GOE’s Great Migration: Downtime Possible
April 11, 2007
It’s me again, your friendly neighborhood webmaster.
Today is Moving Day for GOE. We’re moving to a new, more secure server over tonight and tomorrow. Best case scenario is you’ll never notice a difference, it’ll be a seamless move, and everything will go right on as planned. Worst case scenario is that the site will be down for a few hours. The nuclear scenario is that you’ll have to register again when it’s all over.
I’m hoping Anthony (our new web guy and host) and I can get this done quickly with minimal fuss. Keep your fingers crossed! If the site goes down, don’t worry…it is not being hacked. We’re just performing maintenance getting everything back to normal on the new server. Thanks so much for your patience. EAGLES UP!
Kit
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Kit and Heidi,
You are doing a wonderful job with this web site….. I just want to make sure you know I personally thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Techies R a precious God send! You ALL are amazing! I visit the site often. Bravo and Keep up, the Keepin’ UP!
Respect and Support, United we will remain……….
Christina PROUD Eagle Forever!
I promise, there will be NO going nuclear. I would be a horrible web guy if that were to happen. (Knocking on wood really hard right now) I may have just cursed myself!
You GO Kim!
What would we do without dedicated people like you?
Let’s hope all goes smoothly.
Thought everybody might enjoy this one.
Peace group in Texas splinters
Members fight over money, use of name
By Angela K. Brown
Associated Press
Published on: 04/09/07
Crawford, Texas —- With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.
The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who now has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group continues operating.
Sara Oliver and some others are calling for a state investigation as to why only $14,700 is now in its bank account, saying tens of thousands donated during Cindy Sheehan’s 2005 war protest are unaccounted for.
“There are people who have said, ‘Don’t say anything because you’ll hurt the peace movement,’ ” Oliver said. “But if the peace movement isn’t pure and transparent and holy as it can be at its heart, then it’s just like George Bush: lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing …”
John Wolf, who co-founded the Crawford Peace House in 2003 in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom white-clapboard house just across the railroad tracks from downtown, denied allegations of wrongdoing. He said the claims were by only a few people and would not hurt the work of the Crawford Peace House, which marked its fourth anniversary Sunday.
He said the Peace House has an accountant and has kept diligent records, which soon will be posted on its Web site. He said most of the $285,000 raised in 2005 was spent on food, van and bus rentals, gas and a large tent for the rallies at several events.
“All of this money was given to us to take care of people who came here, and that’s what we did,” Wolf said Friday. “If somebody has fantasies, I can’t affect that.”
The Crawford Peace House bank account had only $3 in early August 2005, but Sheehan’s monthlong vigil in ditches off the road leading to Bush’s ranch brought thousands of people and donations from across the country.
Wolf said he plans to turn in the franchise tax report next week —- nearly a year late —- to the Texas Comptroller’s Office to regain the Peace House’s corporate charter. The report was not filed sooner because the house’s volunteer director was overwhelmed with other tasks and was confused about whether the paperwork had to be filed if no taxes were owed, he said.
Losing a corporate charter means the board members themselves are liable for any debts the entity might owe, the comptroller’s office said.
Wolf said the Texas Secretary of State’s Office made a mistake last month in allowing Oliver to file documents forming a nonprofit corporation called the Crawford Peace House.
Wolf said the Peace House also was applying to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Oliver, who said she left the group in 2005 after encountering hostility when she tried to help secure grants for it, said she doesn’t want to form a counter group. But she said she would allow some current members to use the name, as long as the house director and leaders account for the money and resign.
Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq in 2004 and whose name is listed on the 2005 franchise tax report as a Crawford Peace House board member, said Friday that she had never been consulted about its financial matters and knew nothing about the current situation.
Thanks to Kit and anyone else that keeps this site up and running.
I log on ALL THE TIME and it is by your sweat that I can do that.
Thank you.
Eagles Up!
TO: KIT, Does this mean I can get a couple of rack time?
Ace, aceofspades.com has done it again!!….Check out the “Remember Me” YouTube clip…It is the reason for the eagles..Produced by a 15 year old girl, Bless her sweet American heart…Pass this on to other Eagles….Told you Ace was a Eagle!.Hope G.O.E.will repost this great expression of love for our Armed Forces.
Web Master, please let leadership know this is another YouTube post on par with Mr Parks, Its a message home from every last troop in the war zone,..Eagles will feel there true feeling for us. Bet you cannot watch it just once.