Wednesday, May 8, 2024 The Sun-Commercial A3 Smith, Chester Clifford died May 5. Visitation: Noon-2 p.m. CDT Thursday at Emmons-Macey and Steffey Funeral Home in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Ser vices: 2 p.m. CDT Thursday at the funeral home.
Burial: Derr Cemeter y. Condolences: www.emmonsmaceystef- fey.com. Hamilton, Clarence Eugene, died May 3. Ser vices: Noon Friday at Memorial Park Cemeter y. Condolences: www.fredrickandson.
com. Memorials: Knox County Club. Horrall, Marlin Ray, died April 26. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at St.
Catholic Church. Condolences: www. fredrickandson.com. Memorials: In lieu of flowers to St. Church, Vincennes.
Heath, Gerald Eugene, died May 2. Celebration of life: 2-4 p.m. June 8 at Indiana Presbyterian Church, 2431 S. Lower Indiana Road. Condolences: www.fredrickandson.
com. Memorials: In lieu of flowers to the funeral home to help defray the funeral expenses. OBITUARIES FUNERALS Harry Earnest Anderson LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. Harry Earnest Anderson, 97, Lawrenceville, died Monday, May 6, 2024. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and worked at Marathon in Bridgeport.
Survivors include two sons, Jackie Anderson and Gary Wayne Anderson; two brothers, Victor Anderson and Carl Anderson; one sister, Irene Morris; 10 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. CDT on Friday at the Emmons-Macey and Steffey Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Portee Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon-2 p.m.
CDT on Friday at the funeral home. Condolences can be sent online at www. emmonsmaceysteffey. com. Diane Tykal LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill.
Diane Tykal, 68, Bridgeport, died at 3:17 a.m. on May 6, 2024. She was a homemaker and member of the First United Methodist Church of Lawrenceville. Sur vivors include two sons, Clayton Simmons and Curtis Simmons; one sister, Janet Tykal; one brother, Robert Tykal; and two grandchildren. The funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m.
CDT on Saturday at the Emmons-Macey and Steffey Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Lawrenceville City Cemeter y. Visitation will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. CDT on Saturday at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to The Bee Hive at the Lawrence County Health Department.
Condolences can be sent online at www. emmonsmaceysteffey. com. Judith Ann Perkins Judith Ann Perkins, 79, died May 4, 2024. She was a homemaker and a member of St.
Lutheran Church. Survivors include her husband, Wendell Perkins; her son, Chris Perkins; daughter, Cathy Rice; and six grandchildren. Arrangements were handled by Fredrick and Son McClure-Utt Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to: St. Lutheran Church, 707 N.
Eighth Vincennes, IN 47591. Condolences can be sent online at www. fredrickandson.com. CEO Trade Show Knox Creating Entreprenurial Oppor- tunities program gives students insight into the process of business development. CEO stu- dent Olivia Pea, found- er of Framed Love and Temp RX, is among CEO students presenting their business at booths featured in the CEO Trade Show at the Pan- theon Monday evening.
Brandon The Sun-Commercial BY JAMIE STENGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scout- ing America in an ef for to emphasize inclusion as it works to move past the turmoil of bankruptcy and a flood of sexual abuse claims. The rebrand is another seismic shift for an orga- nization steeped in tradi- tion that did not allow gay youths or girls to begin joining its ranks until rela- tively recently. Seeking to boost flagging member- ship numbers, the Irving, Texas-based organiza- tion announced the name change Tuesday at its annu- al meeting in Florida. the next 100 years we want any youth in America to feel very, very welcome to come into our Roger Krone, who took over last fall as president and chief executive officer, told The Associated Press in an interview before the announcement. The change will officially take effect on Feb.
8, 2025, timed to the 115th birthday. The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013 and ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015. In 2017, it made the histor- ic announcement that girls would be accepted as Cub Scouts as of 2018 and into the flagship Boy Scout pro- gram renamed Scouts BSA in 2019. Over 6,000 girls have now achieved the vaunted Eagle Scout rank. The Girl Scouts of the USA, a separate organiza- tion, has clashed with the Boy Scouts in recent years over its recruitment of girls.
The Girl Scouts did not respond to requests seek- ing comment Tuesday. A wave of reaction to the change on social media included criticism that the word will no longer appear in the name, includ- ing from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Like other organizations, the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica lost members during the pandemic, when par- ticipation was dif ficult. After a high point over the last decade of over 2 million members in 2018, the organization currently ser ves just over 1 million youths, including more than 176,000 girls and young women.
Membership peak- ed in 1972 at almost 5 mil- lion. Generations of scouts have included eventual presidents (among them Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford), astronauts (Buzz Aldrin) and celebrities (actor Harrison Ford, film- maker Steven Spielberg). Krone said the organization must continue to attract newcomers. of my job is to reduce all the barriers I possibly can for people to accept us as an organization and to he said. There were nearly 1,000 young women in the inau- gural class of female Eagle Scouts in 2021, including Selby Chipman.
The all-girls troop she was a founding member of in her home- town of Oak Ridge, North Carolina, has grown from five girls to nearly 50, and she thinks the name change will encourage even more girls to join. were like: can join Boy Scouts of Ameri- said Chipman, now a 20-year-old college student and assistant scoutmaster of her troop. Rebranding can risk alien- ating supporters who think the change is unnecessary, said David Aaker, vice chair- man of the national brand- ing and marketing firm Prophet. But he described the Boy rebranding as savvy, saying it kickstarts a new conversation about the organization while not being so drastic that it strays too far from its origi- nal scouting mission. a one-time chance to tell a new said Aaker, who also is a professor emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley Haas business school.
The move to accept girls throughout the Boy Scout ranks strained a bond with the Girl Scouts of the USA, which sued, saying it creat- ed marketplace confusion and damaged its recruit- ment efforts. They reached a settlement agreement after a judge rejected those claims, saying both groups are free to use words like and Past pressure to allow girls into the Boy Scouts had come from those including the National Organization for Women, which applauded announcement. Much of the online crit- icism invoked the word including Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Georgia Republican, who said on destroys every- thing it But Lois Alvar, a 20-year- old Eagle Scout and assis- tant scoutmaster from the Dallas area, said the new name helps all scouts feel accepted. it nation- ally recognized that girls are being welcomed and included in scouting allows it to be a more safe space, just in she said.
BY MAE ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion anti- trust settlement with Visa and Master- card. The settlement stems from a 2005 law- suit that alleged merchants paid excessive fees to accept Visa and Mastercard credit cards, and that Visa and Mastercard and their member banks acted in violation of antitrust laws. Any businesses that accepted Visa or Mastercard credit or debit cards in the U.S. between January 1, 2004 and January 25, 2019 may be eligible to receive part of the settlement. Eligible owners whose businesses have since closed or went bankrupt can also submit a claim.
Mitch Goldstone, CEO and owner of the film scanning business ScanMyPho- tos.com, and lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said it has been difficult to get the news out to small businesses so they can file a claim in the settlement. eligible merchants still filed their claims, despite my efforts such as helping design a user-friendly claim form with a simple QR he wrote in an email. frustrating, consid- ering it only takes a minute to The deadline to file a claim is Friday, May 31, 2024. Claims can be submitted on the claims por tal PaymentCardSet- tlement.com and by mail if a company received a paper claim form. Only businesses that submit a claim by the deadline will get money from the settlement.
The amount of the payout for each business will be calculated after all claims are filed and validated. Deadline for businesses to apply for their share of massive credit card company settlement looms Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America Ted S. Warren Associated Press Merit badges and a rainbow-colored neckerchief slider are affixed on a Boy Scout uniform outside the headquarters of Amazon in Seattle. The U.S. organization, which now welcomes girls into the program and allows them to work toward the coveted Eagle Scout rank, announced Tuesday that it will change its name to Scouting America as it focus- es on inclusion.
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