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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   2021 is opening with new opportunities for Senior Solutions’ volunteers. Delivering new reassurance contacts with our Volunteer Visitor Program recipients is helping our volunteers initiate new protocols. COVID-19 challenges have caused volunteers some anxious moments because they miss the routines of seeing their visitor partners in person. We all feel the need for companionship. In place of the important face to face visits, we are now doing phone visits, plus doing shopping and other errands. This helps fill the void. Our volunteer...

The Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Arts organizations are breathing a small sigh of relief about not being forgotten in the $900 billion emergency spending bill passed by US Congress, which now goes to President Trump for his signature. No one knows yet what the distribution of funds will look like, nor how much support individual organizations will actually get. But the relief agreement, the advocacy group said, “is expected to include more than $284 billion for first and second Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans targeting small nonprofits...

December 17, 2020 The University of Wyoming Geological Museum is one of a select number of museums in the nation chosen by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to help develop a new digital learning platform called Museums for Digital Learning. The museum will contribute resource kits for the testing phase of the project, which aims to connect K-12 teachers and students around the country with digital teaching and learning resources. “It’s an honor to be selected as one of the few institutions IMLS chose to partner with to help develop and test activities using their new pl...

They estimate an increase of 30% in visitor traffic if they get one of the shuttles. >> this is going to create jobs, real paying jobs with benefits, jobs that are meaningful and special, security, museum services, exhibitors, cure 8ors, construction jobs to build the exhibit to maintain it, architectural jobs. >> reporter: all right. so this is a real nail biter. nasa is expected to make their decision sometime in the next few weeks. we want to mention that some of the other cities with mew seems at air force bases vying for the shuttle include oklahoma, texas, and california. once that decis...