TorontoNewsSecond suspect arrested in murder of Markham woman last summerBy Chris FoxOpens in new windowPublished: May 02, 2025 at 10:40AM EDT Twitter feed ©2025 BellMedia All Rights Reserved Unionville High School’s Agrowtech is a smart farming system that combines AI-integrated drone technology Their innovation might not save all 7,000 lost farms The classroom smelled faintly of plastic and solder a team of students didn’t just study agriculture — they reimagined it Their project, Agrowtech, has landed them a spot as a regional finalist in Samsung Canada’s Solve for Tomorrow competition — a national STEM challenge where students tackle big issues with even bigger ideas This year’s focus: environmental sustainability The Unionville team aimed straight at the heart of the matter: food security and farming survival Over 7,000 farms have disappeared in Canada since 2016 according to the team who are too modest to share their names and farmers are being stretched thinner every year,” they said Agrowtech is no pie-in-the-sky concept — it’s a full-stack smart farming system that uses AI-driven drone technology environmental sensors and smart irrigation snapping images with LIDAR and photogrammetry to create 3D maps pest outbreaks and soil degradation in real time “Farmers often rely on instinct and experience All the data streams into a central app — think of it as a command centre in your pocket “We didn’t want this to be something only tech-savvy farmers could use,” they said and we made two versions — one that’s affordable and easy to install and one more advanced for larger operations.” watched with pride as the students presented to Samsung’s judges and mentors “They’re not only building something technical — they’re building something human Their empathy for farmers is at the core of this project.” “These Unionville High School students are a shining example of what happens when curiosity meets purpose,” said Tafari Jilany head of corporate marketing at Samsung Canada “Their AI-powered farming app isn’t just a smart idea — it’s a bold step for a more sustainable and efficient future for Canadian agriculture.” Although the competition is still underway “We want to keep developing Agrowtech beyond this contest,” said the students “Our dream is to see it used in real Canadian farms more sustainable — and make young people want to stay in agriculture — that’s success to us.” Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account YorkMotorist seriously injured after crashing vehicle into a tree in MarkhamBy Joanna LavoieOpens in new windowPublished: April 28, 2025 at 4:45PM EDT A motorist was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after driving their vehicle into a tree in Markham on Monday afternoon, say police. The single-vehicle collision happened near Warden Avenue, north of Elgin Mills. York Regional Police said they were called to that area at around 3 p.m. Currently, Warden is closed between Elgin Mills and 19th Avenue as police investigate. Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account York Regional Police have upgraded the charges of one man already in custody to first-degree murder and charged a second man with the same offence in connection with the 2024 death of Markham wellness centre employee Ying Zhang Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience Don't have an account? Create Account We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Play VideoArticle contentOn July 27, 2024, investigators initially charged Changlin Yang, 26, of East Gwillimbury, with kidnapping, forcible confinement and aggravated assault. His charges were later upgraded to second-degree murder and indignity to a dead body, and now his charge has been upgraded to first-degree murder. Yang has remained in custody since his arrest. A second person, Xiao “Fred” Hui Li, 53, of East Gwillimbury, was charged with first-degree murder in relation to Zhang’s death on Thursday. On July 25, 2024, Zhang’s family reported her missing after she failed to return home from working at a wellness centre in the area of Woodbine Ave. and Steelcase Rd. On July 29, 2024, her body was located in Kawartha. 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By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account You will also start receiving the Star's free morning newsletter York police have charged a second person with first-degree murder for the 2024 homicide of Ying Zhang Investigators have charged Changlin Yang and Xiao “Fred” Hui Li with first-degree murder in the death of 57-year-old Ying Zhang whose remains were found in a garbage bin in July A second person is facing a first-degree murder charge in the brutal killing of a Markham woman whose remains were discovered in a garbage bin in a rural area outside Toronto last summer York Regional Police announced Friday that Xiao “Fred” Hui Li has been charged with first-degree murder in the July 2024 death of Ying Zhang Court records show Li was charged on Thursday and appeared in Newmarket court that same day He requires a Mandarin interpreter and was ordered not to communicate with a list of people Investigators initially charged just one suspect within days of Zhang’s death Police have previously been tight-lipped on whether the victims and suspect knew one another investigators revealed that both suspects were known to each other and that the victim They cannot comment on the nature of their relationship “They do not believe the victim knew Yang.” was upgraded from second-degree murder last week a traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner was reported missing by her family on July 25 after she failed to return home from work at a wellness centre in Markham Police found evidence to suggest she had been assaulted and abducted from her workplace sometime before 11 a.m. that day. She suffered severe injuries during the kidnapping that could lead to death A suspect allegedly used a white Ford cargo van to transport and dump Zhang’s body along a stretch of a rural roadway in Kawartha Lakes Police said their search-and-rescue team found her remains inside a large bin on July 29 The coroner positively identified the remains found Monday as Ying Zhang Li is expected to return to court later this month while Yang’s next court hearing is scheduled for September Both remain in custody and police say there are no outstanding suspects Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Police have charged a second suspect and upgraded charges against another man in connection with the death of a Markham woman last summer Ying Zhang was last seen at a wellness centre near Woodbine Avenue and Steel Case Road on July 25 investigators located the remains of the 57-year-old in the Village of Kirkfield in Kawartha Lakes of East Gwillimbury was arrested and charged with kidnapping second-degree murder and indignity to a dead body 53-year-old Xiao “Fred” Hui Li of East Gwillimbury was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Zhang’s death charges against Yang have also been upgraded to first-degree murder Police say they are not looking for any other suspects The effort to relieve congestion with a tunnel under Highway 401 is now on PM Mark Carney's radar Premier Ford listed the project as one of Ontario's top priorities in need of federal support Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney to prioritize a list of projects including the proposed Highway 401 tunnel Monday is calling for rain and thunderstorms Stella Acquisto has the long-range forecast Could we see another indefinite pause on postal service in the country Negotiations are underway again as Canada Post and the workers’ union try to cut a deal to avoid a lockout or strike later this month listen to NewsRadio Toronto live anytime and get up-to-the-minute breaking-news alerts weather and video from CityNews Toronto anywhere you are – across all Android and iOS devices We use cookies to provide our services and for analytics and marketing. To find out more about our use of cookies and how you can disable them, please see our Privacy Policy. By continuing to browse our website, you agree to our use of cookies. Click here to read our privacy policy. Italy produced their strongest performance of the season to claim victory in the Acrobatic Team final and deny Spain a clean-sweep of the gold medals on the final day of the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham who placed second behind Ukraine at the previous leg in Somabay (EGY) delivered a much-improved execution of the routine increasing their overall score by 12.4037 points since last month’s contest Spain’s silver medal-winning performance was highly celebrated though with Dennis Gonzalez making a landmark appearance as the ‘flyer’ in the opening lift Earlier in the day he had topped the podium with Iris Tio Casas following the Mixed Duet Free final and show followed that up with a second victory alongside Lilou Lluis Valette in the Women’s Duet final. Afterwards, Gonzalez, who is widely regarded as the strongest male swimmer in the world of elite artistic swimming competition, hailed Tio Casas as his nations’ “best athlete” with the Olympic bronze medallist having now claimed medals across all disciplines this season. This is an event which never fails to entertain and the nine nations taking to the water for the final contest in Markham provided a suitably spectacular conclusion to a fantastic three-days of competition which demonstrated a host of magical moments. Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallists Ukraine, who won the event in Somabay, were the first of the major podium contenders to take to the water in the Team Acrobatic final, but they were far from their best and an error-strewn display saw them slip out of contention. The USA, who fielded a host of their Paris 2024 Olympic silver medal-winning line-up, including the returning Anita Alvarez, were also surprise absentees from the top-three standings. They would rank fifth, marginally behind rivals Mexico, with Ukraine in eighth.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Aquatics (@world_aquatics) Italy topped the standings after their high-class performance but would have to wait for six further nations to complete their routines before victory could be confirmed with their overall score of 199.4300 giving them a winning margin of 17.7688 points “It’s totally new for us and we tried to be sexy with some fire,” Sofia Mastroianni told World Aquatics “We didn’t expect to win a gold medal as all the other teams are amazing and we need to work more who placed fourth at their home Games last year was significantly closer though with just 0.0786 points separating the nations Spain attained an overall score of 181.662 for their ‘one shot to secure their best result of the season so far in the discipline Head coach Andrea Fuentes said debuting Gonzalez as the ‘flyer’ was a “proud” moment for the team and revealed the idea came from her husband Victor Cano who competed in gymnastics for Spain at the 2000 and 2004 Games “Victor is acrobatic coach and he let’s get Dennis because he’s a master of acrobatics in the air,” she said “We said: ‘let’s push this guy who knows everything in air but it’s the whole team as you need everybody to be in synch and be strong.” France’s energetic and highly entertaining delivery of their established ‘Can Can’ interpretation which has been slightly modified since it was performed at their home Olympic Games last year But for a base-mark it would have been a higher placing but there was still positivity within the team after they claimed bronze “We were trying to do the best execution we could, but we did have a base mark on a highlight, which we had a bit of difficulty with, but this is a working competition for us,” said Claudia Janvier “We still have European Championships in a few weeks so this was like a guideline for us to choose what to do for the next competition.” there is always high interest in the outcome of the women’s Duet Free competition and the latest final delivered further phenomenal feats with the best in the world doing what they do better than anyone else No pairing better demonstrated this than the Spanish duo Iris Tio Casas and Lilou Lluis Valette with the duet who were part of their nation’s Olympic team bronze medal-winning line-up at Paris 2024 delivering further evidence of their versatility scoring 236.0830 for their ‘essence of femininity’ creation with 257.9868 securing victory by a margin of just under five points from China “The first time we competed (together) was in Egypt and this time we tried to improve synchronisation and execution we accomplished it,” said a delighted Tio Casas Team-mate Lluis Valette emphasised that their ability to “connect” with their “minds” had been crucial to their rapid improvements while Tio Casas insisted their ability to “make jokes” and create “good chemistry” were also key elements Twin sisters Lin Yanhan and Lin Yanjun who were third in the on Women’s Duet Technical final on Saturday placed a step higher on the podium in the Free contest Their ‘shadow of the moon’ inspired routine attained a strong score of 253.0640 and insisted they were “very happy” with the “style and elements” they executed Completing the top-three line-up and edging out Ukraine’s Daria Moshynska and Anastasiia Shmonina by a tiny margin of just 0.0701 points, were French duet Laelys Alavez and Romane Lunel “We have been in a little fight since the new rules came in and in duet we never beat them (Ukraine) before so it’s the first time with this new pair as it’s only our second time (performing the routine) as we started practicing in November,” Lunel told World Aquatics “Our routine reflects everything under the seas and all of the animals but the ‘octopus’ is the one which inspired us the most and we enjoy performing it.” Previous rules only allowed one line-up from each nation to attain a place on the podium at an Artistic Swimming World Cup but revisions for the 2025 season enable nations like Spain to truly demonstrate their strength-in-depth They achieved this for the first time in the maiden event of the current campaign in Paris, France, where Jordi Caceres and Aurora Lazaro as well as Dennis Gonzalez and Sara Saldana Topping the standings this time were the seemingly unstoppable teammates Tio Casas and Gonzalez who are debuting as a pair for the 2025 season and I always think she is the best one in the team because I love how she swims,” said Gonzalez with a beaming smile after their ‘heartbreak’ routine “When my trainer told me I would do a duet with her and I think I will improve with her as we have a lot of chemistry.” Jordi Caceres and Aurora Lazaro have subsequently placed fourth on five occasions but were finally able to celebrate another podium finish together “We complement one another a lot,” revealed Lazaro “The boy has a lot of explosive movements and I have artistic movement Caceres continued; “Her legs are so long and so straight and she expresses a lot when she dances and we’re always laughing and we’re best friends so it’s been a pleasure being her partner this year.” Separating the Spanish duet line-ups were China’s Guo Muye and Liu Jinhan “We have only been together for two weeks,” Guo revealed to World Aquatics time and life and we have been watching a lot of videos to analyse ourselves in the water and make improvements.”  Already have an account? Log in here associate dean for academic programs in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences will become the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences according to a Thursday email from OU Senior Vice President and Provost André-Denis Wright Markham is a Case-Hooper professor of biology and has served as the OU Honors College interim dean since June Students pay about $14 in fees that support the Daily If you're not a student and value our work Markham studied psychology at the University of New Mexico where he earned his bachelor’s “Since joining the OU academic community 14 years ago Markham has consistently demonstrated strategic vision and collaborative leadership making him exceptionally well prepared to lead our university’s largest college into its next chapter of excellence,” Wright wrote on the email Markham’s research focuses on neurobiology specifically the biophysics of excitable membranes and the plasticity of excitable cells He has also conducted research on behavioral conditioning in humans and animals Markham has worked at OU since 2011 he was a research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin Markham worked as a research associate professor and an assistant professor Markham beat out three other candidates senior associate dean for international programming finance and administration and a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences; Mitchell McKinney dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Akron; and Michael Blum associate dean of the research and creative activity office at the University of Tennessee was set to be considered among the five finalists for the position but his public forum presentation and meet and greet on campus were suddenly cancelled without any notice Markham succeeds former Dean David Wrobel, who stepped down in July after serving six years in the position to become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University in New York Markham spoke about the dynamic climate of higher education and the importance of the college to become flexible “The context and the climate of higher education is so dynamic and there are so many forces working outside of higher education that provide movements in this different direction,” Markham said “We have to get comfortable to change this Wright told OU Daily that he received the review and would go through it soon Markham told OU Daily that it’s important for those worried to remember that the review was just a move for administration to step back and understand how language requirements were beneficial for students unequivocally that I'm committed to the importance of languages within liberal arts education that we have in Arts and Sciences,” Markham said “What we need to be open to is that there are different ways of delivering that language instruction.” This story was edited by Ismael Lele and Ana Barboza Natalie Armour and Avery Avery copy edited this story Anusha is news managing editor and covers the OU campus community and administration. 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Salons in malls in Markham and Vaughan were charged for public health violations during inspections last week Q House at C58 - 4300 Steeles Ave. East at Pacific Mall in Markham was charged by York Region Public Health April 28 for failing to ensure single-use instruments are discarded immediately after use The report also notes that the personal services setting which provides microblading/micropigmentation corrected several items during the inspection that initially were not in compliance including ensuring unused equipment in the service area is removed and ensuring reusable equipment is cleaned and disinfected or sterilized between each use A future re-inspection will be conducted Trade Secrets 301B - 1 Bass Pro Mills Drive at Vaughan Mills was charged April 28 with failing to ensure single-use equipment is not discarded immediately after use Not in compliance during the inspection was maintaining fixtures in good repair of a smooth and impermeable material and in a sanitary condition The report also notes that the personal services setting corrected several items during the inspection that initially were not in compliance The report represents the condition of the personal service settings at the date and time of the inspection only and does not guarantee or warrant the condition of the personal service settings at any other time contact York Region Health Connection at 1-800-361-5653 or TTY 1-866-252-9933 More Spotlight > I’ve known Lauren Markham’s writing since her first book, The Faraway Brothers I got to know her a bit more as a person when a friend emailed the two of us and another writer to ask our thoughts on writing (and teaching) journalism versus memoir or personal essay emailed back and forth between the four of us over a few months It also left me wanting to read more from Lauren I was in luck. Last year, Lauren published her second book, A Map of Future Ruins, which manages to be both rigorously reported and meditative, and this month she has a third book out, Immemorial one made all the more so by the chorus of voices that accompany Markham’s: Maya Lin on making places and later texts from friends fleeing their homes her from her home just north of the fires in Berkley Sarah Viren: I wondered if we could start by talking about the series your book is part of: the Undelivered Lecture series from Transit Press A number of remarkable books have come out of that series have a potential undelivered lecture stored up somewhere inside How did you find your way to this series and how did that framing inform or inspire Immemorial Lauren Markham: I first learned about Transit Books when Brad Johnson hand-sold me a copy of Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic a totally remarkable book of essays that is part journalism and part personal narrative that probes questions of agency and guilt (East Bay Booksellers burned down in a fire last year; they’ve just reopened and I really encourage everyone near and far to buy books from them!) Brad assured me I would love the book (he was right) and that it was published by a new Bay Area press that was “doing really amazing things.” I loved the book and began following the press and what it was up to I then learned about the Undelivered Lecture series—these short nonfiction books the press was beginning to publish—when I met Namwali Serpell at a cocktail party and she told me about the series and the project she was working on for it (Stranger Faces I was captivated by the idea of the Undelivered Lecture: these small compact volumes that are substantially longer than a magazine article but also substantially shorter than most nonfiction books I do think most of us have a lecture in us: some burning obsession or question we want to mull or the fruits we’ve gathered while venturing deep into a rabbit hole But I think what most drew me to the series was the possibilities of this middle length I’ve written dozens of 6,000-word magazine pieces What would it look like to make something in the middle SV: Axiomatic is one of my favorite nonfiction books But also that the formal constraints of an “undelivered lecture” helped shape this book Immemorial reads very much like a book-length essay and yet structurally there was also something story-like in its construction There were two ticking clocks of a sort: one your pregnancy and expected birth a subject you return to throughout the narrative but the other the currently unfolding climate disaster Can you talk a little bit about how you structured Immemorial but also how you thought about time both in real life and as it exists within the essay itself in large part because structure tends to confound me There’s no predetermined structure; you have to figure out what best serves the work you are making I figured out the structure pretty early on: we start at a moment of great tension in these people’s lives and then catch up with that first section about halfway through Each chapter was punctuated by a short dispatch from some fulcrum of violence or difficulty for Central Americans moving northward toward and then into the US The narrative nature of the book determined its structure are books animated by questions and ideas more than they are by narrative but only if the structure of a book allows them to be So one needs to come up with a structural conceit Because I was pregnant at the time of writing the first draft of Immemorial (I actually handed it in three days before my due date) I was noticing the ticking clock of pregnancy The pregnancy was a timeline that the book’s far-reaching preoccupations could graft to The same went with the unfolding timeline of the climate itself—all these repetitions of disaster there’s a structural conceit related to language One of the book’s preoccupations is the failures of language in the climate emergency or simply hasn’t caught up to the mutations of the world around us So a thread in Immemorial about my attempt to find a word to describe my desire to memorialize what hasn’t yet been destroyed which offers structure (the question of what happens next The book travels a lot of places and asks a lot of searching that provided a sense of structure to such a book SV: A component of that quest involves you thinking through examples of other physical memorials—for past wars for disappearing glaciers—but also a meditation on the word “memorial” itself You joke at one point that your immersion in the study of memorials meant you were seeing them everywhere including potentially in a half-used tube of toothpaste How did this project change your understanding of memorials as places but also acts LM: I have had a lifelong fascination with memorials ever since my dad forced my brother and I to visit Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial when I was in middle school It was like the coldest day of the year and I was so grumpy But then I just stood in front of this block of black reflective stone on which were carved thousands of names I was in no mood to be moved; I knew very little about that war; I had been given no framework to understand the space we’d entered into other than as some sort of history lesson my dad felt us California kids needed at the time the memorial shook me alive and awake and into a place of vivid feeling the power of spatial design upon the human psyche and spirit I’ve visited a lot of memorials since (in Rwanda I think I’ve been on a long quest to figure out how Because I am a person whose medium is words it is striking to me that the most moving memorials I visited employed very little verbal or written language it is another language entirely: one of space I’ve naturally come to understand how fraught memorials can be and thus can be incomplete or exploitative or nationalistic or intent on offering a single hegemonic version of things I really loved that writing this book gave me the opportunity to better understand their inner-workings as well as their more nefarious capacities I started out this book wondering if we could create climate-related memorials to remember not just what already had been lost but what I’d begun thinking about as the “future gone.” I found that there were so many such creations already out there some more explicitly identified as memorials and others more art projects or actions or even futurist designs that seemed to me to serve the same function that the most moving and explicitly-named memorials do offers a deep experience of presence that looks backward toward some atrocity or loss and forward toward the possibilities of a repaired future maybe a tube of toothpaste isn’t a memorial But the thing about spending so much time thinking about a social phenomenon is that you begin to see its resonances everywhere SV: It’s impossible to talk about this book without mentioning one of its more playful elements: the Bureau of Linguistical Reality its role seems to be helping you find a word to describe the desire you mentioned above that the organizers of the Bureau are actually helping you think through a larger question one you pose at one point this way: “What good were words when the world was burning?” How did your interactions and conversations with those from the Bureau of Linguistical Reality help think through both that desire and that question LM: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality helped me break apart language in order to see it anew again I was all business when I approached them: let’s make a word But their process was much more collaborative considering the multiple meanings of a single word or syllable feeling into the sonic resonances of language It was really a delightful process to be asked to engage with language in this way I still wonder about the power of words in the face of catastrophe But I feel less bereft about the prospect of language than I did when first writing this book It is now clear to me that “what is the power of words?” is not an answerable question What is certainly true is that words lose their power if you just assume that words are powerful rote as a result of such bluster and carelessness Then the meaning can begin to slip through our fingers which feels like a precarious state of affairs I’ve also decided that it is foolish to obsess over the legible impact of our writing The thing about art is that we can’t fully see what it does in the world once we’ve made it because our writing outlasts us and we can’t see the future what we make ends up in a larger ecosystem of ideas and creation Think of the exhibitions of long dead artists for instance; critics and historians look backward and assign—or see—new meaning that may not have been so clear at the time that artist was making their work I’ve come to a place as both a writer and a reader where what matters to me most is that language is as clear Writing can be an act of devotion to whatever you are writing about think and write in this spirit of devotion Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors limitless quality that seems to settle the nervous system there it was right in front of me: a dead pufferfish on the sand It became clear very quickly that this was not the only dead fish on the beach I scanned the beach: there were dozens of marine corpses—more pufferfish something that was becoming all the more common as a result of climate change What were all of these morbid pictures for it feels as though the world we live in is slipping away before our eyes The photograph is a gesture of record: we must see the vanishing as it’s happening so we don’t forget what’s being lost But I also understood the instinct to photograph to be a mediating force: something to put between myself and the dead fish Photographing insulated me from my sorrow about the ravaged world allowing me to focus on the picture I was taking instead Had taking pictures always been this way for me but I liked the opportunity to capture the world as it was by taking its picture and I got a manual camera—a Pentax K-1000—for my 12th birthday I can still feel the film advancing as I move the lever beneath my thumb and can still hear the click of the shutter I started to look at the world differently leaving friends and parties to be alone in the seething red light of creation watching the image as it appeared on the page I studied the romantics and fell in love with Ralph Waldo Emerson “A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.” It seemed to me that the camera afforded me some glimpse into the hidden interior of things and it also forced me to look more closely at features of the world I might otherwise just pass by Here's an image I took in high school of my best friend and some trees that seemed somehow her kindred pulsing heart of things; she seemed native to that which I could still barely touch I was playing around with infrared film at the time which picked up light not visible to the human eye—light that tended to emanate off of living things I used regular film; she was already illuminated from within I loved how this image came out: T on one half of the page we were given an assignment to manipulate an image we took using the negatives themselves (no Photoshop) I turned on the enlarger as I usually did to make a print of an image from the spinning series the branches of late spring intertwined right smack in the middle of the image This was probably the most interesting photograph I ever made and obsessed with the way the camera demanded my total presence I graduated college and lost access to a free dark room until one day I wasn’t a photographer anymore Years passed and then there I was in Mexico mostly out of touch with T and about to have a baby looking through my stupid iPhone screen at a pufferfish massacre with the same cavernous searching I’d felt as a kid I traveled up to the mountain meadows of the Sierra Nevada where a forest fire had recently burned The devastation was so potent that it was almost too hard to bear There was one group of now-dead trees that made a ring in the sky above I positioned myself beneath them and turned the camera on myself such that the trees formed a forbidding crown around my head never quite satisfied with the outcome or my reason for photographing in the first place The pictures certainly weren’t for the story I was writing Might as well just tattoo “asshole” on my forehead and call it a day The author below burned trees in Sierra Nevada But if I’m feeling a bit more generous toward myself I can understand it as an attempt to fix the memory in place—not just of the devastation like the ones in those old photos of T spinning the tree halo image conjures in me the dread I felt that day driving past spear after spear of burned up tree—a whole forest gone—far more than the video I took of the drive Our age of perpetual emergency demands a record of what is disappearing We build memorials for wars and genocides and bombings and other deaths I stood beneath that circle of blackened trees because it felt like I’d found a temple my father got a bee in his bonnet and decided that his California kids weren’t being taught enough U.S on our way to visit family for Thanksgiving We visited the Jefferson memorial then trudged past the White House and toward the Mall we kept walking and emerged from a patch of leafless trees to the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Two diagonal walls of gleaming black rock ascended to a meeting point—like a V or an open book—and were etched with the seemingly endless names of the dead I noticed that the stone reflected my own image like a mirror Without fully understanding what I was beholding I looked around at the other visitors standing solemnly before the rock a small bottle of Jim Beam—at the foot of the memorial or standing at the foot of some hulking god I had been determined to feel disinterested in everything we’d done that day I knew little about the war with Vietnam and practically nothing of nationalism or the hegemony of memory or the problems of the historical record (And I certainly knew nothing of the great controversy that surrounded the etched rock I was beholding Maya Lin.) But I could have stood there all day in the cold Ever since the fish massacre a few years back I have been feeling the need to find similar spaces in which to grieve the impacts of climate change—to remember the past and look toward the future I started looking for them everywhere I went It turns out Maya Lin had long since taken up climate change as a focus she erected Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park—a stand of 40 Atlantic Cedars killed by salination that she’d dragged up to New York then positioned in the park as if they were still living while the living trees surrounding the ghost forest continued to bloom and grow It was an uncanny installation; it was possible to walk beneath them with only a slight feeling that something was amiss Here’s an image I took in New York of the Ghost Forest My friend Jude—who hopped the fence with me a few hours after the park had closed in order to stroll beneath the trees at night then bolted with me when we were yelled at by the guards—stands just outside the frame It also heartened me to learn that I wasn’t alone in my pursuit to find—or in Lin’s case I began to write about all of this (climate grief dead trees) in what would become Immemorial As a writer—one who had long ago left my camera behind in favor of the page—words were my medium but I was finding myself struggling to put them to good use Linguistic wear was beginning to set in: how many times can you use the word “ravage” to describe a burned-out hillside before it ceases to mean anything Most of what I wrote about was related to either migration or climate change and I found myself reaching for the same tired words feeling as though I was scribbling while the world was burning Had I erred in putting down my camera long ago I longed to be like Lin: making something from the immediate stuff of the ravaged world itself So I continued to look to visual art—particularly installations and performance art—as an antidote to the impotence of words and I began to chronicle this search for Immemorial The book became a kind of memorial of my own through seeking the memorializing of others “Ice Watch” was another work that moved me the artists Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing moved hunks of ice from a calved glacier to Copenhagen where a climate action conference was being held The blocks of ice were positioned around a great outdoor courtyard what Eliasson and Rosing made struck me as a de-abstraction Here were bits of the glacier—a faraway entity for most of us living on Earth—right in front of you I loved the images I found of people placing their ears against the ice but it accomplished what most memorials set out to do: bring visitors into direct encounter with an atrocity and its attendant grief so that they might fully feel it A friend had also recently introduced me to the work of Jason DeCaires Taylor who installs underwater sculpture gardens in bleached-out parts of the sea sea creatures make homes of his sculptures literally and figuratively abundant with life was that he could never predict how and what his creations would become with all its creatures and unknown permutations I was moved by the restorative nature of this work But I was also taken with the narratives of the sculptures themselves DeCaires Taylor built an underwater forest that looks like something from a storybook including a number of little kids with cameras The scene speaks to the looming devastations of climate change camera in hand as they play hide-and-seek in the woods point their lenses at the human race,” the artist writes in which the wildness of the oceans is restored I recognized myself in those children’s fervent desire to record and capture But the slippage also demanded an unmediated regard I wanted to travel to Cyprus and swim down to the bottom of the ocean to see this forest for myself What would it mean to stand in my grief without the instinct to capture what I was grieving too: it offers a direct encounter with something we might otherwise wish to avoid A memorial asks us to feel the weight of something and return to our lives altered by it ravenous to be in the bigness of the world someone had lifted great white sheets among the trees so that they billowed in the wind They took such peculiar and ever-changing shapes We both pulled out our cameras and began taking photographs like the cubist guitars of Picasso and Braques (how the comparison would have delighted me back them) I can’t know for sure if this is an image I took But I remember what it felt like to lie on the ground The photo is a portal back to that time and place One thing I came to understand in writing Immemorial is that memorials are always about time: a place where one goes to stand in the present to look simultaneously backward and forward “In the next 200 years,” the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnasson wrote on a memorial plaque to a melted glacier “all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done as its own form of memorial: not to an atrocity Maybe a memory can’t help but speak to some form of catastrophe and grief is also a testament to lost friendship and a forsaken dedication to presence We had no sense of what devastation lay ahead of us—fires would soon transfigure the world we were only just beginning to know But at the moment of the photo it was just the two of us passed peacefully into the arms of his Heavenly Father on March 17 surrounded by the love and comfort of family after a sudden illness Marty grew up in Elizabeth City with a spirit as lively as it was endearing He had a knack for fast cars and playful mischief in his younger years leaving behind fond memories of his adventurous soul Marty’s love story began at a school dance Marty seized the moment and asked Joyce for her number sparking a bond that would last a lifetime Marty and Joyce shared 64 beautiful years together and later doting on their seven grandchildren and great-grandson especially in Joyce’s later years when he cared for her with unmatched love and compassion during her battle with dementia steadfastly by her side until her passing on January 5 Marty’s legacy extends through his beloved family including his children: Rene (grandchildren Ryan and wife Erin with son Graysen; Sara; Michael and Melina) and Kevin with wife Tanya (grandchildren Sydney He is also survived by his sister Susan (the late Kent Goodwin) and Joyce’s siblings Raymond Evans (Sheila) and Kay (the late Baxter Sawyer) and cousins who brought immense joy to his life To know him was to love him—a true treasure to all who crossed his path Marty’s faith was the cornerstone of his life as a lifelong and dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints He also delighted in fellowship with history enthusiasts as a member of the Sons of Confederacy During his long career at Sawyer’s House of Furniture Marty forged lifelong friendships and lasting memories he dedicated his time to being an extraordinary grandfather delighting in the company of his grandchildren and great-grandson and being an amazing husband The family would like to extend heartfelt thanks to Diana McClanahan as well as to the compassionate caregivers and staff at the DaVita Center whose kindness and impeccable care was much appreciated by the family and he will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and lasting memories lives on through his family and friends A visitation will be held for the family and friends on Friday at Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory A funeral service to celebrate his life will take place on Saturday at 11:00 am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints followed by a graveside service at West Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery memorial contributions may be made to the Visiting Angels Foundation at: https://visitingangelsfoundation.org/ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Olympic bronze medallist Spain continues to reign supreme in the Open Team Technical discipline with the nation’s energetic water-based interpretation of the Backstreet Boy’s iconic ‘Backstreet’s back’ track securing them a third-successive victory After a winning debut of the new routine at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Paris (FRA) in February, the team then made further improvements in the second leg in Somabay (EGY) the highly-fancied line-up lived up to their pre-event ‘favourites’ tag with their highest score of the season – 279.4640 – to ensure they topped the podium again The Team Technical contest is always a key-one-to-watch in any Artistic Swimming contest and the 10 strong line-up certainly delivered for the enthusiastic audience assembled for the opening day of action in Markham Although they did not quite achieve a place on the podium missing out narrowly in fourth the Italian team are delivering encouraging signs in this new era for the sport having previously struggled with the new rule adaptation They would ultimately achieve an overall total which was just over one point short of the USA in third but showed enough to suggest they will soon be regular medal contenders again The American swimmers have made improvements to the ‘Peacock’ themed routine since they last demonstrated it at the World Cup in Paris and are confident they will be medal-contenders come the World Championships in Singapore in July Japan too will also expect to be in the mix after a highly impressive choreographed ‘basketball’ inspired routine which attained an overall score of 271.4275 Ultimately no nation was able to challenge the seemingly all-conquering Spanish side who have made significant steps since recruiting their most decorated Olympic athlete after she guided the USA to silver at Paris 2024 The team scored 279.4640 and insist their passion for the music only grows “This is the best technical team I’ve swam in,” Olympic bronze medallist Paula Ramirez told World Aquatics I went to a concert with my friends a few years ago in Barcelona and at the beginning I didn’t think it was possible but it’s so much fun to perform not just now but every day to swim with music you can also dance with.” USA Olympic silver medallist Jamie Czarkowski believes her team are benefitting from a refreshed coaching line-up and strong team dynamic “Our goal was to swim the best that we could and we didn’t really focus on a placement we just wanted to do our best with no base-marks and improve from Paris and I think we did that so we’re very pleased,” she told World Aquatics “We’re learning a lot from Tammy (McGregor new head coach) as she’s very tech focused which has been good for us but we also really learn from one another as well as our assistance coaches and we’re looking forward for the rest of the competition.” While there is still a lingering sense of disappointment in the sport following the news that the Mixed Duet discipline will not be part of the Olympic programme for the LA 2028 Games those competing are determined to prove the discipline is worthy of a place A renewed effort to push for Brisbane 2032 will inevitably grow in the coming years the field assembled in Markham showed just why there is so much excitement about the potential of pairing female and male athletes Dennis Gonzalez and Mireia Hernandez claimed the European title together in Belgrade last summer and made a winning return as a duet in Somabay last month They were pushed hard by emerging Chinese talents Guo Sitong and Shi Haoyue who would ultimately finish just 2.6550 points behind the Spaniards Hernandez and Gonzalez again proved there are the duet to beat at this level with a strong display even if they felt it was a far from perfect delivery of the ‘hip hop’ themed routine “We had a bit of a mistake in the competition but we tried to keep going with the choreography and achieve our goal but we’re going to try and keep improving,” Hernandez told World Aquatics Guo and Shi insisted their strength comes from not only their passion for the sport but their mutual appreciate of one another outside of the water which helps them push to attain their true potential “We have only been together for two months,” revealed Alferez she asked if I’d like to do the mixed duet and I said I would love to “I think my experience matched with his freshness is a really good combination We didn’t expect a medal and I don’t expect a medal we just try to give the best version of us.” Triple World junior champion Xu Huiyan (CHN) delivered her best performance of the season to date with an outstanding display in the Women’s Solo Technical final to claim first gold of the 2025 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham The third leg of the series serves as the final opportunity for athletes to book places at the Super Final which takes place in Xi’an, China, from 13-15 June. China, a nation which claimed Olympic titles in both the Team and Duet disciplines at Paris 2024, aims to show further evidence of their potential to dominate this sport in their home nation and Xu has given their fans further belief, despite the absence of Olympic stars following post-Games breaks. Performing to the ‘Lovesickness’ routine she debuted earlier in 2025, Xu attained a colossal overall total of 252.3116, which was more than 13 points higher than she attained at the Paris World Cup in February. “I didn't expect anything before the competition as my body condition was not at the best,” Xu told World Aquatics. “I’m a little bit sick before the competition, especially on the way to Canada. “So, right before the competition, I just focused on myself, focused on the routine, focused on the technique and tried to do the best.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Aquatics (@world_aquatics) That day Spain’s Olympic bronze medallist Iris Tio Casas had taken gold but she was forced to settle for silver on this occasion “I watched China (XU) and I think she did a really amazing swim and improved in artistic impression and especially the elements but I think I’m doing a really good job in every competition and improving with small steps,” she said the way that I moved them and the way that I looked at the judges but we have five elements and I would say my last element Completing the podium places and making a welcome return to the sport is two-time World medallist Vasiliki Alexandri (AUT) who had not competed since claiming two solo titles at the 2024 Europeans in Belgrade (SRB) last June “The goal from the beginning was a medal,” Alexandri tells World Aquatics “There are of course things you can improve but I’m very happy with the way I swam in my first competition for 11 months” The next to take to the pool were the men for their Solo Technical final and for the third event in a row, Ranjuo Tomblin (GBR) claimed a podium place but the young Briton secured his second victory following Mixed Duet Tech success in Paris earlier in the year The teenager landed a maiden major individual title with European Solo Free gold last summer and is now enjoying his best World Cup season to date “I would say this season it’s going better than any season I’ve had,” he said enthusiastically about his routine which matches classic with contemporary dance and aims to short the elegant side of male artistic swimming “I maybe feel like in previous seasons I could have pushed more and I feel this year is my year and I keep getting the rewards “We had another set of rule changes (for the 2025 season) and I think it’s really playing to our strengths and it’s really nice to be able to mix more of the artistic impression into the hybrids.” Double World junior solo champion Diego Villalobos Carrillo (MEX) won the first senior solo honour of his career with silver and a score which was just 3.3000 short of victory “I came to the competition to improve with my new routine so this (senior solo podium) is new for me and I’m proud of my work and how I express myself in the water Rounding off the top-three was Colombia’s highly decorated star Gustavo Sanchez, who delivered a highly charged performance and it soon became apparent why he was demonstrating so much emotion in the water. “I felt I swam with my heart and with my family, because my boyfriend (Sebastian Cuenca) is in the hospital, and it was emotional to come here. “He will be okay, but I swam for him and I’m happy with the result.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Aquatics (@world_aquatics) Investigators initially considered the man’s death suspicious but a post-mortem examination determined it was homicide Durham police responded to a wellness call in Pickering on Wednesday when they found the man Durham police are investigating the region’s first homicide of the year after a man was found dead in a vehicle Wednesday Officers were responding to a call for wellness check near Fairport and Third Concession roads in Pickering when they found the man Investigators initially considered it a suspicious death but a post-mortem examination determined it was homicide, police said in a media release The victim has been identified as Joshua Ibbitson Anyone who was in the area between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning is asked to contact Det Graham of the Homicide Unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext 5418 or anonymously through Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 the best artistic swimmers on the planet will unite in the Canadian city of Markham as they bid to secure the results that will land them places in the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2025 - Super Final Around 430 athletes from more than 20 nations are set to take to the water across three days of competitions in Markham, with the 11 medal events taking place between 1-3 May The USA and Spain shared the headlines with spectacular team performances in the opening World Cup leg in Paris claimed two of the three team titles on offer in Somabay They will go head-to-head again in Markham, while Ukraine, who won the Team Acrobatic  event in Egypt Italy and Japan are each expected to deliver a range of dazzling displays as momentum builds ahead of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore China’s rising star Muye Guo, a double gold winner in Somabay, is one of the leading male ones-to-watch, with Spaniard Dennis Gonzalez and Britain’s Ranjuo Tomblin On the women’s solo side, Austria’s two-time World championship medallist Vasiliki Alexandri will take to the water competitively for the first time since winning double gold at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade last summer Canadian World champion and three-time Olympian Jacqueline Simoneau certainly knows about solo She gave World Aquatics her thoughts on what the 2025 Markham World Cup is likely to have in store but what made me smile the most is seeing how much the athletes are pushing the limits of creativity and athleticism under the new rules,” says Simoneau “There’s a sense of freedom and boldness in the routines that is incredibly exciting to watch.” but they are helping to modernise and evolve the sport in a really positive way,” Simoneau tells World Aquatics “It’s been fascinating to see different nations interpret the rules through their own styles and strengths — some are focusing on higher technical difficulty while others are emphasizing artistry and precision It’s creating a really diverse and dynamic field!” “I’ve been especially impressed by the adaptability and innovation shown by both athletes and coaches this season,” she says “What’s been truly inspiring is seeing strong male athletes not just participating but becoming key contributors to their teams “Dennis Gonzalez (Spain), Kantinan Adisaisiributr (Thailand), Artur Maidanov and Aldiyar Ramazanov (Kazakhstan) have really stood out. Simoneau continues; “Kazakhstan, in particular, is leading the way by fully embracing the strength and unique qualities that male athletes bring, integrating two men into their team. I “It’s exciting to see this new direction for our sport — one that’s more inclusive, dynamic, and reflective of the broader athletic potential within artistic swimming.” “The integration of more men into team performances has been a major, and very positive, development for the sport,” Simoneau tells World Aquatics. “It brings a new energy and physicality, and it’s inspiring to see more male athletes finding a place in artistic swimming at the highest level. “I absolutely believe that with three more years of development, we will see strong male participation in LA28 — and not just participation, but athletes who are truly essential to the teams’ successes!” “Watching this season has been incredibly exciting!” she reveals. “It’s inspiring to see how the sport is evolving and how athletes embrace the new era. “Alongside my academic pursuits, I’m thrilled to be staying involved in new ways — supporting athlete development, mentorship, and helping to grow the sport both nationally and internationally. “Artistic swimming continues to be a huge part of my life, and it’s energising to contribute to its future from a new perspective! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Canada Artistic Swimming (@canadaartisticswimming) “You can expect the Canadian athletes to bring a lot of heart, technical innovation, and resilience to Markham,” says Simoneau. “They have been working so hard to adapt to the new system and to build routines that showcase both their athleticism and their creativity. They’re hungry to perform in front of a home crowd, and I think they’ll certainly rise to the occasion! “The Markham crowd is going to be electric! “Canada has a very passionate and supportive fan base for artistic swimming, and with the energy of a home competition, I have no doubt the athletes will feel that boost from the stands! It will be a memorable atmosphere for both the athletes and the fans.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Aquatics (@world_aquatics) “The sport is looking stronger and more dynamic than ever!” Simoneau tells World Aquatics. “The athletes are adapting quickly to the new demands, and there’s a real excitement around where the evolution of artistic swimming is heading. “With the increased integration of men, the new emphasis on difficulty and creativity, and the broader global participation, I think Singapore 2025 is shaping up to be a historic event! “It’s an incredibly exciting time to be part of the artistic swimming community — whether as an athlete, coach, fan, or ambassador. “The sport is growing, becoming more inclusive, and constantly pushing its own limits. I’m so proud to be part of this journey and can’t wait to see where it leads next!” Show Breaking News BarCloseLocal NewsCatherine Silver SEMINOLE COUNTY we see all the signs of modern growth every day but most of us have no idea about the history that is sometimes right under our feet One of our News 6 viewers reached out to us about a part of Seminole County that has disappeared through the decades He recently discovered apparent gravestones just beyond his property near Markham Woods Road a site which appears to be part of what was once known as Pinnie Ridge Cemetery “I’ve been here since 2008 and didn’t even know it was here,” said Bill Klatt Klatt explored the woods with our News 6 crew where he found several markers hidden in the trees away from a clearing where a small cemetery is located [EXCLUSIVE: Become a News 6 Insider (it’s FREE) | PINIT! Share your photos] “We don’t know if more people are buried here or not,” said Klatt the coordinator of the Museum of Seminole County History said the property has had many names through the years; Oak Grove Cemetery or Oak Island Cemetery “This is one of the many small cemeteries that dot our landscape,” said Lloyd “There were a lot of cemeteries that were established around small communities “William Markham was originally from Atlanta,” said Lloyd “He was a rare Union sympathizer in Atlanta and after the Civil War he tried to run for mayor Lloyd said this area in Central Florida became a focus for northern businessmen who came down and started to develop it which we have on maps up to 1896 when he died,” said Lloyd “He had African American labor working his orange groves He also owned land near Mellonville and Ft Lloyd said the town of Markham had a vibrant Black community and a sizeable group of laborers who developed the lumber and turpentine in the area A historical marker off of Markham Road today reads Markham and its surrounding area attracted not only a labor pool but also permanent settlers who bought their own land and survived many hardships with dignity.” you would be scoring the turpentine trees and putting Herty cups down to collect the resin,” said Lloyd “And then you would boil it and distill it into turpentine spirits You can actually see a good example of one of those preserved in Barberville The primary landowners throughout Seminole county at this time were the Overstreet Turpentine Company Markham was a thriving town in the 1880s and early 1900s because of its location near the river and Lake Eustis Railway Lloyd said the community buried at Pinnie Ridge was close to the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church which would have been the local community center for the working population “That was here until 1928 when it burned down,” said Lloyd After the longleaf pine trees were harvested in the area Lloyd said it was commonplace for people to move to the next field and so towns like Markham were left behind and they would drop it on another plot of land nearby and they would do the same thing to that land and it would just migrate around the county,” said Lloyd “This whole area became a system of mobile communities that were working in those turpentine industries.” if you visit the woods where the Pinnie Ridge cemetery was The only peek into the past are metal markers Lloyd says many of the wooden crosses that once marked burial sites disintegrated through the decades “A 1996 study of this site and the community of Markham noted that a lot of the grave markers that were original to this site were made of wood,” said Lloyd “Florida is not kind to those kinds of organic materials.” Many of these Central Florida ghost towns were subsumed into incorporations and annexations as the central cities of Seminole County developed “There are dozens of these cemeteries scattered around the county some of which have been lost to development already,” said Lloyd “We’re working on trying to figure out what parking lots they’re under.” Since much of Pinnie Ridge has disappeared Lloyd said it is impossible to know how many people are buried there and how big the burial ground could be He told our News 6 crew there is some evidence that the cemetery has overflowed its allotment and spilled out into neighboring lots There are estimates that anywhere from 25 to 75 people are buried at Pinnie Ridge “But those estimates are also older,” said Lloyd We see graves that are from the early 2000s so we’re only as good as the records that we receive.” Online records from Seminole County show the property is currently known as the New Island Lake Cemetery and it can still be accessed off Markham Woods Road Lloyd said it is possible that the gravesite markers Klatt showed us beyond the clearing could be individuals whose families couldn’t afford to bury them at the actual cemetery “It could be that there were poorer individuals who still wanted to be close to the cemetery but didn’t really have the money to purchase plots There’s really no way of knowing who’s buried here and where unless there’s some kind of archaeology done.” Klatt said he received a letter from a law firm who represents the owners of a nearby property who wish to build one to two homes on their land Documents show they paid for a ground penetrating radar report but showed no evidence of any graves on the adjacent parcel Seminole County’s Planning and Development team is currently reviewing a Future Land Use Map amendment which does not guarantee any development activity on the site Klatt says the site where the Pinnie Ridge Cemetery was located captures the “essence” of Markham Woods and is essential to its history He believes the land where there are graves should be preserved we probably wouldn’t be enjoying our community as we enjoy today,” said Klatt “It would be very important to restore this cemetery and also make it a historic site.” 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An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account. 4 days agoDuration 2:31:00World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Markham: Mixed duet technical & team technical4 days agoSportsDuration 2:31:00Watch the mixed duet technical and team technical events at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham, Ont. Food solutions company announces its second acquisition this month now adding three fuel centers and convenience stores to retail footprint "Markham Enterprises fits well in our current retail portfolio, as we look to expand our fuel center and convenience store footprint," said SpartanNash Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Information Officer Masiar Tayebi "We are in the process of refreshing many of our existing fuel centers so this acquisition is another exciting milestone in our investment in this part of our business – and in our strategic growth plans overall We will continue to leverage insights from our fuel centers and convenience stores to continuously innovate our products and operations across our wholesale business unlocking new customer potential."    "Our team is impressed with SpartanNash's business model and the importance they place on their People First culture," said Markham President and CEO Denise Markham "We are excited for the ways SpartanNash will expand this business and continue to serve the Perry Howell and Lansing communities – and our Associates."   The transaction is expected to close in December CONTACT: Adrienne Chance  SVP and Chief Communications OfficerSpartanNash [email protected] INVESTOR CONTACT:Kayleigh CampbellHead of Investor Relations[email protected] Food solutions company SpartanNash® (the "Company") (Nasdaq: SPTN) today announced the launch of its third annual Our Family® Scholarship program... 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Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law] Deborah Archer Her Civil Rights clinic was the most foundational experience for me on campus We got to work on a variety of policy research We did stuff related to policing and civilian oversight of police She has been an amazing mentor and friend to me she was also relatively new to NYU at the time I remember reaching out to her and seeing her incredible background and just asking for some time to talk What stands out to me the most was Black Law Students Association (BLSA) It was the first organization that reached out and welcomed me after I was accepted As someone who worked in predominantly white spaces and had gone to predominantly white institutions it was important to see people who looked like me I knew that I wanted to be a part of it from the moment that I set foot on campus and I was really grateful to be able to lead it at one point BLSA has also done a service and cultural exchange trip we sat in on their version of court arraignments in the capital of Accra and we were able to help out with some caseload intake at prison facilities gun control group March for Our Lives as its policy and legal director It was my first job that focused on national advocacy and it was really eye-opening to work on issues ranging from federal appropriations to advocating for the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention We submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and various other courts around the country that were considering Second Amendment cases to try to put the voices of young people in front of justices We brought survivors of gun violence before state legislatures to try to help them address the proliferation of gun violence from a public health perspective I was grateful to have that experience right out of law school and to immediately get to work using all of the legal and policy-building skills that are not always applied until many years after law school I was fortunate to join the organization at an 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is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser Authorities continue to investigate a double homicide Sunday afternoon in south suburban Markham A 23-year-old man and 27-year-old woman were shot multiple times around 12:30 p.m Sunday in the 3300 block of West 167th Street according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office Autopsies Wednesday determined both victims died of multiple gunshot wounds and theirs deaths were ruled homicides The South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force is assisting the Markham Police Department with the investigation Markham police didn’t provide information on the investigation and there was no word on arrests Terms of Use • Privacy Notice • Cookie Policy • Terms of Sale Each week throughout the high school season, we will announce the Prep Baseball Washington Pitcher and Hitter of the Week recognizing standout performances from across the state With numerous players excelling both at the plate and on the mound this award will be based on nominations submitted 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All Rights Reserved. and an armchair in a Lee Jofa floral surround a Japanese Showa lacquered table Circa 1880 Dutch sconces flank an 18th-century Japanese Rinpa screen Circa 1940 Venetian glass chandelier by Paolo Venini from Newel; Circa 1900 Persian Meshad wool rug from Doris Leslie Blau.Photo: Nelson HancockSave this storySaveSave this storySaveAll products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links “It reminds me of a different New York than now,” concurs Roberts of the duplex, which spans the 16th and 17th floors of a 1920s Rosario Candela building and offers cinematic skyline and river views “A lot of these apartments have been entirely stripped or redone but this one still had all of its character.” The dining room banquette is upholstered in Claremont’s Inca stripe. Walls covered in a red Fabricut flannel enlivened with a Braquenié floral border applied vertically. Dinner plates by Carolina Irving & Daughters.Indeed the trio were in enthusiastic accord on nearly everything discovered his work through a mutual friend but Markham has exquisite taste,’ ” the client ‘What’s so great about it?’ But his name stuck in my mind.” An initial meeting confirmed the serendipitous match “They were clear that they loved color and pattern and were open and game,” Roberts says of that first encounter “There’s often this trying to gently let somebody down out of a terrible idea Mainland wicker dining chairs by Century Furniture surround a custom teak table on the terrace Bonacina 1889 wicker chairs (a material incorporated throughout the home for a dose of informality) surround the custom table The powder room walls are covered in Sophie Coryndon’s Albarello linen The theme carries on in the nearby library where walls and drapery of another Décors Barbares pattern make a bold statement alongside an Austrian Secessionist vase and lamps designed by Josef Hoffmann The husband quips that “the whole reason we bought this place was a minute to ourselves in the hidden bar.” “I feel like I’m standing in a palazzo in Venice,” she says “It’s this sweep of elegance that I still can’t believe is my home.” Or This story appears in AD’s April issue. Never miss a story when you subscribe to AD. Jugendstil-inspired painted frieze designed by Roberts and executed by Roberto Mora Flooring of Hexagon Mosaic tiles by Waterworks 3 days agoDuration 2:29:57World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Markham: Mixed duet free and women's duet free3 days agoSportsDuration 2:29:57Watch the mixed duet free and women's duet free events at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham, Ont. Northwest patrol officers responded to 10923 West Markham Street in reference to an assist medical call for service MEMS responded and transported Byrd to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later The scene was secured and LRPD Homicide Detectives were notified and responded the Pulaski County Coroner transported the deceased body to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy and the next of kin was notified Homicide Detectives along with the Crime Scene Search Unit were notified and responded A preliminary investigation began as detectives canvassed the area This investigation is ongoing and occurred in the Northwest Division To see the incident report, click here Sean David Burkhardt was taken into custody and charged with Capital Murder Melbourne Civic Theatre is set to tickle some funny bones with John Chapman and Ray Cooney's classic British farce The comedy offers a mix of rapid-fire wit and playful chaos the show is a whirlwind of mistaken identities secret rendezvous and an escalating series of comic misadventures Director Peg Girard sums up British farces with images of “slamming doors and underwear.” but you’d have to be pretty sensitive to really be offended by the cheekiness," she said Markham" follows the escapades of Joanna and Philip Markham whose orderly life in a posh London flat is upended by unexpected guests so the plot is complicated and fast-moving "The hijinks are set in motion when an attempt by both halves of a couple to arrange their respective assignations goes awry," Girard said "This leads to bucket loads of sexual innuendo mistaken identities and double entendres." "The comedy resulting from their misunderstandings and coverups is outrageous they’re happy to return to their very conventional marriages," she said The story thrives on rapid-fire dialogue and physical comedy since the slamming doors and unexpected entrances help to escalate the absurdity "The show has to barrel forth like a well-oiled machine the situations growing ever more outlandish for the snowball effect to work," Girard said "Getting the cast to go faster and faster is a challenge for us all." A good farce crafts situations where everyday mishaps spiral into hilarious mayhem Markham" is a perfect example of the genre "There’s a scene with a louvered door through which a tug-of-war with a certain undergarment takes place," Girard said "Working the mechanics of this hilarious moment to get the timing right with neither party being hurt takes time and precision." Girard hopes that the play will remind audiences that finding humor in the chaos of life can be entertaining and offer a welcome escape from the everyday world chances are it can’t compare to the high stakes this farce’s characters are battling," Girard said "It’s a joyful ride for audiences to take for a couple of hours and leave their own problems outside." Website: mymct.org Christina LaFortune is the Entertainment and TGIF Editor at FLORIDA TODAY. Follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/christinalafortune or send her an email at clafortune@floridatoday.com Whether you're interested in music, theater, festivals or other local entertainment, FLORIDA TODAY has got you covered. Support local journalism by subscribing at Special Offers - USAToday Network Due to recent events, you can now leave online condolences with each obituary posted on the Kutis Funeral Home website. COVID-19 Funeral Assistance – FEMA is now helping those that have lost a loved one from COVID-19. Click HERE to review the information on eligibility and requirements on the COVID-19 Funeral She is survived by her son Craig (Karen) Markham of St Louis and Scott Markham of St Peters along with two grandchildren; Addison Rose Markham of Nashville and Jeffrey Arnett of Alachula Lisa Luttrell and her brother Alex Grippo along with her parents William Vito Grippo and Incoranata (Julia) Grippo She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews Growing up in South St Louis and graduating from Hadley Technical High School she enjoyed her career in bookkeeping and accounting working for companies such as Southwestern Bell and Petrolite Her infectious smile and sense of humor lit up a room She loved to make people laugh and spread joy to those around her She loved spending time with her kids and grandkids and with anyone willing to listen to one of her funny stories she made a lasting impression on everyone around her she donated her body to St Louis University School of Medicine in hopes that she could contribute to ongoing medical and scientific research A private burial will take place at the conclusion of the research SERVICES:  Memorial visitation at Kutis Affton Chapel (10151 Gravois Road Affton, Missouri 63123) on Saturday, February 22, 2025, 11:00 a.m. until memorial service at 1:00 p.m.  Contributions to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation appreciated long life and now I know where you got your sense of humor from Let us know if we can do anything so you have time to process and grieve Our deepest condolences on your mother’s passing and your entire family peace during this difficult time We are deeply sorry for your loss Scott and Graig She was certainly a special lady and we enjoyed knowing her May your hearts be filled with love from all those that treasured her Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" For personalized and affordable funeral arrangements choose Kutis Funeral Home - a family-owned establishment serving St 2906 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63118314-772-3000 10151 Gravois Road, St. Louis, MO 63123314-842-4458 5255 Lemay Ferry Road, Mehlville, MO 63129314-894-4500 Brett Markham was appointed deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency assists the director in leading the agency He is also responsible for managing the National System for Geospatial Intelligence “Mr. Markham has over 37 years of combined military and civilian leadership experience … 16 have been at NGA,” said NGA Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, a three-time Wash100 awardee.  Markham previously served as the NGA’s chief of staff As a member of the executive leadership team and third-ranking officer he was responsible for the agency’s daily operations corporate communications and congressional engagement.  The NGA leader also served as the west executive and deputy associate director of operations Markham represented the director and deputy director at the agency’s St where he was instrumental in the integration of all activities cross-cutting activities for all critical components of the agency in the West while ensuring open communication between the leadership team and the workforce Office of Expeditionary Operations and NGA leadership at the three NRO Aerospace Data Facilities Some of his tasks included coordinating operational collections and requirements The new NGA deputy director also worked as director of analytic operations at the Analysis Directorate where he spearheaded the integration execution and transformation of GEOINT operations across the directorate’s offices and NGA support teams He also served as associate deputy director for operational engagement and deputy director of the NGA Operations Center Markham served as the deputy director of Intelligence for North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S Northern Command and as director of Intelligence for U.S The premier source of breaking business news for the government contracting industry to-the-point stories of the most significant contract awards M&A activities and financial results of the sector’s most notable players GovCon Wire is always on top of the most recent contracting sector activity and is updated in real time as the news breaks Important URLs: About us – Government Contracting FAQ – Guest Contributions – 2024 Events Matthew Ledbetter on the mound for Kentlake © 2025, Kent Reporter + Sound Publishing, Inc. + Black Press Media a Greek reporter for the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel began messaging someone who claimed to be one of about forty migrants stranded on a small islet somewhere in the middle of the Evros River which forms a border between Greece and Turkey They were apparently trying to cross into Greece in order to seek protection on European soil Among them was a five-year-old named Maria who was traveling with her parents; her twin Some of the group members had reportedly ended up on the islet after the Greek authorities captured them on the mainland and forced them back into the river and they had dwindling provisions and waning cell batteries As close as they were to shore at certain points—less than the length of a soccer field—any attempt to swim across the river’s racing current could prove deadly they beseeched human-rights workers and journalists In a country of more than ten million people in which more than one million refugees had arrived since the start of 2015 migration had become one of Christides’s central beats the Greek government had amassed a long track record of human-rights abuses against migrants Christides frequently received messages from people in desperate circumstances he happened to be on vacation by the sea with his wife and kids he began a lengthy correspondence with the group only the authorities could have helped them to safety The border region in which they were stranded was a heavily patrolled military zone; anyone who appeared to be helping a migrant reach Greece from Turkey could be charged with facilitating illegal entry All he could really do on the group’s behalf was reach out to officials and take to social media “Greek authorities have their location,” he tweeted “but as usual show no willingness to follow court orders In a video call I had with a young girl from the group today she took me through the Evros islet and begged for help.” Christides had come into his own as an international journalist during the post-2008 Greek debt crisis Mass refugee arrivals to the country began soon after he had been writing for Der Spiegel for a decade and had won numerous awards He’d reported critically on both the left-wing Syriza government and the center-right New Democracy regime that took its place He had been widely criticized by readers across the political spectrum and I believe that better systems are possible and that it’s important to hold the government accountable.” It seemed likely that the Evros Thirty-eight were victims of what’s commonly called a “pushback.” In this practice and force them back across the border—sometimes to their deaths While such refoulement is prohibited under international law thousands of pushbacks have been reported in the Aegean Sea strandings just like the one in which the Evros Thirty-eight found themselves members of the group got in touch with a number of humanitarian organizations including the Greek Council for Refugees and HumanRights360 which in turn informed authorities and demanded the refugees’ rescue nearly a week after the Evros Thirty-eight were first documented on the islet these NGOs appealed to the European Court of Human Rights which swiftly ordered the Greek government to rescue them Journalists and advocates worked to confirm their location via metadata from the images they shared trying to determine whether they were messaging from Greece or from Turkish territory two witnesses were able to take an audio recording of the group from the Greek side of the river the Greek authorities claimed they couldn’t find them the group spots a few men on the Greek side of the river The refugees claimed that he later destroyed it and left it on the bank They also said that masked men had come to the islet then transported them to the Greek mainland—but after several hours in detention they were once more forced onto boats and taken to the Turkish side of the river Turkish authorities transported them to another nearby location Christides and others had been sharing the stranded group’s photos and messages on Twitter nearly every day “for [Greek] authorities to fail to respect the European Court of Human Rights’ order and rescue these people.” It now seemed that practically everyone in Greece had heard of the Evros Thirty-eight One corner of Twitter was aflame with indignity that the government could so wickedly leave people to die hardened by years of refugee arrivals and a rise in xenophobic right-wing politics was equally and oppositely incensed: these refugees could have stayed in Turkey and avoided their fate had they not been so greedy for Europe and the group continued to send a deluge of dire messages to the people they thought could help them “We are hungry and sick and insects have bitten our bodies,” one pleaded Two of the group’s members had already drowned during the initial crossing “My grandmother is crying and saying let me just die here,” a woman named Baidaa deports us and is throwing us onto the islands more than three weeks after they were first reported to be on the islet Baidaa sent sobbing voice messages: Two sisters nine-year-old Ayah and five-year-old Maria had been stung by scorpions and fallen ill They sent photos of her body laid out stiffly on the brittle grasses pants pulled down to expose the fatal wound “I will never forgive this world,” Baidaa wrote to Alarm Phone “Do you know the feeling of a father and mother when they lose a child . .  and their other child is fighting death in front of them?” another in critical condition.” Der Spiegel published his article the next day the line dividing Greece and Turkey is relatively new would follow the median line between the main channel of the Evros River which spills from the great Rila mountain range of Bulgaria down through the hilly green borderlands of Greece and Turkey But the exact line wasn’t drawn by the countries until 1926; it took three years to determine the primary fork of the many-pronged waterway and to locate the exact middle of the river “The idea of a natural border is a misconception,” Stefanos Levidis a research fellow at the organization Forensic Architecture The mutable nature of border landscapes can pose political problems—like trying to keep track of where the line even is flooding shifted the course of the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border so dramatically that hundreds of acres of Mexican land were suddenly on the U.S side of the river; only after much argument did the States return the land to Mexico a century later The Evros is likewise changing all the time; new islets form and old ones erode away creating what Levidis described as a “zone of territorial confusion,” used by both Greece and Turkey to abandon asylum seekers such as the Evros Thirty-eight When the Greek refugee crisis began in 2015 Syriza and the Greek people largely welcomed the migrants who were arriving on inflatable boats and rickety fishing vessels from across the Mediterranean numbering more than 850,000 in the first year A crisis stays a crisis for only so long; the refugees landing in Greece morphed in the public imagination from innocents deserving of rescue into national nuisances the country where a refugee first arrives is responsible for examining the asylum claim Countries in Europe’s interior were effectively insulated from the surge the Greek government began detaining refugees on five “hot spot” islands in the Aegean where asylum seekers would remain until they were approved Only then would they be allowed entry into the interior of Greece and Resources were stretched thin on these islands as it was and refugees were spending years stuck in camps as they waited for their cases to progress It didn’t take long for the once-sympathetic newcomers to be cast as invaders Syriza had failed to extricate Greece from its immense post-crash debt and the New Democracy party swept local and national elections installing Kyriakos Mitsotakis as prime minister New Democracy had campaigned heavily on tough-on-border policies and it has kept its promises while further stoking anti-migrant rhetoric “Those who are not welcomed will be returned,” Mitsotakis said months after taking office in 2019 “We will permanently shut the door to illegal human traffickers to those who want to enter although they are not entitled to asylum.” Since he took power reports of pushbacks have dramatically increased—and early in his first term which also affected arrivals.) Polls make clear that New Democracy’s anti-migrant focus has resonated with a good portion of Greek society; the rest of Europe saddled them with not only generations of unpayable debt but also an undue responsibility to manage migrants for the entire continent The surge also deepened the country’s centuries-long rift with Turkey Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan flouted a long-standing agreement with Europe and opened its western borders allowing thousands of people to attempt crossing in a matter of days Greece detained many new arrivals in prisonlike conditions and suspended their right to seek asylum Authorities also used COVID restrictions to limit their freedoms hemming them into the camps with limited services and preventing them from leaving a migrant ship carrying some seven hundred and fifty people bound for Italy became stranded in waters off the coast of Pylos The Hellenic Coast Guard first ignored the distress calls scattering those on deck into the sea and dooming the many stuck below This looked suspiciously like an effort to ensure that the people on the boat would not enter Greece A bombshell investigation in 2020 made clear that authorities from Frontex the European border and coast guard agency not only knew about Greek pushbacks and did nothing to stop them but even witnessed and effectively participated in the acts alongside their Greek counterparts co-authored with several other journalists The article contributed to a widespread notion within Greece: European powers may rhetorically criticize the country for its human-rights abuses but they tacitly welcome—and even occasionally partake in—illegal efforts to secure the border “If Frontex not only turned a blind eye to abuses committed under its sight directly took part in them,” said Eva Cossé of Human Rights Watch in response to the report “it becomes every European Union member state’s responsibility.” Nearly two years later in part as a result of the revelations in Christides’s reporting (The agency said that its new management aims to “increase transparency” and “uphold fundamental rights.”) Mitsotakis’s pushback regime has been met with little effective resistance New Democracy was reelected in a landslide just weeks after those six hundred refugees died off Pylos The party’s continued popularity has depended on two key ideas its members fomented within the Greek public: that Greece is taking on the bulk of responsibility compared with most other countries in Europe and that many of the refugees coming over aren’t refugees at all Many of these so-called refugees trying to enter Greece are liars And journalists and humanitarian workers are aiding and abetting those lies “Maria is dead,” Christides wrote in Der Spiegel “She died at Europe’s external borders in early August because Greek authorities denied her all help.” He outlined the whole saga: the Evros Thirty-eight’s weeks of begging for help and the reports of a deadly scorpion sting members of the group would explain that the family buried the body near the riverbank “The exact circumstances of Maria’s death have not yet been clarified,” he wrote “What is certain is that her death could have been avoided The story was picked up throughout Greece and around the world Photographs of Maria circulated on the internet: a sweet-faced little girl with a bobbed haircut and yellow raincoat Thanks in good part to Christides and the humanitarian organizations that had been trumpeting the cause of the Evros Thirty-eight the Greek government’s deadly border practices—which tracked with a larger approach of inhumane treatment of refugees throughout the European Union—were exposed Though the Greek authorities had claimed that they couldn’t find the group the day after Christides’s piece was published but they couldn’t do anything to help them Their hands were tied; to rescue the refugees would exceed Greek jurisdiction It was Turkey’s responsibility to rescue them but the Turkish authorities hadn’t seemed to budge Two facts further complicated matters: first that the refugees had left the islet in question at least once—whether by choice or force is still not clear—and second that the international border in fact cut through the islet Depending on which side of the islet the group stood on they might be subject to a different country’s jurisdiction which for hundreds of years had been steeped in mutual acrimony and territorial disputes were now willingly ceding land to each other in a game of geopolitical hot potato The image metadata indicated that the group had indeed been contacting journalists and NGOs from the Greek side and nearly a week after Maria’s death was reported the Evros Thirty-eight managed to secure a rubber dinghy—which they claimed other migrants had left for them—and crossed into the country and with the blood of a little girl on their hands the Greeks did not push the group back across the border they took them to a refugee camp in the town of Fylakio meaning that refugees were not free to come and go the Greek minister of migration and asylum said in a public video address that the Greek government had immediately mobilized to rescue the group after learning that they were in Greek territory He blamed the Turkish police for sending the group across the river “which is completely illegal and is in breach of international law.” He then acknowledged the tragedy of Little Maria “Sadly it appears that a girl aged 5 years old has lost her life in Turkish soils,” he said “We will coordinate with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to ensure that the body of this girl is brought to Greece to be buried with dignity by her family.” traveled to Fylakio to meet with members of the group They were housed in a drab camp in the agricultural hinterlands of northern Greece a facility encircled by barbed wire and equipped to house around four hundred people but often holding far fewer though refugees had complained of being shoved into a single room with more than ninety others as recently as 2018 He asked the legal team from HumanRights360 if he could accompany them inside under their auspices members of the group were being housed in structures that looked like antiseptic shipping containers Christides sat in while attorneys interviewed Maria’s family and roughly a dozen other members of the Evros Thirty-eight Each person recounted the same story: a little girl named Maria had been stung by a scorpion Christides’s article continued to circulate around the globe and he published several additional articles with updates on the case Der Spiegel had also released a podcast episode about it in which one of the hosts asserted that he had never come across a case that “shows so symbolically what is going wrong in European migration policy.” The Greek authorities “would rather watch a five-year-old girl die than allow two or three dozen refugees into the country and take them in.” He noted the marked strides Greece had made in reducing migration flows and in providing more adequate housing facilities for those seeking asylum since New Democracy took power “Greece saves lives every day at our borders,” he said “but Greece does not accept that we are the gateway for smuggling rings.” With this Although just weeks before he’d issued his condolences he now asserted that there were “significant inconsistencies” in the group’s stories—chief among them the fate of Little Maria “There is no photo or video of the child while sick,” he said had been included on the list of people stranded on the islet that the Greek Council for Refugees had sent to the European Parliament He was insinuating not only that she may not have died but that the group may have invented her out of whole cloth There is perhaps no figure more rhetorically powerful than that of the dead or imperiled child Governments know this; human-rights activists know this; and people in desperate circumstances know this It was the United States’ policy of family separation that brought the brutalities of the country’s immigration system to widespread public attention images of the children of Gaza—dead and limp in a parent’s arms wailing at the death of their obliterated loved ones limbless or starving—have shouldered the task of proving Israel’s genocide And it was the image of the lifeless Alan Kurdi a two-year-old Syrian boy in a red T-shirt whose body washed ashore in Turkey after a 2015 shipwreck en route to Greece that mobilized people on behalf of refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean “He had a name: Aylan [sic] Kurdi,” the French prime minister tweeted “Urgent action required—a Europe-wide mobilization is urgent.” The image of Kurdi helped garner widespread sympathy and financial support for refugees landing by the thousands on Greece’s shores the Greek government had carried out pushbacks with frequency and near-total impunity became the perfect symbol of the Greek government’s violent border practices on behalf of “fortress Europe.” Now that same government was casting doubt on Maria’s death—on Maria’s very existence the authorities continued to publicly cast doubt on the family’s story Two witnesses from among the Evros Thirty-eight said they had lied to Greek officials about Maria’s death laying out the government’s case and cementing the state’s version of events The authorities focused in particular on discrepancies in the list of names that Mitarachi had mentioned in Parliament In order to make an appeal for rescue in the European courts attorneys had to provide an account of the beneficiaries Their list indicated only four children in Maria’s family—Maria cast doubt on whether there had been a twin; all four children could have been alive and well with their parents in Greece But at least one other refugee was also left off the list As Lefteris Papagiannakis of the Greek Council for Refugees explained to me the document had been assembled in haste; every minute counted it ended up creating an evidentiary hole that helped bolster the government’s side of the story The family eventually furnished proof from Syria that they indeed had five children but also Maya and Hanin—were not registered with the Syrian government until November 2022 it is common for births not to be registered immediately; by the same token it’s possible for families to obtain official documents for a child they don’t actually have But what about the fact that the family could furnish no photos of the seven of them as a group There was also the matter of the pictures sent from the islet; some believed that the group had used the living five-year-old girl to stage photos faking the death and then cast her as the surviving “twin” once rescued Right-wing Greek pundits and elected officials seized on the family’s alleged lies “They baptized the dead 5-year-old Maria to commemorate the feast of Our Lady,” tweeted an account with more than eighty thousand followers which coincided with the annual Greek Orthodox celebration of Mary; “Russians Turks and aliens want to destabilize our government with their agents the opposition and the foreign media.” Prime Minister Mitsotakis himself alluded to the Maria saga during a parliamentary debate an invasion is being staged under humanitarian guise,” he said “Maria’s parents spoke heartbreakingly of their daughter,” Christides wrote as the scandal unfolded I will not question them.” But the situation was doing no favors for reporters Public approval of journalists had been plummeting in recent years; even before the Little Maria case Greeks had grown increasingly suspicious about whether reporters were working Reporters who exposed Greece’s dirty laundry to the world were a nuisance to the Greek government having nearly lost its place in the euro zone after 2008 already had to vie for legitimacy on the world stage Journalists critical of government policy routinely faced smearing in state-friendly media threats of lawsuits from government officials the country ranked 108th in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index—the lowest in Europe Mitarachi tweeted that “the journalist in question”—Christides—“consciously chose to mock the Greek authorities.” ‘rescuers’ and ‘journalists’ who help and guide illegal immigrants through electronic means to enter the country should face the same criminal treatment as traffickers!” one wrote “Mr Erdogan  is very proud of you,” wrote another “You deserve additional payment for accomplishing your mission.” One person even posted a photo of Maria next to photos of various other girls being evacuated from war zones The Little Maria controversy did no favors for human-rights activists whom the government liked to paint as feckless—or even as smugglers masquerading as do-gooders The New Democracy government had worked hard to discredit NGOs in the public eye even attempting to prosecute staffers from organizations that worked with migrants while creating remarkable administrative hurdles in their work twenty-four humanitarian workers who had been based on the island of Lesbos were arrested and indicted on a host of charges was charged with forming a “criminal organization” and “facilitating the entry” of migrants into Greece The Maria case was thus the perfect trifecta for New Democracy: Look and the islet burial in order to manipulate the Greeks into letting them in and human-rights organizations and journalists had broadcast the fraud to all the world “I will not return to this macabre and disgusting discussion,” Christides wrote they were creatures of the imagination of journalists and NGOs.” it was impossible to know for certain whether Maria was a fiction Given the size of the islet and the river’s current NGO workers said they wouldn’t put it past members of either government to have removed the body as part of a cover-up Maria’s parents requested their daughter’s exhumation but when Greek authorities asked for more details about where the body was located Some observers spun this as further proof that they had been lying all along; others saw it as bereaved parents opting to let their daughter rest in peace rather than jump through painful bureaucratic hurdles the witnesses from the Evros Thirty-eight who told the government that they had lied about Maria recanted within a matter of weeks telling NGO workers that the opposite had been true: facing government pressure many of the advocates I spoke with were frustrated by the public’s fixation on the girl to begin with including my own for the purposes of writing this story The saga of the Evros Thirty-eight was not simply the case of a single lost life but demonstrative of the system of illegal pushbacks the Greek government had been pursuing for years in order to curb migration “If people choose instead to focus on whether a five-year-old died,” Papagiannakis of the Greek Council for Refugees told me There are some things that are certainly true: there was a group of refugees trapped in the Evros desperate for the help they qualified for under international law Both versions of the Maria story are tragedies she was concocted by a desperate group whose members wondered what it took to be saved and who had learned from the media’s responses to other humanitarian disasters Maybe a dead little girl would do the trick the idea of the lying refugee proved more powerful than the dead or imperiled one the Greek media was still astir with articles about the Evros Thirty-eight many vilifying Der Spiegel and Christides for reporting the refugees’ supposed lies the director of HumanRights360 emerged with a mea culpa claiming—despite evidence to the contrary—that the refugees had not been in Greek territory and that Christides had entered Fylakio on his own The lead lawyer working on behalf of the Evros Thirty-eight had resigned from her staff position at HumanRights360 though she continued to represent them as an independent lawyer at no charge authorities threatened to “take all necessary legal action” against Christides for entering the refugee camp under false pretenses dozens of journalists and humanitarian workers spoke up to support him including his Der Spiegel colleague Maximilian Popp who denounced the charges as attacks on press freedom and who called Christides “one of the most professional and dedicated journalists” he had ever met Then Mitarachi wrote a letter to Der Spiegel’s editor in chief condemning the reporting and Christides The Der Spiegel editors decided to launch an investigation into their own story The publication was just emerging from a scandal in which one of its star German reporters admitted to falsifying much of his reporting over the years and editors had taken pains to recover their reputation in the wake of the scandal They removed the articles on Maria from Der Spiegel’s website Christides never wrote for the outlet again he insisted he couldn’t comment on the details of the Maria case and directed me to inquire with Der Spiegel instead Representatives for Der Spiegel told me that they were not able to comment further on the results of their internal review or any staffing matters and that they had “not imposed any legal obligations” on Christides or anyone else who might speak about this case to the public The magazine published the results of its investigation in the final days of 2022 The editors provided a play-by-play of the evidence and verified much of Christides’s reporting though they pointed out various errors and cast doubt on some of the group’s claims and members: Baidaa who posted a TikTok video of a plane taking off from Athens not long after being rescued in Greece was captioned in Arabic: “I have arrived in Germany It was a long struggle.” She hadn’t been awarded asylum in Greece she wouldn’t have been allowed to board the plane It turned out that Christides’s original article hadn’t been thoroughly fact-checked before publication as was common for pieces published exclusively online Buried within the investigation is a key line: While the original English version carefully reports on the child’s death in several places in the subjunctive (“She is reported dead,” “the group says Maria died”) in the German version everything is in the indicative at the end the message is clear: Christides filed his article with the appropriate caveats but his editors turned Maria’s death into a semantic certainty the Der Spiegel team undertaking the investigation met with the family in the northern Greek town of Drama near the refugee camp to which they’d been relocated they wrote: “The parents can no longer remember exactly where the child is buried and do not have any photos that can prove her existence—not even from the past.” Until this point in the report the investigators are antiseptic in their recounting of things the family went to get photos taken for their new identity papers “They have not yet received their documents,” the report reads “The fear and mistrust that something could still go wrong is evident.” The family speaks to Der Spiegel for more than an hour the doubts about their story are not dispelled in the end.” Although they acknowledge that they have no proof one way or another seems to tell them that these people are lying Christides has since gone on to win major journalistic awards in the European Union but the incident was clearly a stain on his illustrious career “He was the native,” a Greek person familiar with the case told me expendable guy” taking the fall for Der Spiegel’s mistakes Maria’s case damaged other working relationships too; as a result of its statement of apology the Greek Council for Refugees refuses to work with HumanRights360 or appear at any event at which representatives of the organization will be in attendance which conducts spatial and media analysis on behalf of communities affected by state violence sometimes in partnership with various media organizations has not worked with Der Spiegel on migration issues since the scandal more than two years after the Evros Thirty-eight made landfall on the islet Little Maria is practically a household name synonymous with refugees’ immorality and the malfeasance of NGOs and journalists the little girl has become a “narrative trap” for anything to do with refugees “Now they’ve established that they hold the truth,” he said of the government “and everybody who speaks against border violence in support of refugees is at best a useful idiot to create well-designed propaganda unleashed by the Turks.” Papagiannakis agreed He told me that the government uses the story as a shield anytime it is attacked for its criminal policies “Every time I’m on TV with the deputy minister [of migration],” he said contend through attorneys that they had a daughter named Maria who died on the islet and whom they buried in the sand Many eyewitnesses confirmed their story in hearings before the Greek asylum authority in Fylakio the Greek Council for Refugees filed a case against the Greek and Turkish governments in the European Council for Human Rights for pushing back the Evros Thirty-eight will transform the story yet again into one of grave injustice on the part of the Greek government “The story about the little girl that you are attempting to bring back to light does not hold up,” Romina Xida a representative from the press office of the Hellenic Ministry of Migration and Asylum It’s tempting to see this as a story about a dead girl or about Christides’s ostracization or Kouniaki’s resignation after all: heavily plotted and full of victims and villains I didn’t harbor any foolish expectation of cracking the case or any desire to confront the parents with the most obvious and futile of questions: Was Maria real or a lie I wanted only to meet them and see whether they had anything to say One could read their silence in any number of ways: as a sign of mourning or simply as a sign of wanting to exit the story that had ensnared them when the refugees had been stranded in the Evros for nearly two weeks two Greeks ventured as close as they could to the militarized border zone This was remarkably risky; had they been caught they could have been detained and even criminally charged But they wanted to prove the existence and location of these refugees—a group that the government as close to the coordinates the group had shared as they could get They turned on their recording devices and messaged the group to let them know they were nearby It would be another three weeks before the Evros Thirty-eight were rescued—a period during which a child might or might not have died the refugees assembled on the sandy slope of the islet squatting between the river and the tall green brush they yelled together into the great void of Greece: “Heeeooooooooo.” The Greeks captured the audio: “Heeeooooooooo,” a little scratchy The recording ends with some cicadas and the wind blowing through the brush Timeless stories from our 175-year 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