returns, such as the repatriation of hundreds of thousands in the Balkans in the 1990s after a series of wars.

More than 53 million Afghans have gone home since 2002, a year after a U.S.-led coalition ousted Afghanistan's Taliban from power, the report said. In the first year alone, around 2 million refugees returned to Afghanistan. In 2008, some 275,000 refugees returned to Afghanistan. Last year only 57,600 Afghans did that and many more were unable to return because the situation in Af- Continued From 1A a 2007 Supreme Court decision that restricted citizens' ability to file lawsuits aimed at protecting the environment. But the suit in question dealt with a water bottling company and didn't directly help "shield oil companies from accountability." The ad also said Young wrote an opinion that would have allowed an oil company to dump waste water in the Au Sable River, but that opinion was moot because the entire Supreme Court left in place a lower court's ban on the dumping.

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High Commissioner for Refugees said in its annual report. The world's total number of refugees stood at 15.2 million, according to the report. Of those, around 2.9 million were Afghans, 1.8 million Iraqis and 680,000 So-malis. That total also includes 4.8 million Palestinian refugees managed by a separate U.N. agency.

"In many parts of the world, conflict is entrenched in such a way that it doesn't allow for safe and dignified return," said Volker Tuerk, the agency's protection director. "We're moving into an era of more prolonged refugee situations." Most stay in region Millions of refugees have been living in exile for five years or longer, the report said. Most refugees stay in neighboring countries or other nations in the region they come from. The total number of returning refugees has gone down every year since 2004, Lobby hours a.m. 5 p.m.

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