Sentences with phrase «give other neighborhoods»

«Let's give other neighborhoods a chance.»

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You can also go analog here and make Small Business Saturday an event in your neighborhood by hanging balloons, giving away treats and pointing customers to other businesses they might like.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Instead of waiting for others to welcome us to the neighborhood, we thought we might bake cookies (well, she would do the baking, wouldn't want to poison the neighbors), and drop by each of our neighbor's homes and give them «we're new in the neighborhood» cookies.

Not only did it give me the opportunity to meet other mommies in the neighborhood, I learned a lot from guest speakers who were very knowledgeable in their field.

Eric Stevenson, a first - term state senator representing East Tremont and other neighborhoods in the south Bronx, said he'd planned to give his expected $ 100,000 in member item money to local tutoring and after - school programs and a cash - strapped little league, some of the same organizations that his predecessor, Michael Benjamin, had funded over the years.

In some other parts of the country — Washington, D.C. — for one, residents of a particular neighborhood purchase a parking sticker that gives them priority for parking places close to their 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 see.

AdultHookups is a really popular dating site in my neighborhood and other circles, so I decided to give it a shot and so far there isn't anything I would change about it.

When asked if others who did not have the same opportunities as her could live in her neighborhood, she says: «The problem with that is I hear a lot of the unfair of: «Oh we haven't been given this or that, or we haven't been afforded things you have been afforded.»

Twenty years ago state legislators began to approve charter schools in order to give families public school options other than their district or neighborhood schools.

Tools like Google Earth will give students a street - level look at each other's neighborhoods.

Take away the hyperbole and inaccuracies, what Randi Weingarten and Jonah Edelman truly oppose is giving parents, especially low - income parents, the ability to choose something other than their neighborhood traditional public school.

While other factors — families, peers, neighborhoods — are obviously elements in a student's learning, it is the school and particularly the teachers and administrators that are given the public responsibility for the education of our youth.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

Families in the Anderson area, an urban neighborhood of Reno, Nevada, were given the choice to transfer their children to other schools, and the school would soon be forced to provide supplemental tutoring.

Given the choice of commuting a long way to a high - performing school on the other side of town and transferring to a school in the neighborhood, low - income parents tend to choose the latter.

«In 2010, when 61 percent of parents at McKinley Elementary School in the blighted L.A. neighborhood of Compton opted to pull the trigger, the CTA claimed that «parents were never given the full picture... [or] informed of the great progress already being made» — despite the fact that McKinley's performance was ranked beneath nearly all other inner - city schools in the state.

Often, DeVos will skirt the main point of a query and lead the conversation to her favorite education topic, giving parents choices other than their neighborhood traditional public school.

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.

As I drove through the luscious neighborhoods, I noted other drivers giving me the right - of - away at all - way stop signs even when it was evidently theirs.

However, other neighborhoods gave birth to their own gangs using popular sporting team images as their official colors and name.

Any information you have about the community or your home in relation to others in the neighborhood, such as the fact that your home has been built on the largest lot, should be given in writing to the appraiser.

It is essential to give your dog shower regularly if it spends a lot of time playing with other dogs from the neighborhood.

- loaning traps - offering easy - to - follow trapping instructions - providing below - cost and sometimes free spays / neuters / vaccines for community cats at our LifeLine Spay & Neuter Clinics - educating the public about community cats - advising how to affectively manage cat colonies - offering solutions to help mediate neighbor complaints - supporting trappers throughout trapping process and the throughout the life of the colony - helping connect people with others interested in helping community cats in their area and fostering the growth of grassroots efforts in neighborhoods throughout the 20 county metro area - giving referrals for community cat resources throughout the metro area

So, this year, your resolutions could include feeding yourself and your pets more fresh produce, briskly walking around the neighborhood three times a week, taking some leisurely strolls for fun and socialization and remembering on a daily basis all that you and your pets give to each other.

The quality and values are tops — a recent ranking confirmed once again by critics like the Zagat Survey whose readers repeatedly give «Best Buy» status to more Arthur Avenue shops than any other neighborhood in New York City.

Once you are done giving a group of young disrespectful punks a lesson in humility and liberating their funds and other items, you can head over to the local Internet cafe and chat it up online, join an intense, action - packed game of baseball at the local park or head on over to the neighborhood bar and grab a drink between songs in karaoke or rounds of darts.

After much debate and feedback from artists, we feel that holding GOS to coincide with The Other Art Fair will give us even more of an opportunity to present our work to an audience of art buyers and enthusiasts that will be in the neighborhood during this time.

Some of it has happened sort of independently of what the lawyers have actually been doing, and more having to do with how Google's getting smarter, and when we talk about specifically in local search, that's definitely played a big role, that Google has evolved to give much more localized and personalized results than they used to, and that's caused the effect of people in your local area being able to find local lawyers, as opposed to if you wrote about a consumer law post and somebody on the other side of the country finds it, now you're going to see Google serving results for consumer lawyers that are in the neighborhood, around the corner.

On the other hand, if your neighborhood has low crime rates, you are not likely to have to make a claim for a stolen car, so your insurance company may be willing to give you a lower rate.

The table below displays the three cheapest auto insurance companies in various St. Pete neighborhoods based on our example driver, along with the annual rate quoted given his driving background and other profile characteristics.

This study of auto insurance premiums in Salt Lake City is intended to give drivers an idea of how rates in their area compare to other neighborhoods.

They may also be happy to give you a digital link where you can send this information to others who don't live in the immediate La Grange neighborhood, but rather another portion of Texas.

I believe with all of my being that it gives hope to my community and can help stem the tide of violence in my neighborhood and others.»

In your advertisements and flyers, give specific directions that take prospective buyers past the nearby golf course or other desirable neighborhood landmarks.

First, they give buyers a takeaway that they can later use to reinforce the property's features, what other homes in the neighborhood are worth and who lives there.

The prospects for the townhouses are positive given large numbers of homebuyers looking for medium density residential neighborhoods, such as urban villages that offer walkable environments and other amenities.

We fantasized about the idea of trying to buy an entire city block and then giving away free or very cheap rent to artists and other people who would change the character of the neighborhood, but this would be hard to pull off and it would be a long time before we saw any profit from it.

Home prices in Highland Park hover right around the average price for all homes in Johns Creek, but the location, to the west side of Johns Creek gives homeowners a little easier access to Georgia 400 than many other neighborhoods and that shorter commute.