A senior cardinal and top adviser to Pope Francis will return to Australia to face charges of sexual assault. Cardinal George Pell is the third-highest-ranking official in the Roman Catholic Church. Pell was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago.
The charges against Pell were announced in Melbourne by Victoria State Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton. Pell was ordered to appear in court July 26 to face multiple counts of “historical sexual assault offenses”. Patton said there are multiple complainants against Pell, but he gave no other details.
It is unclear what the criminal charges against Pell involve, but two men, now in their 40s, have said that Pell touched them inappropriately at a swimming pool in the late 1970s, when Pell was a senior priest in Melbourne.
In 2014, the Vatican admitted nearly 850 priests have been dismissed and more than 2,500 have been disciplined in a sprawling sexual abuse scandal dating back decades. Cardinal Pell said Pope Francis granted him a leave of absence to return to Australia to defend himself. The 76-year-old Pell — the highest-ranking Vatican official ever implicated in the scandal and has forcefully denied the accusations.
In a statement read to the press, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Vatican respected Australia’s justice system but recalled that the cardinal had “openly and repeatedly condemned as immoral and intolerable” acts of sexual abuse against minors. He noted Pell’s cooperation with Australia’s Royal Commission investigation of sex abuse and that as a bishop in Australia, he worked to protect children and compensate victims.
Pell’s actions as archbishop came under scrutiny in recent years by a government-authorized investigation into how the Catholic Church and other institutions have responded to the sexual abuse of children. The Royal Commission revealed that 7 percent of priests were accused of sexually abusing children in the past several decades.
Last year, Pell testified to the commission that the church had made “enormous mistakes” in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests. He conceded that he, too, had erred by often believing the priests over victims who alleged abuse. He vowed to help end a rash of suicides that has plagued church abuse victims in his hometown of Ballarat.
It was unclear if Pell would face a church trial stemming from the accusations. The Vatican has clear guidelines about initiating a canonical investigation if there is a semblance of truth to sex abuse accusations against a cleric. In the case of a cardinal, it would fall to Francis himself to judge. Penalties for a guilty verdict in a church trial include defrocking.
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The city of St. Anthony, Minnesota will pay nearly $3 million to the family of Philando Castile to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, less than two weeks after officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted on manslaughter charges for killing Castile during a 2016 traffic stop. Castile, a 32-year-old elementary school cafeteria worker, was shot five times by Yanez during a traffic stop after Castile told the officer he was armed.
The settlement is to be paid to Castile’s mother Valerie Castile, who is the family’s trustee. The $2.995 million settlement will be paid by the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust, which holds the insurance policy for the city of St. Anthony. The plan for distribution of funds requires approval by a state court.
Attorney Robert Bennett, who is representing Valerie Castile, said a decision was made to move expeditiously rather than have the case drawn out in federal court, a process that would “exacerbate and reopen terrible wounds.” The settlement will also allow the family, the city and community to work toward healing, Bennett said.
The settlement will help benefit the Philando Castile Relief Foundation. Bennett said the foundation’s mission is to provide financial support, grief counseling, scholarships and other help to individuals and families affected by gun violence and police violence.
The Philando Castile Relief Foundation hopes to continue to award an annual $5000 scholarship. Through donations and part of the settlement, organizers hope to establish a permanent endowment to fund the annual $5,000 scholarship. In May, 18-year-old Marques Watson was announced as the first recipient.
Watson intends to study mechanical engineering. He’ll take advantage of a tuition-free offer at St. Paul College this fall and hopes to complete his four-year degree at a historically black college or university. Watson has participated in AVID, a school-based program that prepares underrepresented students for college, since seventh grade. He said he’ll be the first in his extended family to attend college.
Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting and posted video seconds after, is not part of the settlement. Reynolds has also hired an attorney, but it’s not clear if she is still planning a lawsuit or has any standing for a federal claim.
A claims manager with the League of Minnesota Cities, said St. Anthony’s insurance coverage is $3 million per occurrence. If Reynolds were to file and win a claim, the city’s remaining $5,000 in coverage would be paid to her and St. Anthony would have to cover any additional money awarded.
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The health of people who live in rural areas is being harshly neglected in current national health policy and in healthcare legislation under discussion in Congress, according to Jeff Smedsrud, CEO of Communicating for America (CA), a non-profit rural advocacy group.
“Our government is making a habit of adopting health care legislation that forgets about the health of rural residents,” Smedsrud said.
Smedsrud, a health insurance expert and entrepreneur, said that rural Americans face numerous health disparities compared to their urban counterparts.
“According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 15 percent of the U.S. population classified as rural are more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke than their urban counterparts,” Smedsrud said.
He called on Congress to adjust proposed legislation to reflect the fact that rural residents tend to be older and sicker than urban residents, and that insurance choices are dwindling, and often cost more. For example, he said, in 2018 no insurers plan to provide coverage in several mostly-rural counties in Missouri, Ohio, Nevada and Washington. The entire state of Nebraska has only a single insurer under the rules of the ‘Affordable’ Care Act.
“This sparsity of coverage is a condition that needs healing right now,” Smedsrud said.
He emphasized that fewer doctors, per capita, serve rural people and quality care is often out of range physically and financially.
Smedsrud outlined a list of ten recommendations for lawmakers and federal regulators to consider as solutions to remedy the health care gap in rural America:
1. Maintain reasonable Medicaid coverage that covers the disproportionate share of poor and elderly that reside in rural areas.
2. Approve virtual, “tele-medicine” services for rural people under federal insurance guidelines. Make it possible for people to see a doctor or mental health provider remotely – on-screen and/or on-line – without driving long distances.
3. Rescue rural hospitals by maintaining federal reimbursement regulations that help them stay financially viable and remain open.
4. Recognize that the horrid national opioid epidemic is most prominent on a per capita basis in rural America, requiring funding for prevention and treatment alternatives.
5. Ensure health insurance options and competition for rural people, so they are not trapped in a one-size-fits-all federally approved insurance plan.
6. Allow for associations comprised of self-employed small businesses to pool their insurance buying power across state lines and negotiate rates.
7. Enact Guaranteed Access Pools, or Unified High-Risk Pools as a safety net so all consumers with pre-existing conditions are given access to health insurance.
8. Strengthen the rural technology infrastructure, enabling tele-medicine technologies that will narrow the rural-urban healthcare divide. Specifically, undertake an urgent program to provide high-speed internet technology to rural areas.
9. Maintain a senior-level Rural Health Advocate in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with responsibility for assuring that all government healthcare decisions reflect the unique needs of rural residents.
10. Encourage doctors to serve in rural areas with loan forgiveness programs and expedited H-1B visa processing.
Smedsrud said, “Rural America grows our food, provides important jobs and houses millions of our fellow citizens. Our country’s leaders should have the vision and courage to provide equity of health care for this population.”
Smedsrud said CA’s Platform for Rural Economic Justice provides additional information about rural health and economic issues.
Fergus Falls, Minn., July 10, 2017 – Communicating for America (CA) advocates for the advancement of all Americans and the promotion of their general health, well-being and education . CA provides clear advice and clear answers concerning health care issues, taxes, and immigration.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, July 9th, 2017 was:
TRISH MUSGRAVE
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Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
SPECIAL NOTE: This week 16 of the contestants listed below had posted their answers, but had not “liked” one of our business pages. Their names WERE NOT included in the computer drawing for the gift card this week.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/3/17
Jennifer Marie
Deborah Farris
Beth Epley Minton
Cheryl Hall
Michelle Abbott
Jakara Jackson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Mary Achio
Lauren Bradley
Sandra Sue Blanton
Cyndi Jansheski
Tina Mimick
Brittany Whitley
Nancy Scharnhorst
Trish Marks
Chris Maxwell
Shameka Barnes
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
7/4/17
Sherri Kidwell
Sheila Carvell
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Lauren Bradley
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Katrina Worford
Kayla Clemons
Kristina Rosson
Tonya Velazquez
Trish Marks
Don Redfield Jr.
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alicia Smith
Amanda Saltsman
Rebecca Honey Graham
Tina Marie
Tera Wardrip
Phylicia Phillips
Mary Achio
Abby Cox
Karen Brunet Moore
Amanda Rosario
7/5/17
Deborah Farris
Nelle Bailey
Kelly Jo Francisco
Diane Hamric
Samantha Brwn
Mary Achio
Nai Merri
Pamela White Brearley
Amanda Rosario
Lauren Bradley
Tina Mimick
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Brandi K Chaney
Joanie Waterman
Melissa White
Mya Murphy
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Dawna McKnight
Mary Pettiford
Megan Rhyne
Kimberly Foster
Candy Dyer
Alicia Smith
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Laurie Griffith
Jade Good
7/6/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Brandi K Chaney
Mal Rivera
Sherri Kidwell
Heather Jacques
Amanda Rosario
Geri Rus
Katrina Worford
Tiffany Becker
Christine McKinnon
Rebecca Fauteux
Joanie Waterman
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Peters
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Beth Cleveland
Laurie Griffith
Sheri Boydston
Meg Tucker
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
7/7/17
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Marie
Crystal Young
Amanda Rosario
Brian Fulop
Sheila Carvell
Karen Bondehagen
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Tracy Shafer
Barbie Sundy
Kim Floyd
Kristina Rosson
Jonnalyn Gates
Isis Sample
Nikki Parker
Luis Vazquez
Christy Hawkes
Samantha Brwn
Tera Wardrip
Kimberly Snyder
7/8/17
Danielle Muniz
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Abby Cox
Annette French
Deborah Farris
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Chris Maxwell
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Chrissy Kim
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Michelle R. Carlino
Mary Achio
Dale Fish
Samantha Brwn
Joanna Robles
Karen Brunet Moore
Rondi Clark-Conn
Krissy Brislin
7/9/17
Christy Hawkes
Tera Wardrip
Mya Murphy
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Tonya Velazquez
Holly Cajigas
Brooke Scott
Katrina Worford
Amanda Peters
Abby Cox
Melissa White
Laurie Griffith
Tracy Shafer
Trish Musgrave
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Karen Brunet Moore
Melinda Dreier
Eva Biggs
Amanda Rosario
Shaye Van
Kalyani Nam
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jessica Davis
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A Tennessee man accused of planning to attack a Muslim community in New York has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Chattanooga’s U.S. District Court convicted Christian minister Robert Doggart, a 65-year-old former engineer at the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The FBI began investigating Doggart in February 2015, when agents became aware of a threatening Facebook post by Doggart in which he wrote that Islamberg needed to be “utterly destroyed.” After an investigation that included wiretaps Doggart was arrested on April 10 by federal marshals and charged with solicitation, intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying religious property and interstate communication of threats, court documents show.
FBI agents discovered Doggart was stockpiling weapons and plotting to travel to upstate New York to kill Muslims using explosives, an M-4 assault rifle and a machete. According to a federal investigation, Doggart saw himself as a religious “warrior” and wanted to kill Muslims to show his commitment to his Christian god.
The investigation showed that he spoke with numerous individuals across the country to plan an attack. Doggart also traveled to South Carolina, where he met with individuals from an unidentified militia group.
Prosecutors said Doggart made threats against Islamberg near Hancock, N.Y., in phone conversations with supporters in South Carolina and Texas. Jurors listened to many phone calls in which Doggart talked about burning down Islamberg’s mosque with explosives and shooting anyone who opposed his team with assault rifles.
Defense attorneys countered that Doggart exaggerated a number of facts, never had a consistent plan in place, was goaded by a confidential informant into carrying out the attack and only wanted to conduct peaceful recon on Islamberg. Defense attorney Jonathan Turner told jurors in his closing arguments that Doggart was convinced Islamberg’s residents wanted to carry out a terror attack on New York City, in part because of Fox News broadcasts.
Since his arrest in April 2015, Doggart has spent most of the time out on bond until his recent conviction. After that verdict, Doggart’s defense attorneys had asked Judge Collier to let him stay on house arrest before his May 31 sentencing hearing, citing medical problems. Collier denied the request saying Doggart appeared obsessed with the community of Islamberg and should stay in custody until sentencing.
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After five days of deliberations, a jury has acquitted the Minnesota police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, of all charges in shooting death of Philando Castile. Officer Yanez, an officer for the suburb of St. Anthony, had been charged with second-degree manslaughter and endangering safety by discharging a firearm in the shooting. Yanez and the 12 jurors were quickly led out of the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
In July 2016, Castile was pulled over for a broken tail light and was shot within 62 seconds of his encounter with Officer Yanez. Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who was in the passenger seat, began Facebook livestreaming less than a minute after the shooting as her 4 year old daughter hid in the backseat and Castile slumped over dying.
Dash cam footage shows Officer Yanez approach the vehicle and exchange greetings with Castile and informing him of a brake light problem. He asks for Castile’s driver’s license and proof of insurance. Castile who had a concealed carry license hands the officer his insurance card and says “Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me.” Officer Yanez replies, “Okay” and places his right hand on the holster of his gun and says “Okay, don’t reach for it.” Castile responds “I’m not pulling it out,” as Officer Yanez continues to yell “Don’t pull it out.” Yanez pulled his gun and fired seven shots in the direction of Castile. Reynolds yelled, “You just killed my boyfriend!” Castile moaned and said, “I wasn’t reaching for it”, which were his last words.
Reynolds started live-streaming onto Facebook about 40 seconds after the last shot. In a shaky voice she explains that the officer has just killed her boyfriend and that he was licensed to carry. Yanez can be heard shouting “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand off of it.” Reynolds replies “He had, you told him to get his ID, sir, and his driver’s license. Oh my God. Please don’t tell me he’s dead.”
Officer Yanez’s recollection of the events was that Castile told him he had a gun at the same time he reached down between his right leg and the center console of the vehicle. Yanez stated “He put his hand around something,” and said Castile’s hand took a C-shape, “like putting my hand up to the butt of the gun.” Yanez said he then lost view of Castile’s hand. “I know he had an object and it was dark,” he said. “And he was pulling it out with his right hand. And as he was pulling it out, a million things started going through my head. And I thought I was gonna die.” Yanez said he thought Castile had the gun in his right hand and he had “no option” but to shoot.
Officials in St. Anthony, Minn., released a statement saying that Yanez will not return to the police department after the trial. They said they have decided “the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city.” “The city intends to offer Officer Yanez a voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another career other than being a St. Anthony officer.”
Shortly after the verdict was announced, several hundred protesters amassed around the steps of the state Capitol in St. Paul. Police said about 500 activists later moved to Interstate 94, one of the main highways in the Twin Cities area. A few dozen people briefly moved onto the road itself while facing police in riot gear, but most of the protesters soon dispersed.
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It’s been estimated that hundreds of tower blocks in England could be covered in similar cladding to Glenfell Tower. So far tests have revealed that combustible cladding has been found on at least three tower blocks across the UK.
Prime Minister Theresa May had ordered inspections of 600 high-rise buildings across Britain, after a massive fire in Grenfell Tower left at least 79 people dead and over 70 injured. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. Workers were seen removing highly flammable cladding from a tower in North London. The materials are similar to those used in the Grenfell high-rise, despite the fact the cladding is banned in the U.S. and Europe.
The June 14th fire started in the 24-storey, 220-foot high tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, west London. The tower contained 127 flats, with 227 bedrooms. The fire started in a faulty fridge-freezer in a fourth-floor flat. The building’s recently added exterior cladding is believed to have played a role in the speed at which the fire spread.
Documents show that aluminium composite material (ACM) was used in Grenfell Tower’s rainscreen cladding. ACM is essentially a sandwich of two aluminium sheets with materials for insulation inside. ACM panels often have a polyethylene core, which can be highly flammable. It is not yet clear whether this material was used in Grenfell Tower’s cladding.
Hundreds of firefighters and 45 fire engines were involved in efforts to control the fire which burned for 60 hours until it was finally extinguished. Many firefighters continued to attempt to control pockets of fire on the higher floors after most of the rest of the building had been gutted. Residents of surrounding buildings were evacuated due to concerns that the tower could collapse, though the building was later determined to be structurally sound.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced a $5 million fund for victims of the fire; all those made homeless were to receive an initial down payment of $5,500, with each household to be given at least $500 in cash and $5,000 paid into an account. On June 21st, the government announced that 68 new flats in the same borough as Grenfell Tower are to be made available to survivors of the fire.
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Suddenly uninsured? If you think you’re eligible for a special enrollment period (SEP) for health insurance, be ready to prove it. New regulations effective June 23, 2017, require 100 percent of consumers seeking an SEP in states served by the federal website platform to provide pre-enrollment verification.[1] Previously, about half of consumers requesting an SEP were required to do so.
The crackdown, which stems from a final rule issued April 18, 2017, aims to curb “misuse and abuse of special enrollment periods” by those who decided to enroll in coverage after they find out they need healthcare.[2]
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To help you understand how health insurance special enrollment periods will be handled from now on, here are five key things to know:[4]
1. You must have a “qualifying life event” to become eligible for special enrollment. Click here for an in-depth look at qualifying life events from CMS
2. Documentation will be required. If you have a qualifying life event, you will need to submit documentation that confirms it as requested by the exchange through which you enroll.
3. A deadline will apply. You will have 30 days to provide the requested information.
4. Roll-out of pre-enrollment verification will happen in two phases. The first phase starts June 23, 2017, and the second begins sometime in August.
On June 23, 2017, pre-enrollment verification begins for those who experience the following qualifying life events:
a.) Loss of qualifying health coverage (i.e., minimum essential coverage)
- Job-based coverage – yours or someone else’s
- Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage including pregnancy-related coverage and medically needy coverage
- Some student health plans – check with the school to verify that the plan counts as qualifying health coverage
- Individual or group health plan coverage that ends during the year
- Dependent coverage through a parent’s plan
b.) A permanent move
- Gained access to new health insurance plans due to a change in primary residence and
- Had qualifying coverage for at least one of the 60 days preceding the date of the move or
- Lived in a foreign country or in a U.S. territory for at least one of the 60 days preceding the date of the move
In August 2017, pre-enrollment verification will be added for those who experience the following qualifying life events (more details will follow later this summer):
a.) Marriage
b.) Gaining or becoming a dependent through adoption, placement for adoption, placement in foster care, or a child support or other court order
c.) Medicaid/CHIP denial
5. If you can’t prove you qualify for an SEP, you could remain uninsured. And, if you are not exempt from having minimum essential coverage, that means you could owe a tax penalty.
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What if I’m denied special enrollment?
It is possible to file an appeal. However, you could find yourself without health insurance coverage and, as mentioned above, may owe a tax penalty if you are not exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking an indefinite leave of absence amid a scandal over sexual harassment. Billionaire David Bonderman also resigned from Uber’s board, after making disparaging comments about women at a board meeting intended to address sexual harassment in the workplace. Uber has fired more than 20 employees as part of its own internal probe into what multiple sources have described as a culture of sexism.
The fallout continues four months after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler came forward with allegations that Uber’s human-resources team systematically ignored her reports of sexual harassment during the year she worked for the company. Fowler detailed her year working for Uber in a February 2017 blog post which went viral and kicked off an internal investigation into her claims of sexual harassment.
Fowler claimed that just days after completing her training, she was clearly propositioned for sex by her new manager over a string of messages over company chat. She immediately took screenshots of the messages and sent them to Human Resources. She was told by the HR Team that the manager in question would receive only a verbal reprimand since it was his first offense. She was then given the option of leaving the team which would give her no contact with the manager in question or stay on the team knowing that he could give her a poor performance review. She was told a negative review would not be considered retaliation because she had the option to leave.
Fowler left the team and while working with other female engineers within the company, learned that the manager had been reported for inappropriate behavior by multiple women prior to her interaction with him. She claims that despite having a perfect performance score, a request for transfer was blocked and the reasoning was “undocumented performance problems”. Her blog post also revealed instances of blatant sexism, the dwindling number of female engineers still with the company and chaotic political games within upper management as well.
CEO Travis Kalanick sent a company-wide email the day after the blog post which addressed the allegations published the day before. The company launched two internal investigations, hiring the law firm Perkins Coie to investigate Fowler’s claims – which resulted in the firing of 20 people after investigating 215 reported claims of discrimination and harassment, among other issues. The company then brought on former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran, both partners at law firm Covington & Burling, to conduct a separate investigation into Uber’s overall culture.
At the end of May, Uber received Eric Holder’s recommendations for change. The board met for more than six hours Holder presented the findings of his firm’s report. A representative for Uber’s board said it voted unanimously in favor of adopting all of Holder’s recommendations.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 25th, 2017 was:
SARAH HARRISON
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
6/19/17
Allyson Becker
Pamela White Brearley
Samantha Brwn
Jennifer Mapes
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Trish Musgrave
Juanita Williams-Jones
Kathi Taylor
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Christine McKinnon
Emily Rice Bowersock
Nitasha Shank
Shameka Barnes
Sarah Harrison
Jade Good
Crystal Dotson
Brooke Scott
Kelly Jo Francisco
Alisa Jones
Beth Epley Minton
Ashley Agner
Valerie Kuehn
6/20/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Trish Musgrave
Susanne Killion
Lori Capobianco
Dawn Raasch
Rebecca Fauteux
Amy Chavis
Heather Jacques
Amber Hawkins
Sarah Bellestri Shih
D Shanel Collins
Eleazar Ruiz
Nancy Scharnhorst
Kristina Rosson
Brittany Michelle
Dean Bruss
Marcy Coull
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Sheila Carvell
Chelcie Malow
Vickie Gipson
6/21/17
Sandra Sue Blanton
Christina Domingue
Bea Patrick
Diane Hamric
Kelly Jo Francisco
Lotorya Patrick
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Trish Musgrave
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Deidre LeDoux
Misty Shallcross
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Kim Floyd
Michelle Webb
Nikki Wooton
Jenny Merritt
Kaitlyn Rutherford
Angela Hendricks
Nitasha Shank
Tiffane Sloan
Tracy Shafer
6/22/17
Annette French
Deidre LeDoux
Kelly Jo Francisco
Tina Mimick
Eleazar Ruiz
Sarah Harrison
Nancy Scharnhorst
Traci Anderson
Brandy Williams
Kendra George
Jessica Miller
Brandi K Chaney
Mary Mcmenamy
Penny Fisher
Amanda Rosario
Alexis Maureen
Alisa Jones
Michelle Bartley
Sheila Carvell
Christina Domingue
6/23/17
Deborah Farris
Sarah Harrison
Shannon R Garrett
Lori Capobianco
Kelly Jo Francisco
Amanda Rosario
Brittany Whitley
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Brandy Williams
Crystal Young
Paula Rousseau
Beth Cleveland
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
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