Sentences with phrase «for local contests»

It is very crowded on the weekend and is the place for local contests.

Not exact matches

We do a little bit of everything from a gingerbread house contest to Hanukkah cookies to decorating the office tree and bringing in presents for the local Toys for Tots drive.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

As the New York Times reports, the contest will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to help them build city - related apps for the web and smart phones.

But be on the lookout for ways to insert yourself into press mentions, hold contests and giveaways, sponsor events in your area, support local charities, blow something up, disagree with an industry demigod, anything.

The Calgary - Montrose Tories had been involved a prolonged legal dispute with the provincial PC Party, in which the local Tories were suing the PC Party for more that $ 180,000 in legal fees amassed during a botched nomination contest held before to the 2004 election.

For the first time this year's contest, in which young chefs ages 8 - 12 from across the country create healthy recipes and show off their food know - how, included an emphasis on local and regional foods through MyPlate, MyState.

(Local = where you live, and locally owned, not some big chain) For full details on the contest, click here:

The contest is scheduled to end on July 14th so consumers are encouraged to visit Facebook.com/Vidaliaonions.org for a chance to win and give back to the local community.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservation.»

«What we think is wrong is to disadvantage the local player — we weren't looking for a free kick but the same rights as other bidders to contest the offers,» he said.

Exciting programs for wine - lovers include CRUSH Wine & Culinary Showcase; Crush on Temecula Valley Wines, in partnership with local restaurants throughout Temecula Valley; a Wine Country video contest; a Wine Country social media challenge; SIP Temecula Passports, good for five tasting flights at participating wineries; and live events and entertainment happening in September throughout Wine Country.

From waterfront docks to handheld forks, the Key Largo Stone Crab & Seafood Festival, set for Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 25 - 26, offers fresh local seafood, live musical entertainment, cooking demonstrations, contests and kids» fun.

Sierra Foothill League (SFL) golf was hotly contested all season long with the Granite Bay Grizzlies and Del Oro Golden Eagles battling it out for league supremacy and to leave their mark on the local golf scene.

That contest was played at Bonney Field, home field for local USL Pro League franchise Sacramento Republic FC, and illustrated the strength and depth of Jesuit's roster this season.

Like us on Facebook for the latest content from our bloggers, contests, chats with local parenting experts and our popular parenting dilemma discussion every Friday night.

She is an ambitious mom who recently wrote her first screenplay for a project in a screenwriting class at the local college and, on a whim, submitted it to a writing contest.

In other local sports news, Deerfield junior sharpshooter Eric Porter hit eight out of 15 shots but fell short of qualifying for the Illinois High School Association's 3 - point shooting contest last Thursday at Carver Arena in Peoria.

school food reform initiatives, including «Chefs Move to Schools,» a campaign to encourage chefs to adopt their local schools for cooking demonstrations and nutrition advice, and a school food recipe contest for kids.

If your local area isn't listed hit close for national contests, recipes, blogs and great parenting information.

-- A search function that allows users to look for and keep tabs on their local races, including contests for Congress, the U.S. Senate and statewide referenda.

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

Mandatory reselection replacing existing trigger ballots, sitting MPs currently forced to go up against challengers only if a local party votes for a contest, would threaten existing union - backed figures so Momentum's free - for - all enthusiasm isn't widely shared by the industrial brothers and sisters.

The impasse remains, resulting in the New York's unusual and costly arrangement of holding two party primaries, one mandated by a federal court for U.S. Senate and House party contests in June; state and local primaries still held in September.

A proportion of seats in 106 other local authorities were also being contested, not to mention five local mayoralities and the new metro mayor for the Sheffield City Region combined authority.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

But just as predictions for the national election proved wide of the mark, so did those for the 9,500 local contests.

The real test of the WFP approach — honed since its founding in 1998 and facilitated by hard work in hundreds of contests for local and state office — will be whether Cuomo delivers, which won't really be clear until his second term is under way.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

Holding the hard to win third spot on Labor's Senate ticket, Feeney put his hand up as candidate for Batman when Martin Ferguson announced his intention to retire, winning pre-selection in a contested local ballot.

Local Borders councillor Michelle Ballantyne contests the constituency for the Conservatives.

His seat is being contested for Labour by local councillor Lesley Hinds.

Our correspondent gathered that the son of Alao Akala, Olamijuwonlo is contesting for chairmanship position in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area under APC platform.

At Tuesday night's Town Board meeting, Southold's tree committee announced the winners of its annual Arbor Day poster contest, for which local students design and draw posters and fliers promoting conservation.

«For instance, somebody who never contested any election and some even unknown to the party suddenly became ward chairmen in wards four, six, two and seven of the Ondo East Local Government.

The governor has also pointed to the proliferation of local governments and taxing districts as a reason for the amount collected in taxes, a claim that financial experts contest.

On the Plateau local government elections slated for Feb. 17, 2017, Sango said that the PDP was ready to «contest and win every seat».

Just over one - third of this year's leadership electorate recall voting in the 2010 contest; we have weighted our raw data for this group to reflect David Miliband's lead among local party members.

However, they will only be allowed to contest for public posts at the local government and ward levels.

That's still a respectable number for a local congressional contest, but Rangel is facing at least two primary challenges, from state lawmaker Adam Clayton Powell IV and former Rangel aide Vincent Morgan.

In May 2016, the devolved and local elections will provide the first major test of his leadership and it is crucial for Project Corbyn that the party performs well in the big mayoral contests in London, Bristol and Liverpool.

It certainly didn't stop Farage contesting the Buckingham constituency in 2010, with a performance more memorable for his strategy of visiting every pub there and for his polling day plane crash than for its electoral outcome (third behind commons speaker John Bercow and a local independent candidate).

Ikoiwak explained that no fewer than 100 candidates were contesting for the chairmanship positions in the 31 local government councils while 800 candidates were for the 329 councillorship seats.

The quiet three - way contest for Erie County DA — the premier local contest of the 2016 Democratic primary — suddenly sports a new tone.

C) Cause mayhem and disorder with your new boys; of course the idea is to make cash... and lots of it.c) You are now loaded, move through your ward, local and state government to get a stake and make sure one of those hiding in «villa» of course is on your back in case of civil implications.d) Source for ugly information from anybody who might contest against, whether he is from same party or not.Now your boys on the move.....

For local voters, both major parties as well as major third parties will all have contested races.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

* A certain threshold of voters would have to be reached to ensure there was a significant local demand for such a contest.

Some local Conservatives are calling for Thursday's open primary contest against Mike Greene to be delayed.

The UK Independence party, which has historically put in a lacklustre performance in local elections, has been averaging 13 % of the vote in the seats it contested — five points higher than a year ago — making 2012 a record year for Nigel Farage's Eurosceptics.