Sentences with phrase «citizen center in»

SAGE received $ 1.2 million from the New York City Council to open this needed senior citizen center in the Bronx and to enhance similar centers in other boroughs.

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.

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

In a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dougIn a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dougin other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dougin the dough.

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.

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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.

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

«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.

These services in Indianapolis may include the Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops such as the Goodwill Industries, schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.

A compromise reached in late November had the village accepting the Park District's plan for a recreation center on the Yunker site and the Park District agreeing to expand the role of a citizens advisory group in planning for the rest of the site, which occupies the north and south sides of LaPorte Road just west of Schoolhouse Road.

A citizens advisory team several weeks ago presented its recommendations to park officials regarding proposals for the construction of a swimming pool and dance, exercise and meeting space in the new community center.

Rolling Meadows — Deciding some habits are too hard to break, the Park District board has rejected a proposal by senior citizens to ban smoking in the community center.

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.

Officials said a new gym, a fitness center, a senior citizens room, a cultural arts room and offices for the park district and township assessor will be ready in early February.

In 1982, the District's recreation programs for senior citizens moved to Park Place Senior Center.

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.

Fred Featherstone, a 26 - year resident who was on the citizens committee, said the group wanted the center to have broad appeal, a place where mothers could work out while their children were in class.

A senior citizens» center, swimming pool and meeting rooms have been mentioned by village trustees for possible inclusion in the project.

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.

In other business, the board agreed to form a citizens advisory committee to study the development of an outdoor pool and community center that would house an indoor pool.

Additional testimony also in support came from the American Civil Liberties Union - New Hampshire, Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin King, The New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Rights Coalition, the New Hampshire Departments of Labor and Public Health, the NHBTF, the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center and New Hampshire Voices for Health.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

A large gathering of senior citizens and community leaders rallied in Northern Manhattan on September 8 in attempt to save a beloved senior center from eviction.

The Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center invites Friday Night teen members, senior citizens and enrollees in Manhattan Youth's Programs to join jewelry makers to create special pieces for Mothers Day.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

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.

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.

That includes helping establish the Capital South Campus Center, supporting the creation of Albany's Citizens» Police Review Board, creating a program to honor influential African - American city residents and pushing affordable housing development in the South End, she said.

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.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

«Digital counties are leveraging technology to improve the ways they conduct business and engage with citizens in increasingly innovative and exciting ways,» said Todd Sander, executive director of the Center for Digital Government.

Looking to establish a «progressive infrastructure» to rival that of American conservatism, Clinton played a formative role in conversations that led to the 2003 founding of former Clinton administration Chief of Staff John Podesta's Center for American Progress, shared aides with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, founded in 2003 and advised the Clintons» former antagonist David Brock's Media Matters for America, created in 2004.

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.

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.

The budget also allocates $ 100,000 for the Statewide Action Council Patients» Rights Hotline, $ 86,000 for the Foundation for Senior Citizens Home Sharing and Respite Program and $ 250,000 for the Older Adult Technology Center, which helps seniors better understand today's technology to remain in contact with younger loved ones, such as grandchildren.

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.

Planners and the Town Board also have to decide on recommendations contained in the master plan, like continuing to use the Nike Site for a senior citizens center and potentially expanding it.

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.

We're funding libraries and recreation centers and all of that and so we want to be able to continue to provide exceptional service to our citizens but also do the necessary repairs as it pertains to infrastructure and investment in our capital projects,» Warren said.