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Exclusive Glasgow Womens Aid outreach workers will teach children about healthy relationships as part of the Enough!! project NURSERY children are to be given lessons in healthy relationships and gender equality under plans by a Scots charity. Glasgow Women’s Aid said it hoped to include the under-fives in a new project, mainly aimed at helping teenage girls recognise abusive relationship “red flags”. As part of the scheme, outreach workers will go into schools to educate primary a...

Office Products International Podcast: Embracing the future at the OPI Global Forum Online On 5-6 May, OPI will be holding its annual Global Forum, an interactive forum for key industry leaders in Europe, North America and beyond to debate and define the future of the OP sector. OPI will be holding its annual Global Forum, an interactive forum for key industry leaders in Europe, North America and beyond to debate and define the future of the OP sector. A virtual event this year due to COVID-19...

Things to Do in Northeast Ohio: April 22-28 Akron Beacon Journal Massillon Museum “The Genius of Marian” online screening: Through May 2. Part of NEA Big Read. Upon registration at http://massillonmuseum.org/bigread or 330-833-4061, viewers will be provided with a link to the film.   Youngstown State University’s Department of Art Lecture Series presents Winnie Soon: 9 a.m. Thursday.  Researching in the areas of software studies and computational practices, Soon is currently based ...

Massillon Museum to host soap-making workshop COURTESY OF THE MASSILLON MUSEUM The Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way E. will host a soap-making workshop online at 11 a.m. April 24. The workshop will be inspired by the Big Read book selection “Circe” and will be led by Big Read assistant Dawn Rohrer. An included supply kit will be available for pickup at the MassMu front desk during the week prior to the workshop. Cost: $20, nonmembers; $15, museum members. To register: 330-833-4061; massill...

Office Products International Independent Suppliers Group (ISG) CEO Mike Gentile looks ahead to Industry Week in November 2021. Independent Suppliers Group (ISG) CEO Mike Gentile looks ahead to Industry Week in November 2021. With the physical events calendar having been pretty much obliterated by COVID restrictions, everyone is looking forward – and that’s an understatement – to catching up with industry colleagues and friends again in person. A major business products event taking place...

The main focus in the papers this morning is the reopening of non-essential shops, beer gardens, hairdressers and gyms as lockdown begins to ease.

Submitted Content Apr 9, 2021 National Library Week, taking place April 4-10, celebrates the role of the library as an institution in communities, not just as a place for books as it’s traditionally thought of, but as a center for enriching the lives of community members. Welcome to Your Library National Library Week’s theme of “Welcome to Your Library” fits not just new library users, but even those who may already have experience with the library and could use a chance to ...

Novel ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ chosen as UW–Madison’s 2021-22 Go Big Read book For news media More information While recent Go Big Read books have been nonfiction, this year’s selection for the campus common reading program, “Transcendent Kingdom,” uses a fictional story to explore the very real issues of race, immigration, science, faith and family. Yaa Gyasi’s novel tells the story of Gifty, a graduate student in neuroscience and the only member o...

PVMA partnering with libraries, businesses for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read “Station Eleven” ST. JOHN MANDEL This spring, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, will launch with the exploration of the book “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, a 2014 novel set in a dystopian post-pandemic world. Contributed Image Published: 4/9/2021 2:42:39 PM DEERFIELD — After a multi-year hiatus, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Associ...