Gazda named director of region’s educational resource center
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Published: 5/31/2021 7:45:23 PM
NORTHAMPTON Todd H. Gazda, the new executive director for the Collaborative for Educational Services, got a somewhat late start in education, as he first worked as a contract attorney after earning a law degree in the mid 1990s.
But the Middlefield native later became a social studies and English teacher at Gateway Regional Middle School in Huntington and then the school’s principal; he also had a stint as the principal of Chester Elementary School.
Gazda, who today lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, moved on in 2012 to become the superintendent of Ludlow Public Schools. But’s he now returning to work in the Valley as executive director for the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton. He starts in the position July 1.
IPOB Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has commended Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State; his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State for taking some proactive actions in memory of the Biafra Day celebration.
Kanu had ordered a sit-at-home to mark this year’s Biafra Day and in honour of all those killed in the struggle for Biafra independence since 1976.
Kanu in a live broadcast Monday morning via Facebook and other social media platforms, hailed the courage of Gov. Obiano in building a cenotaph in memory of fallen Biafra heroes.
Through May 23, the city had recorded 51 homicides, a 132 per cent increase compared with the same period last year and a 70 per cent increase compared with 2019, Xinhua news agency quoted the the San Francisco Chronicle report published on Monday as saying.So f
Books celebrate prominent Chinese artist By LIN QI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-01 07:39 Share CLOSE A new collection catalogs Xu Beihong s oil paintings, classical Chinese paintings, sketches and drawings, as well as his calligraphic works and art collection. CHINA DAILY I ve been living with his works since I was a child, says Xu Qingping, 75, referring to his father, Xu Beihong (1895-1953), one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century Chinese art. I was a primary school student when the Xu Beihong Memorial Hall (in Beijing) was established and opened to the public in 1954. I spent almost all the holidays and weekends at the hall to help oversee the displays, Xu Qingping says.