Images: Carol Fausnaught, Board Chair of Dwell Orphan Care (top left)
Jennifer Lake, Executive Director of Dwell Orphan Care (middle)
Fred Holland, WASD Solicitor (top right), Dwell Orphan Care Logo (bottom left)
WASD Logo (bottom right)
The following is an opinion editorial authored by Todd Bartley, TalkWilliamsport.com, news@talkwilliamsport.com.
Did Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” who attacked President Donald Trump’s likely Supreme Court nominee, federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, as a white supremacist on Saturday for adopting two children from Haiti actually have just proven that Jennifer Lake is herself systemically racist?
As a reader you must understand Jennifer Lake has told us all how woke she is and has written extensively about it before removing articles from her own website shortly after this series began.
Her “woke-ness” stems from her being the adoptive mother of a black son while he was still an infant.
This may come to a shock to many of you, soon to be confirmed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has two adopted children from Haiti.
According to leaders in the same political party as Jennifer Lake, the fact that Judge Barrett adopted these children is disqualifying for her to serve on the highest court in the land.
Curious if Jennifer Lake would agree, or would she stand up for a fellow adoptive white mother of black children?
Or for Jennifer Lake, do “Only Certain Black Lives Matter”?
In reality Jennifer Lake by telling us how systemically racist we all are and having the Williamsport Area School District codify it; she just sank the battleship with her own words.
Any minority student, teacher, coach, administrator, parent or even taxpayer can bring civil litigation against the WASD for mistreatment and Exhibit A is the document the entire board unanimously approved.
This past Saturday, Tristan Justice of The Federalist authored “Anticapitalist Sponsored By Twitter CEO Accuses Amy Coney Barrett Of ‘Colonialism’ For Adopting From Haiti”.
The article reads in part, “Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children,” Kendi wrote on Twitter. “They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.””
Justice goes onto write, “Kendi was responding to a tweet featuring parents with black children that didn’t even depict Coney Barrett. Kendi said it didn’t matter, because reasons.
“Whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist,” Kendi wrote, because according to his own philosophy, absolutely nothing can abdicate white people of their inborn racism.”
So Jennifer Lake, how about that, according to Kendi, even as the mother of an adopted black child you may in fact be even more of a racist than you are telling everyone else they are.
Let that sink in.
Need a tissue?
Maybe the Board Chair of Dwell Orphan Care can issue a statement on your behalf.
Can Carol Fausnaught, actually do that for you or do you need to actually stand up for what you claim to stand for as a WASD school board member?
IS A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INVESTIGATION IN ORDER FOR THE WASD?
Based on the anti-racism proclamation issued by the WASD and the one Jennifer Lake had a huge hand in authoring, should the U.S. Department of Education launch an investigation into the district to explore her claims?
On September 21, 2020, Forbes – Senior Contributor Education writer Frederick Hess author penned an article “Princeton’s President Says His School Is Racist—So Betsy DeVos Launched An Investigation”.
“Last week, the U.S. Department of Education informed Princeton it was under investigation for violating the Civil Rights Act. It would seem the Department of Education had little choice. After all, the president of Princeton University, which annually collects $300 million in federal research funding and millions more in federal student financial aid, recently declared that his university is systematically racist. “
On September 2, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber issued a letter announcing that racism and oppression “persist at Princeton” and that this is “sometimes by conscious intention.” Eisgruber asserted that “racist assumptions from the past” remain “embedded in structures of the University itself.”
Hess asserts, “Sweeping assertions of discriminatory conduct aren’t just empty verbiage, they’re serious charges that deserve evidentiary support.”
Hess’s article concludes by saying, “In either case, Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education has reasonably decided to take Princeton’s president at his word and duly investigate in accordance with federal law. It’s hard to imagine proponents of equality or justice taking issue with that.”
Right Jennifer?
JENNIFER LAKE HIDES BEHIND CAROL FAUSNAUGHT
This author requested any number of documents from Jennifer Lake for this series as well as comment.
Her response was dated July 17, 2020, mailed on July 22, 2020 with a return address of 604 Market Street, commonly known as First United Methodist Church.
The documents which cost $14.15 to mail were not received until recently.
The cover letter ends with “Additionally, the board is aware Mrs. Lake received a phone call from you on Friday, July 3, 2020 requesting the above information.
Please be advised that we request that you cease all phone calls and email correspondence to Mrs.
Lake and direct any requests for Dwell information to the Board at our mailing address:
604 Market Street, Williamsport, PA 17701.”
The mailing address for Dwell Orphan Care is the same address listed on the First United Methodist Church website as follows:
FIRST EVANGELICAL CENTER (FEC) | 604 Market St, Williamsport, PA 17701
MAIN OFFICE | 604 Market St, Williamsport, PA 17701
Is Dwell Orphan Care under the auspices of First United Methodist Church, and if so what role does Jennifer Lake have in the operation of the church?
Referring back to the cover letter sent by Carol Fausnaught, this author requested “Mrs. Lake’s work history, title, job description, and dates employed by First United Methodist Church and Bethany Christian Services.”
According to the Dwell Orphan Care website, “Jenn serves alongside her husband in his role as Lead Pastor of First United Methodist Church.”
According to the First United Methodist Church website staff page, there is no mention or photo of Jennifer Lake serving in such a role.
Fausnaught replied in the cover letter, “Dwell is unable to provide Mrs. Lake’s employment information for previous employers.”
Has Jennifer Lake left the employment of First United Methodist Church?
DWELL ORPHAN CARE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS
On November 26, 2018, Dwell Orphan Care filed with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of State Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations Articles of Incorporation – Nonprofit.
The incorporators were Jennifer Lake and Heidi Mnkandhla.
Articles of Incorporation – Nonprofit were signed by Lake and Mnkandhla on November 14, 2018.
The Articles of Incorporation were filed by attorney Fred Holland.
The same Fred Holland who is the solicitor for the Williamsport Area School District.
The same Fred Holland who characterized what has later been confirmed by Lycoming County District Attorney Ryan Gardner to be “criminal sexual misconduct”, or as Holland claimed “indecent and inappropriate behavior on the part of a WAHS baseball player.”
Jennifer Lake has Articles of Incorporation filed by the same attorney whom she serves with on the Williamsport Area School Board.
Could that be considered a conflict of interest?
Did Fred Holland raise any objections to the “anti-racism” declaration approved by the WASD School Board?
Is it plausible, Jennifer Lake already ensured his silence similarly to the way George Lepley did in the Myrtle Beach case with the letter of May 31, 2018 threatening the WASD with legal action?
WHY THREE ADDRESSES FOR DWELL ORPHAN CARE?
Carol Fausnaught, demanded this author use the same address listed on the First United Methodist Church website (604 Market St, Williamsport, PA 17701) for future correspondence with Jennifer Lake, so why at the bottom of the letterhead the demand is made on is there no mention of the address that is used to file the annual IRS tax return?
The third address listed as the office for Dwell Orphan Care is 1157 Market Street, Williamsport, PA 17701. This address is the North Campus of First United Methodist Church.
According to the Dwell Orphan Care Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of State Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations Articles of Incorporation – Nonprofit filed on the November 26, 2018;
2. a. The address of this corporation’s current registered office in this Commonwealth is:
117 Lincoln Avenue Williamsport, PA 17701 Lycoming County
That address is considered the parsonage owned by First United Methodist Church.
It is the same address Jennifer Lake used on all of her Petitions for election to the Williamsport Area School Board.
REALTY TRANSFER TAX STATEMENT OF VALUE
On August 30, 2013, a real estate transfer occurred in Lycoming County between First United Methodist Church and itself.
A QUIT-CLAIM deed was recorded in the Lycoming County Courthouse dated August 26, 2013 between “First United Methodist Church GRANTOR and the First United Methodist Church, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a charitable corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, GRANTEE,
In consideration of One Dollar ($1.00) and other good and valuable consideration in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said Grantor does hereby release and QUIT-CLAIM to the said Grantee.”
According to the “REALTY TRANSFER TAX STATEMENT OF VALUE”, D. REAL ESTATE LOCATION:
117 Lincoln Avenue Williamsport, PA 17701
E. VALUATION DATA
1. ACTUAL CASH CONSIDERATION $1.00
2. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS $0.00
3. TOTAL CONSIDERATION $1.00
4. COUNTY ASSESSED VALUE $166,430.00
5. COMMON LEVEL RATIO FACTOR X 1.26
6. FAIR MARKET VALUE $209,701.80
F. EXEMPTION DATA
1a. AMOUNT OF EXEMPTION CLAIMED $209,701.80
1b. PERCENTAGE OF GRANTOR’S INTEREST IN REAL ESTATE 100%
1c. PERCENTAGE OF GRANTOR’S INTEREST CONVEYED 100%
Is Jennifer Lake paying property tax in the school district she serves on the school board in?
Carol, Jennifer, care to offer that answer?
WHY ARE DWELL ORPHAN CARE DONATIONS NOT BEING SENT TO THE SAME ADDRESS FAUSNAUGHT WANTS MAIL GOING TO?
From the Dwell Orphan Care website:
“CAN WE DONATE BY CHECK?
Yes! Every family has an ID# attached to their profile. Families can find it on their Fundraiser Page. The ID is what Dwell uses to map and apply donations to your fundraiser. When donors send in checks it is vital that your name and ID is listed on the check’s memo line. To guarantee that all donor information is captured and the donation is applied to the correct fundraiser it is imperative that this information is included on a donors check.”
Checks can be mailed to:
Dwell, 117 Lincoln Ave., Williamsport PA 17701.
ATTN: Adoption Assistance Grant
Why are checks being mailed to a different address and a 3% transaction fee being assessed?
OP-ED: Jennifer Lake Wokebegone – PART VI is forthcoming.
Previous installments of this series:
OP-ED: Jennifer Lake Wokebegone – PART IV
OP-ED: Jennifer Lake Wokebegone – PART III
