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Inmates did renovation work at Scientology church — Buffalo News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Beebe Source:
Buffalo News Buffalo's Church of Scientology, soon to be forced from its downtown church for a new city parking ramp, turned to Erie County prison inmates to help get its new Main Street home ready. A crew of six inmates from the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden, dressed in orange prison jumpsuits and guarded by corrections officers, spent the last month helping with interior renovations in the new Scientology Church at Main and Virginia streets. The inmate crew arrived before 8 a.m. ...
Apr 3, 2003
School group threatens to fight levies — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Keith Ervin Source:
Seattle Times Parents seeking the removal of Superintendent Joseph Olchefske warned the Seattle School Board last night that they might mount a campaign to defeat two levies next February if he remains. That threat came from members of the Citizens for Effective Administration of Seattle Education (CEASE) during a week in which the teachers union and the principals association are taking no-confidence votes on Olchefske. CEASE member Maggie Metcalf-Hess said the group also might seek to replace School Board members who have supported ...
Mar 30, 2003
Detox center seeks wider acceptance — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Farley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Narconon, a drug treatment program with Scientology backing, now wants taxpayer assistance. CLEARWATER – At Tampa Bay's newest alternative to mainstream drug treatment, the license issued by the state hangs next to commendations from the Church of Scientology. Narconon, a controversial drug treatment program based on techniques developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has opened its first Florida facility in Clearwater in a commercial park off U.S. 19. Past the meticulously clean lobby are classrooms where recovering addicts take a ...
Mar 27, 2003
Cult church censured on drug ads — Guardian Unlimited
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Bates Source:
Guardian Unlimited A Church of Scientology advert claiming that its programmes had "salvaged" 250,000 people from drug abuse has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority as unproved, following a complaint by the Church of England. The ruling related to a poster coinciding with a campaign run two years ago by the church. In effect it claimed that the church had saved all those who had completed its drug programmes. It did not mention that its definition of drug use included an occasional ...
Mar 27, 2003
Scientology advert rapped — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Bates Source:
The Guardian (UK) A Church of Scientology advert claiming that its programmes had "salvaged" 250,000 people from drug abuse has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority as unproved, following a complaint by the Church of England. The ruling related to a poster coinciding with a campaign run two years ago by the church. In effect it claimed that the church had saved all those who had completed drug programmes. It did not mention that its definition of drug use included an occasional alcoholic ...
Mar 13, 2003
Scientology case settled out of court — RTÉ News
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Source:
RTÉ News A High Court action for damages by a Dublin sports shop owner against the Church of Scientology has ended after out of court talks.
The case taken by Mary Johnston was expected to last until May. However, Mr Justice Peart was told at lunchtime today that the case appeared to be settled.
No details of the settlement were disclosed but costs in the action are estimated to be around €2 million.
Mary Johnston joined the Church of Scientology in 1992.
In ...
Mar 1, 2003
Scientologists establish missions in their back yard / A Belleair storefront opened more than a year ago to spread "hope for man." Four more sites are planned in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 1, 2003
The art of Scientology — The Dominion Post
Feb 18, 2003
Quest for Scientology-based drug program dies — KRNV
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KRNV Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle says she's ending efforts to have women prisoners enter a drug rehabilitation program devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The Reno Republican said introducing a bill to try the program in Nevada would be useless because of Democratic opposition. Democrats hold 23 of the 42 seats in the Assembly. Angle says she'll cancel a March first trip by legislators to an Ensenada, Mexico, prison to look at the Second Chance Program. Randall Suggs, an Arizona businessman ...
Feb 17, 2003
Horizon to help 'market a belief': agency ignores controversy in taking on Church of Scientology — Adweek
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Adweek LOS ANGELES — Its detractors have compared the Church of Scientology to a cult, but the controversy that often surrounds it did not deter Horizon Media from taking on the business. "It's freedom of speech," said Zach Rosenberg, evp and general manager for Horizon in Los Angeles. "Everyone has a right to market a belief, and we want to help them." The independent agency won media responsibilities for the church's account following a review that included incumbent URI, Beverly Hills, Calif.; ...
Feb 12, 2003
ABLE INT ED 437 / SOCIAL BETTERMENT GROUP LICENSE AND STAFF QUALIFICATIONS
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Feb 10, 2003
Obituary / L.J. Fafard, 67, CSO violinist — Cincinnati Enquirer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nicole Hamilton Source:
Cincinnati Enquirer By: Nicole Hamilton
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Retired Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra violinist Laurent Joseph Fafard spent his life inspiring others through music.
As a violin teacher, it wasn't unusual for one-hour lessons to turn into three-hour lessons about life.
"He was a very compassionate person who gave of his talents beyond what was expected," said his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Fafard of Brooks, Maine.
Mr. Fafard died a few days before his 68th birthday, which he would have celebrated Jan. 23, in his Avondale ...
Jan 20, 2003
Real Estate Transactions — Buffalo News
Jan 19, 2003
Why our children are taking 'kiddy-speed' — Sunday Star-Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Henderson Source:
Sunday Star-Times Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and other critics say the use of the child-calming drug Ritalin is dangerously out of hand. But desperate parents are hailing the medication. Mark Henderson reports. The true cost of fare play CAMERON POU was eight when he first tried to take his life. His horrified mum Linda found him just in time. A few weeks later, the angry youngster tried again. We met Cameron six years ago in a Sunday Star-Times article on behaviour disorders among ...
Jan 16, 2003
Stone Hawk rehabilitation ready to open — Battle Creek Enquirer
Jan 10, 2003
Scientologists lose libel case in Denmark — Nordic Business Report
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Nordic Business Report The Danish Scientologists have lost a court case in the Copenhagen district court, Denmark. The Scientologist newspaper 'Frihed' had reportedly accused Jorgen Pedersen of Ekstra Bladet, a newspaper, and German film producer Walther Heynowski of being connected to the East German intelligence agency Stasi. The court found the accusation libellous and the editor of 'Frihed', Anette Resftrup, was sentenced to pay ten income related fines of DKK1,000 each while the two named in the article will receive DKK30,000 each in compensation. ...
Dec 27, 2002
Scientology gets tax-exempt status — New Zealand Herald
Dec 3, 2002
Marmora council rejects drug treatment centre // 4-0 vote against rezoning application — Belleville Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeremy Ashley Source:
Belleville Intelligencer Marmora — Before a town hall packed with close to 125 people, council here unanimously denied a rezoning application that would allow a former motel to house a drug treatment centre. The move followed a special rezoning hearing Monday night, called to allow those opposed and in favour of allowing Narconon to legally continue in the former Treelawny Hotel. Narconon is a drug rehabilitation program with close ties to the Church of Scientology and utilizes the methods of Scientology founder L. ...
Dec 2, 2002
Marmora and Lake Dec 02/2002 6:30 P.M. // Adopted minutes of Dec 02/2002 More: link
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PUBLIC MEETING BY-LAW 2002-23 REZONING The By-law proposes THAT, BY-LAW 18/81 be and the same is hereby amended by By-law 2002-23 which will amend the zone category of approximately 2.26 acres in Lot 6 Concession 3, 21R3738 P1, Roll 141-010-17400, 102513 Highway 7 from C1, Highway Commercial, to C1-S, Highway Commercial Site Specific to allow a Motel which includes a drug free, drug rehabilitation, detoxification, education, training centre, (the program is residential whereby students are provided boarding/lodging under supervision from the ...
Nov 21, 2002
U.S. officials to visit Mexico prison to get look at drug program — San Diego Union-Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enrique García Sánchez Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune TIJUANA – About 100 female legislators from the United States will visit the state prison in Ensenada today to see firsthand the results of a program for drug-addicted inmates.
The state began the program, called Segunda Oportunidad, or Second Opportunity, seven years ago, based on the Church of Scientology's prisoner rehabilitation program, called Narconon. It is based on the philosophies of the late L. Ron Hubbard.
According to a recent study conducted by Baja California's state university, recidivism among the prisoners ...
Oct 24, 2002
Free speech feels Net copyright chill — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET Rick Sanchez thought the bright folks at Mensa International would agree that his Pets or Food Web site was a joke. He was sure that the site's offers of "freshly clubbed" frozen baby seal meat and "a dozen Doberman flank steaks for a Super Bowl party" were a dead giveaway. If not, then surely the site's frisky description of fictional CEO Sydney Zwibel–a "former animal disposal technician," Mensa member and alternate member of the 1984 Olympic Fencing Team–smacked of parody. So ...
Sep 24, 2002
Net archive silences Scientology critic — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET Buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, the Internet Archive has removed a church critic's Web site from its system.
The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as "a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form," no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down "per the request of the site owner."
However, Xenu.net ...
Sep 11, 2002
West Coast venture in patents row — New Zealand Herald
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New Zealand Herald Lawyers acting for a Sydney plastics manufacturer have invoked its worldwide patents in an attempt to stop a proposed Hokitika plastics venture.
A fraud investigation is being called for after claims by Armacel that the Hokitika initiative is planning to use technology it does not own. The claim has been referred to the Serious Fraud Office.
Two of the key figures in the Hokitika project, Ian Pitts and Tim Redmond, both of Sydney, worked for Armacel managing director and the patent-registered ...
Aug 19, 2002
Scientology publisher spins off fiction press — Publisher's Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Zeitchik Source:
Publisher's Weekly BRIDGE PUBLICATIONS, the publishing arm of the Scientology movement, has spun off a new press to handle fiction titles. The house responsible for the Battlefield Earth series and all literary licenses associated with L. Ron Hubbard has formed Galaxy Press, whose staff of eight employees worked on the fiction line at Bridge. Galaxy will be run by John Goodwin, who once served as v-p, public relations for Bridge. While Galaxy has no immediate plans to hire additional personnel, spokesperson Elise Toth ...
Aug 16, 2002
Death of a Scientologist — Chicago ReaderMore: scientology-lies.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tori Marlan Source:
Chicago Reader Greg Bashaw's father respected him and trusted him to make wise choices. Even after he chose to devote his life to Scientology. While the shock and grief of his son's suicide were still fresh, Bob Bashaw read back through their decades-long correspondence, looking in particular for references to Scientology. "I wanted to see what there was here I missed," he says. His son Greg had been a member of the Church of Scientology for more than 20 years. During that time ...
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Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) Aug 5, 2002
Church of Scientology pays property taxes — Los Angeles Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Danny King Source:
Los Angeles Business Journal The Church of Scientology appears to have paid its tithe. The church, which until two months ago risked having two of its Hollywood properties auctioned by the county for being delinquent on its property taxes since the 1996-97 fiscal year, is now current on the parcels. On June 20, the Church paid the county more than $248,000 for its annex site at 6349 Hollywood Blvd. and more than $156,000 for 6724 Hollywood Blvd. "They were paid in full, which surprised me," ...
Aug 3, 2002
Scientology connection — The Press
Type: Press
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The Press Key players in the controversial Hokitika plastics factory proposal are devotees of the Church of Scientology. Wayne Byrne, of Sydney, and Soren Kierkegaard, of Tauranga, are the two principals of FT Manufacturing (Westland) Ltd, which has received a $500,000 loan from the Westland District Council, along with a council commitment to build the factory for a further $2.2 million. Several others involved in the Hokitika project are believed to have links with the American-based church, which is centred on a controversial ...
Jul 31, 2002
Letters // Church of Scientology a front-runner in fight on drugs — The Times (Gary, Indiana)More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
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The Times (Gary, Indiana) The July 28 letter from Jim Beebe is the trademark of someone who lives his life filled with hatred. He is an authority in hatred. This same man worked for the now-defunct, anti-religious group called the Cult Awareness Network until its bankruptcy filing in 1996. A Seattle Christian was awarded a large sum of money as punitive damages from CAN for the organization's participation in his kidnapping and holding him against his will. Beebe has now made a career of denigrating ...
Jul 30, 2002
French Scientology case barred — Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
Type: Press
Source:
Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) Paris — A Paris judge has ruled that a 13-year-old case against the Church of Scientology alleging fraud and illegal practice of medicine cannot go to trial because the statute of limitations has expired, a judicial official said Tuesday. Judge Colette Bismuth-Sauron ruled Friday that there was a lack of progress in the investigation and rejected the case on procedural grounds, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The criminal probe into 16 leaders of the church was opened in ...
Jul 28, 2002
Unmistakable presence — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Deborah O'Neil Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology's largest facility in the world, still more than a year from completion, has altered the Clearwater skyline. CLEARWATER – From arched 31-foot windows to the 1,140-seat dining room, there is much that will be grand in the Church of Scientology's new downtown religious center. It will have 889 rooms, 447 windows, 42 bathrooms. A two-story lighted cross will perch atop the highest tower, 150 feet up. The building even has a hefty nickname, "Super Power." In recent weeks, the building's ...
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