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Color Us Connected: Keeping in touch with our history
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This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about a person in their town devoted to history.
By Guy Trammell Jr.
African history was passed from generation to generation by storytelling, as dramatized in the television series “Roots.” The same is true for Indigenous Americans. Much of the world’s history has been overlooked, or covered with Correction Fluid, to highlight and emphasize only a European perspective of events. Preservation of history determines who we are. If we don’t know where we came from, we don’t truly know who we are.
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Feb 25, 2021
On Monday, Feb. 22 first-year student Ashley Williams was awarded the Presidential Volunteer Service Award in the Alumni House. Some fellow athletes were able to join in person to support Ashley, while her family excitedly attended virtually through a special link provided them by the Office of Special Events at the College.
The Presidential Volunteer Service Award is a nationwide effort to honor volunteers with recognition of their service by the President of the United States. The award was founded in 2003 by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.
In order to qualify for the silver award, Ashley completed between 175-249 hours of service. She was nominated by a qualifying organization and ultimately chosen to receive the coveted recognition – Silver Award. The program is managed by AmeriCorps. Her volunteerism is varied and includes Appalachian Services Project, Touch Downs for Cancer and Sending Smiles, a nonprofit sh
Safe-driving organization receives gift
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Through a grant from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, Students Against Destructive Decisions received nearly $150,000 to establish programming across the state, educating youth and families on highway safety, underage drinking, and other youth safety messaging.
“We are excited to expand our state’s current programming and provide our residents with all of the benefits that a partnership with SADD has to offer,” said Lauren V. Stewart, director of Maine’s Bureau of Highway Safety, according to a news release from the Augusta-based bureau. “Our goal is to create a peer-to-peer infrastructure of support, guidance and education with a focus on safe-driving behavior. Through our funding, SADD will work to establish chapters across the state, host teen traffic safety events, and be an invaluable resource to our state’s youth.”