Angel Wings

Record News:"Man gives lift to those who need free ride for non-emergency health care Richard Sutton is an angel to many. An Angel Flight America volunteer, the Wichita Falls man is one of 850 pilots who help provide free, non-emergency transportation for people who have medical conditions that require travel. Angel Flight South Central - located in Addison, Texas - is one of the six groups that are a part of Angel Flight America. From Addison, volunteers oversee missions in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and parts of New Mexico, Mississippi and Tennessee. Sutton also happens to be a retired physician. "(Angel Flight) gives me an opportunity to stay involved in medicine and provide a necessary service," he said. Sutton prefers to take on flights that originate in the Wichita Falls area because he can meet the needs of local residents and be home in time to take care of his own responsibilities. Angel Flight pilots pay for each flight out of their own pockets. With aviation fuel currently more than $3 per gallon, a round-trip flight to Houston from Wichita Falls costs no less than $400. Most flights for Sutton have been to Houston where he has carried patients for treatments or consultations at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. More than 70 percent of the patients transported by Angel Flight South Central are cancer patients, including many children. The only requirements for using Angel Flight is that the patient be ambulatory, capable of being in an unpressurized aircraft and able to sit upright for the flight. Many use Angel Flight services because they don't have money to travel, but others may simply be too sick to drive or to fly on a commercial flight. Sutton believes the best part of being an Angel Flight volunteer pilot is contributing to the patients' care. He may have traded in his stethoscope for a pair of wings, but he continues to provide hope and healing for those in need.
To volunteer :
Pilots should have a minimum of 200 hours of flight time and access to at least a 4-seat aircraft To donate or for more information: www.angelflightsc.org"

Cats and dogs OK'd to cohabitate in Utah town

MSNBC:" Residents in Provo, Utah, can now officially own both cats and dogs. City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to replace the word “or” with the word “and” in existing city code, which means residents can now own up to two cats and, two dogs at the same time. The problem was discovered when Susan Sewell and her family went to the Utah County Animal Shelter in Spanish Fork to adopt a kitten. The family already has a cat and a dog. They chose a kitten and began filling out the adoption paperwork. But when shelter staff learned of their existing pets, the family was told they couldn’t have the new animal because Provo only allowed residents to have cats or dogs, not cats and dogs. “I don’t think people will abuse the law just because it gets changed,” Sewell told the council. She said the family will be returning to the shelter to try again to adopt a kitten. “The kids will be begging us tonight, I’m sure,” she said after the council meeting." Excuse me?? I live in Idaho and I have been to Utah, and never did I hear this one before...I know in the town I live you can't have more then 2- dogs, unless you get a permit signed my the people who live around you, saying they don't mind...But A city ruling saying you can't have a dog & cat in the same house? Now I would be in real trouble at my house, because we have 2-cat's & 1-dog-(daughter's) 1-dog & 1-rat-(son's) and last but least, me. 11-goldfish (mine) What you got?

Love A Look into a Deeper Order

guyfinley:"It isn't hard, at times, to love others for what they are. Such relationships are on easy terms, and we receive what we give in a fair measure. But to love another for what they may yet be -- to give them the patience and kindness that lets them flower, this is a different task altogether. For to love a person for what he or she may be, costs us; and to pay this coin we must, ourselves, run in debt to who it is that we hope to be, an act that requires our payment in every moment, and with all those we meet. This is something I need to learn and repeat to myself each and everyday in my life, & to remind myself. I can only control what happens with-in my own feelings."