Sentences with phrase «families in my neighborhood who»

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

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Born in Chicago's Near North Side, he was raised by his grandmother, who moved the family to Indianapolis to escape the neighborhood's growing gang violence.

Hours after the rampage ended, family members and friends were in the neighborhood trying to locate loved ones who were missing and believed to have been at the club.

As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

Cruz — at 5 - foot - 7 and 120 pounds — was scrawny, and rarely, if ever, felt comfortable with other kids, either in his Parkland neighborhood or at Stoneman Douglas, according to Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family and remained in touch with Nikolas up until his mother's funeral in November.

If our economic and technological advance has placed power in the hands of those who are not answerable to any democratic process; weakened our families neighborhoods as it turned individuals into mobile, competitive achievers; undermined our morality and stripped us of tradition — as I think it has — then we must consider where else to turn.

Who else in your family, neighborhood, or work place can you love like Jesus simply by listening to them?

Sean Casey, who founded and runs... wait for it... Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Windsor Terrace, a old - fashioned family neighborhood in Brooklyn just southwest of Prospect Park, rescues nearly anything, from dogs and cats to guinea pigs to snakes and tortoises.

Every therapist who works with our population is familiar with numerous instances in which patterns of change within the family are out of phase with patterns of change in the neighborhood.

We must live into the narrative God desires for humanity, which inevitably leads us to care for the hurting — whether grieving families who have lost loved ones, individuals who are targets of hate or the stereotyping happening in your neighborhood because of events halfway across the globe.

A group of Presbyterian elders who were also realtors in a Pittsburg community were asked by their pastor to open the way for a cultured Negro family to purchase a home in their neighborhood.

The recently opened Recess Eatery in Northeast Los Angeles caters to young families who live in the area with a very kid - friendly environment, adapting to the neighborhood.

Isreal Jean Holland is a Black American Jewish woman from a bad neighborhood in Southeast DC who is part of the first generation of Black American women in her family to nurse and she wants to empower black women to take back their bodies and nurse their young regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

But O'Reilly, 17, was beaming Saturday as he shook hands and traded laughs with dozens of police officers who crowded into his family's home in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, delivering gifts and offering support in an effort to show that his family hasn't been forgotten.

If you don't have family who will be able to take care of the baby while you go out for a date night with your partner, then look for a reliable babysitter in your neighborhood.

Police are searching for the driver of an SUV who struck and killed an 83 - year - old man as he crossed a street near his family's video store in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

But Rice, who didn't seek office until the past six years for the first time, added, «I chose, late in life, to get involved in politics because I wanted to try and make neighborhoods and families safer.

When asked by The Associated Press in a separate interview about the government's contention that businesses could enact their own testing policies, the New York Democrat said: «Tell that to the families of the people who died in Spuyten Duyvil,» referring to the neighborhood where the Metro - North train crashed in 2013, killing four people.

«I am running for Congress to be a bold voice on behalf of Central Valley families and local neighborhoods throughout the 21st District,» Daniel Parra — the mayor pro tem of Fowler, Calif., an Air Force veteran who had been contemplating a bid — said in a news release provided first to CQ Roll Call.

«Listing Parkway Village on the State and National Historic Registries is both a tremendous honor for its residents, and a sigh of relief for families in this area who want to see their neighborhoods and their quality of life preserved for future generations.»

The proposal drew pushback from neighbors and others who expressed concern about the population that will be moving in there and its impact on a residential neighborhood of single - family homes.

In other words, DeFrancisco wants a leader who's not afraid to slash political fat, who can inspire idealistic families to stay in the city, who knows when to pat a head or to give a kick in the behind, who can build a bridge to needy neighborhoods, who can touch off the changes so many residents are longing to seIn other words, DeFrancisco wants a leader who's not afraid to slash political fat, who can inspire idealistic families to stay in the city, who knows when to pat a head or to give a kick in the behind, who can build a bridge to needy neighborhoods, who can touch off the changes so many residents are longing to sein the city, who knows when to pat a head or to give a kick in the behind, who can build a bridge to needy neighborhoods, who can touch off the changes so many residents are longing to sein the behind, who can build a bridge to needy neighborhoods, who can touch off the changes so many residents are longing to see.

Legislation will be introduced to stop one - and two - family homes from short term rentals State Senator Jeff Klein, joined by Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, community leaders and angry residents, demanded on Monday that Airbnb and similar sites remove an advertisement for «Fenton Lounge» aka Airbnb «Animal House», placed by a homeowner who is renting out his two - family residence for raucous, lewd, late night parties in a quiet neighborhood.

«A lot of people are interested in seeing these desolate blocks develop,» said Peter Psathas, who works in the neighborhood and whose family owns a local business in Inwood.

«It is financially feasible in a number of New York City neighborhoods to require a new MIH option that reaches deeper levels of affordable housing so that more families earning less that $ 30,000 annually can have access to permanently affordable housing,» opined Michelle de la Uz, who abstained from voting.

«Like me and so many others in our community, Grace Meng is a parent who wakes up every day with a mission to better the neighborhoods where we raise our families,» Vallone said.

Pasanella, who lives above the shop with his family, has been helping to rebuild the hard - hit neighborhood in the months since the storm, according to Stringer's office.

In a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoodIn a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoodin the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoods.

And outside of Massachusetts, Kreft searched the Web and found families in the suburbs of Denver, Phoenix, and Detroit who had the same concerns about apparent clusters of type 1 in their neighborhoods.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

I grew up in a really diverse neighborhood so it was so fun to get together with families who weren't like mine.

Hillary Swank plays a school teacher in a bad neighborhood, who manages to become a second family and create a special kind of bond - trust, love and emotion - with her students in spite of all hardships.

She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy (Jason Schwartzman), a music producer who lives in the same neighborhood.

She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy, a music producer who lives in the same neighborhood.

The desire for an alternative to a neighborhood public school was strong for the families who applied to the OSP in 2004 and 2005.

Since I did not encounter any young people who support the Islamic movement or define themselves as followers of political Islam in either neighborhood, I will also exclude young people supporting political Islam from the analysis below and primarily focus on the subjectivities of youth born to secular and leftist families.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

During the same period, the authors interviewed 14 of 17 white men who had also been 1st graders in the original sample and came from similar neighborhood and family backgrounds as the black men.

Traditional zoned - based assignments may be less able to match family preferences than the OneApp, especially for those who don't have the means to purchase or rent a home in a neighborhood with desirable public schools.

The argument is that students in low - income neighborhoods who are most likely to come to school hungry or sick, and have unstable or unsupportive family environments, will need to be fed, healthy, and supported before they can excel academically.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

The most heavily flooded neighborhoods were (not coincidentally) those where family incomes were lowest, and people in these neighborhoods returned at much lower rates than people who lived in other parts of the city.

As one of the two generations of my family who attended P.S. 45, I can understand why those who live in the neighborhood don't simply want to walk away from it.

Those who are being denied those new schools are the families most in need of better schools and more choice in their neighborhoods.»

While the school is not a boundary school, where students are granted priority spot if they live in a certain place, the school does hold a preference for students that attend the preschool, students who live in The Villages of East Lake and East Lake and Kirkwood neighborhoods, and students with siblings at the school, which means regardless of the demand for seats from surrounding communities, the school will continue to primarily serve low - income families in the East Lake community.

Thus, aside from children who are able to walk from low - income housing and small single - family homes in the neighborhood, students are bused.

She was one of the few from her neighborhood, and the first in her family who went to college.