Cities Bridging Gap Between Isolated, Active Older Residents
2 July 2008, 23:11 No comments
Many seniors are enjoying life in their golden years - Hobbies Ideas visiting family, taking up hobbies and hanging out with friends.
Depending on the cards they’re dealt, many seniors also face health problems, transportation obstacles, financial struggles and boredom. And some live in the dark - isolated, confused and unable to care for themselves. Sometimes [...]
Copiague Students Flourish Under Empowerment Program
16 June 2008, 17:05 No comments
In her sophomore year, Jasmin Rodriguez considered dropping out. She wasn’t doing well in her classes, and school never had been a priority. There were bills her family needed to pay, and she had a younger sister at home to care for. Then, she met Jaime Suarez.
Suarez, a social studies teacher at Walter G. O’Connell [...]
Dads Seek Work-Life Balance
16 June 2008, 17:05 No comments
As Father’s Day approaches, a new online poll indicates that many Canadian dads feel that work is keeping them from living up to family commitments.
Some of the stress likely comes from working dads wanting to play a more active role in their children’s lives than their dads played in theirs.
“Your kids grow up fast,” Stewart [...]
Former CNN anchor does the Possible
22 April 2008, 21:09 No comments
NEW YORK %26mdash; In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006.She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense [...]
UNP’s boycott of B’caloa polls regrettable
18 March 2008, 22:10 No comments
The UNP’s National Organiser S. B. Dissanayake said that the UNP’s ‘vow’ to support the Government to implement the 13th Amendment, which is its brainchild, would be strengthened if President Mahinda Rajapaksa would genuinely devolve power.
Termed the 13th Amendment as the ‘best solution’ to end the national problem, Dissanayake said that as the Government’s only [...]
Is this the end of traditional governments
18 March 2008, 21:09 No comments
In the first chapter of David Rothkopf’s “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making,†the author quotes Mark Malloch Brown, a British minister of state and former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, recalling what it was like to walk with his wife through a reception in New York for the [...]
Teacher of the Week | Daisy Johnson
21 February 2008, 19:07 No comments
Age: 52.
Reason for becoming a teacher: While attending a school function with one of my daughters, I observed the teachers and administrators and their fight to maintain order with the students. I became engaged with a couple of students and teachers and immediately a flashlight appeared directing me in the teaching field. I wanted [...]
Dream job #151; Costumer brings fresh look to play
13 February 2008, 03:03 No comments
Costume designer Susan Branch and director Paul Barnes worked together previously on a production of “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Ten years ago, they collaborated in Virginia.
Barnes is a founder of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minn. He has directed at the Utah Shakespearean Festival [...]
Dramas shine at Palm Springs festival
13 February 2008, 03:03 No comments
Although it was the documentaries that soared at this year’s chilly Sundance Film Festival, two weeks earlier at the sunny Palm Springs Film Festival, it was the very fine and very varied array of dramatic films from around the world that were most often on people’s lips.
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Seminole teacher of the week is Marsha Geary
3 February 2008, 16:04 No comments
Age: 54. Reason for becoming a teacher: When I was a little girl, I always played school with all the children in my neighborhood. Now, I get to do it for real. I love to build relationships with children and see them grow intellectually, emotionally and socially. Greatest [...]
