N.H. teen breaking barriers in a male-founded organization
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At age 14, Valerie Johnston joined Venturing, a program of Boy Scouts of America that allowed girls to participate. There, she was part of a shooting crew that would shoot .22 rifles, .22 pistols, 12-gauge and 20-gauge shotguns at the Pemi Fish and Game Club. Courtesy
Eagle Scout Valerie Johnston, center, with her mom, Navy Capt. Sandra Johnston, and her father, Dean Johnston. Courtesy
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Valerie Johnson of Thornton recently achieved the distinction of Eagle Scout, and is the first girl in New Hampshire to do so. Courtesy
Published: 3/5/2021 5:07:20 PM
Valerie Ann Johnston heard it all before. Sometimes it was from other young people in Scouts BSA (formerly Boy Scouts of America), or it was from fellow students at Plymouth High School.
The Tablet December 21, 2020
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from “the East,” but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to “the newborn king of the Jews” and “offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.”
Beyond their great monetary value, scholars say, the gifts had deep symbolic significance: gold for the Christ child’s nobility as king of the Jews; frankincense, which was burned in religious ceremonies, for his divinity; and myrrh, which was used on cuts or wounds and in the anointing of corpses, to prefigure his role as healer and foretell of his death.
How COVID-19 Is Impacting People of Color in Every State
By Charlotte LoBuono, Stacker News
On 12/19/20 at 8:30 AM EST
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color across the United States because of social inequalities and inequalities in the health care system that have existed for a long time.
Minorities are more likely than whites to lack health insurance and have less access to health care. And some people of color may be more distrustful of the health care system. People of color are also more likely than whites to have underlying health conditions such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity that predispose them to complications from COVID-19.
Guy Erlich, an Israeli entrepreneur, checks a frankincense tree at a plantation in Kibbutz Almog in the West Bank Nov. 30, 2017. Conflict, climate change and poverty are driving the demise of the tree that produces frankincense resin. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters) Dec. 10, 2020 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from the East, but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to the newborn king of the Jews and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Beyond their great monetary value, scholars say, the gifts had deep symbolic significance: gold for the Christ child s nobility as king of the Jews; frankincense, which was burned in religious ceremonies, for his divinity; and myrrh, which was used on cuts or wounds and in the anointing of corpses, to prefigure his role as healer and foretell of his death.