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A Pasco County Woman May Have Had A Very Merry Christmas
Sheila McNeal purchased a Mega Millions ticket for the drawing on December 7, 2021. All five of the white ball numbers matched, but the Mega Ball did not. That’s a $1 million winning ticket. She claimed her winnings at the Florida Lottery Tampa Dis- trict Office.
Sheila purchased the win- ning ticket at Publix, 1920 County Road 581, in Wesley Chapel. The store will receive
$1,000 for selling the win- ning ticket.
Florida joined Mega Mil- lions in 2013. The next draw- ing will be Friday, December 31, 2021.
Around The World
Desmond Tutu Passes Away At 90
Noted Freedom Fighter and Anti-Apartheid activist, Desmond Tutu, died on Sun- day, December 26, 2021, at age 90. South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon for peace was an unbending foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice.
People around the world are grieving the loss of such a mon- umental force for equity.
Former U. S. President Barack Obama hailed Tutu as “a moral compass for me and so many others. A univer- sal spirit, Archbishop Tutu was grounded in the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but also con- cerned with injustice every- where. He never lost his impish sense of humor and willingness to find humanity in his adver- saries.”
Tutu’s non-violent ap- proach to eradicate apartheid has been saluted for many years. Apartheid was a brutal campaign of racial oppression of the black majority in South Africa that ended in 1994.
The cheerful but blunt cler- gyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannes- burg and later as the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, as well as frequent public demon- strations, to spur public opin- ion against racial inequity, both at home and globally.
A great friend to his fellow Nobel laureate and South Africa’s first black President, Nelson Mandela, the two shared a passion to building an equal South Africa.
After Mandela became president, Tutu was appointed to chairman of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Com-
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU ... Fought Against Apartheid And Injustice
mission, which uncovered the abuses of apartheid.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said, “This is another chapter of bereave- ment in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have be- queathed us a liberated South Africa.”
“From the pavements of re- sistance in South Africa to the pulpits of the world’s great cathedrals and places of wor- ship, and the prestigious set- ting of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Arch distin- guished himself as a non-sec- tarian, inclusive champion of universal human rights.”
Tutu died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center in Cape Town. He had been hospital- ized several times since 2015 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. In re- cent years he and his wife, Leah, lived in a retirement community outside Cape Town.
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