Vietnam veteran to speak about POW experience Nov. 9

BUCHANAN — Vietnam veteran William Robinson, the longest held enlisted American Prisoner of War in history, will speak about his experiences in the “Hanoi Hilton” and other North Vietnamese prison camps.

The event will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 at the Buchanan American Legion, 403 E. Front St.

This November’s Veterans Day activities are sponsored by Ralph Rumbaugh American Legion Post 51 in Buchanan.

Robinson will speak two other times to the public from Nov. 9 to Nov. 11. He will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 at Buchanan High School, at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10 at the Michigan Lutheran High School in St. Joseph. and at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Legion in Buchanan on Veterans Day.

Scientific creationist to speak at Volinia Baptist Church

DECATUR — Carl Baugh, founder and director of the Creation Evidence Museum, will be at Volinia Baptist Church this weekend.

Baugh will speak at 7 p.m. Saturday, as well as during the chuch’s Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., Sunday morning service at 11 a.m., and Sunday evening at 6 p.m. The public is welcome to the presentations.

Baugh is the scientific research director of the world’s first hyperbaric biosphere, simulating earth’s atmospheric conditions before the worldwide flood of Noah’s day. He is the discoverer and excavation director of 16 dinosaurs, including Acrocanthosaurus in Texas and Diplodocus in Colorado.

He began his excavation project on the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Texas, on March 1982. Since that time, Baugh, along with teams of volunteers, has uncovered more than 400 dinosaur tracks and more than 80 human footprints in Cretaceous limestone.

In 1990, he was co-director of an expedition searching for the ark on Mt. Ararat. After 40 years of research in this area, he directed the construction of a 25-foot (1/20 scale) replica of the ark now in the museum, and holds a U.S. patent on the gopher wood process.

Carl Baugh lectures internationally on evidence for scientific creation on television and radio, and in schools, churches and various organizations.