Adventist Layman Heads Ghana’s EPA

Jonathan Addo Allotey has been announced the new executive director of Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA.  Allotey, a 21-year veteran of the agency, completed his secondary education at the Bekwai Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School and is a local elder and preacher in the Mallam Seventh-day Adventist Church, Accra. [Joe Aaron Hagan]

Portland’s New Police Chief an Adventist

Derrick Foxworth, a member of the Sharon Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portland, Oregon, United States, was named that city’s chief of police on Sept. 2 by Portland’s mayor, Vera Katz. Foxworth’s appointment comes after the resignation of former chief Mark Kroeker, and caps his 22 years on the police force in his hometown.