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METROMETRO EDITION LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY courier-journal.com SUNDAY, JANUARY31, 2010 USPS 564607 MISSION TO HAITI Victims’ TRUE WORTH OF WATER advocates Edge Outreach installs 9 purifiers in 10 difficult days to produce vital, pure supply for thousands of Haitians question new bishop He had input on reassigning priests in sexual-abuse cases
By Peter Smith [email protected] The Courier-Journal
When Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Rev. William Medley bishop of Owensboro in Decem- ber, many touted the leadership experience Med- ley gained in 27 years as a priest and administrator in the Archdiocese of Louisville. “I have always accepted any assignment that the church has asked of me,” Medley said at the time. But one of those assign- ments is coming under scruti- ny from advocates for victims of sexual abuse, as Medley pre- pares for his formal installation Feb. 10 as spiritual leader of 50,000 Western Kentucky Catholics. William Medley, By Kylene Lloyd, The Courier-Journal From 1989 to 1993, Medley named bishop of Team member Hugh McCulloch gives a boy a sip of water in a village near Léogâne, Haiti. BY THE NUMBERS served as the Louisville archdi- Owensboro, used The water came from one of the purification units Edge Outreach has set up. ocese’s director of clergy per- to be Louisville 500,000 Port-au-Prince sonnel, where he helped han- archdiocese By Chris Kenning MEDICAL MISSIONS residents left homeless by Haiti dle reassignments for five director of clergy [email protected] quake. priests facing accusations, personnel. The Courier-Journal Area doctors prepare to travel to Haiti for some substantiated, of sexual- relief efforts, B1. $200,000 Donations ly abusing minors, according to court documents. LÉOGÂNE, Haiti — The road to Léo- ONLINE generated in Louisville to help Among those priests were Daniel C. Clark and gâne is lined with 30 miles of collapsed Edge Outreach install water Louis E. Miller, who ultimately were sent to prison For photo galleries and updates, go to purifiers in Haiti. for sexually abusing children. The archdiocese concrete-block houses and makeshift www.courier-journal.com/haitimission. tent camps as it winds along the Caribbe- an coast, its pavement split and covered after working in shattered Port-au- 150,000 Confirmed deaths See MEDLEY, A19, col. 2 by rocky landslides in spots. Prince, intent on providing pure water to from the Jan. 12 quake. Almost 90 percent of this town of smaller communities, camps and forgot- 50,000 near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 ten villages on Léogâne’s outskirts. 10,000 Gallons of water one earthquake is an apocalyptic ruin, its res- Since arriving Jan. 20 in the wake of purifier can treat a day. idents sleeping under shelters of splin- the earthquake that killed at least150,000 tered wood, sheets and cardboard people in Haiti, Edge’s nine-member $5,000 Cost to install a Legal issues scraps, wandering the streets and strug- team had installed nine water purifiers water purifier. gling to find food and water. —each capable of providing 10,000 gal- It was into this devastation that team lons of clean water a day in locations that 9 Water purifiers installed by members from the Louisville-based non- unresolved in See RELIEF, A8, col. 1 Edge Outreach team in Haiti. profit Edge Outreach moved last week road bid case Arts groups: Things looking up Rummage’s future uncertain
4biggest members optimistic as ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE By Tom Loftus [email protected] Reduced its 2009-2010 operating budget by $1 mil- The Courier-Journal Fund for the Arts campaign starts lion (about 10 percent). This year the Fund for the Arts allocated $1.23 million to ATL. FRANKFORT, Ky. — While the main drama in By Andrew Adler THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA the highway bid-rigging case ended with Friday’s [email protected] acquittal of road contractor Leonard Lawson and The Courier-Journal The orchestra cut about $600,000 from its overall budget, which now is just over $7 mil- former Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert, lion. The LO received $2 million this year several related legal issues remain to be resolved. As the Fund for the Arts prepares to launch the public For example, federal prosecutors have not said phase of its 2010 campaign Tuesday, its four bedrock from the fund. THE LOUISVILLE OPERA what they will do with their key witness — former members — Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky state highway engineer Jim Rummage, who testi- Opera, the Louisville Ballet and the Louisville Orches- The opera saw about $200,000 in sav- fied that he took money from Lawson in exchange tra — are cautiously optimistic that their toughest ings this year by relocating to the Brown for confidential bid information. times are behind them. Theatre. The current season’s budget is He has not been charged but also testified that Theyalso hope that the hard decisions they’ve expected to be about $1.9million. The he has not been given immunity from prosecution. made, including layoffs, shortened seasons, debt reduc- opera received $734,000 from the fund. In addition, the third defendant named in the tions and in some cases, leaner programming, will THE LOUISVILLE BALLET indictment — Lawson employee Brian Billings, leave them in a position to grow when the econo- The ballet received $786,000 in fund whose case was separated last year from that of the my recovers. other two defendants — still has not been tried. But while arts executives have seen an uptick support this season. The company had projected $1.5million in ticket sales, And it’s not certain he will be. in ticket sales, they are less certain about wheth- Meanwhile, Lawson remains disqualified from er corporate and individual donations will keep against a $3.2 operating budget, and has so far sold $1.6million worthof tickets. See FUND, Back page, col. 1 See BID, A19, col. 1 ANNETT AG NEWSPAPER WEATHER | B2 INDEX 92 PAGES BREAKING NEWS Arts I-1 MetroB1 ON YOUR 36-HOUR FORECAST Business D1 Movies I-3 4INFO CELL PHONE Louisville area: Most- Class. F1, G1, J1 Racing C17 ly sunny today. High, Deaths B6 Sports C1 Love UofL and hate Big Blue? Text CJNEWS to Or can’t stand Big Red? Go to 29. Clear tonight. Low, TODAY TOMORROW Features E1 TV TVWeek RedNBlueFans.com and let 44636 (4INFO) for 10. Partly sunny tomor- Forum H1 everyone know. the local news alerts row. High, 33. 29 10 33 Lottery A2
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