Sentences with phrase «community in a small town»

We are a small Muslim community in a small town.

The JLS Foundation is a non-profit (501c3) dedicated to helping individuals from underserved communities in small town America find their way into thriving careers.

She fell in love with the community in this small town and doesn't miss the traffic of Houston or Bryan.

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Sure, that was bad for your business (particularly if it's based in a small town or serves a tight knit community), but it's nothing like our post-social media reality.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

How do you re-create that sense of small - town coziness with your online community, considering they may be spread from Seattle to Sarasota and, well, can't just pop in to ask to borrow a cup of sugar?

Ultimately, your tribe can enjoy the same sense of community we find in small towns — people know each other, like each other, and help each other.

Along with others in the community, we have developed a plan to buy and tear down the building and replace it with a small walkable «neighborhood town center.»

Throughout this time, the small town Sandusky, Ohio values have allowed us to do business in the community where we live with the people we see every day.

West Fargo is one of the fastest - growing communities in North Dakota and is known for its small - town living with the resources and amenities of a large metropolitan city.

But it sounded ideal... a small - but - friendly expat community and welcoming locals living happily together in a typical Panamanian small town... and nearby, long stretches of nearly deserted beaches they could have almost to themselves.

The goal of the presentation is to provide audience members with information that will inspire them and encourage them to return to their own town or city and work to increase engagement of underrepresented segments of their community in entrepreneurism and small business growth.

And whether you live in a big city, small town, or somewhere in between, we know you care about your community — as do we.

I am the first in line to step up to the plate to help someone in need (a friend told me about a homeless man living under bridge in a small town of 1500... everyone knew he was there; police, mayor and other community members, though NO one did a thing, I personaly went bought a sleeping bag and 100.00 worth of food, storage bags and toiletries and whatever I thought he may need and this is the first time brought up.)

Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.

In my small town, we have several community centers, including several large churches and a university.

We simply do not know what community would look like in a modern city because our deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face relationships of an agrarian economy.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state»In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state»in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

I described it this way to the bishops in New Orleans: «the retreat from marriage is now spreading into the bedrock of Middle America: that is, small towns, rural communities, and outer suburbs across America.

It follows two detectives investigating the murder of a young boy in a small town, but the police procedural takes a backseat to the absolutely searing exploration of just how murder and secrets can tear a community apart.

But now that I'm a card - carrying YMCA member, I've been forced to exercise in public... cause that's sort of the point of the Y, particularly in a small town like Dayton: It's a community.

My friend had been in contact with him about getting together for lunch while he was in town for a speaking engagement, and it turned into a small group discussion on living in community and living life generously.

I was interested to know what that has taught a guy who grew up in a modest home during the Great Depression, in a hard - working, small - town community, who himself lived paycheck - to - paycheck for most of his working years.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

The models we're talking about start small — and can happen in every neighborhood, in every community, in every little and big town across this country.

There was this small town feeling of community, like everyone in the city was on one team and they were there to crush it — while being non pretentious, incredibly kind, and filled with a sincere love for their town.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

I liked the fact that they were from a small town in the Valencian Community and yet were on the world stage with Arsenal, Liverpool, Barcelona, etc. so began supporting Villarreal.

I'm active in PTA, shuttle our two daughters and their friends around town, play on a community softball team, go to a gym twice a week, and work Wednesdays in a small sports equipment store.

The volunteer tradition runs deep in the district, going back to the 1930s and «40s, when the community was a small town in need of recreational activities.

He was ignored at community events in their small town.

«They know Commander Plumb has what it takes to protect jobs here in New York while making sure America remains safe from terrorists at home and abroad — unlike Congressman Tom Reed who's become part of the broken system in Washington that's left our towns and small communities behind,» campaign manager Jason Robert Henry said.

He said more than 1,000 under - served communities in the Region had been connected to the national electricity grid and 300,000 people had also been supplied with potable drinking water under the Small Town Water system.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced a popular candy maker will be able to expand its facilities, hire additional employees and grow its business in its home town of North Tonawanda with the assistance of a $ 100,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Program award.

They also recognize that many smaller towns have part - time people... who in essence volunteer to perform these services in their communities,» Geist said.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal today announced Home Helpers and Direct Link of Amsterdam (HHDLA) will expand thanks to a $ 284,000 State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Program award requested by the Town of Amsterdam in Montgomery County.

Often they settled in rural communities when they were economically more healthy, (e.g. in a small town that relied on one factory that left or mine that shut down), but never moved away.

But also by tackling deprivation in the neglected smaller towns and coastal communities where opportunities have been hard to come by for years.

A transplant from Mechanicville, a small town in the Albany area, Turner says his intuition proved correct, and he still believes that «Saugerties is a true community that you just don't see in the modern era.»

Town of Ramapo to make hidden hamlet disappear, eviction notice sent to home - renters STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY KAHN Residents of the small community of the «Hamlet of Ramapo,» a dead - end street off Torne Valley Rd. in unincorporated Ramapo near the Village of Hillburn, have been told by the town to vacate the premiTown of Ramapo to make hidden hamlet disappear, eviction notice sent to home - renters STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY KAHN Residents of the small community of the «Hamlet of Ramapo,» a dead - end street off Torne Valley Rd. in unincorporated Ramapo near the Village of Hillburn, have been told by the town to vacate the premitown to vacate the premises.

The Islandia Village Board Friday morning voted to approve a Suffolk OTB casino with 1,000 video lottery terminals that had stirred controversy in the small Islip Town community.

A news app developer at the Chicago Tribune promises to chronicle his efforts to improve a small Texas town's community, through technology, in a new blog announced in The Atlantic: Tyler has information that could be... Read More

I would oppose any IDA incentives, for projects like the proposed CVS / 5 Guys projects in the Town of New Paltz, which adds little to our community and competes with locally owned small businesses who have supported our community for years.

That would be bad for people in Richmond Park, and it would be disastrous for people in Wales, whether in towns and cities, or in small rural communities.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studIn the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

In 1984 the late Ian Falloon, professor of psychiatry at the Auckland Medical Center in New Zealand, created a model mental health service in Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the communitIn 1984 the late Ian Falloon, professor of psychiatry at the Auckland Medical Center in New Zealand, created a model mental health service in Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the communitin New Zealand, created a model mental health service in Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the communitin Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the communitin the community.

Responsive to the needs of the community, the AAS reviews and issues small research and travel grants (sponsored by the AAS, NASA, and the NSF), holds town meetings with agency representatives, and has recently demonstrated its leadership in preparing The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy (funded by the NSF; AAS, 1997).

Early history and career: Michael Merzenich was born in 1942 in the town of Lebanon in the US state of Oregon, the son of a factory foreman and supervisor and a German - American mother in this small agricultural and lumbering community.

The expansion of clinical trials in Georgia has provided residents of small towns & rural communities with new treatment options.

In my small town / rural farming community when Im out and about (mail, walking dogs) I dress what people would see as «normal».