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Jun 10, 2009
Suncoast Rehabilitation Center can't expand, Hernando County Commission says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BROOKSVILLE — The Hernando County Commission on Tuesday turned down the expansion of a drug rehabilitation center in a residential area of Spring Hill off Cessna Drive. Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to deny Suncoast Rehabilitation Center's request to expand from 21 to 54 beds on a 3-acre parcel. Commissioners listened for more than an hour as neighborhood residents voiced concerns for the safety of children and elderly residents. Representatives of the center's program, Narconon of Spring Hill, which has ties ...
Jun 9, 2009
Hernando County denies expansion for drug rehabilitation center with Scientology ties — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BROOKSVILLE — After listening to concerned neighbors for more than an hour Tuesday, the Hernando County Commission squashed plans to expand a drug rehabilitation center in Spring Hill off Cessna Drive. Toucan Partners LLC, a firm with ties to the Church of Scientology, owns the 3-acre site where the facility is located. Suncoast Rehabilitation Center wanted to grow from 21 to 54 beds, but neighbors said they worried about the safety of their children and elderly residents. Michael Burmann said he ...
Jun 7, 2009
Residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation center concerns Brooksville neighbors — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BROOKSVILLE — Teena Fager used to enjoy her back yard, but that was before the new neighbors moved in behind her.
What really put her off was the night earlier this year when she heard yelling coming from the property along her back lot line.
"It was some guy," she said. "It was like someone being tortured."
Fager prepared to call 911, but then she heard other voices — women and men laughing.
It made her uneasy, and she doesn't use ...
Apr 29, 2009
Hernando commissioners delay debate on funds for central water system — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BROOKSVILLE — Hernando County commissioners decided on Tuesday to delay discussions on whether to seek federal stimulus dollars for a central water system to help residents who have elevated levels of arsenic in their well water.
State officials had asked Hernando to take preliminary steps to seek funding for a water system to serve homes in rural areas southeast of Brooksville. The system could cost $15 million, and state officials have sent mixed messages about how much the county could get ...
Apr 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency - 18 Maureen Bolstad's Story IV: Int Base in the 80s
Apr 23, 2009
Employees file complaints about wages — Battle Creek EnquirerMore: battlecreekenquirer.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elizabeth Willis Source:
Battle Creek Enquirer ALBION — Employees at a drug and alcohol treatment center are claiming they haven't been paid. Connie Hobbs and Debra Mikowski have filed complaints with the Wage and Hour Division of the state Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth this month against Narconon Freedom Center in Albion. Christina Assante, Narconon Freedom Center senior director of administration, is claiming Hobbs resigned without notice and was paid in full. She also claims Mikowski resigned and was paid on Tuesday or Wednesday. Assante ...
Apr 22, 2009
Letters to the Editor // Legalizing drugs wrong — El Campo Leader-NewsMore: leader-news.com
Type: Press
Source:
El Campo Leader-News Whatever happened to "Just Say No to Drugs"? In every newspaper of significance, across the Internet and on the airwaves, arguments rage back and forth about the legalization of illicit drugs. Just months ago, the only drug under legalization scrutiny was marijuana. Now, legalization advocates have extended the argument to include cocaine and heroin, drugs that are much more often the target of rehabilitation stays. Arguments in favor of legalization offer such humanitarian benefits as "less drug-related violence," "less illness," "use ...
Apr 14, 2009
Suncoast Rehabilitation Center gets permission to expand — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BROOKSVILLE — Over the fears of a parade of residents concerned about the safety of their homes, families and property values, the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday approved the expansion of residential drug and alcohol treatment program in Spring Hill. Suncoast Rehabilitation Center on Cessna Drive sought a special exception to build two dormitories, an administration building and swimming and sports facilities. The expansion would more than double the program from 54 beds from 22 on a 3-acre parcel. A ...
Apr 13, 2009
Neighbors protest plans to expand Suncoast Rehabilitation Center in Spring Hill — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Behrendt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) SPRING HILL — Jeanine Bender stood at the corner of her Cessna Drive property one day last week shaking her head as yet another vehicle came up the driveway next door. On the adjacent property, heavy equipment was parked, and workers were putting up a large wood-panel fence. Trees that once separated Bender and her husband, Frank Weiss, from the buildings in the distance were gone. Now she has a clear view of the residential treatment center in her neighborhood and ...
Mar 19, 2009
Parents oppose Narconon connection — The Acorn (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephanie Bertholdo Source:
The Acorn (California) Parents oppose Narconon connection By Stephanie Bertholdo Bertholdo@theacorn.com Parents of Calabasas High School students complained to the school when they learned that the drug counselor scheduled to speak at a parent education night in midFebruary was a representative of Narconon, a drug rehabilitation program based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The Narconon approach to drug education purportedly is based on Church of Scientology doctrine rather than proven medical interventions. An objection from parents, as well as an ...
Mar 13, 2009
Man alleges assault, unwanted pills at Narconon in Newport / Lawsuit from Florida resident seeks $29,000 refund from company — Orange County Register
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Overley Source:
Orange County Register Lawsuit from Florida resident seeks $29,000 refund from company.
By JEFF OVERLEY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
NEWPORT BEACH A Florida man is suing Narconon Southern California, saying a brief stint in its Newport Beach drug rehab house subjected him to sexual assault, unwanted medication and demeaning work..
Pablo Mendoza checked into the company’s Balboa Peninsula triplex in September seeking help for cocaine addiction and found the oceanfront house to be “filthy” and filled with an “unbearable odor,” according to the lawsuit ...
Mar 13, 2009
Narconon settles lawsuit with full refund / Florida man claimed his brother was molested, discriminated against at the rehab home — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Florida man claimed his brother was molested, discriminated against at the rehab home.
By Brianna Bailey
Updated: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:19 PM PDT
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The Newport Beach-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation home Narconon agreed to refund a Florida man’s money on Friday after he sued, claiming his brother was sexually molested, forced to scrub pots and pans and take unspecified pills that made him ill at the treatment center.
“The parties are settling for ...
Mar 1, 2009
[Complaint vs Narconon Nevada & Narconon Southern California]
Feb 20, 2009
La scientologie au golf — Le Nouvelliste (Mauricie, Quebec)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mathieu Lamothe ,
Marie-Eve Lafontaine Source:
Le Nouvelliste (Mauricie, Quebec) Mathieu Lamothe et Marie-Eve Lafontaine
Le Nouvelliste
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Des employés cadres dy club de golf Les Vieilles Forges auraient été invités à signer un contrat dont l'une des clauses leur demandait de respecter la politique administrative de l'Église de scientologie de Ron Hubbard
Photo: archives Le Nouvelliste - Ève Guillemette
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(Trois-Rivières) Un malaise important s'est installé au club de golf Les Vieilles Forges depuis que les employés ont appris qu'un des nouveaux propriétaires, Antonino Putorti, serait lié à l'Église de ...
Feb 17, 2009
Mom sues Church of Scientology in son's death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonathan Abel Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — A mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, its Flag Service Organization and three parishioners, claiming they brought about her son's death by denying him access to his antidepression medication. Among the three parishioners named as defendants: Denise Gentile, the twin sister of the church's current worldwide leader, David Miscavige, as well as her husband, Gerald Gentile. The lawsuit stems from the death of Kyle T. Brennan, 20, who shot himself in the head ...
Feb 17, 2009
Mother sues Scientologists over son's 2007 death — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elaine Silvestrini Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) TAMPA - A mother is blaming Scientologists for her disabled son's death, which police ruled a suicide. Victoria L. Britton has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Scientologists, including her son's father, of taking his antidepressant prescription from him and giving him access to a loaded gun. A police investigation, however, concluded that Kyle Brennan, exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, willingly stopped taking medication before he visited his father and that there was "no evidence they were purposely kept from" him. Brennan, 20, ...
Feb 16, 2009
Wrongful death suit filed against Scientology by the Estate of Kyle Brennan — realitybasedcommunity.net
Feb 13, 2009
Estate of Kyle Thomas Brennan v. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., Denise Miscavige Gentile, Gerald Gentile, and Thomas Brennan: Complaint for wrongful death
Feb 12, 2009
Program to discuss teen abuse of Rx drugs — The Acorn (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephanie Bertholdo Source:
The Acorn (California) Program to discuss teen abuse of Rx drugs
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com
Today's teens are not as threatened by the drug dealers on every corner as they are by their parent's medicine cabinets, according to a representative of Narconon, the nonprofit drug rehabilitation and education program.
Tony Bylsma, a certified chemical dependency counselor and director of the Narconon Drug Prevention and Education Program of Southern California, will kick off a 2009 RAP (Resolve and Problem Solve) educational series on Wed., Feb. ...
Feb 3, 2009
Rehab home cited for alleged code violations — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Newport Beach city officials have cited the rehab home Narconon for allegedly transporting outside clients to receive treatments at the program’s West Oceanfront triplex.
Code enforcement officers say Narconon let non-residents use its steam baths at the 1810 W. Oceanfront site, said Assistant City Manager Dave Kiff.
The Narconon program, which is supported in part by the Church of Scientology, uses the baths to treat addiction, Kiff said.
The city also logged a complaint against the home with the California Department ...
Feb 3, 2009
[ABLE and other Scientology-linked secular fronts]
Type: Account
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan I worked on the corporate restructuring in the early 80s that lead to the various “ABLE” groups (Narconon, Applied Scholastics, etc.) falling under the “ABLE” umbrella which in turn was 100% controlled by organized scientology’s Sea Organization under different corporate umbrellas (mostly Church of Scientology International “CSI"). I also handled or oversaw the handling of all their main legal matters around the world as part of the Guardian’s Office for some seven years prior to that.
Prior to the “corporate sortout” ...
Feb 1, 2009
21 Søndag: Skattekroner havner i Scientology [Unofficial translation: "Narconon: Tax money ends up in Scientology"] — Danish State Television (Denmark)More: dr.dk
Jan 31, 2009
Record: Rehab gripes drop — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Police records show fewer complaints made on rehab homes, which range from illegal parking to a suicide attempt.
By Brianna Bailey
Updated: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:07 PM PST
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Longtime Newport Beach resident Barbara Roy has an ocean view from her living room, which sits only a few feet from Narconon.
For years, Roy worried about Narconon clients who she said would loiter and chain smoke in the area.
A steady barrage of delivery ...
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque JournalMore: abqjournal.com , forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets.
The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Jan 1, 2009
Obituaries / Jean Renault Lafitte — Lake Eufaula News
Type: Press
Source:
Lake Eufaula News Jean Renault Lafitte died on Thursday, January 1, 2009, at his home near Eufaula.
Jean was born in Beaumont, Texas, on July 14, 1956. A longtime resident of Houston, Texas, Jean graduated from Lamar High School in 1974, and attended the University of Texas and Rice University. A successful career in post-production film editing in Dallas, Texas and Hollywood, California, combined with his love of computers and technology, let to the opportunity for Jean to design and manage the information technology ...
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