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Missing Loachapoka girl found alive - Opelika Auburn News
AMBER Alert canceled, twin girls from Logan County, Ky. found safe - WSAZ-TV
Dem bill to ban boys’ and girls’ toy, clothing aisles introduced in California - Lifesite

Missing Loachapoka girl found alive - Opelika Auburn News

Posted: 27 Mar 2020 12:15 PM PDT

Update: Friday, March 27, 3:10 p.m.

Vadie Sides has been found alive, according to Lee County officials.

Watch this space for more details as they become available.

Volunteers arrived in droves at Roxanna Methodist Church Friday to help search for missing 4-year-old Vadie Sides.

Lee County law enforcement agencies sent out a request for volunteer help after spending the last two days searching for Sides.

Vadie, a red-head wearing a blue dress with green flowers went missing Wednesday about 2:40 p.m. said Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones. She is about three feet tall and 40 pounds and disappeared while taking a walk with a family friend.

Vadie is believed to have been accompanied by a hound dog named Lucy. The sheriff said the dog wore a collar with a green tag.

Jones announced the need for volunteers and within a couple of hours, dozens of volunteers arrived at the church on Lee County Road 71 to help search.

The church was used as a central location point so as not to clog up the search area, the sheriff said.

Some wore masks, hiking boots and jeans, avoiding other people, others arrived in t-shirts and talked readily with other volunteers.

A COVID-19 response vehicle was on scene, along with ATVs and an Elmore County Emergency Support vehicle.

Manpower, horses and ATVS were used in the first few hours of her disappearance. After nightfall fell the first day, helicopters were used to search for heat signatures, Jay said.

The second day of searching, dive teams had began to search nearby bodies of water, Jones said.

Volunteers were not needed until Friday, as the presence of so many community members would have interfered with technology that officials were using, Jones said.

Volunteers were anxious to join the search.

"Thanks for responding to the call for the need for volunteers," said Austin Jones, Lee County Emergency Management Agency specialist, to volunteers in a briefing before the search began said.

The EMA specialist encouraged older volunteers or anyone who did not think they could handle a strenuous search to consider leaving.

Additionally, parents with young children were encouraged to skip the search.

"This is a 12- to 14-mile adventure that we'll going on, and through these things," the deputy director said. "It's going to be a hike, it's going to be tough … If you don't feel comfortable doing that, that is okay, we thank you for coming out."

Importantly, the searches were being conducted in grids, he said. This meant that any volunteers who got tired could not leave or the entire grid would need to leave.

"Be slow, be methodical, don't rush it," Austin Jones said.

AMBER Alert canceled, twin girls from Logan County, Ky. found safe - WSAZ-TV

Posted: 25 Mar 2020 07:17 PM PDT

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) -- UPDATE 3/26/20 @ 3:45 a.m.
Twin girls who were the subject of a statewide AMBER Alert issued in Kentucky late Wednesday, have been found safe with their mother.

WSAZ's sister station WKYT in Lexington reports Isabella and Audrianna Blanchard were found safe about 2 Thursday morning with their mother Neely, in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.

The 7-year old twins and their mother, who does not have legal custody of the children, had not been seen since Monday, prompting the AMBER Alert.

ORIGINAL STORY 3/25/20 @10 p.m.
An AMBER Alert has been issued for two abducted 7-year-old twins from Logan County, Kentucky.

According to the alert, Isabella and Audrianna Blanchard were last seen with Neely Blanchard last week.

Kentucky State Police say Neely Blanchard does not have custody of the girls. Their grandmother is their legal guardian.

Police say Neely visited the twins on Friday, March 20 at the grandmother's home.

Neely took the girls to a friend's home in Dawson Springs, Ky., but did not take them back to their grandmother's home.

Neely has not been seen or heard from since Monday, March 23.

The girls were last seen wearing pajamas but may have changed clothes.

The girl's grandmother, Susan Blanchard, believes Neely may be headed to South Carolina where Neely's 11-year-old daughter lives with her grandmother.

Police say Neely, 33, has a history of mental illness that is made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.

Police believe Neely has a handgun.

She is driving a black 2014 Ford Escape with a Florida license plate "ECLAUSE."

Dem bill to ban boys’ and girls’ toy, clothing aisles introduced in California - Lifesite

Posted: 06 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PST

SACRAMENTO, March 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In what may be an unprecedented next step in the drive to erase distinctions between the sexes, legislation is currently pending in California that would forbid retailers from placing children's merchandise in separate aisles for boys and girls.

On the last day of the session, California State Assembly member Evan Low, sponsor of bill AB 2943, capitulated to pressure and pulled the bill from the floor.

Introduced by Democrat Assemblyman Evan Low, Assembly Bill 2826 would force stores to stock children's toys, clothes, and childcare items in "gender-neutral" aisles, under the theory that "keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate."

It's unclear whether such difficulties have ever actually occurred to parent shoppers in the Golden State. Nevertheless, retailers who fail to make the change within 30 days of being told could be fined $1,000 under the bill.

"I was inspired to introduce this bill after 8-year-old Britten asked, 'Why should a store tell me what a girl's shirt or toy is?'" Low declared in a press release. "Her bill will help children express themselves freely and without bias. We need to let kids be kids."

The proposal is not going over well with consumer groups, the California Globe reports.

"Toy aisles are fine since most stores already do that and most are for anyone anyway," said consumer advocate Grace Wayne. "But many people are upset about clothing aisles.

"Children's underwear is different for a certain reason, like adult underwear, and there are significant differences in clothing even at a younger age," consumer advocate Grace Wayne explained. "It has nothing to do with clothes color or designs but more about shape and structure of it [...] children that young may not be prepared to learn about certain parts of gender differences and other similar problems."

"We wanna raise our daughter to know she's a girl, that's how she was born, that's how she will live and our sons that they were born boys. I want my daughter to dress like a girl and I want my boys to dress like boys and I want those sections to be separated," parent Candice Miller told NBC affiliate KSBY.

"California is killing freedom, innovation, and common sense with its endless bans, fines, and mandates," declared Pacific Justice Institute-Center for Public Policy president Brad Dacus.

"Compassion for our LGBTQ+ friends and neighbors does not require us to embrace absurdities on gender. No child should be bullied or stigmatized, and neither should the State bully retailers into making it harder for moms and dads to find boys' and girls' clothing and toys. It's time for voters to demand more accountability of their elected officials," he said.

Assemblyman Low was also the subject of national attention in 2018 when he spearheaded an unsuccessful attempt to pass a ban on minors and adults alike obtaining "sexual orientation change efforts," regardless of their wishes, which critics argued was so broadly written that it could have banned the sale of books endorsing the practice, as well as other forms of constitutionally-protected speech.