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3 More Bodies Found in Tennessee Wildfire Ruins; Toll at 7

A home and vehicle are damaged from the wildfires around Gatlinburg, Tenn., on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Three more bodies were found in the ruins of the wildfires,
raising the death toll to seven, a Tennessee mayor said Wednesday.
(Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)
ADAM BEAM found in the ruins of wild- the death toll to seven, Larry Waters said they had day night. The mayor said
JONATHAN MATTISE fires that torched hun- a Tennessee mayor said found three people who the three were OK. “That is
Associated Press dreds of homes and busi- Wednesday. Search-and- had been trapped since some good, positive news
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — nesses in the Great Smoky rescue missions continued, the fires started spreading for a change,” he said.
Three more bodies were Mountains area, raising and Sevier County Mayor wildly in high winds on Mon- Continued on page 4

Record Charitable Donations Reported for Giving Tuesday

DAVID CRARY many nonprofits, reported that it processed kindness.
AP National Writer $47.7 million in online donations Tuesday for “When I look around today, I see how far
NEW YORK (AP) — Giving Tuesday, a 5-year- more than 6,700 organizations — a 20 percent we’ve come — and how far we have left to
old phenomenon aimed at encouraging on- increase in giving over last year. It said 22 per- go now that Donald Trump has been elect-
line charitable giving, produced record-shat- cent of the donations were made via a mobile ed,” said an appeal from Barbara Miller, who
tering donations this week, according to two device. serves on the board of the National Organiza-
organizations which tracked the flow of gifts. In its first year in 2012, under the aegis of the tion for Women.
The 92nd Street Y in New York City, credited for 92nd Street Y, Giving Tuesday generated On the right flank, the conservative Media Re-
launching the event in 2012, said Wednesday about $10 million in donations after being search Center appealed for donations to help
that contributions reported by organizations in pitched as a way to promote charity on the it counter “the liberal media.”
the U.S. and abroad for a 24-hour period to- heels of Thanksgiving weekend’s big shopping Henry Timms, executive director of the 92nd
tal $168 million — up from about $117 million days. Street Y and co-founder of Giving Tuesday,
in 2015. It said there were roughly 1.6 million In subsequent years, it has mushroomed into said the event’s success was due to “the work
donations, coming from people in nearly 100 a decentralized global movement, with non- of ordinary people all over the country.”
countries. profits of all types soliciting donations, promot- “For all those things that may divide us, we all
Blackbaud, a software company that serves ing volunteerism and encouraging acts of share a proud tradition of giving,” he said.q