Sentences with phrase «big community family»

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This is a high demand area with families as the excellent schools are the biggest draw to this community.

«There are a lot of people trying to help us out, and it just shows the bobsled community really is one big family, even though we compete against each other,» said Gibbs.

The company also has an employee - driven volunteering platform, Beedie Cares, which focuses on «small dollar, big impact» initiatives supporting children, seniors, and families in our community.

For example, a community bank's biggest customers may include small business owners and mothers managing the bank accounts for a family of four.

This is bigger than Seasons, this is a whole community, dozens of communities doing whatever they can to help their family.»

Both Parks & Rec and Community were shut out in the Best Comedy category, though Veep, Louie, Big Bang Theory and Modern Family were all nominated.

The booming neighbourhood attracted more middle - class families and became one of the biggest Christian communities in Iraq.

You'll ALSO notice, that this was a community of Christians living as a big family.

In paying such loving tribute to his sister, and so memorably honoring faith, family, and community, he has likely made Ruthie Leming very proud of her big brother.

Often times, as in my case, the religious community is a substitue for our broken families of origin.Idolized leave it to beaver believers... what results, ineviable, is people do what people do... display their confusion and pathological leanings to miss the mark... Finally, after a slow painful death to my / our illusions, we can give up being perfect in favoure of a peace that passes all understanding and give a big jucicy kiss to the abusuridy of our naccasistic culture while finding ways to celebrate our ONENESS....

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

However, they're perhaps even more respected by their employees and community members, a tribute that stems from lessons learned long before their family winery hit the big time.

The Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest is back bigger and better than ever, giving independent family or «neighborhood» restaurants and food trucks the chance to win up to $ 80,000 in cash and prizes and bring hometown pride to their own communities.

He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.

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Instead, they live in a home environment where contribution and appreciation is freely given among family members of all ages, both within the family and within the bigger community.

JULIE: So, um, I have a business, we call it, Herself Moms, and it's a group of professionals that have come together and we just tried to create a place where prenatal moms and postpartum families can come and either get support or have some educational needs met or some lactation services and overall I'd say, within all of that, the biggest part is the development of community.

To connect families further, Care.com acquired community platforms Big Tent and Kinsights in 2013 and 2015, respectively.

Um, as the moms come together and the families come together, their friendships are made and yeah, it just becomes a huge community thing, so that's I guess the biggest part of it.

That made us feel part of a bigger community in a way we can't in Cyprus, where there are only about twelve home educating families in all!

Niagara: Alzheimer Society BHNHH, Alzheimer Society of Niagara Region, MS Society, Niagara College, Brock University, Family and Children's Services, Quest Community Health Centre, Niagara Falls Community Health Centre, Family Support Network of Niagara, Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Catharines - Thorold and District, John Howard Society of Niagara, Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre, Bethesda Services, Autism Ontario — Niagara Region, Daval Hospice, Boys and Girls Club of Niagara

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

It has been another big challenge in many ways but with the family support, traditionally as Africans we don't just have the nuclear family, as communities we have the extended families, where we have the aunts, uncles and the cousins and that has made it easier.

«We want to make sure our families come to Queens, move here, stay here, are able to raise their families in the borough of Queens, and housing of course is a big part of that,» Borough President Melinda Katz said at Monday's meeting, before hearing concerns from the district managers of the Queens community boards.

Agencies receiving Year - Round funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY, Inc. ($ 10,000), African Cultural Center of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 8,500), Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)($ 7,500), Blossom Garden Friends School ($ 3,000), Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 7,500), Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys & Girls Club of Northtowns of WNY, Inc. ($ 12,500), Boys & Girls Club of Orchard Park, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys and Girls Club East Aurora, Inc. ($ 15,000), Buffalo Urban League, Inc. ($ 12,500), Canisius College ($ 5,000), Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Inc. ($ 5,500), Child and Family Services of Erie County (Haven House)($ 10,000), Compeer West, Inc. ($ 10,000), Computers for Children, Inc. ($ 7,500), Cradle Beach Camp, Inc. ($ 12,500), Daemen College ($ 10,000), Elim Community Corporation ($ 5,000), Erie Regional Housing Dev.

«Already big changes have been made in our community, including restricting access to alcohol and implementing health promotion strategies, diagnostic clinics and therapy and support for children and families.

The scientific community is like one big, extended family, full of close and distant connections, crazy old aunts, pontificating father figures, and distant cousins you've never met whose names you can't remember.

Here's this big objective experiment where there's a disaster outside of everyone's control, and it's happening to the community and there's kind of varying levels of stress that are happening at each of these family dyads.

«Bullying is a big social problem that not only creates an unhealthy climate for individuals but also undermines schools and communities,» says Stephen Russell, professor and chair of human development and family sciences at UT Austin.

Your ethnic group is like a much bigger family — it's partly a matter of genetics, but it also reflects the environment of your broader community.»

This is big, and everyone in the HD community should be thankful to the brave volunteers who signed up for a demanding trial, as well as their families and caregivers.

«In any one community such as Rhode Island the number of families might be small, but across the world this condition affects a bigger number of people.»

A big thank you to Katie from our Facebook community for sharing a passed down family recipe for Calico Beans!

About Site - Christ UMC, Bethel Park is a church family with a big heart and a deep commitment to our community and the world.

We are so fortunate to be from such a big and fantastic family and to have such an incredible community in my home town!

Rati with her husband Sanjeev and a brigade of family like IMBB team of hundreds of writers and some really talented team members has made it big in the fashion and beauty community today.

Our thoughts were that if we could share our style with each other, our sisters, and our family, why not share with this bigger community?

«One thing that's prevalent in the Muslim community is people generally search along ethnic lines or family backgrounds because family is a big part of Muslim marriage on both sides,» he said.

There are no features to unite its members into a community and feel as a part of a big «family».

When big - city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old - time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community - wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home.

Kasdan - who enjoys throwing large numbers of friends, family, and whole communities together (The Big Chill, Grand Canyon, Mumford)- lets his actors go about their work in a loose, improvisatory manner.

Ramin weaves an intricate family melodrama which acts as a metaphor for the bigger geopolitical problem facing the Midwestern farming communities.

The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

The Big Life Group, linked to the Big Issue magazine, has set up a primary school, which will deliver high quality education and childcare to families in one of the poorest parts of Manchester while Everton, Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City are examples of a number of football clubs that have embedded their role in the community by leading the creation of new schools.

The Community Transport Association (CTA) is the national body working with the providers of community transport helping them to remain relevant and responsive to key areas of public policy and make a big difference for people and families in the communities theyCommunity Transport Association (CTA) is the national body working with the providers of community transport helping them to remain relevant and responsive to key areas of public policy and make a big difference for people and families in the communities theycommunity transport helping them to remain relevant and responsive to key areas of public policy and make a big difference for people and families in the communities they work in.

Nashville Big Picture students keep a journal and create a portfolio of their work to present to their family, friends, peers, mentor, Big Picture staff, and community members.

However, many of us are in situations where we could make a big change, such as quitting a job and finding a different one that could be better for us and for our families, and perhaps for the communities we want to serve.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

In meetings with families and community members, the district developed the Big Ten — character traits like work ethics and trustworthiness — to be taught and practiced in every classroom through the regular curriculum.