Day 33 – Local Volunteer Visits Beaverton Sidewalk

Local Campaign News
- Local Volunteer Visits Beaverton Sidewalk
- Excessive and Wasteful Water Usage
- Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street
- Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?
- Video Cameras Recommended
National Campaign News
- 352 Babies Saved
Vigil Calendar
- Reno Adopt A Day Calendar
- Volunteers Needed Sun 7-8 am, 2-5 pm – 5:30-7 pm; Mon 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm & Tues
40 Days through Scripture
- Day 33 - I Timothy 6 – Hebrews 1
National News
- Health Care Vote Count
Take Action
- High Priority U. S. House Members to Contact
Video Vignette
- Pro-Life Students: Speak Out Against Tax-Payer Funded Abortions
Abortion 101
- Abortions Are Only Legal in the First Trimester, Right?
Coming Events
- Jericho March to Close the Campaign Daily 3/22 – 3/28
- Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here
Support the Effort!
- Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Local Campaign News

Local Volunteer Visits Beaverton Sidewalk

Another of our local prayer volunteers has had the opportunity to visit the sidewalk of another campaign while traveling and reported back that she found 7 prayer volunteers standing in front of an abortion facility where they are conducting a one per week vigil. She was happy to be able to share with them the success we are having here in Reno, as we have been getting coverage with very few breaks through-out the week. Each time we stop in to visit our counterparts while traveling around the country we have the opportunity to learn tips from them, as to what is making their campaign a success and we have the chance to share with them our successes, thus encouraging them to continue with their effort. It wasn’t that long ago when maintaining a full vigil seemed a slim likelihood, and yet we are currently doing it, and getting results to show for the effort.

On Saturday, while at the sidewalk, on volunteer was approached by a woman from Columbia who, while agreeing absolutely that abortion is terrible, didn’t feel she was the sort of person to spend a lot of time in church, to read the Bible much, or to do a lot a praying. It is hoped that through this random conversation with our volunteer that her curiosity to establish a closer relationship with the Christ of her youth will bring her to begin exploring who He is in her life. Let us pray that it is so.

Each time we stand at the sidewalk, whether we are there alone, or with a large group of other prayer volunteers, we give witness to the Love of Christ, and our concern for the loss of innocent life. We cause those who drive by to consider their position on the subject, and confront their own positions, often for the first time in many years. The truth does well when brought to the light. It is only lies which thrive in the darkness. So, come, do not hide your light under a bushel basket, let your witness be seen and be the salt that our world so desperately needs.

When you come to the sidewalk at 5915 Tyrone Rd (for directions, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/westend ), please bring some of the referrals to local pregnancy resources that we provide to offer to the women who come to the abortion site. If you haven’t seen this handout, please download a copy from our website. There is a link to it located on the team page, or you can go to it directly at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/resources . These resources provide the women with the opportunity to fully explore their choices before they end up at a dead end.

If you need any brochures to assist the women you meet at the sidewalk choose life or to promote the campaign, please contact Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 or come to the Life Chain event on Sunday to request your copies.

Before you go to the sidewalk to pray and/or sidewalk counsel, please sign our Statement of Peace, located at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/statementofpeace . Those who participate in 40 Days for Life are asked to commit to being peaceful, prayerful and lawful while we are at the sidewalk.

Excessive and Wasteful Water Usage

The sprinkler system in the front of the property at the abortion site has been brought back into functioning condition. The Truckee Meadows Water Authority closely monitors the use of water, including the water used on landscapes in the area of the abortion site, located at 5915 Tyrone Road. According to their website, businesses and residences are to follow the same watering schedule, with odd numbered addresses allowed to water only on the following days – Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The use of water is controlled based on a series of rules, Rule 2 addresses the Excessive Use of Water and Water Waste.

See http://www.tmh2o.com/docs/Customer_Services/rules/Rule02_20100217.pdf As can be seen in the definitions here, “Excessive” relative to the application of water means an immoderate or unreasonable consumption which results in: water running into any street, road, parking lot, gutter, drainway, … in a steady stream or flow, or collecting in pools or in a depressed area to a depth of one inch or more or … applying … in a manner contrary to any water conservation regulation, policy, rule, condition, directive, or request that has been issued to the Customers of the public water system or that has been given general public notice by the Authority.

The Truckee Meadows Water Authority website states the following:

Report Water Waste in Your Community

Truckee Meadows Water Authority is serious about preventing water waste. You are the eyes of the community so we need your help. If you see water being wasted, please let us know by filling out the form below. A big part of our success in responding to water waste is very specific information concerning the time, day and location.

If you encounter wasteful use of our precious water resources, please go to:

http://tmh20.com//conservation/assigned_day_watering/report_waste to submit a report. If possible, take photos of what you encounter, especially as it pertains to water flowing on the street and into the storm drain. Note that failure to provide adequate information is the primary reason that these reports cannot be followed up with corrective action.

Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street

Just a quick reminder that we don’t want to be in the street when we come to pray. Please stay either on the sidewalk or on the dirt across the street when you come to pray. We also are not allowed to block vehicles entering or exiting the driveway of the abortion site, nor can we block pedestrians on the sidewalk. Thank you for your continued cooperation. If you are asked to move by a police officer, please comply immediately and ask for his name and badge number. We’d like to keep track of any encounters between those who are volunteering at the sidewalk and the Reno Police department, so please email us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call us at 530-412-1573.

Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?

Have you been to the sidewalk and been subjected to a noise nuisance while there? Did you know that the City of Reno has a code that specifically addresses disturbing the peace and public nuisances?

Sec. 8.12.020. - Disturbing the peace.

It is unlawful for any person to commit a breach of the peace. Such breach shall consist of:

Fighting or challenging to fight; or
Conduct or words calculated to provoke violence or a violation of the law by the person to whom the conduct or words are addressed; or
Making annoying, lewd, malicious or threatening telephone calls; or
Willfully and unreasonably subjecting a person or neighborhood to any noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities.

(Code 1966, § 11.12.090; Ord. No. 5047, § 1, 9-28-99; Ord. No. 5387, § 1, 11-5-02)

And further on in the code regarding Nuisances:

Nuisance or nuisance activity. That which is injurious to health, or injurious, indecent and offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or is against the interest of public morals, decency, safety, peace and order, including, but not limited to, an attractive nuisance, a nuisance per se, criminal activity, the presence of debris, litter, graffiti, garbage, rubble, abandoned, unregistered or junk vehicles or junk appliances, curfew violations, or any other activity, behavior or conduct defined by the council or Nevada Revised Statutes to constitute a public nuisance. Nuisance or nuisance activity includes unreasonably creating, allowing, or engaging in any activity, conduct or use of property that subjects a person or neighborhood to noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities. [Reference NRS 268; NRS 268.412; 1997]

Sec. 8.22.035. - Nuisances per se defined.

Any of the following conditions are a nuisance per se as constituting conditions which annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health or comfort of any considerable number of persons:

(1) An unsafe or dangerous building; …

(25) Any other condition which creates a blight to adjoining property, the neighborhood or the city, or a nuisance, health, safety or fire hazard identified as such under the conditions set forth in the International Fire Code, International Building Code, Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code, Washoe County Solid Waste Management Code, or any other Reno Municipal Code or Washoe County Code or the Nevada Revised Statutes.

While we need to be accountable for our own behavior and ensure that we ourselves do not in any way cross over from prayer and an exercise of our Free Speech to being a public nuisance, we should also be protected from those who seek to disturb our peace or use noise as a nuisance towards us. The Reno Police Department Non-Emergency number is: 775-334-2677. I recommend you program it into your cell phone. If you do contact the police for an incident of Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance, please also contact us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or 530-412-1573 and let us know how your call was handled. Please get the name of the officer with whom you spoke, as well as their badge number. If a report was taken (this is what is required for them to follow-up on the matter) be certain to ask for the case number and provide that to us as well.

Video Cameras Recommended

It has been recommended, and I’d like to encourage you to consider this recommendation, that those coming to the sidewalk bring a video camera when you come to pray. Place the camera in your car, or on a tripod on the sidewalk, to videotape you while you are standing in prayer. It is prudent that we have a video record of all that occurs at the sidewalk, as we gather peacefully, prayerfully and lawfully.

To sign up on the vigil calendar go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe or for the Carson City vigil site, go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/carsoncity . If you’ve already registered, your username is your email address. If you have forgotten your password, there is a simple mechanism by which your password can be sent to your email address. If you still have difficulty getting registered, feel free to send your questions to: 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call: 530-412-1573.

Join our Facebook group for 40 Days for Life Reno Tahoe, at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=50059641315

Join the Carson City Facebook Fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/40-Days-For-Life-Carson-City/262781127002?v=wall&ref=search

National Campaign News

352 Babies Saved!

World-wide, there are a reported 352o babies saved during the current 40 Days for Life campaign. The incredible thing is that we know from local experience that there are saves that aren’t reported to the sidewalk, sometimes for years afterwards, and sometimes they are never reported to those who come to pray and council the women entering the abortion site. Praise God for all those who are saved from abortion and the women who are spared the trauma! Praise God also for those who have been brought to the healing of Our Lord Jesus Christ through the witness provided at the sidewalk.

If you’re not already getting the daily updates from the National 40 Days for Life campaign, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe and sign up to receive updates at the top right corner of the page.

Vigil Calendar

Reno Adopt A Day Calendar

Date	Church	Contact	Phone
Sun – Mar 21	Bishop Manogue High School	Matt Schambari	(775) 336-6000

Bring Adopt-a-Day to your church by contacting us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or by calling Carol Marie at (530) 412-1573. We will schedule your church for a day at the sidewalk.

Volunteers Needed Sun 7-8 am, 2-5 pm – 5:30-7 pm; Mon 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm & Tues 7-8 am

This is the final week of the campaign. Let’s finish with a strong presence at the sidewalk. Please, come before going to work in the morning, at your lunch hour and again after work, as a final show of faithfulness to Our Lord as the Spring 2010 campaign comes to a close!

Typically the business of selling death is busiest in Reno on Weds through Friday. Won’t you please commit to pray at the sidewalk for an hour on these days?

On the weekend, while we aren’t encountering women on their way into the abortion site, we do have the opportunity to have an impact on those who are driving by on Airway or those who walk past. Please come to the sidewalk and assist us in covering the sidewalk with prayer, 7 days per week for 40 Days, as we Pray to End Abortion.

Please register the hours when you can come pray at the sidewalk by going to our on-line calendar at: www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe. The names of those who sign up on the calendar are hidden from all but a small and select group of volunteers who can assist others in registering their hours on the calendar, so you needn’t fear that you might be harassed by anyone opposed to our prayers, nor do you need to fear that posting your hours is a form of boasting that you are being pious in your prayers. Signing up simply allows us to coordinate our efforts so we can determine where we have holes in our volunteers efforts, allowing us to best use our time while ensuring we maintain a constant prayer covering at the sidewalk.

You are welcome to sign-up or simply show-up to pray at the sidewalk at any time of the day or night when you are available to join us. Your prayers have value well beyond anything we can see and we welcome whatever contribution you can make to the effort as we Pray to End Abortion. If you haven’t already done so, please sign a Statement of Peace, by going to www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/StatementofPeace.

40 Days through Scripture

Day 33 - I Timothy 6 – Hebrews 1 (including: 2 Timothy 2:8-13): Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel, for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained. Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation this is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory. This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him, he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

National News

Health Care Vote Count

Speaking of doing everything possible to sway votes, the President has apparently been in talks with Bart Stupak, with promises of signing an Executive Order to halt the Federal Funding of abortion in exchange for his vote and the votes of those in his voting bloc. I pray they aren’t naïve enough to believe that such an order would 1.) accomplish that which is needed to make this Health Care Reform Bill palatable, and 2. ) that it would be kept in place long enough to do what little it would be represented as doing. It has also been stated that an Executive Order legally can’t accomplish what is needed, and therefore wouldn’t stand up to legal challenges, rendering it constitutionally ineffective.

An excellent blog has been written on the subject, which also goes on to list those Representatives who are most likely to play a pivotal role in this election. Please consider contacting them and if you know anyone who lives in their districts, please ask them to contact them as well.

To read the blog, go to: http://thehayride.com/2010/03/no-bill-no-cbo-numbers-bad-sign-for-obamacare/

Because the blog hasn’t identified the states or contact information for each of the Representatives listed, I’ve gone ahead and provided that information for you.

The Stupak Dozen is down to 10. They are:

Stupak (MI) - 202-225-4744
Driehaus (OH) - 202-225-2216
Lipinski (IL) - 202-225-5701
Kaptur (OH) - 202-225-4146
Dahlkemper (PA) - 202 225-3103
Mollohan (WV) - 202-225-4172
Rahall (WV) - 202-225-3452
Donnelly (IN) - 202-225-3915
Costello (IL) - 202-225-5661
Berry (AR) - 202-225-4076

There are also still five uncommitted members who voted NO in November:

Baird (WA 3rd) - (202) 225-3536, Vancouver (360) 695-6292, Olympia (360) 352-9768, not seeking re-election in 2010
Tanner (TN 8th) - (202) 225-4714, Union City (731) 885-7070, Jackson (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690
Nye (VA 2nd) - (202) 225-4218, Eastern Shore (757) 789-5092, Hampton Roads (757) 326-6201
Boucher (VA 9th) - 202-225-3861, Abingdon 276-628-1145, Pulaski 540-980-4310,

Big Stone Gap 276-523-5450
L. Davis (TN 4th) - 202.225.6831, Columbia 931.490.8699, Jamestown 931.879.2361, McMinnville 931.473.7251, Rockwood 865.354.3323

The non-Stupak ones who voted YES in November but that we would like to flip our way:

Ortiz (TX 22nd) - (202) 225-7742, Coastal Bend (361) 883-5868, Rio Grande Valley (956) 541-1242
L. Sanchez – this could be either Linda or Loretta Sanchez, so I’m including both:
Linda (CA 39th) - (202) 225-6676, Cerritos (562) 860-5050, healthcare forum
Loretta (CA 47th) - (202) 225-2965, (714) 621-0102
Kanjorski (PA 11th) - 202-225-6511
Foster (IL 14th) - (202) 225-2976, Battavia (630) 406-1114, Dixon (815) 288-0680, Geneseo (309) 944-3558
Michaud (ME 2nd) - 202-225-6306, Bangor 207-942-6935, Lewiston 207-782-3704, Presque Isle 207-764-1036, Waterville 207-873-5713
Pomeroy (ND) - 202-225-2611
Schrader (OR 5th) – (202) 225-5711, Salem (503) 588-9100, Oregon City (503) 557-1324
Ron Klein (FL 22nd) - (202) 225.3026, Palm Beach (561) 544-6910

I have also heard that Shelly Berkley (NV 1st) is on the fence (perhaps because her husband is a doctor?) Please call her at: (202) 225-5965, Las Vegas (702) 220-9823 – Her website has a strong emphasis on Jobs. Has she perhaps been getting the message from her constituents that this bill is NOT what they want? Contact friends and family in Las Vegas to encourage them to contact her ASAP.

For more Pro-Life related news, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/News

Take Action

LA Times Survey

Even the liberal LA Times is onto the fact that this Health Care Reform is not right for the nation and is not what the citizens want. Here’s how the intro to their poll begins:

You may have heard some mention now and then and around the clock during the last year of some very lengthy piece of healthcare legislation that President Obama wants very badly. You can tell the smoker wants it. Just look at him.

Well, here's your chance to cast your own vote below.

And the healthcare bill is pretty much the only thing he's talked about in town halls -- not counting his NCAA picks and one or two mentions of his war in Afghanistan.

The nifty healthcare bill won't cover Obama and his family; government folks are exempt from the legislation that they've decided is just right for the rest of us.

Anyway, over these past way too many months you may have also noticed a little bit of debate over this bill that would cost $940 billion, according to current estimates and you know how dead-on those always are.

To participate in the Poll, go to: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/03/healthcare-vote-obama-pelosi-reid.html

Video Vignettes

Woman Has Recurring Dream of a Baby Struggling in the Womb Then Learns She Was Aborted!

Here’s an amazing story to share with anyone you know who is uncertain that the unborn infant is alive or aware of their surroundings. This is the true story of a young woman who, while still a little girl had a recurring nightmare of being the baby in a womb and fighting to survive, feeling that she was under attack and unable to move out of the reach of something evil and dangerous. Later, when she was a young woman, her mother admitted what she had previous held secret, that she had aborted her daughter, but that she had survived the ordeal. This aborted child had formed clear memories of the event, which were stored in her subconscious, and had been haunting her dreams as a child. To anyone who questions the humanity of the unborn, I direct them to this powerful testimony of courageous survivor. See it here: http://www.juda4praise.com/News.htm#dream

Abortion 101

Woman Has Recurring Dream of a Baby Struggling in the Womb Then Learns She Was Aborted!

Coming Events

Jericho March to Close the Campaign Daily 3/22 – 3/28

Starting next Monday evening, 3/22 at 6 pm and repeating every evening through-out next week, there will be a daily march around the block containing the abortion site in Reno. This series of daily marches will culminate on Sunday, 3/28, the final day of the Spring 2010 40 Days for Life Campaign, with a march 7 times around the block, for a total of 3 ½ miles of praying that abortion comes to an end in Reno. Please come, pray, march, cheer on those marching, celebrate a successful campaign brought to completion and the beginning of the End of Abortion in Reno! We will start at 3:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, and will follow with a Rally at 5:30 pm. Please join us for this family friendly event. Invite the members of your church by posting a copy of our flyer in your church lobby.

Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here

Gather together to Pray to End Abortion! When you have plans, let us know and we’ll let others know through our updates.

Support the Effort!

Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Do you believe in the work we are doing as we Pray to End Abortion? If so, please support the effort with a donation to cover our expenses. Donate Now

For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe , look for us on Facebook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573.

To receive your own copy of these updates, as well as information from the National Campaign, go to http://www.40DaysforLife/renotahoe and request to receive updates.

If you prefer to only receive our local updates, send an email with “Please Add Me to 40 Days for Life” on the subject line to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com

Campaign Materials

Free 40 Days for Life Items - Bumper Sticker, Bracelet & More.

Heritage House, is offering a Promotion Pack of 40 Days for Life items through their website for the amazing cost of $0, they are even picking up the postage.If you have wished to place a bumper sticker on your car, but I haven’t had one on hand when we’ve seen one another, our you haven’t yet got one of the rubberized bracelets, but you’d like one, now is your chance to get these and more items,for free.They aren’t even requiring that you enter your email address to receive this promotion, although, I encourage you to do so, and they will continue to keep you informed of the many great items they place on sale during the course of the year.And if you see something on sale and would like to purchase it for our 40 Days for Life campaign, I would gladly accept the help in making their many excellent pro-life items available!To receive your free promo pack, go to: http://www.40dayspromopack.com/40dayspromopack/signup.asp

Two Hearts Catholic Books & Gifts to Carry 40 Days for Life Items

Truly, pictures are worth a thousand words.To make it possible for us to communicate more effectively with those who witness our campaign, Millie has stocked Yard signs, Rally signs, New colored precious feet, Pro-life buttons, Static and Bumper sticker available @ The Two Hearts,33 Winter Street, Reno NV and St. Rose of Lima Church (weekend Masses).

More information

Please share this truth, among others relative to abortion with those who follow your Facebook posts! For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe, look for us on FaceBook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 Please forward this message to anyone you know who might be willing to Pray to End Abortion.

To receive your own copy of these updates, as well as information from the National Campaign , go to http://www.40DaysforLife/renotahoe and request to receive updates. If you prefer to only receive our local updates, send an email with “Please Add Me to 40 Days for Life” on the subject line to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com

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Sunday, March 21, 2010