Community Service

215 Florida AT&T; Employees Honored For Exceptional Commitment To Community Service

Edit PR Newswire 11 Apr 2016

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T; is recognizing 215 Florida employees who are being honored with the President's Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) for giving their time to transform their communities for the better. The PVSA, the nation's premier volunteer ... ....

NSS unit of university to go paperless soon

Edit The Times of India 11 Apr 2016

It currently involves 40,000 students with a primary focus on the development of personality of students through community service ... National Service Scheme, which is popularly known as NSS, under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, was launched in the year 1969, in 37 Universities involving 40,000 students with primary focus on the development of personality of students through community service....

Norman group examines French trappers, explorers in Oklahoma

Edit The Oklahoman 11 Apr 2016

Michael Marcotte will present “The French in Oklahoma” at the Cleveland County Genealogical Society meeting at 2 p.m. April 17, in the south lobby of the Community Services Building in Norman. Marcotte recently retired as vice president for information technology at the University of Oklahoma Foundation in Norman ... Marcotte will discuss the following ... Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at the Community Services Building, 1119 E Main, Norman....

Gurrumul lodges official complaint over Darwin hospital treatment

Edit The Guardian 11 Apr 2016

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s manager goes to Health and Community Services Complaints Commission over singer’s care. @heldavidson ... Related. Gurrumul Yunupingu. is this a case of racial profiling or a symptom of rushed medicine? ... A complaint has been made on Gurrumul’s behalf to the Northern Territory’s Health and Community Services Complaints Commission, which Guardian Australia was told has been referred back to the hospital ... Related ... ....

Small town turns on Hastert as details of allegations emerge

Edit WPXI 11 Apr 2016

YORKVILLE, Ill. —. YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The small town that boasted of the role it played in Dennis Hastert's ascent from high school wrestling coach to speaker of the U.S ... "Mr ... Tony Graff, Yorkville's former police chief, said that although the Hastert scandal has left the town with a black eye, locals have always had other things to be proud of, including a tradition of community service ... "The community will get through this.". ___ ... ....

Senate president aims to restore Bright Futures scholarships

Edit Herald Tribune 11 Apr 2016

TALLAHASSEE — Rebecca Landau and Katelyn Ericsson are two Florida State University students who may benefit from incoming Senate President Joe Negron’s ambitious plan to boost Florida’s state university system ... Over the past few years, lawmakers have raised the qualifying standards for Bright Futures, requiring higher SAT and ACT scores and more community service hours ... ....

YEA targets 100,000 youths for jobs

Edit Modern Ghana 10 Apr 2016

Solomon Quartey indicated that the agency seeks t recruit the youth for modules such as Community Policing, Agriculture, Fire service, Prisons Service, Immigration Service, Waste and Sanitation Management, Coastal Sanitation, Environmental Protection, Youth in Afforestation, Green Ghana, Community Education Teaching Assistant [CETA for both English and Arabic] and Community Health Worker [e-health]....

'This is happening in Australia': Sydney victim of slavery speaks out

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 10 Apr 2016

Since opening in 2008, the community-owned 10-bed shelter has supported 400 people ... There is little community awareness within the Australian community, including state and territory government agencies, community service organisations and frontline professionals about forced labour, said Professor Burn ... She has a diploma in community services and is an assistant in nursing....

Statesman investigation takes top Texas media honors

Edit Austin American Statesman 10 Apr 2016

Green Award, signifying it as the top news investigation across all circulation categories.The American-Statesman won Texas APME’s Community Service award for its “Missed Signs, Fatal Consequences” investigation. The “Missed Signs, Fatal Consequences” investigation also received Texas APME’s Community Service award and won first-place in Team Effort ... That project, featuring reporting by Dan Zehr, also placed third in Community Service....

This small Illinois town that used to boast about Dennis Hastert is now turning against him

Edit Business Insider 10 Apr 2016

They didn't ... Tony Graff, Yorkville's former police chief, said that although the Hastert scandal has left the town with a black eye, locals have always had other things to be proud of independent of, including a tradition of community service. "The pride is still there," he said. "The community will get through this." ... Trump visits Sept ... ....

UK award for soon-to-be-saint Mother Teresa

Edit The Times of India 10 Apr 2016

London. Mother Teresa was posthumously conferred UK's prestigious Founders Award on Friday, in the year of her canonization. The award is given to recognize and reward exemplary achievements of people within the global Asian community ... Leading NRI entrepreneur and philanthropist Rami Ranger who contributed 1,00,000 pounds for the Mahatma Gandhi statue here, received the outstanding achievement in Community Service award ... ....

Lives of Texas campus victim, suspect violently intersect

Edit The Oklahoman 10 Apr 2016

Weiser grew up in a tight-knit community in Oregon, where she attended an arts magnet school and danced with the Portland Ballet ... She grew up near Beaverton, Oregon, in a four-acre co-housing community established in 1998 around the values of community, service and sustainability, where residents share tools like lawn mowers but also responsibilities like gardening, said Weiser's neighbor, Helen Spector ... Not violence." ... ....

Police: Lives of campus victim, suspect violently intersect