Anyone with a little time to help Portage la Prairie's newcomers may want to give Portage Learning and Literacy Centre a call. The centre is looking for volunteers to assist in providing new immigrants with a little friendship and help adjusting to their new home.[...]
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Many start community college. Few are graduated two, three, or even six years later.
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A flurry of interest among Jacksonville business leaders in creating a new small business incubator has featured meetings with Mayor Alvin Brown and the tour of an Austin, Texas, program called Tech Ranch.
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In our A City Education series, two City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the achievement gap and ending the dropout crisis. Before the New Year's, I read an article about setting goals. The article said that just three percent of the population sets goals, and only about one percent of people write their goals down ...
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We welcome items for the Lake County Calendar. Items must be received minimum of 10 days prior to publication; earlier is better. Email: SMauter@pioneerlocal.com; fax (847) 599-6902 or mail to Pioneer Press, 1225 N. Tri State Parkway, St. 520, Gurnee, IL 60031 Classes/Meetings Orientation Program for volunteer tutors helping adults to read will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 11 and Feb. 25 at ...
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A federal organization is asking people to use Martin Luther King Jr. day to volunteer in their communities, but in Johnson County, selflessness doesn’t have to begin and end on Monday.
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CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—The players slumped off the court after the final horn sounded, faces gray with disappointment. A few minutes later, in the postgame locker room, they said things like "something has to change" and "immature" and "I'm kind of angry right now."
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Just days after Michael Chandler's high school basketball career ended last year when he was kicked out of a sectional game for throwing a punch, the former Lawrence North star withdrew from school with barely a word.
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This list for senior citizens appears on the last Thursday of each month. The following is a list of events and activities geared toward senior citizens.
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Coverage of TV and radio news from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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