"Mormon Helping Hands" volunteers dig in a garden at Kelly School. Other volunteers painted walkway lines, poles, doors,
and window frames (organized by members of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, assisted by friends of Kelly
School).
Copyright 2009 Jonathan Whitcomb
Digging-1: Volunteers Do Gardening at Kelly Elementary School
. . . a large flying creature reported by an American soldier in 1944 is the same
species of long-tailed featherless creature known as ropen. . . . Whitcomb disputes the traditional Western interpretation of the
pterodactyl sightings as misidentifications of Flying Fox fruit bats. Natives described how one ropen held itself upright on a tree
trunk, but the fruit bats hang upside down from branches. In addition, the ropen eats fish and has a long tail, unlike the Flying
Fox.
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