Petersburg parks and rec survey draws in community suggestions
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | May 24, 2021
(Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
Petersburg’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board last week reviewed responses to a recent community survey on hours of operation, programs and suggested changes. The department is hoping to seek more public input on a regular basis.
The survey was available on Facebook and by hard copy at the community gym in March. It asked for feedback on hours, trails, playgrounds and improvements people would like to see. Parks and Rec director Stephanie Payne told the board there were not big surprises in the answers.
Petersburg Indian Association looks forward to new projects and programs in 2021
Posted by Angela Denning | Jan 8, 2021
PIA builds and maintains trails in Petersburg as one of the tribe’s many community programs. This raised boardwalk was constructed at Hungry Point Trail. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)
Petersburg Indian Association has confirmed the results of its election for tribal council. As KFSK’s Angela Denning reports, the tribe has a lot planned for 2021, which includes COVID-assistance programs and other projects for the whole community.
Every year new seats come up for Petersburg Indian Association’s council, which is comprised of six members and a president.
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The pioneering writer-director fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen at a time when some of her projects were considered an ethnic oddity, she has said.
Joan Micklin Silver, the pioneering independent female director behind
Hester Street and
Crossing Delancey, among many other titles, who fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen, has died. She was 85.
Silver died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan of vascular dementia, Silver s daughter, Claudia, told
Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska to Russian Jewish parents, Silver left home to attend Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Not long after her graduation in 1956, Silver married the son of a Cleveland-based Zionist rabbi, Raphael D. Silver, and the couple settled in Cleveland, where Silver taught music classes and wrote plays as she worked to raise three children.
Joan Micklin Silver, Crossing Delancey director, dies aged 85 Andrew Pulver
Joan Micklin Silver, the American film-maker best known for the Jewish-inflected romcom Crossing Delancey and the largely Yiddish-language immigrant romance Hester Street, has died aged 85. The New York Times reported that Silver’s daughter Claudia said the cause of death was vascular dementia.
Silver was both one of the few female directors operating in US cinema in the 1970s, as well as one of the few film-makers that tackled specifically Jewish material – still a rarity in a Hollywood that had traditionally been dominated by Jewish figures in production and studio roles.