Sentences with phrase «community meeting years»

The decision to switch to a new busing system and the new school schedules were discussed at a series of community meetings this year.

Not exact matches

His community is hundreds of thousands of people, and they regularly meet three to four times a year in stadiums with 30,000 to 40,000 attendees.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop - gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

Any company in the business community can be considered for the award, provided the company is a Canadian - owned private business in at least its third year of operation as of December 2016, with minimum annual revenues of $ 5 million and meets all eligibility criteria.

I've met so many people in the last year, and the amount of support I've gotten from the Rochester community has been just incredible.

When I interviewed local community advocate Sean Sheppard last year about Game Changer, his program that uses sporting events to bring members of law enforcement and the community together to talk about racism and other thorny issues, we met at Starbucks.

Deena Scott said the man she met all those years back has always been focused on giving back to the community, whether volunteering at their church, mentoring others or helping fold socks at a relief center.

«The Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce has been an advocate for the business community for more than 50 years and my goal is to modernize our approach to better meet the needs of our membership and distinguish ourselves in the Baltimore region.»

One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and read a book or two.

Cenovus officials make a point of meeting with each community several times a year to discuss local concerns and ensure the company is living up to its commitments.

We at Primary made a bunch of new friends this year, met a number of companies we look forward to getting to know better, and reconnected with some of our favorite investors from the NYC community.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.

The Tufts Community Union Judiciary, meeting without a hearing late on a Friday night in April, found TCF guilty of discrimination and banished the group from campus, revoking $ 5,700 a year in student fees.

In a survey of the ways groups are used in mental health centers, psychiatrist E. Mansell Pattison found that one of the most frequent uses is in consultation services for those in the care - giving professions.24 In the Los Angeles area, for several years, small groups of clergymen met with consultants supplied by the community mental health centers to discuss counseling relationships in their parishes.

The Most Rev Justin Welby met 27 Christians from around the world at the beginning of the Community of St Anselm, an annual programme which is entering its third year.

A few years ago, they moved closer and are now part of The Refuge community so we now hold the tension in closer proximity instead of only meeting once in a while.

But there are real needs in the community that ten years ago, none of the local churches were meeting.

Instead of having to ascertain their local community's needs and interests every three years and then planning how their station would program to meet those needs, the broadcaster was now required only to send a post card each year to the Commission, stating weather or not they had met the community's needs!

Several years ago, I met two girls online who decided to form an online community centered around the making of care packages.

I not only enjoy the community but it and the people I've met through it have kept me sane... well, sorta... through the past year, post stroke...

A dozen years ago, in a national meeting of the American Jewish Committee, I made the case for restraining a band of Nazis from marching through a Jewish community in Skokie, Illinois.

For more than 100 years, the Chamber has been committed to meeting the needs of the local business community.

CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community or around the world, and, this year, CGI Latin America, which will bring together Latin American leaders to identify, harness, and strengthen ways to improve the livelihoods of people in Latin America and around the world.

Created in 2006 as the first - ever live tasting event, this year's unique meeting will broadcast live on the web from Laphroaig's malting floor, bringing together some of the world's foremost whisky experts and the global Friends of LaphroaigTM community, both new and old, for an extraordinary interactive educational experience.

Children ages 10 to 14 participate in PPI's «twinning» program, in which Jews and Arabs at first practice regularly in their home communities, then combine into mixed teams under two coaches (one Arab and one Jewish) and meet weekly throughout the school year.

They are a very tough rival, but we meet them at the Emirates and having beaten them in the FA Cup Final and the Community Shield this year, and followed that up with an impressive draw at Stamford Bridge earlier this season.

They took the concerns from the community and put it into years of planning, meetings and approvals which have gotten them to this point.

Durham Youth Commission members commit to a one - year term of service; serve on City boards and committees as appointed and attend all meetings of those boards and committees; complete 40 hours of community service during their term of service; as well as attend and actively participate in all meetings, service projects, and special events sponsored by the commission.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The components in the November 6th referendum are the results of three years of master planning meetings with neighborhood residents, a community needs survey, a political poll and several follow up community input meetings since March of this year.

Arlington Heights School District 25 and Palatine's Community Consolidated School District 15 both have just one school that met national benchmarks this year, according to a Tribune analysis of data released Thursday by the state.

CATHERINE: Yeah, I think that's, I mean, that's how I met you almost 8 years ago is I started doing the prenatal yoga with my, when I was pregnant with my son, so and still have friends that I met way back then, so it is really a wonderful community.

Meet area residents and local consumers by participating in one of the numerous community events that LSRCC organizes each year.

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«We at Hurlburt strongly believe we meet the needs of our community and reach the maximum number of families that wish to participate in youth sports year around with our various leagues, clinics and instructional classes,» Koposko says.

Over the past four years, we have grown and expanded to meet the needs of the growing cloth diaper community in the Chicagoland area.

One year ago this month, I travelled to Oak Brook, Illinois to attend the annual McDonald's shareholder meeting along with five other moms: Sally Kuzemchak of Real Mom Nutrition; Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids; Leah Segedie, founder of the Mamavation community; Migdalia Rivera, associate campaign director at MomsRising.org; and Rosa Perea, a Chicago - area health educator.

Finally, among yesterday's briefings, I had the pleasure of meeting Roger Thurow, author of the recently published The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change.

After two years of meetings and community comments, the Glen Ellyn Village Board approved amendments to its zoning code aimed at reducing the size and bulk of homes on small lots, beginning March 1.

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You won't want to miss our fourth annual Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes, which will be held this year on Monday, April 3 at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C. Meet and honor five extraordinary men and women in the school nutrition profession who go beyond their daily duties, and making a big impact in their communities.

The committees, which would meet a couple times a year, would enable individuals to discuss services and programs provided by the park district and at the same time help the district better meet the diverse demands of the community, Mammoser said.

«The staff and board members of the Hoffman Estates Park District have made an extraordinary effort in the last several years to improve the Park District's areas, facilities, programs and services to meet the growing needs of residents of the community,» read a statement from Ted Flickinger, executive director of the Springfield - based Illinois Association of Park Districts.

More than 30 years ago, Mrs. Graham, who had been active in community activities, including the American Association of University Women and the Campfire Girls, received political encouragement from people she met while taking a Park District scuba class.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

It took me two years to collaborate in my local community with all the physicians and experts I needed to help my mommy's win and meet their challenges with breastfeeding or any kind of feeding for that matter.

It took us just over a year to train 18 peer supporters, establish six monthly regular meetings in the West Herts area, recruit nearly 550 members to our virtual community to provide them with 24 hour support through Facebook and all that with no official funding.