Sentences with phrase «local community hall»

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Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

International Hall of Fame business speaker, trainer, and bestselling business author Michael Kerr shares how one restaurant serves up the fun and connects with their customers, plus a great fun at work tip that helps companies give back to the local community, a quote of the week from Sir Richard Branson, and some wacky food truck names that are hilariously punny.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

Several years ago, when I was asked to speak on the liberation of the poor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, several hundred persons from local base communities entered the lecture hall early and filled up all the seats.

The Acer Nethercott Sport Hall will be the first building in the redevelopment of the University's Iffley Road Sports Complex, a # 60 million project that will increase available space for the more than 80 University sports clubs and members of the local community.

Also at 10 a.m., Deputy Secretary of State for Local Government, Dede Scozzafava delivers a regional version of the 2015 Opportunity Agenda, Malone Campus North Country Community College, Reshetkina Hall,, Mezzanine (2nd floor), 75 William St., Malone.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, joined by a coalition of local and state elected officials, community leaders, organizers, activists and supporters, makes his LG run official, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Sen. Diane Savino, Assemblyman Francisco Moya, NYC Councilman Ritchie Torres and community, immigrant rights and labor advocates discuss the release of a report about an undercover investigation of local employment agencies; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

Army veteran, local community activist and our own editor - in - chief here at the Chronicle Sal Conforto was inducted by Senator Jeff Klein into the New York State Veteran's Hall of Fame.

QUEENS, NY — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Stop & Shop, with help from students of I.S. 93Q, today unloaded 1,000 Easter hams off an 18 - wheeler in front of Borough Hall, donated in time for preparations for the upcoming holiday to five local Queens organizations: Catholic Charities Queens North Community Center of Astoria, Chinese - American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center of Flushing, Hour Children of Long Island City, Korean Community Services Senior Centers of Corona and Flushing, and Queensbridge / Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Senior Center of Long Island City.

City Council member Diana Reyna, joined by a local community group, claimed in a press conference at City Hall today that two new residential...

Over 100 HIV / AIDS activists, community leaders, and elected officials gathered outside City Hall this past Thurs., Jun. 18th to call for New York City to allocate $ 10 million for local HIV prevention and treatment programs that will advance New York State's Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2020.

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From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., NYC Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez and Teamsters Local 237 President Gregory Floyd, Community Service Society of New York President and CEO David R. Jones and Thompson participate in a rally to protest reductions in federal funding for NYCHA; City Hall Park, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., Nilda Mesa, director of de Blasio's Office of Sustainability, community groups, local leaders and national organizations thank de Blasio for his 2015 commitment to power 100 percent of city government operations with renewable energy, and deliver a letter urging him to make offshore wind a significant part of achieving that goal, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Joh Katko and the Committee on Homeland Security will host a Security Symposium for Central New York defense organizations, law enforcement, and local national security and counterterrorism stakeholders at Onondaga Community College, outside of Storer Auditorium, located in Ferrante Hall, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse.

«Everyone is stepping up, from the state, to local elected officials, to the business community, and it's time for City Hall to do their share in funding half this needed rescue plan,» Tarek added.

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On Tues., July 24th, Transit Workers» Union Local 100, together with transit riders, elected officials and community advocates, gathered on City Hall's steps to announce the launch of the «Bring Back Our Buses and Subways» campaign and called on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to restore all transit services cut in 2010.

On Tues., July 24th, New York City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, together with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat, was joined by city agencies New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD), the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), and local non-profit the Community League of the Heights (CLOTH) at a town hall meeting to address concerns of tenants in foreclosed Vantage Property buildings.

Before the town hall, Cruz met with some local Republican elected officials and community leaders at the Hyatt Place Hotel in Amherst.

At 9:45 a.m., the Council Committee on Public safety holds a public hearing on a measure to require the mayor to appoint a department to oversee the coordination of efforts to address quality of life issues in local communities, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

You should lay the groundwork first — dozens and dozens of town hall meetings and budget forums where you're in local communities with the local legislators and it percolates up to Albany It percolates up to the three men in the room from the people up.»

In Sirico's catering hall in the neighborhood of Dyker Heights, retired corrections officer and community activist Pam Harris managed to beat out Mr. Brook - Krasny's former chief - of - staff Kate Cucco in support from members of the local Democratic county committee — the panel of elected party insiders charged with picking a candidate in a special election.

Following a letter from local elected officials last week urging NYC DOT to address the ongoing traffic problem in our neighborhood, Grand Street Democrats District Leaders and other community leaders involved in January's Traffic Town Hall have sent their own letter to DOT Commissioner Trottenberg asking for the release of traffic study data that was promised in 2017 and for the development of a strategy to address the traffic.

Recently, a mailer went out from NYS Senator Tony Avella's office inviting the community to attend a Town Hall Meeting hosted by Senator Tony Avella and co-hosted by local civic associations.

Town Hall meetings are a decentralised means of giving members and leaders of the various communities the opportunity to get together and discuss progress and emerging issues of both the central and local government.

Since none of the local proposals are inside the city or county, Albany is not in line for any monetary benefits casinos would pay host communities, although it well could suffer from the negative aspects gambling halls bring to municipalities.

It was never about producing a game - changing moment but continuing to build the momentum that will energise the grass roots into taking the argument these next few months to community halls, local gatherings and doorsteps around the country.

Spokesman Ethan Geto said Avery Hall Investments was aware of local concerns about the supermarket and housing affordability, and «has been working in good faith to amend its plans so as to accommodate these and other community concerns to the extent possible while maintaining the viability of the project.»

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

The event took place in a small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for federal housing money and on behalf of small businesses.

We thank Abdi Naficy and Lee Hall of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for support and advice; Guindo Mariam Traore and Boubacar Kouyate for serving as Local Medical Monitors; the study monitors, Norbert Tamm and Denise McKinney; Mirjana Nesin and members of the Data Safety Monitoring Board; Mahamadou Traore, Bourama Kane, and Mamadou Dembélé for clinical assistance; Danzele Coulibaly and Moctar Traore for administrative support; the chief medical officer of the Bandiagara District Hospital Mahamadou Cisse for technical support; Nicole Eddington and Lisa Ware for technical and administrative support; Karen Ball for regulatory support; the team of the Bandiagara Malaria Project in Bandiagara for their dedication; and the community of Bandiagara, Mali.

This funding level increase is especially noteworthy following President Trump's proposal to eliminate the program in both the FY2018 and FY2019 budget proposals, which drove friends of afterschool to reach out to Congress with more than 103,000 calls and emails since January 2017, energized supporters to turn out at town halls in their communities, and prompted more than 600 local, state, and national organizations to sign a letter in support of Community Learning Centers sent to Congress last week.

As government - designated evacuation centers were overwhelmed with evacuees, traditional institutions, such as desa pekraman (customary village) and banjar (traditional neighborhood organizations), in Klungkung, Karangasem, Gianyar and Bangli have opened their temples and community halls and organized public kitchens run by the local women's associations.

Balinese society is based around the Pura, or temple, which is the core of religious, civil, family and social life with the Banjar (local meeting hall) being the cohesive center of each community, much as it has been for thousands of years.

This month's Project Space exhibition presents the work which was produced by children from four local schools; Water Hall Primary School, Bletchley, Langland Community School, Netherfield, Yardley Gobion C.E. Primary, Towcester and Ashton C.E. Primary School, Ashton.

Photos from left: Pratt alumna Shannon South of reMade USA at work at Pratt's Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, which has helped launch 25 businesses since its 2002 inception, and Pratt Institute's LEED - gold certified building, Myrtle Hall, which is an example of Pratt's commitment to the revitalization of the local community.

Artists collected by Guild Hall must have ties to the local community in accordance with the museum's mission: to foster and support art and artists in the East Hampton area.

In Belfast, Bob and Roberta Smith (actually a single acclaimed contemporary artist called Patrick Brill) is working with dozens of community groups and local artists, each making one letter of his text, which will be brought together and lit by thousands of candles outside the city hall, spelling out his words: «What unites human beings is huge and wonderful.

Venues include shopfronts, vacant lots, the scout hall, local museum, community centre, golf course, people's yards, rural properties and public parks.

Guild Hall opened to the public in 1931 as a meeting place for the local community and a venue for the visual and performing arts.

A task force of over 30 arts leaders developed a 13 actionable strategies — taking into consideration data from a survey conducted across local arts organizations and input from 650 community members who attended town hall meetings organized by the Arts Commission around the issues of cultural inclusion and equity in the arts — that were incorporated into a report presented to the supervisors.

Also, during November, in keeping with Grizedale's ongoing community engagement, a mini meeting house will be specially erected in front of Abbott Hall where shamanic prankster Marcus Coates will lead a series of encounters with local movers and shakers, ranging from stalker - hunters through to waiters.

Post EcoChallenge, CCNCW aims to host a town hall meeting around climate change to continue engaging the community in proactively working towards local solutions and adaptations.

You might run into me and my family in the community, attending local events like the Fire Hall and Police Station Open House or Storytime at Semiahmoo Mall, walking along the beach or through the trails, or at the local shops, libraries, parks and children's activity centres.

In the community, Raj has volunteered at a local Legal Aid office, and formerly sat on the Board of Directors for Rosalie Hall Centre for Young Parents.

A literature review by the Chapin Hall to provide states and local communities useful guidelines for selecting specific interventions and, more importantly, building an infrastructure to support high quality implementation.

-- schools, local councils, churches and other non-profit or benevolent community organisations, associations and groups which have occasion to display the flag from flag poles on their premises, or which display the flag on special public occasions, or in halls or meeting rooms; — community organisations, Australian exchange students and humanitarian aid workers undertaking official visits or duties overseas; and — a family member, or an ex-service organisation representative, for use at the funeral of an Australian war veteran; and — a limited number are available to private individuals each financial year.