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The RCMP won't release details of an internal report intoan incident last month that saw paramedics called to 24 Sussex Drive to tend to a drunken 18 year old woman the same night Prime Minister Stephen Harper's son Ben heldan 18th birthday pool party.
Using access to information law, the Citizen requested a copy of the guest list as well as of any internal communication by the RCMP related to theincident.
However, although16 pages ofemails and guest list were given to the newspaper,almost all of the information in themwasblacked out for security or privacy reasons, including a copy of the RCMPincident report from that night.
The guest log for the prime minister's official residence shows that at least 18 people were admitted to 24 Sussex Drive as guests the day of the apparent pool party, April 19, and more than 30 people Cliff Avril Jersey were admitted the following day.
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Almost all the details Steven Hauschka Jersey of the incident report, and a daily occurrence report, were redacted by the RCMP under security provisions in the access to information legislation.
A young woman contacted last month by the Citizen, who said she was at a party at the residence, said about 20 of Ben Harper friends and sports teammates attended, many with swimsuits. She said Ben RCMP protective detail was around but she didn see either of his parents.
It believed anunderage woman was taken to hospital with a suspected case of alcohol poisoning. The legal drinking age in Ontario is 19. However, a parent may supply their own underage child with alcohol in their own home.
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Christmas tree light strands are a growing use of LED lighting. Downtown Racine Corp. has used them on a large scale for about four years on the huge holiday tree on Monument Square. And DRC Executive Director Devin Sutherland couldn't be happier with them.
Previously, he said, DRC used about 7,000 to 8,000 non LED lights on the holiday tree, "and we had circuits from all over Monument Square. . Now, everything runs through one 30 amp circuit."
The LEDs are much more weather resistant and trouble free, Sutherland said. So DRC has increased the number of them on the tree to close to 17,000 this year.
"Now we have two to three times as many lights," he said, "and we use about 10 percent of the power."
Thanks to a donation by Ruud Lighting, virtually 100 percent of the lighting at the $14.5 million Sealed Air Family YMCA, 8501 Campus Drive, is LED. The structure will likely earn Silver LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certification, said YMCA Executive Director Jeff Collen.
LED lighting also helped earn the new addition at Fratt Elementary School, 3501 Kinzie Ave., Silver LEED certification.
Starting during the Great Recession, the city of Racine took advantage of federal stimulus money and other sources to upgrade to LED lighting. Through 2011, more than half of the city's streetlights 1,806 of the total 3,336 had been converted to bright white LEDs, according to John Rooney, city engineer and assistant public works commissioner. And more are being installed this year in street construction zones.
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"Kids walk down the street," Rosas said, suggesting that Roseland is much like other Santa Rosa neighborhoods and not a haven for gang members. "The only difference is they're brown."
But there's a social and economic gulf between the Roseland area where Rosas lives and the upscale neighborhood 5 miles to the east, situated between Summerfield Road and Annadel State Park.
The real world disparity is sharply illustrated in a new report by the Sonoma County Department of Health Services, which recently ranked the county's 99 census tracts according to a human development index a measure of well being Max Unger Womens Jersey that includes health, education and income factors. The index is expressed on a scale of 0 to 10.
Roseland Creek, located between West Avenue and Stony Point Road south of Sebastopol Road, had the lowest index at 2.79, well below that of Mississippi, the lowest ranked of the 50 states at 3.81.
East Bennett Valley, an affluent, nearly all white census tract, had the county's top index at 8.47, far above Connecticut, the top ranked state at 6.17. residents.
But quantitative data that could shed light on the issues here and nationwide have been hard to come by.
Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin, whose district ranges from Roseland Creek to Fetters Springs, with the fourth lowest index, said the new report was "a long time coming."
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Supervisor Bruce Irvin Womens Jersey Efren Carrillo, who represents Roseland which had the three lowest ranking census tracts said the county's inequities aren't surprising, but the report "puts it in print."
Noting that May 22 marked the 50th anniversary of former President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" speech calling for an end to poverty and injustice, Carrillo said that some county residents are well off, while others remain at a level of poverty equivalent to 30 years ago.
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Board Chairman David Rabbitt said the report will be "a tool going forward" in planning county policy and programs.
Asian Americans, 3.7 percent of the population, have Bruce Irvin Authentic Jersey the top score at 7.10.
African Americans, just 1.4 percent of the population, ranked third among ethnic groups at 4.68.
Latinos, who make up 25 percent of the population, scored lowest at 4.27, although they do better than Latinos statewide at 4.05.
Whites are on top economically, with median personal earnings per year of $36,647, more than $4,000 ahead of Asian Americans at $32,495 and far ahead of Latinos, with median earnings of $21,695, below the poverty line for a family of four, the report said. African Americans earn a www.footballseahawksprostore.com/Nike-Bobby-Wagner-Jersey.html median of $31,213.
Females in the county live four years longer on average and are better educated than males, but their earnings lag more than $8,600 a year behind males'.
The gender pay gap is because of the wage "penalty" women pay for leaving the workforce to have children, as well as women's predominance in low wage occupations such as child care providers and home health aides, the report said.
It also cited the "persistence of wage discrimination," noting that in a female dominated field like education, where two in three workers are women, Max Unger Youth Jersey men earn $17,000 more per year.
On a list with seven other California counties with similar socioeconomic characteristics, Sonoma ranks sixth at 5.42, compared with Marin (7.73), Santa Cruz (5.79), San Luis Obispo (5.60), Ventura (5.59), Napa (5.43), Santa Barbara (5.06) and Monterey (4.47) counties.
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