Not only did the city use the wrong date of the city commission meeting on its web site (Jan 6 when it should read Jan 5), apparently the Invocation as printed is in error as well:
2. INVOCATION OR MOMENT OF SILENCE: Offered by Pastor Kris Vos, Sunlight Community
Church, on behalf of Mayor Pam Triolo. This is incorrect and the city has now corrected the name of the invocation pastor.
CORRECTION:
2. INVOCATION OR MOMENT OF SILENCE: Offered by Pastor Mike Olive, Common Ground,
on behalf of Mayor Pam Triolo
Thank you mayor--you chose a really fine person to give the invocation.
ReplyDeleteWhen are Andy Amoroso and Wes Blackman and Mark Parilla going to apologize for all of the ugly and baseless things they've said about this man?
ReplyDeleteSome people just like to hate or over-react not knowing facts.
ReplyDeleteWith Parrilla it is his loyalty to a certain code officer.
With Amoroso it is the fact he is "nearly an atheist" and perhaps he feels churches are anti-gay.
With Blackman, I think he is just against this church because it ministers to the homeless and those trying to turn their lives into something positive.
Perhaps they can tell us.
That paster is a joke. He is all about publicity and making sure he's in the lime light and all these fools buy into it. As well as drag the code department through the mud as well as Mr. coscia code officer who was just doing his job. Does his worship mass start the same time as happy hour now days?
ReplyDeleteDid you know all three of these men are gay? Is it the gay connection? They are overly emotional I think.
ReplyDeletehaha... Person at the 7:39, i agree with you that so called paster is only in it for the publicity as you stated
ReplyDeleteDang Lynn your attacking anyone that doesn't feel the exact same way as you. Is this a bios blog or a blog that welcomes various points of view for open conversation?
ReplyDeleteDANG YOURSELF, and Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteAs stated in the masthead, this is an OPINION blog written by me. My OPINION--get it?
How dare you attack a Christian minister who is there helping people who live in this community? How dare you really? Because you are atheist? Because you love Gerry Coscia? Because you side with the City who was WRONG on coding them? Because you take offense that this minister did not roll over and take the crap? A minister who is still praying for the souls of the three who hate him the most?
A minister? Unbelievable. Wait until judgment day.
I get it. Your blog, your opinion, no elses matter if they stray from yours. Maybe a 2016 resolution should be to have a more open mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way I am not a atheist. And furthermore ive been volunteering my time in helping lake worth & charities for over a decade. And Lw was wrong for making him a quite a license to operate for safety purposes? As well i guess its not important the city to dictact where chruches can be located as well too huh? The city wanted him to follow the same rules as everyone else and blew it up into a circus act for publicity and good for him he fooled a bunch of people into "followers."
ReplyDeleteYou made an erroneous statement regarding me, anonymous at 11:07. I don't mind anyone with a different opinion. I would just ask that you be respectful and follow policy. Otherwise I will come back at ya just like Trump.
ReplyDeletethere is NO problem with the City. Why don't you ask the CM--get the skinny and then post it here. Or better yet, ask William Waters who really runs this city and find out why churches ARE allowed. Thanks.
I dont think the previous poster said anything to the fact that churches werent allowed. From the gyst of it they said there is two sides to every story and opinions. No one attacked you ms lynn but i does feel like you jump the gun when people arent on the same train as thought as you.
ReplyDelete11:07 Do you support the secret Nazi techniques that Code and the City manager Mike Bornstein were told to use against a church? Commissioner Andy Amoroso wanted this church shut down,no matter if illegal methods were used or not.What an international embarrassment Coscia,Bornstein and Amoroso caused for our city. ALL involved should have been fired or resign.
ReplyDeleteHow would Scott Maxwell and Pam Triolo have felt if Bornstein had sent Coscia into their church hiding under a ridiculous hoody, taping THEIR church service ,their priest and their fellow parishioners?
11:07 get the hell out of my city and go to CUBA. You'll fit right in.
I believe that it was 11:02 that said no on else's opinion matters to me but mine. That is what I took offense to @5:44. Look, half the vocal people in this city are on the other "train."
ReplyDeleteBut regardless, Pastor Mike Olive is one terrific person...he just doesn't role over and play dead to bullies.
Secret Nazi techniques 5:52? Please elaborate... And the city didn't want to shut the church down all they wanted was for the church to get a license like every single other church in Lw. Ive been at Mr. Waters building over behind the old publix and they have a big map that shows what businesses can be in different locations and they wanted the church to follow those same standards. For example Im sure you would flip if a auto repair shop popped up next to your house in a residential zone, thats what zoning regulations are for. Plus even if a commissioner didnt want the church it makes no difference bc the law is the law. That church finally applied and got their license which is what the city wanted from the start. As well for Mr. Coscia, do you know him personally? Because I've met him and he is a very cooperative respectful person.
ReplyDeleteNo one has ever maligned Gerry Coscia...he is a great guy. There are establishments that I would not want next to where I live like Sober Homes but we are stuck with that. Common Ground was allowed to stay downtown even though there were a few who did not want that to happen.
ReplyDeleteLynn didnt the Anon from 5:52 wrote negatively in regards to Mr. Coscia? Also their are loop holes to regulating sober homes. Each household can only so many unrelated people living inside. No ones saying that common grounds cannot be downtown, I checked online and the case by code was closed bc they must have got their license like any other business is required to have. I personally do not like the pastor but thats my opionion, you dont have to like it but that doesn't make me wrong or a bad person. I stop once and awhile to the code proceedings at city hall and i hear alot in regards to licences its standard procedure.
ReplyDelete8:09...it's a pity that you say you "don't like the pastor." My question to you is, do you even know him? Have you ever had a conversation with him? Once you get to know him, you will like him very much.
ReplyDeleteYes ive spoke to him before prior to the whole code dibogle. I wouldnt dislike a person solely based a on hearsay & speculation. I have my reasons as do you for feeling differently.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:32. Don't play dumb. You know exactly what this city manager and code officer (on orders from Andy Amoroso) did. It caused outrage from churches around the world.Lake Worth made Natl. news and not in a good way . Bornstein had to beg Pastor Olive to "make it stop". And that's a direct quote.The local yokels bit off more than they could chew and they choked on it. Bornstein ,Coscia, and Amoroso SHOULD HAVE been sued and then fired and forced to resign. Olive had the city by the balls. But he's a forgiving man of God. I would have castrated the bastards.
ReplyDeleteSo because a article was written it makes it completely true? Its not like the "news" to ever sensationalize the information. Didnt pastor mike try to sue? Also ALL the city wanted was for that "church" to follow normal procedure, thats all. And why should Coscia be fired? For enforcing the city ordinances? Im not a advocate for the city. Personally i do not like the Pastor and i do not like how the city treats its employees and the blatant lies to the public. But i am friends with some of the code people and they are ALL nice people just doing their job.
ReplyDeleteNot to jump on any bandwagon joining in. But the city is so weak all anyone has to do is just threaten to sue right or wrong and like a deck of cards the city will fold
ReplyDeleteI agree that code people are just doing their jobs. Firing someone for just doing what they are told to do is extreme. The buck stops with the city manager. I think if Code was going on a covert mission that it would have been passed by the CM. But wearing a "hoodie" into the church and on a secret mission to gather evidence to be used against the pastor and the church? That, too, is extreme and uncalled for even by the majority of us.
ReplyDeletePastor Mike did NOT initiate a lawsuit.
Wasn't it chilly that day of the hoodie scandal? Ha-ha. I'm sure everything passes through the CM, he is a joke and is hated by ALL the employees. From seeing the court proceedings at the city hall either someone is in violation or not, plain n simple. I'm guessing the church did what they had to do so now their fine regardless of anyones personal opinions. I don't like pastor Mike so I don't go there but I don't have any animosity towards people who do.
ReplyDeleteSame old same old... the City is Evil and the Code Officers are the Enforcers! Lets just bring back Stanton so she can finish her firing spree so we have no employees left to do anything and lets just let businesses pop up wherever they want without any regulatory measures. Sounds about the consensus
ReplyDeleteWhat it sounds like to me is the same old BS from you. There are people leaving right and left at City Hall...where have you been?
ReplyDeleteObviously you don't know what's going on now or what was going on then.
Yes there is a mass exodus of employees at the moment but only bc bc no one wants to work for the city anymore. During the tyrannical rein of Stanton she cut tons of benefits and was firing everyone.
ReplyDeleteThere were a lot of austerity measures that she enacted. Did you know that we were nearly bankrupt?
ReplyDeleteYes & she was fired and literally EVERYSINGLE employee rejoiced. Employee moral has been dwindling ever since. Honestly Lynn do you think LW has made this a choice city for employment?
ReplyDeleteIf you havent worked at LW during that time or ever been an employee than its impossible to relate to someone who had or is a LW employee.
ReplyDeleteWell perhaps they all rejoiced but it doesn't sound like any of the employees are too happy now. So, do we just have an unhappy city? Ask Scott Maxwell and the other two why they are pouring $11 million into the park of commerce for developers. builders, etc.
ReplyDeleteP.s. do me a favor, all of this is about Common Ground church. We got this thread completely out of whack.