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After an incredibly tough and disappointing year, we are all looking forward to a more positive 2021.  The pandemic has brought heartbreak, worry and frustration with all our lives having been affected and disrupted in one way or another. But if there’s one good thing coronavirus has done, it has shed light on how strong our community can be when we all come together. This year, there have been plenty of examples of strong community spirit and lots of feel-good stories have been pri...

A volunteer team of foster carers and looked after children have been working together to raise money and awareness for Cornwall homelessness this winter. The children and young people taking part, aged between seven and 15, are all currently in foster care through the Truro-based independent fostering provider and social enterprise, Five Rivers Child Care. The idea to fundraise for homelessness came from a group of young people in care during a Make a Difference meeting. The meetings are m...

Residents urged to consider a career change into foster care A FOSTERING organisation is calling for St Helens residents to consider a career change as unemployment has risen to 4.8 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic. The tier system could mean further job losses in the area, particularly in the hospitality industry and in retail, which has suffered a huge blow with the announcement that both the Arcadia Group and Debenhams have gone into administration, negatively impacting around 25...

KALAIN HOSEIN At 2:48 PM, a earthquake of 3.9 magnitude struck northwest of Port of Spain, Trinidad, according to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC). The quake was located at 10.904°North and 61.768°West, and at a depth of 42.72 kilometres. The UWI SRC advised that this information is preliminary and is subject to change when a seismologist reviews additional seismic data. This minor earthquake was widely reported felt across the northern half of Trinidad, wit...

Times Record A big pink barge on the Arkansas River is doing a lot more than carrying goods to farmers and manufacturers. BIG HOPE 1 is also helping fund cancer research.  The pink barge from Ceres Barge Line in East St. Louis was launched in 2012 and since then has helped raise more than $1 million for the Mary Crowley Cancer Research in Dallas as they help expand cancer treatment options with investigations on vaccine, gene and cellular therapies. The pink barge has been anchored near the P...

Big Hope 1 is in the area to raise money for cancer research, remember Buck There’s a giant pink barge in Van Buren. It’s the only one in the world, and it’s there to raise money for cancer research. Author: Talk Business & Politics Updated: 10:45 AM CST December 18, 2020 VAN BUREN, Ark. — There’s a giant pink barge in Van Buren. It’s the only one in the world, and it’s there to raise money for cancer research. Marty Shell helped bring it to town, a...

The movement is one of many global demonstrations taking place in solidarity with farmers in India who are currently taking part in the largest organized protests in the world, against three farming laws passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The farmers — many of whom hail from India’s northern Punjab and Haryana states — are concerned that the laws, which bring corporations into the controlled agricultural sector, will leave them at the mercy of large corporations and w...

CSU, industry partners provide protein for Colorado children in need 10 Dec, 2020 One of the many realities brought to light during the COVID-19 pandemic is that families are often one setback away from finding themselves in a position of food insecurity. In normal, non-pandemic times, roughly one-in-eight children throughout Colorado are already uncertain as to the source of their next meal, so it’s nothing short of serendipitous that a new collaboration between cattle industry partners,...