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SOUTH BEND Mental illness affects 60 million Americans, or one in four, every year, and 13 million people live with a serious mental illness. To help people better understand the issue, Congress established Mental Illness Awareness Week in 1990. Since then, organizations across the country, including locally, have recognized the campaign.

Oak Lawn serves 16,000 clients in St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties combined. The facility provides both inpatient and outpatient treatment options, including help from hundreds of case managers and therapists in the community. This week, the foundation partnered with area organizations to bring awareness to mental illness.

"It's important that we face it. That we make sure that we give people the opportunity to talk about it, that we provide them with the appropriate support, that if they need help we get them the help they need", said Matthew Lentsch, the Executive Director at Oak Lawn.

Lentsch and his colleagues want October 5-11 to be about talking. Their hope is to break the stigma and encourage more people who need it to seek treatment.

"We're very prone if we have heart surgery to show our scars. If we have a broken leg to go to the hospital, but not so much when we're not feeling well," said Lentsch. "Stigma is a major barrier for people getting help and wanting to talk about it."

Some have found the arts to be therapeutic to those suffering from mental illness, and a local man has made it his mission to cater to vulnerable populations. Matthew Stackowicz started The Darkroom Project in 2010, while he was living in Yemen. He used photography to help Somali refugees find their voice. He continued the project in South Bend in 2012 and has worked with ex-felons and the homeless. Now, he's helping those coping with various diseases to use photography to express themselves.

"It helps them explore different aspects of their life and what they struggle with and what they find joy in," said Stackowicz. "We help people tell their story."

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Anderson is also working with several others to re-establish the Club House, formerly affiliated with the Madison Center, as an independent center. Club House is expected to open in the fall of 2017 and will provide outpatient services.

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By MIKE STOBBE and CONNIE CASS Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday despite intense but delayed treatment, and the government announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the deadly disease.

The checks will include taking the temperatures of hundreds of travelers arriving from West Africa at five major American airports.

The new screenings will begin Saturday at New York's JFK International Airport and then expand to Washington Dulles and the international airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark. An estimated 150 people per day will be checked, using high-tech thermometers that don't touch the skin.

The White House said the fever checks would reach more than 9 of 10 travelers to the U.S. from the three heaviest-hit countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

President Barack Obama called the measures "really just belt and suspenders" to support protections already in place. Border Patrol agents now look for people who are obviously ill, as do flight crews, and in those cases the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is notified.

It's unlikely a fever check would have spotted Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan wasn't yet showing symptoms when he arrived in the U.S.

A delay in diagnosing and treating Duncan, and the infection of a nurse who treated an Ebola patient in Spain, have raised worries about Western nations' ability to stop the disease that has killed at least 3,800 people in West Africa.

Speaking by teleconference with mayors and local officials, Obama said he was confident the U.S. could prevent an outbreak. But he warned them to be vigilant.

"As we saw in Dallas, we don't have a lot of margin for error," Obama said. "If we don't follow protocols and procedures that are put in place, then we're putting folks in our communities at risk."

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A man hospitalized after being attacked by bees in Hearne on Tuesday morning has been upgraded to fair condition.

Clark Rudy, 56, had been mowing the lawn near the C&C Secure Self Storage facility in the 800 block of West Brown Street at about 11 a.m. when the bees attacked, Hearne police said.

He was airlifted to St. Joseph hospital in critical condition, but a Hearne police dispatcher said Rudy was awake and communicating through written notes on Wednesday.

A paramedic who responded to the call on Tuesday morning was also treated, but a shift captain with Robertson County EMS said that person was doing well.

The area around the storage facility and an abandoned hotel were roped off Tuesday, and beekeepers from Moody Ranch Outfitters in Anderson vacuumed up the bees Wednesday morning.

Representatives at Moody Ranch Outfitters did not respond to requests for comment, but the website said the company relocates bees to its ranch in Grimes County instead of killing them.

Bill Baxter, the state's assistant chief apiary inspector, said beekeepers typically vacuum the bees and use smoke to pacify them.

While police have not revealed what kinds of bees were involved or where their colony was located, Baxter said bees can be found inside walls and even in a hole in the ground.

"The public needs to realize that this was an isolated incident, and the one thing I always tell people is before you crank up the lawn mower, walk around the yard and be aware of what's there," he said.

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Amendments to two city ordinances regarding mowing lawns and snow and ice removal in Boone passed first readings at the city council meeting Monday night.

We are looking to change the ordinances for snow and ice accumulation and mowing, said Director of Public Safety and Boone Police Chief Bill Skare. He requested the change so the ordinances would mirror each other. Right now theyre different.

The snow and ice removal ordinance requires owners of commercial property to remove snow and ice within 24 hours and residents within 48 hours after a snowstorm. If removal is not done, the city can hire a contractor to do it and fees are assessed to property owners.

All lawns, which, according to city code, must be kept below 12 inches in height, weeds included. If a yard is found in violation, the city can hire a contractor to mow it and assess the contractors fee to the property owner.

If council approves the amendments, notices of fees will no longer be sent through the mail, but assessed on property owners taxes. Penalties for violations of either city code will be a $50 civil fee and $5 administration fee, plus the contractors fee, which is different for each property.

Were trying to cut out some of the paperwork and streamline it so Mike (Salati, community service officer) doesnt spend so much time on the (administration) stuff so that he can do other things, Skare said.

Currently, if Salati answers a complaint or finds a yard in violation, he will send the property owner a letter informing them they need to mow the lawn. The property owner has 10 days to comply. After the 10-day period has expired, Salati has to go out and confirm that the lawn has been mowed. If not, he hires a contractor to do it. By then, Skare said, the grass may be two feet tall.

What this does is once Mike finds it at 12 inches, instead of going back and sending a letter, hes getting a contractor right away, Skare said. It gets us away from that two feet of grass.

If council approves the amended ordinances, public notices would be published in the spring and fall, respectively, in the Boone News-Republican, reminding citizens of the requirements, Skare said.

He is also planning on sending out information about the amended ordinances with the city water bills, if the ordinances are approved.

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A "lonely" man has been charged with masturbating in women's public toilets and pestering women for sexual services or their underwear.

Yook Suk Choi, 36, appeared at Christchurch District Court today to admit one charge of obscene exposure in a public place and three charges of offensive language and behaviour.

The court heard the police summary of facts that outlined Choi's bizarre attempts at attracting the opposite sex.

At 11am on September 1 this year, Choi was found inside the women's public toilets near New Brighton pier.

A woman left her toilet stall and saw unemployed Choi "standing there masturbating".

The "shocked" woman asked Choi if he was aware that he was in the women's toilets.

"[Choi] replied that hew knew that and the complainant ran out of the toilets," police said.

Just one hour later, a woman came out of the nearby Waimairi Surf Club public toilets when she was approached by Choi.

He asked her if she could take him into the women's toilet and perform a sex act on him.

"The woman was so concerned for her safety that she ran to her car and pretended to use her cellphone, which is when the defendant drove away in his car," the police version of events said.

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One man died and another was injured during a bee attack Wednesday in Douglas while the men were cleaning a yard.

A crew of four men who do landscape work through Douglas ARC, an organization that serves people with developmental disabilities, were working at a house in the 1700 block of 21st Street, said Capt. Ray Luzania of the Douglas Fire Department.

While the workers turned on lawn mowers, the crew was "attacked by a swarm of bees," said Luzania. The men ran to a house in the 1800 block of 21st Street for help, and the homeowner called 911.

Firefighters were dispatched shortly before 10:30 a.m. to the house where the men sought refuge, and worked on one man who had collapsed, Luzania said.

The 32-year-old man went into cardiac arrest, and paramedics treated him and took him to Cochise Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead, said Luzania.

"A witness said his face and neck were covered with bees," Luzania said.

The other man, who was stung more than 100 times, was treated at the hospital and released. The other two workers did not require treatment, said Luzania. He said the homeowner who helped the men drove herself to a hospital in Bisbee and was treated and released.

Firefighters went to the house where the landscaping crew was working and assisted an exterminator while he destroyed the hive. It was estimated that the hive had between 300,000 to 800,000 bees, said Luzania.

"The hive was in the eaves of the house and spread into the attic. The hive was 4 feet wide and 6 feet long," Luzania said.

The homeowner, a 90-year-old man who lived alone, was evacuated from the home while the hive was destroyed, Luzania said.

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TOWNSEND -- October is Massachusetts Archaeology month, and the Townsend Historical Society will be participating with "A Village Hooped in Steel: A Walking Tour of Fessenden Hill" from 1-2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

The tour will start at the New Hampshire end of Fessenden Hill Road. Join us to explore one of Townsend's forgotten neighborhoods, where cellar holes, the landscape and research into the records illuminate part of the town's past.

Architectural Historian Ryan Hayward, of the Preservation Collaborative Inc. in Medford, will lead a 90-minute long excursion through the northern portion of Fessenden Hill Road. Guests will enjoy a leisurely, in-depth tour of the remnants of life and work along the road.

The tour offers a rare opportunity to learn the stories of the people who once called this place home and how Townsend State Forest came into being.

The cost is $10 or free for THS members. Dress casually with comfortable shoes for walking along a fairly level dirt road. Space is limited, so plan to arrive early. Guests should meet at the Fessenden Hill Road gate; park on the cul-de-sac at 40 West Hill Road in Brookline. For information, contact the Townsend Historical Society at 978-597-2106, or visit preservationcollaborative.com.

The rain date is Oct. 19 at the same time and place.

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The city has been working to encourage a green rethinking of the urban landscape.

It is supporting efforts such as green roofs and blue roofs that help to absorb rainwater that would otherwise drain into the sewer systems. Such projects may, in turn, lead to healthier waterways, cleaner air and cooler temperatures during the summer.

Now the citys Department of Environmental Protection is calling for applications, due Nov. 13, for more than $5 million in funding for green projects throughout the five boroughs.

This is the fourth round of funding, and several green projects have already flourished. Here are six of them.

The green roof at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene is designed to absorb 435,000 gallons of stormwater a year. The vegetation acts as insulation, lowering the building's energy costs. And students get hands-on courses in the environment and sciences. (Credit: NYC DEP)

The Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farming business at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, produces some 50,000 pounds of produce each year. It received a $592,730 grant from the DEP. Besides produce, there are also hens and a commercial apiary! (Credit: NYC DEP)

The 3,140-square-foot Gil Hodges Community Garden is located in Gowanus. The New York Restoration Project won the support of the DEP to help install a rain garden or bioswale as well as to retrofit the garden with permeable pavers and flood-tolerant plants. (Credit: NYC DEP)

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House on East 70th Street is a 120-year-old social welfare organization. But just because it is old, doesn't mean it isn't looking toward the future their effort to create a green roof and garden being good examples of that. The project was finished with a $40,000 grant from the DEP. The 2,400 square foot green roof was designed to lower the building's energy costs. (Credit: NYC DEP )

The Osborne Association, a nonprofit that helps ex-convicts get jobs, received a $288,000 grant from the DEP to install blue and green roofs at its building in the South Bronx. The project was designed to handle 100,000 gallons of stormwater a year. (Credit: NYC DEP)

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