Events

August 20 – Wednesday
7:00 p.m. - Pizza Party at Daddy-O's for the young people at St.
Mary's Fleeton and St. Stephen's Episcopal. See Betsy Sue Scott for
more details.

August 21 – Thursday at the Parish House
11:00 a.m. - Healing Service
6:00 p.m. - Join us for potluck!
7:00 p.m. - Joel & Susan Stubbs host the discussion. No Taizé service
this week.

August 24 – Sunday
8:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist service at Heathsville United Methodist
with the Rev. Candine Johnson.
9:30 a.m. - Bible Study at the Parish House.

August 28 – Thursday at the Parish House
11:00 a.m. - Healing Service
6:00 p.m. - Join us for potluck!
7:00 p.m. - Betsy Sue & Tom Scott lead a discussion about the Virginia
Diocesan Homes Board

August 30

Fall Plant Sale

September 7 – Sunday at Parish House Garden
9:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist and Welcome of Priest-In-Charge Lucia
Kendall Lloyd.

September 26-28

Annual Shrinemont Retreat

Contact Evie Cox

For a Recently Plumbed Neighborhood, Validation in a Verdict

By DIRK JOHNSON
NY Times

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — The sound of rainfall at night still startles Jerry Kennedy, who jumps out of bed, ready to run outside and catch the precious drops.

“And then I realize, ‘Hey, you don’t have to haul water anymore,’ ” Mr. Kennedy said. “It’s right there in the faucet.”

Until 2004, the city’s water pipes did not stretch all the way to Mr. Kennedy’s home on Coal Run Road, a mostly black neighborhood in a hollow beyond the edge of town. As some people here put it, the water seemed to stop “where the black folks started.”

A federal jury in Columbus agreed last month. The jury, citing a violation of civil rights law, ordered the City of Zanesville and Muskingum County to pay nearly $11 million in damages for failing to provide water to each of 67 plaintiffs, including Mr. Kennedy, for over 45 years. The plaintiffs will be eligible for payments of $15,000 to $300,000. The city and county, whose officials deny any racial discrimination, are appealing the ruling.