ADS SUPPORT ARNOLD BID

Ads support Arnold bid
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president.
The cable television ads, set to being running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, which limits the presidency to people born in the United States. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983.
"You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love," Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones says in the ads.
She is a San Francisco Bay-area mutual fund manager and major Schwarzenegger campaign donor who is helping pay for the ads and created a companion Web site.
Church bilked twice
WILLMAR, Minn. -- After its last pastor reportedly bilked them out of $10,000, leaders of Rejoice Ministries church thought they were being extra careful when they hired James Poole.
Still reeling from the theft, they asked Poole to come to the church and preach in an act of caution to ensure Poole was legitimate before hiring him.
"He did a good service," church secretary Mary Steffens told The West Central Tribune of Willmar for a story in Saturday's paper. "I will give him credit for that."
Poole was hired in August, but less than a month later, he reportedly skipped town without repaying $3,344 he "borrowed" from the church for rent, trips, even a new bathtub, Steffens said.
Church officials later learned that Poole -- whose real name authorities believe is Jerry Andrews -- had served jail time for writing bad checks and credit-card theft.
Festival honors 'Hogzilla'
ALAPAHA, Ga. -- Residents of this small farming town gathered Saturday to celebrate Hogzilla, a 12-foot-long wild pig that was supposedly shot by a hunting guide last summer and quickly grew into a worldwide legend.
The festival comes five months after the 1,000-pound hog was killed when it wandered out of swamps along the nearby Alapaha River, a haven for swine that escape pig farms and start living off the land.
The prodigious porker was remembered with a hog-calling contest and a greased-pig chase, as well as a float featuring a life-size replica of Hogzilla.
The hairy heavyweight supposedly measured 12 feet with 9-inch tusks, said Ken Holyoak, owner of the hunting plantation where the hog was killed near Alapaha, about 180 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Associated Press