{"id":1824,"date":"2008-01-18T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2008-08-21T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:14:55","slug":"local-resident-participating-in-operation-freefall-two-mile-high-stand-against-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Local resident participating in Operation Freefall: Two-Mile High Stand Against Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/10946_baughman2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1825\" title=\"10946_baughman2\" src=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/10946_baughman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>On April 26, local resident Michelle M. Baughman will be participating in the nation\u2019s boldest, highest-altitude, and most daring effort to put an end to sexual assault.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called \u201cOperation Freefall: The Two-Mile High Stand Against Sexual Assault\u201d.<br \/>\nBaughman will be joining thousands of people at skydive centers across the country who will take to the sky and jump, to raise awareness and money for sexual assault.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s not a skydiver, so she will be making a tandem skydive with a United States Parachute Association licensed tandem master.<br \/>\nEach jumper will skydive from at least 10,560 feet \u2013 two miles high.<br \/>\nBy raising funds for Speaking Out About Rape, Inc. (SOAR) and local anti-sexual violence organizations across the country, Operation Freefall will help:<br \/>\n\u2022 extend efforts to provide prevention, recovery and prosecution information to tens of millions of people, including in the area, each year;<br \/>\n\u2022 expand SOAR\u2019s programs to empower survivors, and educate lawmakers, police officers, students and the media about sexual assault and<br \/>\n\u2022 enhance local services for survivors of sexual violence.<br \/>\nBaughman has agreed to raise $600 before March 10, and she needs the community\u2019s help to do so.<br \/>\nThose interested in making a tax-deductible pledge can mail it to Baughman, or send it directly to SOAR, along with a contribution made payable to \u201cOperation Freefall\u201d.<br \/>\nBaughman\u2019s address is 400 Washington Avenue, Apt. E, Tyrone, PA 16686.<br \/>\nSOAR\u2019s address is 817-A Virginia Drive, Orlando FL 32803. If you send it directly to Florida, it needs to be accompanied with a pledge payment form that has Baughman\u2019s name on it.<br \/>\nAccording to information provided by Baughman, the FBI categorizes rape as the second most violent crime a person can experience, second only to murder. To put it another way, it\u2019s the most violent and traumatic crime any victim lives to remember. Every two minutes, another American is sexually assaulted. It is the most under-reported of all crimes in the United States.<br \/>\nFor more information on the event, check out www.operationfreefall.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, local resident Michelle M. Baughman will be participating in the nation\u2019s boldest, highest-altitude, and most daring effort to put an end to sexual assault. It\u2019s called \u201cOperation Freefall: The Two-Mile High Stand Against Sexual Assault\u201d. Baughman will be joining thousands of people at skydive centers across the country who will take to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}