Friends recall Waterville’s first woman mayor, Ann ‘Nancy’ Hill
Hill, who died earlier in April, was the city s first female mayor, having been elected in 1981 after having previously served two terms as a city councilor.
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WATERVILLE It is hard to capture all that Ann Hill accomplished and meant to the city of Waterville, having been its first female mayor, a two-term city councilor and volunteer on many boards and committees during her many years here.
Ann “Nancy” Hill
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Beyond that, Hill, who preferred to be called “Nancy,” was a devoted mother and grandmother, loyal friend and champion for all things Colby College, loved art and cinema and never missed attending the annual Maine International Film Festival.
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Advocates for fair school funding in Pennsylvania are watching the calendar, but the anticipated date isn’t on the docket of the state legislature. A lawsuit filed seven years ago by parents and school districts against state government has been given a tentative trial date in September and has the potential to change the way schools are funded throughout the state.
The lawsuit alleging the Pennsylvania General Assembly has violated the state’s constitution by failing to provide fair and adequate funding for public education was given a tentative trial date of Sept. 9 in Commonwealth Court in an April 1 order from Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer.
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West Virginia
University student Deanna Crumm of
Wheeling holds up
the WVU
2021 Student
Organization
Excellence Award she
received for
designing the logo for WVUâs Women In Business club, and overseeing its social media marketing. She
is also one of
the co-founders of the club. (Photo Provided)
WHEELING Current West Virginia University sophomore Deanna Crumm, a Wheeling Park High School graduate, has received an award from WVU for her efforts to socially market a campus organization she co-founded.
Crumm was just a freshman last year when she and fellow WPHS alumni Lillian Bischof and Sarah Heilman created a student organization called WELCOME Women Empowering, Leading and Changing Through Opportunity, Mentorship and Equality.”
Geof Lambert
Your Turn
Have you ever been sexually abused? Were you sexually abused as a child? I realize that those are fairly direct and personal questions.
For me the answers to those questions are now, yes, and yes.
If you would have asked me those questions not much more than a few years ago, I probably would have answered no and no.
Times change, people change.
While my father and mother were alive, I told myself there is no need to publicly tell anybody about the abuse I suffered. My father was a friend of my abuser. They both belonged to the same Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Chambersburg. They both shared an affinity for sailing, especially in the Caribbean. They were both active members of the same church, the Presbyterian Church of the Falling Spring, which was formed by the founder of Chambersburg, Benjamin Chambers. The abuser and my father were both active members of the Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce.
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Pacific Beach entrepreneur wins 2021 Global Amazon AIexa Skills Challenge to help rescue women from domestic violence San Diego Community News Group
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San Diego transplant and Brazil native Danielle Vantini was named the top prize winner at the 2021 Global Innovation Summit for her Alexa voice application prototype aimed at combating domestic violence by discretely helping rescue women from dangerous environments.
Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the application called Glow Up, Damas was recognized as a technology solution that leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address one of the 17 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality.