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Helen Lavelle, Pat and John Atkins, and Tara and Timothy Atkins will be honored with Mighty Oak awards at a Cinco de Mayo Fiesta benefiting the Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeastern PA. The May 5 fiesta, featuring Mexican cuisine and the sounds of mariachi, is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. at the Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel ballroom in downtown Scranton.
All these honorees work tirelessly to improve the quality of life in our region, EOTC Executive Director Linda Ciampi says in a release, adding, I hope that others who know of their dedication and service will join us on May 5.
Helen Lavelle is CEO and chief creative strategist at the Lavelle Strategy Group. Patricia Payne Atkins and John Atkins owned Patsels, a renowned Clarks Summit restaurant. They and the Atkins son, Timothy, and his wife, Tara, will be honored with EOTCs signature award for their generous support of EOTC and other community causes.
EOTCs Cinco de Mayo celebration coincides with downtown Scrantons First Friday event. First Friday visitors may view festive artwork created by EOTC program participants on display in the Radisson public hall.
EOTC is a nonprofit human service agency that provides job readiness, parenting and child development programs in the Lackawanna County area. To learn more about EOTC, visit http://www.EOTCworks.org. There is no admission for EOTCs Cinco de Mayo art display. Admission to the Might Oaks fiesta is $50. Call Mary Coolican at 570- 558-7562 for reservations.
At the White House
Mike and Judy Rogan of Archbald were invited to witness the swearing-in ceremony of Mikes nephew, attorney Donald F. McGahn II, as White House counsel for President Donald Trump after witnessing Dons bosss inauguration in January. Don is the son of Archbald native Noreen Rogan McGahn, Mikes sister. Among those sworn in with Don were Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and Reince Preibus.
My nephews aide sent me a text saying if we were going to still be in D.C. on Sunday, Don would like us to be his guests at the White House for a private ceremony. Didnt know what it was until we got there. It was the swearing-in of his top-level people, Mike said in an email. We were only 15 feet or so from Trump when he was speaking. It was cool. We were bouncing around the White House for five hours.
While there, the Rogans and the McGahns bumped into Vice President Mike Pence on the way to see my nephews office in the West Wing, Mike added.
High notes
Carbondale native Mike Malone , vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named an outstanding engineering alumnus by Penn States College of Engineering. Established in 1966, the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed by the college and recognizes graduates who have reached exceptional levels of professional achievement. Mike will receive his award, along with 11 other recipients, at a ceremony Thursday at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn States University Park campus.
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#VPinASIA Day Two Blog: Vice President Mike Pence receives briefing at the DMZ and speaks with American and South Korean troops
On behalf of the President of the United States, when I visited the DMZ yesterday and met with Acting President Hwang Kyo-Ahn, my message to the people of South Korea was this: the United States of America is with you 100 percent. Even in these troubled times, we stand with you for a free and secure future.
The alliance between South Korea and the United States is the linchpin of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and indeed throughout the Asia Pacific.
I was proud to stand shoulder-should with American and South Korean troops at DMZ, and I reaffirmed that under President Donald Trump, our resolved is undeterred.
We commend the brave servicemen and women for their vigilance here along this historic frontier of freedom, and we expressed the commitment of the American people to stand together in the months and years ahead with the people of South Korea to both preserve their freedom, and ensure the objective of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
After my visit to the DMZ, Acting President Hwang and I met and held a joint press conference where I again reiterated the Presidents and the American peoples ironclad and immutable commitment to South Korea.
Under President Trumps leadership, our alliance will even be stronger, our nations will be safer, and the Asia Pacific will be more secure.
Finally, to end the evening, Karen and I visited with dedicated embassy staff members and their families. The team at the U.S. Embassy Seoul does great work for the United States.
You can get the latest updates from my visit to the Asia-Pacific region by following the hashtag #VPinASIA, @VPComDir, and @VPPressSec on social media. There is an album on my Facebook page with photos from the trip. Each morning, you can also read a recap of the previous day here on wh.gov.
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Mike Pence, Turkey, Facebook: Your Monday Evening Briefing - New York Times
The White House displayed a tough and unyielding approach to North Korea and its nuclear ambitions Monday, with President Donald Trump warning that Kim Jong Un has "gotta behave" and Vice President Mike Pence sternly advising Kim not to test America's resolve and military power.
Trump, in Washington, and Pence at the tense Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, signaled a forceful U.S. stance on North Korea's recent actions and threats. But no one was predicting what might come next.
Behind the heated rhetoric, in fact, Trump's strategy in the region looks somewhat similar to predecessor Barack Obama's albeit with the added unpredictability of a new president who has shown he's willing to use force.
Pence, inspecting the DMZ, warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, "the era of strategic patience is over." Appearing later with South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, the vice president pointed to Trump's recent military actions in Syria and Afghanistan as signs that the new administration would not shrink from acting against the North.
"North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region," Pence said at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia.
Pence's remarks also came with hope for a diplomatic path. Washington, he said, was looking for security "through peaceable means, through negotiations." Trump said the same at the White House.
In the meantime, North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States of turning the Korean peninsula into "the world's biggest hotspot" and creating "a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment."
Kim In Ryong told a news conference Monday that U.S.-South Korean military exercises being staged now are the largest-ever "aggressive war drill." He said North Korea's measures to bolster its nuclear forces are self-defensive "to cope with the U.S. vicious nuclear threat and blackmail," and he said his country "is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the U.S."
America's implied threat of force isn't new, nor is hope for engagement. Previous presidents have repeatedly left all options on the table while trying to enlist China's help to pressure North Korea to pursue diplomatic solutions. The Trump administration has labeled this policy "maximum pressure and engagement," although officials acknowledge there is no current engagement with Pyongyang.
Until recently, it has been Trump's confrontational tone that has drawn attention rather than his action. But then he ordered the unilateral missile strike against Syria, even after dismissing talk of deeper U.S. involvement in that nation's civil war.
"There is both greater unpredictability and decisiveness from President Trump," said Victor Cha, the director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and a former adviser to President George W. Bush. Cha noted Pence's reference to "strategic patience," an Obama administration strategy in which diplomatic and economic pressure from sanctions were given time to change the North's behavior.
"Strategic patience signaled indecision and predictability not a good combination in Trump's eyes," Cha said.
The White House did not offer a sense of when Trump's patience might run out.
"I don't think that you're going to see the president drawing red lines in the sand, but I think that the action that he took in Syria shows that, when appropriate, this president will take decisive action," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said.
North Korea's latest missile test fizzled over the weekend, but its weapons development has appeared to make steady progress in recent years. The North conducted two nuclear test explosions and 24 ballistic missile tests in 2016, and experts predict it could have a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland within a few years.
Pence said after meeting with South Korea's acting president that the U.S. and its allies have attempted to "peacefully dismantle North Korea's nuclear program" for more than two decades. "But at every step of the way, North Korea answered our overtures with willful deception, broken promises and nuclear and missile tests."
Former President Obama, too, tried to persuade China to use its influence over Pyongyang.
It remains unclear the extent to which China might step up. Trump and his advisers have pointed to Beijing's move to restrict coal imports from North Korea as a sign Beijing is listening, and the U.S. says China has turned back some shipments in recent days. But some of those restrictions merely put in place U.N. sanctions passed last year with China's support before Trump took office.
In a phone call with reporters Monday, Susan Thornton, the acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, said the president has "made clear to the Chinese that they should view North Korea as a liability, not as an asset, and that this is an urgent global threat that must be addressed by all peace-loving nations, but especially by China, when they have so much leverage."
"We've seen some tangible indications that they're working toward this end, but it's still quite early," she said.
Trump himself appeared to reinforce the stern U.S. message at the White House, replying "Gotta behave" when a CNN reporter asked what message he had for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
China also made a plea for a return to negotiations, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang saying Beijing wants to resume the talks that ended in stalemate in 2009. He suggested that U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in South Korea were damaging its relations with China.
Colvin reported from Washington. Edith Lederer, Matthew Lee, Josh Lederman and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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