Sentences with phrase «few local groups»

I also found a few local groups which again were long on information but little to no practical help.

Someone offhandly mentioned a murder mystery party I'd thrown in another city and how much fun it was - so I went on Meetup and asked a few local groups if they were willing to host something like this.

Facebook is such a help — I've already found a few local groups to start getting info about the area.

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Those are just a few reasons why Michael Krenn, a longtime local startup advocate and San Diego Venture Group president, thinks San Diego will continue to be a great place to launch a medtech company, and set the mold for a city poised to attack some of the most challenging health problems of today.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

They had groups that served down at the local soup kitchen, and a few radical souls who hand out tracts on the street corners downtown.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

Then I went on to administer other groups as they needed, got burnt out after a few years, and answered a local pastors FB post about missional living.

Furthermore, within a very few years, those local groups who began with the «exaltation» interpretation had joined the consensus behind «resurrection».

A few weeks ago, I ate at a super awesome restaurant in Nashville with a big group of local food bloggers.

As a local business, «We support local kids» high school [activities],» he says, noting that this includes agricultural groups, sports teams and drill teams to name a few that compete with other schools.

But in those areas conquered by the descendants of Genghis Khan, the local Russians and other non-Asian ethnic groups adopted few of the dishes and cooking techniques of their Asian overlords.

Young spies tell me that marbles are rarely played these days, except by a few hot - shots who practice assiduously in hopes of advancing through local, regional and state contests to the national championships, sponsored, of course, by some adult group or other.

While the new Marlins ownership group hasn't exactly instilled confidence in locals, longtime fans, or their own players, continuing to keep players on the roster who have repeatedly expressed frustration about being part of a team that looks to tank in 2018 and struggle to be successful for a few seasons after that would be escalating an already tense situation.

If you can make it out to a local shop or babywearing group to try a few different styles out, that is often the best way to find out what you love and what fits you best.

Thanks to the generous support of local businesses like our concert series sponsor, First Midwest Bank and stage sponsor, Lutheran Home, the Village is able to book concerts with groups such as Trippin» Billies, Chicago Experience, Dixie Crush, Blooze Brothers and Deacon Blues - to name a few who have stepped on our stage through the many years of our popular Sounds of Summer concert series.

In addition to our group there were a number of families with babies and toddlers eating there, as well as quite a few locals.

I met Caty a few years ago through mutual friends and the local baby wearing group.

To simply take the property taxes levied today and add a debt service figure to it, as has been suggested by a local taxpayer watch group, ignores both the issuance over several years, as well as the debt that is scheduled to be retired in the coming few years, on which that tax will no longer be collected.

Local groups of moms will meet a few times a month and MOST LIKELY OFFER FREE CHILD CARE.Hugs to you momma!

Lee, along with a few moms she met at a local drop - in centre, formed a stroller - walking group.

Seeing how my local group has grown in the last few years has been immensely gratifying.

The next few years after that, the numbers of babywearers in the local area seemed to reach some sort of snowball point, and groups became overwhelmingly busy at times.

Ashton Signs - Baby Sign Language I had been to a local LLL group and watched another mother sign with her little girl so I picked up a baby signing book when my third son was only a few...

From informal coffee mornings to huge group meets, from walks in the park to a local sling meet, there should be a few options in your local area.

Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar — on Boylston St, just a few steps from Fenway Park, boasts over 75 kinds of whiskeys, offers local craft beers, and creative cocktails (if you're not squeamish about germs, splurge for the punch bowl with a larger group)

These groups regularly serve a few to more than 100 families per month in their local communities at no cost to parents, through in - person meetings and classes, online support and one - on - one sessions with the group leader.

I joined a local MOPS group here in Arkansas where other moms meet a few times a month for a craft, breakfast, speakers, and just encouragement.

For Mondragon's first few decades it was a local group of manufacturers selling largely within a protected Spanish market.

The case of Glasgow is telling in this respect: while being one of the few local areas in Scotland voting majority for Scottish independence (BBC News 2014), the city joined the English Core Cities group at the same time.

Since even a few dozen neglected bank - owned homes have an outsize negative impact on surrounding residences, a group of local politicians has branded these properties «nightmare neighbors» in a new investigative report released exclusively to The Post.

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

A small chunk of Buffalo Billion funds designated for revitalizing neighborhoods and improving transit in the city went to about two dozen companies and local groups, a few of which also donated to the governor.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce: The Chamber's political program has become increasingly sophisticated over the past few cycles, and given the organization's reach into local groups across the country, it is sure to be a major factor in 2006.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Community activists and other local leaders are unhappy that the recent announcement that the City Council had reached a deal with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on changes to his citywide rezoning proposals came with few details, and scant outreach to local groups.

A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100 - million - solar - mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, one of the few galaxies outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the Local Group.

Assuming that the Local Bubble or Chimney was created by the supernovae of young, massive stars during the past few million years, some astronomers have been looking for their probable source among the 27 member B stars of the Pleiades moving group, which are located towards the nearest part of Gould's Belt of massive hot, OB - type stars (more discussion in pdf).

Good, sustainable farming supports regional communities by working with groups like Fair for Life fair trade funds and partnering with the farmers and members of a community to jointly develop programs that address needs in local communities such as medical support, improving critical local infrastructure, supporting local schools, establishing sources of potable water, nutrition education, to name a few.

I first heard about Kelly's Closet from a local cloth diapering Facebook group just a few weeks ago, and placed my first 2 orders using the ROBIN code!

While Bailey paid tribute to the LGBTQ community a few weeks ago at his final catwalk show, it has more usually been local heroes like Henry Moore, The Charleston Art Group, David Hockney and the temperamental British weather that have provided inspiration for his collections.

I have attended few of my local support group meetings but actually find it hard to open up there, talking online feels easier at the moment.

In the heart of the history of Barcelona, overlooking the port and just a few minutes» walk to the beach, our luxury hotel is in a superb location for the Forget those other dating sites and meet local singles on a dinner date, a friendly group dating environment.

On tonight's episode of The Download, Justin speaks with Chicago Cares CEO Jenne Myers about the importance of volunteering and the upcoming Serve - a-Thon, Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lem me, Paul Soter and Kevin Heffernan of the Broken Lizard comedy group talk about their new film, «Super Troopers 2,» the tremendous local band Frisbie chat about their upcoming 20th anniversary show at Martyrs» (and also play a few songs live!)

But within a few years, the law came under bitter attack by teacher unions, local school officials, and small advocacy groups.

A few months later, having secured start - up funding from a group of local philanthropists, I left the OCYL to lead the newly founded RIMA.

A few days later, Educators 4 Excellence, a group unaffiliated with the local teachers union, released a plan that called for student achievement to count for 40 percent of a teacher's score.

NPE is a national group dedicated to fighting for local public education, and was founded just a few years ago by education luminaries like historian Diane Ravitch and teacher / writer Anthony Cody.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

With few employees and a strong cadre of community volunteers spearheading a grassroots effort to secure funding and build our mission, our small group of social workers and educators worked largely on a local level in the Puget Sound region.

That's the group so right - wing that real California Democrats sent the local chapter a cease - and - desist order to stop using the term Democrat (a report I shared a few weeks ago).