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The male bear, which got into a chicken coop at the McCormick Ranch and feasted on eggs, is just the latest episode in a winter of abnormally high bear activity.

After fleeing years of emotional and physical abuse in a strict Reformed Mennonite community, Patty Bear says she has no taste for religion.

(Military.com illustration/Photos courtesy of Patty Bear) 17 May 2021 Coffee or Die Magazine | By Natalie Gross Growing up in the Reformed Mennonite Church, Patty Bear didn’t know anything about the military — only that her people were pacifists. Higher education and many secular professions were taboo, especially for women. She assumed she’d be wearing long dresses and bonnets for the rest of her life, like her mother and countless generations of female ancestors before her. Yet after years of watching her mother en...

Daughter of 'abusive' Mennonite who was excommunicated from the church reveals how he brutally tormented her family with KIDNAP attempts and death threats - before she fled to find freedom as a pilot in the Gulf War Patty Bear's memoir 'From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, a National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom' was published on Tuesday In the book, the 57-year-old detailed her religious upbringing and her father Robert L. Bear's decades-long war with the Reformed Mennonite Church  Robert was excommunicated from the church for questioning its leaders in 1972 and w...