"Mormon Helping Hands" rake in a garden at Kelly Elementary School. Others painted walkway lines, poles, and doors. Volunteers were organized by members of the Long Beach Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
 
(This web page is sponsored by PSL cryptozoological research)
 
Copyright 2009  Jonathan Whitcomb
Raking-1: Mormons Rake it in at Kelly School in Compton
 
Kelly: Raking           A live pterosaur           Ropen of Papua New Guinea
Modern pterosaurs
 
Hoax idea refuted
" . . . the data accumulated from descriptions of apparent pterosaurs in the United States showed characteristics not to be expected from a hoax or hoaxes." (analysis of data reported by Jonathan Whitcomb)
 
Ropens are modern pterosaurs
A "modern pterosaur" is how these Americans classify the ropen, but by the end of 2008 the mysterious creature was still not classified by science, living within the shadows of cryptozoology.
 
Are All Pterosaurs Extinct?
. . . a reply to Glen Kuban’s web page . . . Brian Hennessy, a psychologist working at a medical university, saw a large creature looking “prehistoric” in Papua New Guinea. . . . no sign of feathers . . . a modern pterosaur.
 
 
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Ropen of Papua New Guinea
(composite sketch by Guessman and Whitcomb)