Area Tornado Victims Are Getting a Big Lift From Some Volunteers

(NEAR CORRECTIONVILLE, IA) Area tornado victims are getting a big lift from some volunteers who are doing things a strong back and a good heart can not accomplish.

Friday's twisters scattered debris for miles and some of the cleanup requires heavy lifting and sifting. The group is called Global Compassion Network and it's a non-profit organization based out of Eagle Grove, Iowa, and it brings along heavy equipment to clean up the bigger things and lend support to families in need.

From bags to brooms and a whole lot of love - volunteers work tirelessly to cleanup the mess from Friday's tornado. But there's really only so much a person's hands and body strength can do. That's where the heavy equipment comes in.
 
"When I pulled up here the other night and talked to the family we had our truck and our trailer with our skid steer on the back and I said do you guys need some help? And they kind of stood back a little bit thinking ok you're a scam and I said, we would love to come and help we'll bring our equipment and we'll move these trees," said Sherri Kubly, a Volunteer with Global Compassion Network.
 
Sherri left a card with Wayne and Debi Sadler, owners of the house and after doing a little research on the organization, the Sadler's welcomed the help and boy did they get it. Folks from Global Compassion Network and students from high schools in the area.
 
What makes this house a little bit different than the others, is all of the trees. About 90% of them were snapped in half and scattered all over the ground.
 
"We use skid loaders and grapples and either track machines or foam filled tires and we have an excavator, so when we show up with that, you can see all the high school kids working here today and we can make them much more affective," said Dennis Anderson, Global Compassion Network Director of Domestic Disaster Relief.
 
The main house was built around 1900 and even though the roof has been ripped off the house remains standing. The Sadler's had another home on the same property and it was completely destroyed; the basement is all that's left.
 
"We picked up the house out in the grove. I guess they built things little better back in the day," said Anderson.
 
Luckily, the house is structurally sound and the Sadler's plan on restoring this very sentimental home to its former glory.

The Sadler's daughter said when the tornado warnings started popping up on TV she called her parents to get them into the basement. She said her mom was cooking a pizza at the time and told her they'd go down but the pizza better still be there when she gets back.

Of course when they got out of that basement almost nothing was left. They flashed a light into the stove and the pizza stone was there but that pizza was gone. Just a glimmer of humor in a very tough situation.

A relief fund has been set up through the United Bank of Iowa in Kinsley, Iowa. It's under Wayne and Debi Sadler. Donations can be called in mailed or given in person.

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Source: http://www.siouxlandnews.com/story/23661765/area-tornado-victims-are-getting-a-big-lift-from-some-volunteers
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Orthodox Church slams surrogacy as 'mutiny against God', seeks ...

Published time: October 08, 2013 10:30

RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn

A representative of the Moscow Patriarchy has blasted surrogacy as “mutiny against God” and “happy fascism,” restarting the controversy after tabloids reports of a celebrity couple who used a surrogate mother to have children.

The comment from the head of the Patriarchy Commission for Family
Motherhood and Childhood, Dmitry Smirnov, arrived after Russian
mass media reported that in September 64-year-old Russian pop
star Alla Pugachova and her 37-year-old husband Maksim Galkin had
two children born through surrogate motherhood.

“I would ban this, of course. We can see that a bad example is
contagious,” the senior church representative was quoted as
saying by Interfax. “This is mutiny against God, this is very
happy fascism with a contract, the money and confiscation of a
child.”

The cleric also reminded that the Russian Orthodox Church
supported a complete ban on surrogate motherhood in Russia and
called on the State Duma to initiate such a move.

The official concept of the Russian Orthodox Church’s social
policy calls surrogate motherhood – the agreement in which a
woman carries and delivers a child for another person or couple –
“unnatural and immoral,” adding that it should not be
allowed even in cases where there is no monetary motivation.

A well-known church-backed politician Vitaly Milonov of the St. Petersburg City
legislature also condemned Pugacheva and Galkin for using
surrogacy.

“I would not congratulate this family with the fact that they
had bought themselves a child, that they have enough money. With
the fact that they could use some woman as an incubator to carry
their child,” Milonov told reporters.

“This is an immoral thing to do in the country that has tens
of thousands of orphans waiting to be adopted. Making oneself a
neat and clean baby is something akin to buying a new model
Ferrari,” said the MP who previously made himself a name as
the main sponsor of the law banning the promotion of
non-traditional sex relations to minors, known in the mass media
as the ‘gay propaganda ban’.

Surrogacy is legal in Russia and according to state news agency
RIA Novosti about 500 children are born in the country through
this procedure every year. Surrogate mothers must be between 20
and 35 years of age, have at least one child of their own and
pass a medical test.  The law guarantees the secrecy
to both parties. Prices for the services vary greatly, but it is
generally considered that in Russia they are up to one tenth than
in Europe and America.

Some other nations, such as Ukraine, South Africa and several
states in the USA also allow commercial surrogacy. The UK,
Australia, Canada, Israel and several other nations only allow
non-commercial surrogacy. Countries like Ireland and Greece have
no laws on the subject, leaving it in a gray area.

Surrogate motherhood is legally banned in Austria, Germany,
France, Norway and Sweden and in several US states, such as
Arizona and Michigan.

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