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Colette Allen (left) and Polly Mann outside Hackney Quest on Poole Road.
- Credit: Andrew Leo
The director of a Hackney charity is nominated as the borough’s lockdown hero for BBC Radio London’s Make a Difference Hero campaign on Sunday.
Originally from Edinburgh, Colette Allen has worked at the youth charity Hackney Quest for 20 years and was nominated by the council in the scheme honouring those making a difference to their local communities during the Covid pandemic.
Based on Poole Road, the charity has 100 volunteers and works to provide mentoring services, activities, and support to more than 300 young people in the borough.
Suburbs on alert include Berwick, Cranbourne North and South, Hallam, Narre Warren, and Officer in the south-east.
In the west, residents and recent visitors to Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Truganina and Werribee have been told to watch for symptoms.
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Businesses in the Brisbane CBD became empty when the city entered lockdown.(Getty)
The wastewater alert comes after Brisbane entered a snap lockdown on Monday when fears of a growing cluster grew in the sunshine state.
That lockdown will ease today in a big relief for Queenslanders ahead of the Easter Weekend.
The Queensland cases which had also travelled to New South Wales prompted the Victorian government to consider the greater Brisbane area a red zone.
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Columbia does not deserve alumni donations
Columbia does not deserve alumni donations Selina Yang / Staff Photographer By Joel Berg | April 1, 2021, 12:25 AM
An alumnus of my graduating class at Columbia, CC ’86, recently sent me and roughly 200 other classmates a request to talk with each of us about donating to our alma mater to commemorate our 35th reunion. For reasons that I detail below, I will not be donating to Columbia anytime soon.
Three things remain true: first, Columbia offers a world-class education, which has greatly enriched my life and that of so many others; second, the University is an extraordinarily wealthy and powerful institution, which often uses that wealth and power in counterproductive ways; and third, Columbia is far, far down on the list of institutions that need and deserve more donations, especially at this moment in history.