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Sunday, October 15, 2023 GB and NI international athletes james stewart and Zoe Clark be this year’s guest National club conference. The event will be held at Hilton Glasgow upon Saturday, October 28th (Early morning on the day of the 4J Awards Dinner at the same venue). And we are delighted that we are now accepting registrations for the event, with clubs warmly invited to send representatives on 28th October. Please use the link here: National Club Conference Sign Up The theme of this year’s event is power of people. At any given time, we need more than 900 dedicated…
Our Websites KOAT.COM and ROSWELL. Police are investigating a shooting at a Walmart on Main Street. Police said two men were involved in the incident.suspected shooting incident One person hospitalized after shooting at Walmart in Roswell Updated: October 15, 2023 6:05 AM MDT Police are investigating a shooting at Walmart on Saturday night. The shooting happened in the 4500 block of North Main Street around 10:20 p.m. Roswell police said the shooting stemmed from an argument between two men. During the altercation, one man shot the other and fled the scene, RPD said, and the injured man was taken to…
I probably had the longest internship ever. I joined The Oregonian as a summer intern just days after graduating from college, and I’m still here more than 40 years later.The Oregonian/OregonLive is proud to offer paid internships to aspiring journalists, typically college students in their sophomore through senior years. Most study journalism or related topics.If you have such students around you, my advice is to plan ahead. Many media outlets, including us, have already started applying for him in the summer of 2024.I call this the intern arms race. Major news organizations such as the New York Times and the…
donna jackson Discussions about the need for meritocratic university admissions should begin with the goal of education: contributing to the economic production of the community. George Washington Carver, a black American botanist, inventor, and former slave, said it best when he said that education is the key to unlocking the golden door of freedom.If you can do the ordinary things in life in an unusual way, you can attract the attention of the world.As Black Americans, let us follow Carver’s extraordinary example of what we can accomplish for ourselves and the communities in which we live. To his credit, no…
Vast fields of corn line the roads near the village of Beecher. Over one hill, the landscape shifts, revealing plots studded with medicinal and industrial hemp plants.First-generation farmers Rachael and Jesse Smedberg grow hemp on their 120-acre organic and regenerative farm, Tulip Tree Gardens. Five years ago, the couple decided to buy the farm near the Indiana border, and they have since been experimenting with sustainable techniques.“We feel like this is our purpose, to restore soil together,” Rachael Smedberg said. “This is our purpose, to educate our community. And it’s our purpose to raise up our kids and teach them…
Residents living near Love Field are still angry about the noise coming from the municipal airport, but for the most part they seem to understand that the enemy is not the city of Dallas. Airlines are the ones not complying with voluntary noise bans. The Love Field Citizen Action Committee is working with airport officials to prepare for a presentation to the Dallas City Council, currently scheduled for November 1st. Dallas Love Field’s Good Neighbor Program is scheduled to host a conference at the AviationFoxtronics building on October 17th at 6 p.m. 3448 W. Mockingbird Lane. The Department of Aviation…
Students Jordan Vanover, 18, left, and Adam Brown, 17, laugh as they try to attach chains to the wheels of a robot during a robotics class at Metro High School in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 5. . (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) The first in an occasional series about career and technical education in Cedar Rapids schools. CEDAR RAPIDS — Metro High School senior Jordan Vanauve is building a robotic arm precise enough to pick up 3-inch-wide hexagons and launch paper airplanes. Her class combines technical skills with traditional science and math standards required for graduation to create robots to compete in…
LIHUE — Whimsical Friday just coincided with Friday being celebrated as Friday the 13th at Kukui Grove Center. Kukui Grove Center has launched a nearly month-long calendar of activities centered around Halloween and surrounding family fun and festivities. Aloha Dance Studio, whose studio is located adjacent to the Macy’s store at the north end of the shopping center, holds Freaky Fridays as a fundraiser to help cover travel expenses for off-island dance groups and funds for the development of dance groups. provided. New property on Rice Street. “This is the beginning of the “howling” into Halloween! ”Kukui His Center’s special…
In a modest building on Sandbank Road in Cheshire, students are eager to learn the fundamentals of martial arts, what the late Bruce Lee once described as “the unrestrained kinetic expression of the individual soul.”Ralph Bergamo, owner of Bergamo Martial Arts, is world-renowned for his accomplishments in the American-Filipino art of Kung Tao, achieving the status of Grandmaster. He is also known for his competitive destruction skills, using human body parts to quickly destroy objects ranging from coconuts to concrete blocks.Bergamo explains that all martial arts training must start with the basics, no matter how easy it may seem to…
A group called Mamas for Liberty, which has an innocuous-sounding name unknown to many voters, is rapidly gaining influence among conservatives and the national Republican Party. The parent rights organization announced it has grown to 285 chapters in 45 states since starting in Florida in 2021 to fight mask and vaccine mandates in public schools. Now, their message has spread to Hartford County, with the local chapter hosting a controversial national guest speaker in the Farmington Valley on October 21st. Avon Democrats are planning a protest rally against Moms’ conservative views outside the event. The moms became so controversial that…