(WTOK) - The 5th Annual Allie Cat Run & Festival will take place in Meridian Saturday, Mar. The event is named after Allie Carruth, a young child who lost her life in a tragic accident five years ago. The event features a 5K run, a 2-mile run/walk and a kids walk/run. There will be arts and crafts, plenty of food, music and other activities with all proceeds going to the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency and the Allie Carruth Scholarship and grants. It was community love really and that’s the best thing we can do.”Activities get underway at 9:00 a.m. at City Hall Lawn Saturday, Mar.

MIRI (March 18): Deputy Minister in Sarawak Premier’s Department Dato Gerawat Gala and his Kelabit community paid glowing tributes to the late Henry Lian, his former mentor and a trail-blazing Kelabit from Bario. In a Facebook post, he said the late Henry, better known as Umong Raja among the Kelabit community, passed away in Kuching on March 14 and is survived by his wife Irene Lian and sons Glenn and Jake. To the Kelabit community, Henry was a beacon and their first to secure a scholarship to study abroad for tertiary education that pave the way for him to have better life. Dr Philip in his message at his wake yesterday said the Kelabit community could not thank Henry enough for his contributions and the late Henry had big dreams for the Kelabit community and was far ahead of his time. He gave back and contributed to our Kelabit community at the height of his career which none of us at the time could match,” he said.

Members of the Fitness Professionals of Color of the Pacific Northwest gather for a group shot, including founder Angelica Lee, in front in white top and green leggings. Image: Dillon Vibes PhotographyAngelica Lee always knew she didn’t fit anyone’s IG-fueled image of the typical fitness instructor. I wanted to know it was OK to share those feelings and express that.”So in 2019, she started trying to network with other fitness trainers of color, an outreach effort that became Fitness Professionals of Color of the PNW, which this month formally incorporated as a nonprofit. Their mission: to support and uplift personal trainers, yoga instructors, and fitness professionals of color in an already pretty white profession, in one of the country’s whitest corners. The group's latest mission: to offer meaningful financial support to aspiring fitness trainers, coaches, and instructors who are people of color.

Free and open to everyone, the meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. today, March 19, at Peace Lutheran Church, 828 West Main Street in Grass Valley. Our club meets on Thursdays on the third floor of the Litton building at 300 Litton Dr. in Grass Valley. The club sponsors trips and monthly club meetings the first Thursday of every winter month. The general public is welcome to attend meetings and may join at club meetings. Our club meetings are held monthly on the third Thursday at Apple Alley Cafe, located at the Brunswick “Y” — Colfax Highway.

If combining the outdoors and writing is on your to-do list, look no further than The Freeflow Institute. I’ve attended two Freeflow courses: the online SHIFT series and an in-person river trip down the Gates of Lodore in Dinosaur National Monument. Each offered viewpoints of authors, writing exercises, and thought exercises to help better my writing and my connection to the craft. Available ScholarshipsFreeflow currently has over $10,000 in scholarship funds for 2022 through its Freeflow Foundation and other organizations. These are available to support Freeflow participants from low-income, marginalized, and BIPOC communities on field courses.

The Leesburg Area Historical Society (www.leesburghistory.org) is among the second group of organizations to be featured on the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio’s Cause Connector giving site. Cause Connector is a charitable matchmaking site created to help more donors support local nonprofit projects in Appalachian Ohio. “Our region’s nonprofits are all doing incredible work and Cause Connector is a vital tool that let’s donors directly support that work.”Submitted by Leesburg Area Historical Society. This is an architect’s rendering of the restored Leesburg Depot. https://www.timesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2022/03/web1_Leesburg-depot.jpg This is an architect’s rendering of the restored Leesburg Depot.

In order to participate in the program, students research and write a paper on a global challenge affecting food security. The Minnesota Youth Institute is a program of the World Food Prize. The World Food Prize was created in 1986 by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota alum credited with saving more than one billion lives. A select few also will advance to the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute, a gathering of more than 1,000 world leaders working to advance food security, agriculture and human development. The Global Youth Institute was developed to challenge and inspire participating students and teachers to identify innovative strategies to alleviate hunger and to expose students to opportunities and careers in food, agriculture and natural resource disciplines.

CHENNAI: Girl students from government schools will get 1,000 a month on joining undergraduate courses or diploma courses, Tamil Nadu government has announced. About six lakh girl students will benefit every year under the scheme, for which 698 crore has been allotted in this budget. "All girl students who studied from Classes IV to XII in government schools will be paid 1,000 per month directly into their bank accounts till their uninterrupted completion of their undergraduate degree, diploma and ITI courses. "The new scheme is more important to the empowerment of women than the earlier scheme which simply gave money to marriage. Girl children will view it as their scheme as they receive money directly," he added.IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti welcomed the announcement that the state government would fund undergraduate education of government school students, if they join IITs.

My love and passion for humanity made me set up OAWF years ago and the foundation’s aim is to continue to affect the lives of Nigerians positively. OAWF is birthed on the urgent need to provide an atmosphere where Nigerians are secure, prosperous and free of poverty. So, it’s right for me to start my foundation in Ojo and focus on Ojo people for now. In Nigeria, politicians talk about affordable homes just to score points. When we talk about affordable homes, the homes should be affordable and the process of getting that shouldn’t be difficult.

The Auxiliary’s “Artist of the Month” program has been featuring paintings, photographs, and artwork each month from local artists for over 25 years. Pickup of plant kits is May 21 at 28 Russell Street, the future home of the Litchfield Land Trust. All proceeds benefit the Litchfield Land Trust, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organizations whose mission is Conserving and Protecting Land, Forever. Special Olympics to honor athletes, supportersPLANTSVILLE — Special Olympics Connecticut will host its annual awards dinner presented by Tokio Marine HCC, at 5 p.m. March 29, at the Aqua Turf Club, to celebrate athletes who exemplify the spirit of Special Olympics and individuals and groups who have made significant contributions to the organization. Keynote speakers will include Loretta Claiborne, Chief Inspiration Officer for Special Olympics International and Abby Snyder, a Special Olympics Connecticut Athlete and Global Messenger.

Font Size: A A AScholars discuss how to limit the negative social and environmental impacts of fast fashion. The term “fast fashion” describes the speedy production of inexpensive clothing to keep up with rapidly changing fashion trends. If the fast fashion industry continues on its current course, greenhouse gas emissions will surge by 50 percent within the next 10 years. Activists, policymakers, and community members are calling for greater accountability on the part of fast fashion companies to reform the quality and safety of their manufacturing methods. In this week’s Saturday Seminar, experts share ideas on how to lower the high social and environmental costs inherent in the operations of fast fashion companies.

Pia (Pisay Pao) knows hardly anything about her mother’s experience fleeing Cambodia in 1975, amid the country’s deadly takeover by the Khmer Rouge. But the pain of her mother’s experience has shaped Pia’s life, like an imprint, she says, seared into her cells. Pia’s mother (Sonnie Brown) carries herself like a ghost, looking lost behind the eyes and staunchly resisting any reminders of Cambodia. Chanse’s play shifts back and forth over a 10-year span in Pia’s study of memory and its potential for manipulation. But when Darany’s ex-girlfriend (Emma Kikue) comes around gathering testimony for a nonprofit from survivors of the Khmer Rouge, Pia’s mother refuses to open up about the past.

From the new restaurant, Coyotzi is now making a full menu of Mexican breakfast dishes — chilaquiles, eggs bathed in red and green salsas — plus tacos, tortas, and quesadillas. Garcia attributed the changes to an identity crisis at the tamal cart: New Yorkers don’t know Evelia’s, he says, at least not by name. “People in the community, they called it Los Tamales de Junction or Los Tamales de Roosevelt,” alluding to cart’s cross streets in Corona, Queens. State senator Ramos, who’s been frequenting the tamal cart for years, is also an outspoken fan. Despite the acknowledgments, the 24-year-old general manager says the East Elmhurst storefront is the beginning of something bigger for the tamal business.

The second-year SUNY Orange business student from Goshen also learned recently that she is in the running for the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, having advanced to the semifinal round in consideration for that national scholarship. At SUNY Orange, she serves as the student representative to the SUNY Orange Foundation Board of Directors and is a member of the Foundation Board’s Alumni Committee. I’ve found her to be engaging, energetic and thoughtful,” said SUNY Orange President Dr. Kristine Young. Glassé, who attended Warwick Valley High School, has volunteered for or led a variety of international humanitarian aid efforts, including: Nicaragua Humanitarian Mission Trip - Bridges to Community in both 2015 and 2017; Mexico Humanitarian Mission Trip - Homes for Hope in 2017, and Dominican Republic Humanitarian Mission Trip - Bridges to Community in 2019. From2017 through 2018 she was a project manager for a mission trip to Trebisht, Albania, to rebuild a fire-ravaged school.

- Advertisement -The mother of a polytechnic student with a diploma bond appealed to the Singapore General Hospital after her daughter was denied a university sponsorship to pursue a degree in nursing with NUS/SIT. - Advertisement 1- Mdm Teo explained that her daughter signed a bond with the hospital during her first year with Ngee Ann Polytechnic. As a parent, their response is totally unacceptable,” Mdm Teo said. At the time of writing, the family had written to SGH to defer E’s commencement of work so that she can pursue a self-funded University degree. However, the family still awaits a response from SGH regarding their appeal to convert her diploma sponsorship to a degree sponsorship.

Retired Courts of Appeal President, Justice Zainab Abubakar Bulkachuwa, has launched a scholarship scheme, the Adda Girl Education Foundation, which inaugurated the pioneer beneficiaries made up of 50 girls from Nafada Local Government Area of Gombe State. The ADDA foundation selected 50 girls from Nafada Local Government as its first set of scholars in the first phase of the scholarship scheme, intended to later select girls from across the three senatorial zones of the state, particularly Gombe, Balanga and Akko LGAs. Speaking at the inauguration, the founder, Justice Bulkachuwa said the girls were selected across all levels of education of primary, secondary, state, and tertiary. She, however, said she believed in the power that education had to unleash the potential of the girls. Lateefah Ibrahim50 Gombe Girls Benefit from Foundation’s ScholarshipSee Something Say Something, Share The News WhatsAppFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditTelegramPinterestEmailSkypePrintTumblrPocket

The Society of Saint Stephens will use the funds to purchase food and provide financial assistance for those facing an emergency financial crisis. Family Time Crisis & Counseling Center will use the funds to support a shelter and support services for women and children who are victims of abuse. Mission Northeast will use the funds to purchase food and hygiene items from the Montgomery County Food Bank to help those in need. Feed My Lambs will use the funds to purchase Christmas baskets for residents in an apartment complex that serves the elderly, handicapped and needy. The Friends of the Library in Kingwood will use the funds to purchase books and materials for the children’s library collection.

The minister expressed these remarks while inaugurating the Green Youth Movement under the Prime Minister’s Kamyab Jawan Programme at the Convention Centre, Islamabad, on Thursday. The green champions under the Green Youth Movement initiative will represent Pakistan in other countries and learn new approaches to address the climate change, he added. Chairperson Higher Education Commission Shaista Sohail said that the Green Youth Movement initiative, in collaboration with British Council and School of Leadership Foundation (SoLF) will engage 137 universities and 2.5 million youth for this initiative. Other initiatives of the PM’s Kamyab Jawan Programme include Loan Scheme, Skill Scholarship, National Youth Council, Green Youth Movement, Kamyab Jawan Markaz, Kamyab Jawan Innovation League and Tigers Force (the volunteers). The British Council will invest 2.8 million pounds to support the Green Youth Movement initiative, whereas the Pakistan government has already invested Rs.

Brent Bachar, a senior at Hoisington High School, applied and has been chosen to receive a full-ride scholarship to BTI’s Ag Tech program. The BTI Ag Tech program is a full-ride scholarship that includes tuition, fees, books, campus room and board, and a tool loan that the student will pay back interest free. The Ag Tech program is a two-year program that allows students to graduate with an associate degree from a community college that has a John Deere sponsored Ag Tech program. BTI partners with Fort Scott Community College, Garden City Community College, and Southeast Community College in Milford, Neb., and allows students to select the best fit for them. Bachar will attend Southeast Community College in Milford, Neb., and work at the Great Bend location.

The ‘C R Paatil Scholarship’ will cover the Education expenses, including Registration fees, Books, Coaching fees, Physical and Mental Health Development workshops and not only this, the students will also get monthly pocket money under this scholarship for the first 36 months of the program. Similarly, Gujarat BJP President Shri C R Paatil ji’s birthday was commemorated not only for his social contribution but also for his ability to steer the society in a new positive and better path.” According to Paresh Patel, Children from low-income families have inferior learning outcomes. This ‘C R Paatil Scholarship’ is a step in the direction of ensuring opportunity for the talent and potential that even these children hold. Hari Arora, a Chartered Accountant and social media in-charge of Surat City BJP unit, said, “The CR Paatil Scholarship will give a new direction in building the future of 108 children of Suman High School. The “Gyanotsav” event also witnessed a career counselling session and the cultural program for over 1,000 students of the SMC-run Suman High School.