Sentences with phrase «citizen center at»

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Post notices at senior citizen centers.

I studied sketch and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade training center in New York City for eight years.

But as the practical reality of repeal began to sink in for the millions of Americans who stand to lose coverage, the voices of concerned, angry citizens soon took center stage at town halls across the country.

At the center of the initiative is a website where «citizen scientists» can suggest problems that could potentially be addressed through emerging technologies, such as data analytics, satellite technologies, or the Internet of things, McCauley says.

Polis hopes to increase the number of EB - 5 Regional Center Program visas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup Visas.

«People here are enthusiastic about the benefits (of Amazon's HQ2), but those economic benefits often miss our most vulnerable citizens,» says Daniel Brisson, executive director of the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness at the University of Denver.

There is this idea that these people are not really good citizens of the country,» said Albert W. Hickman, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

However, are not the people (or at least most of them) putting together this center & mosque also Americans, or immigrants wishing to become citizens, and therefore covered by the same right of freedom of religion that you and I enjoy?

When the citizens of a republic or a civilization become merely self - interested (or equally worse, interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own subjective vision of the world.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

At the time Captain Hamilton resided on a farm 10 miles outside of Yates Center, and several citizens of the village signed an affidavit testifying to his veracity shortly after he reported seeing the strange ship.

Connect with the local information and referral system (ask at a church, county welfare, a senior citizen center, food bank, etc..

GURNEE — Members of the Gurnee Park District Citizens Advisory Committee voted Thursday night to recommend that the Park District Board ask taxpayers in April to approve a scaled - down version of the $ 15 million Hunt Club Leisure Center rejected at the ballot box last April.

Gause is one of 25 «Grandma, Please» volunteers, who will be honored Monday in a 10 a.m. awards ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Started 10 years ago as a service for senior citizens by the Uptown Center Hull House Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a grownup.

A committee of citizens and park and city officials is studying whether to keep open the public pool at Reed - Keppler Park or to pursue building a water recreation center similar to facilities in Wheaton and Lisle.

The plan calls for building a new recreation center, modernizing the senior citizens» facility, developing park land, renovating playground equipment at all parks and, possibly, building a new aquatic facility.

PALATINE — A new master plan presented this week to the Salt Creek Rural Park District calls for a second deck at a golf course driving range, handicapped accessibility at two parks, a community park with an indoor fitness center and more activities for senior citizens.

The Park Board will meet at The Abbey senior citizens center next September.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

The need for a larger center at Blair Park was determined by a citizens advisory committee appointed last year, said Park Board President Jack Brumm at this week's board meeting.

Group therapy programs may include fun outings such as going on a scavenger hunt at a mall, ordering and eating at an ice cream parlor, or going trick - or - treating at a senior citizen living center.

At 8:45 a.m., More than 500 students, parents, educational leaders and citizens from across New York State will gather for a day - long symposium on My Brother's Keeper, the initiative to help boys and young men of color — and all students — realize their full potential, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Convention Hall, Albany.

Also at 11 a.m., U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony for 30 new citizens is held at One World Observatory, with U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Robert Katzmann administering the Oath of Allegiance and NYU Distinguished Scholar in Residence Preet Bharara delivering keynote remarks, One World Trade Center, Manhattan.

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Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, and Tim Hoefer, Executive Director of the Empire Center, were present at the event to show to support for Assemblyman Tedisco's leadership in bringing greater transparency to state spending decisions.

A pattern of controversial deaths at the Erie County Holding Center is now a major topic in this year's contest for sheriff, with Democrat Bernard Tolbert, the former FBI agent challenging Republican Timothy Howard, charging the incumbent's «obfuscation and misinformation» about the deaths «hides the truth» from citizens.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Kevin Green has recognized youth volunteers from The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and Dodge Pratt Northam Art Community all performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

At 8:30 a.m., during a panel discussion about the MTA's five - year plan for construction and renovation projects, representatives of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and the Urban Land Institute New York introduce an initiative titled «Keeping NY on Track: The Importance of the MTA Transit Network in a Changing World»; Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, NYU, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

At last night's Town of Ulster Town Board meeting, Town of Ulster citizens made a consistent request of their Town Board (who is Lead Agency in SEQR for the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center, a gas - fired power plant project in the Town of Ulster) for a 90 day public comment period during the Scoping process.

That's according to Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, who was among more than 65 environmental group representatives who pitched ideas to state Senator Ken LaValle earlier this month, during his annual environmental round table at Suffolk County Community College's culinary arts center in downtown Riverhead.

The event, created to support citizens in creating Scoping comments for the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center project, a gas - fired peak power plant project in the Town of Ulster, will occur from 10 am — 5 pm at the Town of Ulster Senior Center (1 Town Hall Drive) in the Town of Ulster.

«I think it's rather clear that building a center there meets all the requirements, but it does seem to ignite an immense amount of anxiety among the citizens of New York and people everywhere, and I think not without cause,» Paterson said at an Aug. 10 news conference in Manhattan, according to published reports.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton also spoke at the conference, and she pledged that if elected, she would advance President Barack Obama's policies on immigration, particularly those impacting childhood arrivals and parents of citizens and legal residents, and go a step further by closing private immigration detention centers.

Also at 10 a.m., Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, Tim Hoefer of the Empire Center and others unveil Truth in Spending bill to bring transparency to how the state allocates pork barrel spending, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

A 188 - bed assisted living facility called The Brielle at Seaview is in the works across from Farm Colony, and another 104 - unit complex for senior citizens, Park Lane at Sea View, is located on the campus of nearby Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home.

Jack Abrahams, new president of the Lake George Senior Citizens Club, proposed to the town board at their August meeting that the local Senior Citizens Center be used to host pre-teen students after school, and the board members approved his request.

Pomona — Rockland County welcomed some of its newest citizens with a naturalization ceremony held at the Rockland County Fire Training Center in Pomona on December 6.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today announced that an inspiring video featuring the life stories of three Oneida County senior citizens will have its premier on Thursday, May 3rd, at 10 a.m. at the Parkway Senior Center in Utica.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Pomona — Rockland County welcomed some of its newest citizens with a naturalization ceremony held at the Rockland County Fire Training Center in Pomona on December 6.

At 8:30 a.m., NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan speaks at a Citizens Crime Commission of New York City breakfast forum, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 113 W. 60th St., 12th floor lounge, ManhattaAt 8:30 a.m., NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan speaks at a Citizens Crime Commission of New York City breakfast forum, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 113 W. 60th St., 12th floor lounge, Manhattaat a Citizens Crime Commission of New York City breakfast forum, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, 113 W. 60th St., 12th floor lounge, Manhattan.

Common Cause and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University wrote a letter, saying it appears to impose a burden on «important speech between citizens and the media» and likely violates the first amendment.

BRONX — Sen. Jeff Klein knows his audience, so he came armed with information catered to the few dozen constituents who gathered at a Riverdale senior citizens center in his Bronx district.

Finally, on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at a meeting held at the Palisades Center, the collective efforts of the Bi-Partisan Rockland County and New Yrork State elected officials, the many Rockland commuter - citizens who showed up to protect their interests, as well as the long - term efforts of this newspaper, led to a victory to restore this vital express bus service!

And about 65 people — many of whom have been active in the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance's battle for a Community Benefits Agreement that includes a living wage requirement — attended the meeting at the Bedford Park Multi-Service Center for Senior Citizens last night.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Bob Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Rome's Relay for Life, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, folding and stuffing envelopes at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other community activities.

Nearly 8,000 senior citizens would be affected in Upper Manhattan should the centers close, according to Rodriguez, who emphasized that nearly 25 percent of households in his district house at least one elderly person, many of whom live below the poverty line.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino invites senior citizens to showcase their talents and dance the afternoon away at the annual Golden Harvest Dance and Talent Show on Tuesday, September 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.

Responding to having heard of a Nassau County Correctional Center inmate's death, the Long Island Citizens for Good Government held a news conference alongside former inmates on Monday, March 7, 2016, to discuss what they consider life - threatening conditions and improper health care at the East Meadow jail.

12:15 PM — Public Advocate James delivers remarks at the Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Citizens Center Annual Valentine's Day Gala.

The Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council in cooperation with Citizens» Voices has scheduled a program for local municipal leaders on Tuesday, May 6th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the Foothill's Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.