Through activities such as a traditional game involving a live guinea pig to building their own maracas, Upper Adams students learned about Spanish-speaking nations this week during the district’s annual Cultural Arts Days.Students moved from classroom to classroom to sample aspects of various cultures Tuesday and Wednesday at Biglerville Elementary School (BES) and were scheduled to do so Thursday and Friday at Upper Adams Intermediate School (UAIS) in Arendtsville.In the Biglerville school’s gym Tuesday afternoon, students twirled long, colorful ribbons to lively flamenco music.Children cheered as a student in a bull costume charged retired longtime Gettysburg Area School District physical…
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By Dianne Anderson Everybody who is anybody will converge at the nonprofit Sister Cities International’s first-ever African Regional Summit to network, to talk economic development strategies, and look to make new cultural connections in America. From all corners of the Motherland, dignitaries will arrive in Cape Town, South Africa for the conference that runs February 20 through 24. “Ambassadors are coming, presidents of countries are coming, there’s a full agenda of material and presentations to help people with all kinds of logistics and relationships, and basically doing things in a better way,” said Phyllis Venable, president of all Africa Sister…
An outpouring of community support for Above & Beyond Children’s Museum in downtown Sheboygan has expedited its reopening timeline following a shutdown brought on by extreme water and ice damage. On Dec. 25, the museum closed indefinitely due to damage from bursting water pipes and sprinkler system valves that affected all four floors of the museum. Following a recent inspection, damage is estimated at $150,000. The museum sustained extensive damage due to the heating and cooling system failing when temperatures plummeted for several days over the holidays. The basement, which houses staff offices, storage space and event, exhibit and program…
The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners has approved funding for 75 local projects with money allocated from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, or ARPA.Funds will be used for a wide variety of projects that address:Affordable Housing and Homelessness: $39.3 million for 20 projects including resources for efforts to mitigate gentrification, senior housing, and workforce housing. Behavioral Health and Health Equity: $34.2 million for 27 projects including resources for food support services, medical and mental health services, and psychiatric care for adolescents. Childcare and Early Childhood Development: $7 million for 11 projects including resources to expand access to childcare, after school…
Express News Service KOCHI: Emmanuelle Houssais’s world is a splash of colours filled with birds, animals, dragonflies, and more. Hailing from Nantes in France, the graphic designer and children’s book illustrator is exploring those subjects that fascinate her through crafts and paintings. As part of the ABC program of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Emmanuelle came down to Fort Kochi and conducted the workshop My Incredible Journey at the Art Room in Cabral Yard, Aspinwall. Around 25 children participated in the workshop. The children were introduced to Emmanuelle’s illustration through the story books and together they created innovative artworks. “Children here are amazing.…
Contributed photoLisa Pearce, Open Doors U.S. interim CEO, introduces the group’s 2023 World Watch List, which tracks Christian persecution. ORANGE, Calif. – Violence against Christians is spiking in Sub-Saharan Africa, driven by violence nurtured in Nigeria by Islamic and Fulani terrorists, Open Doors U.S. said Jan. 17 in its 2023 World Watch List tracking Christian persecution globally. Nearly 90 percent of the 5,621 Christians killed in the study period were in Nigeria, Open Doors U.S. said, verifying 5,014 such killings there. “Open Doors only records the events that we can verify. In reality much persecution, including killings, happen in very…
Nearly 100 students were slated to work at Book for Africa on Monday. Books for Africa, the Minnesota-based nonprofit with a warehouse in Atlanta helping solve what it calls a “book famine” on the continent, hosted a volunteer work day with more than 100 university and high school students on Martin Luther King Jr. day. About a hundred student volunteers from Morehouse College, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University and The Lovett School split two-hour shifts in the morning and afternoon, packing books for shipment to Africa. Off from school, many students use the federal holiday created to mark the civil…
Local activist and community leader Bea Robinson Mendez, 88, died from pneumonia on Jan. 13, but her legacy lives on. Robinson Mendez founded Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, the first bilingual shelter in the country and second domestic violence agency in the state. The organization, which started in a San Jose garage in 1971, provides supports and resources to 3,000 survivors of domestic violence annually. Robinson Mendez’s mother, who emigrated from Mexico before 1950, was a victim of domestic violence, according to Next Door Solutions. “The one word that really describes Bea is ‘fierce,” Teresa Alvarado, founder of Latina Coalition…
Everything runs its course eventually, even if that course can sometimes seem a little short. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, Freaks & Geeks, and Police Squad are just some of the many one-season wonders to have graced the airwaves over the years, but other shows go on for so long that it’d probably take a catastrophe just to put them on hiatus. Related: Great TV Shows That Ended in 2022 The longest-running TV shows span multiple decades and generations, entertaining countless people in the process. Some do eventually come to an end, leaving their mark on history, while others are still being…
Back in the early 2000s Jennifer Sookne was fighting to achieve marriage equality in California. She and her former partner married in San Francisco 19 years ago during the Winter of Love, when city officials wed thousands of same-sex couples in violation of the state’s marriage statutes. It led to a yearslong legal battle in state and federal courts to win the right to marry for same-sex couples. With Sookne’s initial February 19, 2004 wedding to Theresa Mizell annulled by state courts, the Willits residents were the first same-sex couple to be married in Mendocino County in June 2008 when…