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International Holocaust Day will honor ‘Ordinary People’
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January 20, 2023 • Vol. 4, Issue 3
By CYNTHIA J. THOMAS, Staff Writer “What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life – that is what is abnormal.” –Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor and chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. Wiesel was a guiding force in the establishment of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1993. January 27 is designated as Holocaust Memorial Day, created on that date in 2000 by representatives from 46 governments
worldwide who met in Stockholm to discuss Holocaust education, remembrance and research. At the close of the meeting, all attendees signed a declaration committing to preserving the memory of those murdered in the Holocaust. The Stockholm Declaration became a statement of commitment still used as a basis for Holocaust Memorial Day activities in many of those nations. With antisemitism regularly rearing its ugly head, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism was adopted in 2016, as the product of an SEE HOLOCAUST DAY, PAGE 31
City Clerk’s retirement surfaces amid unusual Executive Session Meeting By GARY J. GROMAN, Independent journalist Having heard rumors that a notice of retirement had been presented by Branson City Clerk Lisa Westfall during an Executive Session Meeting of the Branson Board of Aldermen (Board) on January 10, 2023, a request for
verification was made to the city. The city’s response said, “Our city clerk, Lisa Westfall, tendered her notice of retirement on January 10, 2023, to be effective February 10, 2023.” The Executive Session Meeting was attended by Mayor Larry Milton and Branson Aldermen Cody
Fenton, Ruth Denham, Clay Cooper, Chuck Rodriguez and Ralph Le Blanc. Alderman Marshall Howden was “Absent.” Alderperson Ruth Denham said, “It was my understanding that the executive meeting was being held to discuss the letter of retirement presented by Lisa Westfall, City
Clerk. I was present at the meeting from 7 p.m.-11:39 p.m. The City Administrator and City Attorney were asked to leave the meeting. “I feel the discussion during the meeting veered away from its original intent.” The “draft minutes” for that SEE CITY CLERK, PAGE 32