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Amateur Radio Saves Family in Death Valley National Park

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Death Valley National Park is in a remote desert in southern California, where mobile phone networks are spotty at best. On Saturday, April 6, a radio amateur and his family were enjoying the park when their vehicle became stuck in mud in a dangerous area. Without access to a cell network, the ham called for help on the 10-meter band.

According to a news release from the Black Swamp Amateur Radio Club, Caleb Gustwiller, KD8TGB, jumped into action.

Gustwiller was monitoring from Ohio when he picked up the distress call. He was able to hear the call sign and the general location of the ham in distress. He lost the signal to the noise, so he wrote a post in the Parks on the Air® Facebook group asking for other hams to listen for the calls.

Several hams contacted emergency officials in southern California, which led to the ham and their family being rescued within a few hours by park rangers. The club stated in their Facebook post: “Without Caleb hearing this distress call, it could have quickly become a very deadly situation for the operator and his family.”

Colorado uses old Republican document to destroy Democracy

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COLORADO — The non-elected judges of the Colorado Supreme Court on December 19 used an old Republican document to launch an attack on “democracy.” The State of Colorado—apparently oblivious to the Second Amendment to the Republican document—concentrated on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Republican Constitution to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the first attack on their own vaunted “democracy.” They also completely ignored Section 5 of this amendment that states, “The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” The power does not reside with the States.

There has not been one charge of “insurrection” in the mostly peaceful protests of January 6th. All defendants—whose Eighth Amendment rights were violated without protest by Colorado—were charged with misdemeanors and some felonies, but none were charged with insurrection. Nineteen of those were Colorado residents.

In fact, President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard (which is NOT a militia, but people think it is) into Washington and was told to stand down by Nancy Pelosi whom obviously did not consider it an insurrection.

In an AP article by by Nicholas Riccardi, he notes, “Dozens of lawsuits have been filed nationally to disqualify Trump under Section 3, which was designed to keep former Confederates from returning to government after the Civil War. It bars from office anyone who swore an oath to ‘support’ the Constitution and then ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against it, and has been used only a handful of times since the decade after the Civil War.”

The Fourteenth Amendment was immediately approved by Rinos whom wanted to continually punish the Democrat south after the Civil War. This in direct contrast to President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wanted healing and was going to issue a blanket pardon for the Rebels.

This event makes it apparent that Colorado is not concerned with supporting even Greek-style Democracy; only Russian or Chinese-style Democracy.

2023 SET Exercise to Test Skills and Emergency Preparedness for Amateur radio

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The SET is ARRL’s annual national emergency exercise designed to assess the skills and preparedness of Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) volunteers, as well as those affiliated with other organizations involved in emergency and disaster responses. The SET is open to all radio amateurs and partner organizations, in addition to national, state, and local officials. Besides ARES volunteers, those active in the National Traffic System (NTS), Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), National Weather Service’s SKYWARN® Storm Spotter program, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and a variety of other allied groups and public service-oriented radio amateurs are needed to fulfill important roles in this nationwide exercise.

During the exercise, volunteers can assess equipment, modes, and skills under simulated emergency conditions and scenarios. Individuals can use the time to update a go-kit for use during deployments and to ensure their home station’s operational capability during an emergency or disaster.

SET guidelines can be found here. To get involved, contact your local ARRL Emergency Coordinator or Net Manager.

Russell Stover Chocolates Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Pecan in Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups

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Russell Stover Chocolates of Kansas City, Missouri, is voluntarily recalling two (2) Best Before Dates of its Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups in 2.4 oz packaging due to the potential for undeclared pecans. The recalled Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups may contain Sugar Free Pecan Delights. Pecans are not declared on the label. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to pecans run the risk a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

The recalled Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups were distributed nationwide to wholesale and retail stores.

The recalled Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups are packaged in a 2.4 oz plastic bag, and they are labeled with Best Before dates of 01MAY23 and 01JUN23 and UPC of 077260096937 with Lot code(s): K0521, K0321, K0421, L2122, L2221, L2321. The lot code and best before date can be found on the back of the product packaging, below the UPC.

The recall was initiated following consumer contacts regarding the wrong product inside the outer packaging for Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cups product. Russell Stover has received no reports of any illness or allergic reactions related to this issue to date.

President Trump big announcement

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President Trump digital trading cards.President Donald Trump made his major announcement on TruthSocial, today. TruthSocial is Trump’s social media website. Yesterday he posted that he had a major announcement to make with a slick super hero video. As it always is with President Trump, the announcement turned out to be big.

The announcement turned out to be a series of digital trading cars that can be obtained at his COLLECTTRUMPCARDS website.

The official limited edition series of trading cards costs $99, but it appears you can buy 1 up to 100. These trading cards, however, comes with special sweepstakes entries. You can also enter the sweepstakes without a purchase. Each card purchased gives you an entry in the sweepstakes that gives you a chance to win several prizes including a one-on-one meeting with the President.
There is a set of 45 digital trading cards that guarantees you a ticket to a dinner with the President.

We have not researched all of the details on the sweepstakes prizes. We ALWAYS recommend that you research the rules carefully to see what the packages contain. For example, does it include transportation to Florida and the hotel?

Northern Arizona Gazette @gazette is on TruthSocial and Twitter @naz_gazette.

Protect your identity through the holiday season and beyond

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Medicine bottles found blowing in the wind.

DISCLAIMER –After this photo we stripped off the pharmacy labels and shredded them without keeping any record of who the person was.

WILLIAMS – While walking the streets, today, we found these medicine bottles that, apparently, blew from a residents trash can and was blowing around town. They had pharmaceutical labels which might be used to steal an identity. We removed the labels and shredded them without recording any names.

Northern Arizona Gazette would like to remind everyone to take care to secure their identities, particularly through the holiday season. Is someone looking over your shoulder while you enter your PIN? Does your wallet block RFID chips? Do you account for all of your receipts after a day of holiday shopping?

Do not shop on an Internet site whose address does not begin wit “https://.” If you are expecting packages from Amazon, Chewy or other online sites, try to be home when they are expected. Do not open emails if you do not recognize who sent it. If a “government agency” or “company” calls asking for personal information, make them give you a phone number that you can call back to. Check the number in your favorite search engine. Reputable companies will NOT ask you for personal information via email or over the phone. Your local law enforcement office probably has had complaints about certain activities by people attempting to steal personal information or identities. If you are suspicious, call them or check their Facebook or Twitter feeds.

We recommend that you be proactive about protecting your identity over the holiday season. It tends to get so busy that you may not catch something on your credit card until it is too late.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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Movie Review by Glen C. Davis

ROKU – The much anticipated Weird debuted, today, on Roku TV. This is the actual true story of Weird Al Yankovic. And there are so many things that are revealed about him.

The movie stars Daniel Radcliffe simply because they did not offer me the part. Radcliffe is known for staring in the Harry Potter series of movies. Radcliffe does a tremendous job of bringing the story of Weird Al Yanovic to life.

Weird Al’s musical journey started when his dad beat up an accordion salesman collapsing his lung. In order to avoid a lawsuit his mother offered to buy the accordion. His dad objected to this stringently. I don’t want to spoil the movie for you so I won’t tell you that his dad bought an accordion which caused his ejection from the Amish community he lived in.

Weird Al Yankovic and Daniel Radcliffe.

He attempted to sell his first song, My Bologna, to a record company run by Tony Scotti who is played by an actor who is vaguely familiar, though I can’t place him. They refused the song and advised him to write more songs and play before an audience. It was his song I Love Rocky Road that catapulted him to the top.

What I found amazing was how closely our lives parallel. We both grew up listening to Dr Demento.  He was a musical genius with the accordion. I had one of those wind-up monkeys that clashed the symbols together. He was Madonna’s lover. I saw Madonna’s videos on MTV. He was invited to the birthday party of drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was his biggest fan. I read about Escobar in the newspaper and then used the newspaper as a fan.

The movie follows his true life experience right up until the time when he was assassinated at the Shrine auditorium in 1985 while accepting an award.

The movie is a drama in pure Weird Al style. If you are a Weird Al Yankovic fan, you will want to see this film. If you’re just looking for a good movie with a lot of comedy you want to see this movie.

The only problem is it leaves a burning question. Did Michael Jackson come out with “Bad” first or did he parody Weird Al’s Fat?”

Politicized photo released by DOJ

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Across the Internet, the rabid anti-Trump media are touting this photo released by the “Department of Justice” of the Mar-a-Lago raid. This photo is not available on the DOJ or FBI web site. Thus it was release directly to anti-Trump outlets that would do exactly what the FBI knew they would do. None of these outlets, of course, noted the problems with this photo.

The first thing is that anyone who has had even a passing acquaintance with service in the National Government knows that cover sheets, themselves, are unclassified. The President-elect Trump could take tons of those home and wall paper his bathroom with them. I would, of course, blast him for using tax payer paid paper for such a purpose. Since he gave his salary to charity, however, I suppose we could forgive even this. Even the rabid media had to grudgingly admit that Donald Trump was the ONLY President in history that left the office with less wealth than when he went in.

Second, they show alleged documents laying out with other papers laying over them. Kind of like the transparent affidavit released. The title of these “documents” cannot be read, thus we do not know what they are. They could be the laundry lists of Melania Trump. If these were “nuclear secrets,” they would not be single-paged documents as shown in the photo.

Third, if they are “nuclear secrets,” or pretty much any other secrets, they are almost certainly need-to-know documents. Any agent opening those documents and looking at them as well as the photographer taking the photos are in violation of the law and guilty of a felony.

The most important thing that the media did not point out about the photo is that it is another attempt of the Biden administration to stop any MAGA candidate from winning offices across the country. It is also an attempt to divert attention from the Hunter Biden laptop.

The FBI, further, says it will “with hold” any charges until after mid-term elections. This is the same reason they told Facebook to stop posts about the Hunter Biden laptop because it would influence the election. If they released the fact that they HAVE NO charges against Donald Trump, can you imagine the repercussions? They can.

V Bar V Heritage Site, Red Rock visitor center to reopen next week

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FLAGSTAFF — The V Bar V Heritage Site and the Red Rock Ranger Station Visitor Center will both reopen to the public beginning next week.
V Bar V Heritage Site:
The V Bar V Heritage Site, located at 6750 N. Forest Road 618 in Rimrock, will reopen on June 18.
Operating hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday through Monday.
COVID-19 restrictions include group size limitations and requested mask usage for unvaccinated individuals.
Either an America the Beautiful Interagency Pass or a Red Rock Pass (available on site) is required for access to the heritage site.
V Bar V is a rock art/ ceremonial site that features more than 1,000 petroglyphs and is largest known petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.
Red Rock Ranger Station Visitor Center:
The Red Rock Ranger Station Visitor Center, located at 8375 Highway 179 in Sedona, will reopen June 14.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Tuesday, and noon to 3 p.m. on Wednesday. The Arizona Natural History Association Gift Shop will be open Friday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Several COVID-19 restrictions will be in effect. Capacity inside the building will be limited to 20 visitors at a time, and social distancing is encouraged. Visitors who have not been vaccinated are asked to wear a mask, and visitors who wish to remain outside are welcome to call 928-203-2900 for assistance, or to visit the informational kiosk outside the building next to the parking lot.

Happy HONOR AMERICA DAYS!

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We are looking forward to the parades, band concerts, flags lining the streets and demonstrations that honor America for the 21-Day period of Honor America Days! We are just waiting for the City of Williams to post the schedule.

What? You’ve never heard of Honor America Days? Of course not. If you went through public schools in Arizona they did not tell you about Honor America Days, for some reason. 36 U.S. Code § 11 (an ACTUAL law written by Congress) designates the 21-days from Flag Day to Independence day is a period to honor America. “Congress declares that there be public gatherings and activities during that period at which the people of the United States can celebrate and honor their country in an appropriate way.”

Independence day is the day you probably call 4th of July because of the brainwashing you have received in school. Of course you probably don’t know independence was declared on July 2, but that’s another article.

Rome, New York the only city we’ve found that actually has an Honor America Days celebration. They have, unfortunately, fallen into the Plandemic trap the Cuomo set in New York. We also found the WriteShop web site that has writing suggestions for students for the Honor America Day celebration. WriteShop is a company that sells books on writing for young people. A South Dakota web site called Keloland has published a PDF called 21 Ways to Honor America.

You may find other Honor America Days information if you use a search engine. You certainly will not hear about this celebration of America from Washington D.C. Unless it has to do with any “bad” things the United States has done. The United States “government” has done bad things based on what ever it takes to get the people to vote for them. The recent plandemic is an example of that. Fortunately it is now going away because the mean tweeter is gone.

Before we started sending jobs to China and other countries, however, America brought newer and better technology to the world. America put the computer in your home that you are reading this on. American medicine, before Obamanationcare, extended the life of Americans and people around the world.

What the United States did give to the world is a government run by the people. “We the People…” are the government. Not the employees in Washington D.C. or Phoenix or where ever. This government was meant to be sovereign “States” bound together for a common cause. There was never any intention that the national government in Washington would control the individual States or control their lands. We the People let that happen.

What can you do at home to celebrate? How about reading a copy of the Declaration of Independence? How about making sure your children say Happy Independence Day instead of happy fourth of July. Study the Bill of Rights and the history of the Bill of Rights. Read Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America and see what limitations they have exceeded. Read a few of the Federalist Papers, especially Federalist Paper No. 29.