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HUNT VALLEY, Md., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC), a global leader in flavor, announced Paige Holley and Gregory Toliver as the 86
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Keynote speaker, Ed Reed, Hall of Fame Safety for the Baltimore Ravens, addressed the student-athletes. Surround yourself, and continue surrounding yourself, with good people. You have to have a great team around you because that s what you re going to need going forward. said Reed. Think about how they influence and motivate you.
Avalos older brother is currently a senior at Stanford, and because his brother took a gap year during the pandemic they ll be able to spend a year together on campus.
Avalos is a drum major, works part-time, and constantly looks for opportunities to improve his school, community, and his peers.
Mrs. Riesenberg, his counselor, thinks his best quality is his compassion and gratitude, which is genuine and refreshing in her opinion.
He wanted to improve his school so he and another senior started a student lead organization called Herd Talks, where they invited a diverse group of students representing all four grade levels and shared ideas, and develop solutions to issues they noticed on campus.
It appears Maryland teenagers are responding to the governor s call to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccinations.|| COVID-19 updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Teenagers have been waiting their turn for some time to get shots, and a growing number of them say they will not waste time signing up.Meghna Chandrasekaran, 17, a student at the Western School of Technology said getting vaccinated was a family decision. I have received my first dose and I am getting my second dose next Monday, she said. For me, it was health-wise because my mom is immunocompromised. I just felt much more comfortable. She s eager to finish out her senior year with friends who she said are starting to sign up to get their shots. We have been here in our rooms and in our houses for the last year. It s just exciting to hear some hopeful news, Chandrasekaran said.Maryland online vaccination site locatorVaccine Data DashboardMaryland vaccination plan FAQsThe governor announced M
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By Tom Hindle
ANNAPOLIS (March 31, 2021) Hereford High School senior Vita Shats had seen it weekly. The Confederate flag on T-shirts. The swastikas in bathrooms. She d seen a fellow student with a Confederate flag on his belt, flaunting it in a Black student s face.
Two years ago, she talked to her school principal about implementation of a policy to ban those symbols but was told it was beyond the school s jurisdiction. So, she tried two superintendents.
Neither got back to her, she said.
There was no statewide policy regarding hate symbols in schools and Hereford High didn t have one, either leaving Shats and students like her with few options.