When Jessica Foulkrod was given the chance to study at Gelsey Kirkland Academy in New York City in 2018, she knew the cost would be steep.
A lifelong dancer, the 17-year-old Monroe High School student said she approached her parents, knowing she was willing to do whatever it took to get to the academy for its summer instruction modules.
For dancers, summer intensives provide ample instruction and practice an opportunity critical to a dancer’s success, Jessica says.
“Dancing takes hours upon hours of training,” she said. “Without practicing, you can’t reach your full potential. Without practicing and training, you’ll never get where you want to go.”
“My first vivid art memory is of my grandmother and I,” said Calli Laundrè during this week’s episode of Art on the Air. “We were laying on the floor of her living room, and we were coloring in a coloring book. And I remember watching her make her marks, and they were so precise and so smooth. And I just wanted so badly to color like her.”
Many of us have had an experience like Calli’s, surrounded by a mishmash of art supplies, joyfully working away at pure creation, not a care in the world. I have said it countless times on my radio show (and really anytime and anywhere I can where it even vaguely makes sense) that when we’re four years old we’re all artists; life unteaches us to be creative.
03 April 2021 - 10:59 Psychologist Nontle Nako has been reinstated in her job at the Eastern Cape education department. Image: Facebook/Nontle Nako
An education official who was fired after being absent from work for nearly eight years has been reinstated.
But Nontle Nako, who has to report by Wednesday at the Eastern Cape education department s Makhanda office, had her request for more than R3.4m in back-pay turned down by an Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) arbitrator.
The amount would have covered her absence from her job as a deputy chief education specialist while she was studying for a psychology doctorate in the US.
Maverick Carter says it, and it happens - Meet the man who runs LeBron James empire and is now a partner of Liverpool owners FSG
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Feb 17, 2021
SILVER CITY Clete Andrew Balbough, 72, of Silver City, passed away peacefully at the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital on February 4, 2021.
Clete was born in Sault Ste. Marie, on March 24, 1948, to Cletus David and Vienna Catherine Balbough. He grew up in various Michigan Wilderness State Parks, graduating from White Pine High School in 1966. He married Joanne Bush on February 21, 1976, in White Pine. Together they raised their daughters, Tawnee and Sarah. As a family they enjoyed many outdoor adventures including camping, boating, fishing, snowmobiling and skiing.
Clete worked for 32 years at the White Pine Copper Mine. He worked many aspects of the mining industry but enjoyed being a maintenance man the most. When the mine closed he was employed for five years constructing, and then managing, the Subterra greenhouse within the White Pine mine. He ended his career working seasonally at the Porcupine Mountain State Park.