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One Team One Goal awards celebrate collective efforts against COVID Date: 04/06/2021 | Category: News 2021 The Trust has celebrated the achievements of colleagues at its annual staff awards – themed around One Team One Goal in recognition of the whole Trust’s united efforts against COVID-19 to protect the vulnerable while keeping patients and colleagues safe. Judges received nearly 350 nominations, almost double the usual number. A series of small, socially-distanced ceremonies were h...

COLRAIN — Students at Colrain Central School are bringing a pollinator garden to life this spring, with the goal of attracting native bees to their campus.The garden, a schoolwide service learning initiative, aims to engage the students, connect their...

Uttlesford District Council has presented Making A Difference Awards to residents whose efforts helped the community during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Hillsborough resident receives award for her contributions to helping those with ALS Hillsborough resident receives award for her contributions to helping those with ALS × HARK ALS founder Donna York received a cash prize of $7,500 as a 2021 recipient of the Russ Berrie Making a Difference Award. PHOTO COURTESY OF DONNA YORK Hillsborough Township resident Donna York has made it her mission over the last 11 years to bring awareness to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or as most peop...

BookSmiles Founder Larry Abrams By day, Larry Abrams is an English teacher in the Lindenwold School District. At night and on weekends, he spreads “book wealth” to people across the Garden State and in Philadelphia through his organization, BookSmiles, collecting books and giving them away to people who do not have a library of their own. “We distribute them to nonprofits, to my fellow brother and sister teachers, to anyone who can put books into the hands of kids who really need them,�...

WHYY By (Courtesy of BookSmiles) By day, Larry Abrams is an English teacher in the Lindenwold School District. At night and on weekends, he spreads “book wealth” to people across the Garden State and in Philadelphia through his organization, BookSmiles, collecting books and giving them away to people who do not have a library of their own. “We distribute them to nonprofits, to my fellow brother and sister teachers, to anyone who can put books into the hands of kids who really need them,�...

UpdatedTue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:47 pm ET Reply The five Middletown teens: Tyler Armagan, Ryan Day, Kieran Foley, Drew Scalice and Joey Dietrich are all students at Middletown High School North. (Provided by Kelly Walsh Day) MIDDLETOWN, NJ — Remember these young men? The five Middletown teen boys who jumped into a frozen pond this past December and saved two little kids in a sledding accident will be honored with a $7,500 prize this May. The money is given out by the Russell Berrie Foundation, a...

One of the biggest songs and more well known of David Bowie is "Heroes", where in it he recites the line, "if we could be heroes, just for one day", and that line can be used to describe a number of different people and groups. There is one award, one foundation and one college in particular working together to recognize the unsung heroes in our life, those going above and beyond and those doing the right thing impacting the lives of a couple others, hundreds of other or perhaps thousands of ot...

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of National Museum of Women in the Arts, dies Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Photo: Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post via Getty Images. WASHINGTON, DC .- Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the first and only museum solely dedicated to championing women through the arts, died on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C. Against tremendous odds and with dedication, drive and a singular vision, Holla...

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Founder of National Museum of Women in the Arts, Remembered WASHINGTON, DC Subject Line Please provide verification code Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the first and only museum solely dedicated to championing women through the arts, died on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C. Against tremendous odds and with dedication, drive and a singular vision, Holladay created a museum to help allev...