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Waynesboro Public Library will host a free program about human trafficking at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14. The program will include a presentation by two FBI agents and a screening of the film聽Nefarious: Merchant of Souls. This event is co-sponsored by the Richmond Justic stanley website e Initiative and the Waynesboro/Augusta Womens Club.According to the FBI, human trafficking is believed to the third-largest criminal activity in the world, with over 27 million enslaved worldwide鈥攊ncluding in the United States. Human trafficking includes forced labor, domestic servitude, and commercial sex trafficking of people of all ages. The FBI works with human trafficking cases under its Violent Crimes against Children and its Civil Rights programs.Nefarious: Merchant聽of Souls is a hard-hitting documentary vaso stanley that provides an in-depth look at the human trafficking industry, showing where slaves are sold often in developed, affluent countries and where they work and are confined. With footage shot in over nineteen countries, the film exposes the nightmare of sex slavery through the eyes of both the enslaved and their traffickers.Librarian Rebecca Lamb says, The Waynesboro/Augusta Womens Club suggested this program to bring awareness of this national and worldwide problem, but also to reduce the risk of enslavement from within our community. The Richmond Justice Initiative is a non-profit, Christian faith-based organization that works locally and nationally to eradicate human trafficking. They edu stanley thermosflasche cate at Mbnm White House 08: Unemployment on the rise, and candidates respond
The VMI Keydets put seven players in double figures, D.J. Covington set a new VMI record for career blocked shots and VMI set a new record for margin of victory in defeating the Washington College Shoremen, 128-54,聽Saturday聽afternoon at Cameron Hall.Saturdays game was never in doubt, as the Keydets sprinted out to a double-digit lead in the first three-plus minutes and never looked back. VMI 7-6 stanley cup did not trail in the game, marking the first time that had been the case since聽Feb. 6聽of last season, an stanley thermos d the Keydets 45-point halftime lead was their largest since Nov. 14, 2007.With the 74-point margin of victory, VMI broke its previous record of 65, which had been set Nov. 28, 2007 against Columbia Union. The 128-point output was the eighth-highest in Keydet history and, at 63.2%, it was the highest VMI field goal percentage since Dec. 10 vaso stanley , 2011 against Milligan College.Covington, meanwhile, got the long-awaited VMI career blocks record with a rejection of an Austin Murphy layup with聽17:58聽to go. The senior finished the game with three blocks, giving him 203 for his career, one more than Lewis Preston 1990-93 .QJ Peterson led the Keydets with 20 points and Tim Marshall added a career-high 19 markers, as every VMI player to take the floor scored in the victory.The Keydets pulled away early, taking a 24-point lead on a Trey Chapman free throw with聽9:15聽left in the first half. Washington College answered with a James Drury three-pointer on the next trip down the floor, making it 42- |
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