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Amazon will hire 120,000 seasonal employees across the U.S. for the holidays, with seasonal hiring is up 20 percent from last year.

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Early County school wins $10,000 grant to expand their gardening program Early County school wins $10,000 grant to expand their gardening program The school won a $10,000 grant from the American Farmers Monsanto Fund to help expand the school’s garden.

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Tahlequah Public Schools has received a federal physical education grant totaling more than $1.8 million, to be disbursed over a three-year period.

Superintendent Lisa Presley said the district has applied for the grant many times in the past, but this is its first year to receive it.

“There were 16 awards out of 365 applications,” said Presley. “This is good news.”

Presley told the board the district will begin looking at a long-range plan because of the increase in businesses in Tahlequah that could bring in nearly 2,500 new jobs. “From the information we have now, it looks like the growth to the district will be at the elementary schools.”

One of the options she mentioned was a bond issue.

“We are looking at new facilities and looking at current facilities and what is available in the building fund,” said Presley. “We have room for expansion in some of our buildings.”

Presley said the addition of the new cafeteria at Cherokee Elementary School will allow some space for computer labs and classrooms.

“We plan to give Cherokee a facelift when the new cafeteria is finished,” said Presley.

CDTBy DEVAN GAGLIARDO – Program Director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County

As I continue my series on what the Community Foundation of Grundy County is and what exactly we do, this month I want to highlight our programs that focus on youth in our community.

As a community organization, it is important that we instill the qualities of good leaders and good philanthropists in our youth. Educating students in such a way serves two purposes:

1) Students are informed and can align their academic goals with their career goals at an earlier age and;

2) Students will get their post-secondary training and education, then return to Grundy County to live and work.

When students return to Grundy County and begin to work and raise families, the hope is that they will become involved in community activities, as well as be generous with their time, talents and treasures.

CFGC and Grundy Area Vocational Center, in conjunction with the Business Education Council, began the 8th Grade Career Fair in 2015.The purpose of the event is to allow eighth-graders to interact with local employers in a hands-on fashion so they can gain a better understanding of careers available locally.

Rick Nolan visited Life House which serves at-risk homeless youth in the Twin Ports on Thursday morning to learn about the pilot programs supported by a $636,000 Youth Workforce Development Grant awarded this spring, aimed at setting at-risk youth on a path to employment.

Shoemaker said the new program will help participants develop job skills they never knew they had.

“Hopefully it will encourage them to do bigger and greater things later on,” she said.

Emily Edison, executive director of SOAR Career Solutions, said the program supported by the grant money was created by a collaborative effort involving a handful of community organizations, including Life House, SOAR Career Solutions, Duluth Workforce Development, Woodland Hills Juvenile Justice Services, Lake Superior College, Duluth Public Schools and Duluth Adult Basic Education.

The grant will support the employment program over a three-year span. Conversely, if a participant struggles in SOAR’s program, he or she can re-enter Life House’s program.

The transitional and traditional employment paths are aimed at providing youth with work experience, job skills training and job search assistance as well as opportunities for internships, career exploration and education.

Edison said the organizations involved provide various forms of stabilizing support to youth throughout the program. Whether that’s help with housing, educational support or helping youth develop career pathways, the overall goal is to help participants obtain educational credentials, find a job and keep it.

The program will expand after a year to include at-risk youth in residential placement, such as juveniles at Woodland Hills, Dornfeld said. Because they’re in residence for a shorter period of time, she said, the current model of curriculum will be modified to fit their needs.

“We’re using this year to build the curriculum,” Dornfeld said.

Dornfeld said the organizations will hire a program evaluator to help determine if any needs are not being met.

As the pilot program progresses, Klobuchar said legislators will measure its success by looking at the number of youth involved, the risk-level of those youth and the benefits to those participants.

“Then you roll it out across the state,” Klobuchar said.

Nolan said the programs are good on their own but even more effective when paired with the collaborative effort of community organizations.

“With a little bit of guidance and a little bit of assistance,” Nolan said, “(the youth) can make a great contribution to the whole of society.”

Sulu entrepreneur pushes coffee in fight against insurgency | MindaNews Elardo has found a peaceful means to combat insurgency in her home province of Sulu by being an advocate for coffee development to empower the people and encourage them to give up arms.

Speaking on the second day of the two-day National Coffee Summit Thursday at the SMX Convention Center here, Princess Kumala S. Elardo, a trustee of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance, said that the roots of insurgency are far deeper that a mere “political and military” solution will not address them.

From earning nothing at all in 2008, Elardo said a coffee farmer can now earn as much as P150,000 a year.

“The need is for economic and commercial development. That is what will provide business, livelihood and jobs to the local communities A large segment of the population is either currently unemployed, underemployed, or engaged in combat preparation,” she said.

Seeing the dire need for economic upliftment, Elardo, who is also chair of the People’s Alliance for Progress Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PAPMPC), said recruiting new members to join with her in the cooperative was not hard at all.

She said that she encouraged even former combatants of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to join in the coffee business.

“I have to show that not everyone in Sulu is Abu Sayyaf. Elardo has found a peaceful means to combat insurgency in her home province of Sulu by

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Together, Mayor Jeff Reser and Bucyrus Timken plant manager Bob Hiltbrand unveiled an $110,000 grant from the Timken Foundation of Canton to the City of Bucyrus for the Schines Art Park. After a long campaign to raise enough funds for the Schines Art Park, Reser finally met his goal thanks in huge part to the Timken Foundation.

Between jokes of neighbors being able to watch the presentation from “box seats,” a passing Brinks truck having nothing on what he was about to present, and asking if the check bounced after the wind blew it off its easel, Reser’s mood never seemed to deflate.

“I’m actually so thrilled to be amongst you for the second time to make such an announcement,” Reser said.

He was referring to the $50,000 donation made by Ohio Mutual Insurance Group in 2015 to help tear down the former Schines Theatre. Reser, one of the driving forces behind securing the local donations, set off once again to raise funds that would erect a wall to support the damaged Midwest Furniture one.

“Here we are today to announce that we have received a most generous grant that will allow us to put the finishing touches on this soon-to-be jewel for downtown Bucyrus,” Reser said.

He turned the spotlight over to Bob Hiltbrand, Bucyrus Timken plant manager and a representative for the Timken Foundation.

“I’d like to start by saying thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of this milestone occasion in the history of Crawford County,” Hiltbrand said.

Hiltbrand and by extension, Timken was one person Reser approached in his efforts to raise funds for the Art Park.

“From that discussion I saw an opportunity that fit the mission of the Timken Foundation: provide a grant to help complete this project,” Hiltbrand stated. “Along with grants from the State of Ohio, the City of Bucyrus, and private donations, this project is becoming a reality.”

Timken has been a part of Crawford County since 1951 and the Timken Foundation of Canton has provided nearly $8 million in grants in the county since 1956.

“I believe I speak for all the businesses and citizens in Crawford County when I say the establishment of an art park right here in Crawford County will provide the opportunity for a gathering space and a place to showcase Bucyrus as a community that cares about the arts,” Hiltbrand concluded.

Together, Reser and Hiltbrand unveiled an $110,000 grant from the Timken Foundation of Canton to the City of Bucyrus for the Schines Art Park.

Reser gave a lot of credit to former Mayor Roger Moore, who passed away while in office in 2014. Local Rick Burgin will be designing a metal archway that will face out on Sandusky Avenue while Scott Mental, a local art teacher, will be completing some metal sculptures for the park.

“The theme of the art park that we had is going to be more fulfilled and embellished by what we’re going be able to do,” Reser said.

As for how the city could return the favor to Timken, Reser jokingly told Hiltbrand to just let them know how they could help the company sell more ball bearings.

The timeline has been extended to Aug. 30, 2017.

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Mental health project receives grant | Daily Herald Tribune

On hand for the announcement about the research partnership were (left-right) Mayor Bill Given, GPRC President and CEO Don Gnatiuk, Grande Prairie RCMP Superintendent Don McKenna, Debi Morris, Alberta Health Services Manager, Complex Needs, North Zone Area 9, Donna Koch, Alberta Health Services Executive Director, Population, Public and Aboriginal Health, Addiction and Mental Health, Dr.

A research partnership centred at Grande Prairie Regional College will change the way local police respond to people with mental health problems.

GPRC has received a $232,488 grant from the federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to improve the service model used by the Grande Prairie Police and Crisis Team (GP-PACT).

GPRC’s Research and Innovation department is partnering with RCMP, Alberta Health Services and the City of Grande Prairie for the project, entitled, “Responding to mental illness crises in remote communities Grande Prairie’s Police and Crisis Team (PACT): An Evaluation.”

PACT brings mental health experts into crisis situations and helps reduce the number of people in the criminal justice system or emergency rooms, said Donna Koch, AHS Executive Director, North Zone Addiction and Mental Health, Population, Public and Indigenous Health.

Paterson Superintendent Bans Suspension for Grades K-2 | Video | NJTV News Watch Live

By Erin Delmore
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“We thought that the number of kids being suspended at the K-2 level was too big,” said Paterson Education Fund Executive Director Rosie Grant.

Almost 250 kindergartners, first-graders and second-graders were suspended last year in Paterson public schools. Five of the city’s elementary schools suspended more than 20 percent of their student bodies.

Grant’s Paterson Education Fund compiled the numbers off “school progress report cards” submitted to the state.

“And we took the cards one by one and pulled the suspension data,” she said.

Members of the Paterson school board said they don’t know if those numbers are accurate, but the underlying problem is all too clear.

“People seem to forget that we’re in an impoverished community. Last month, the state Legislature passed a law making it harder to suspend kids, allowing the punishment only in the most severe cases.

“We can put things in place, social and emotional supports, the district also did positive behavior in school, which is a model to help kids monitor themselves, their responses to situations. His office says a committee is on track to release recommendations by the end of the month.

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