Sentences with phrase «other neighborhoods who»

It upset her to think that these perfectly good toys were being thrown away when at the same time there were so many kids in the same and other neighborhoods who couldn't afford to have toys.

Not exact matches

«I absolutely look at what I call the neighborhood when I'm investing in a stock, to see what other kinds of investors are in there,» says Whitney George, who manages the Sprott Focus Trust, «so you don't end up sitting in a very crowded movie theater when a fire breaks out.»

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.

The one that you rode around the neighborhood on, looking down on all of the others who were still riding tricycles and big wheels.

To have a politics of attention, they suggest, we need people who can attend to the concrete needs of families and neighborhoods, of schools, museums, and other forms of cultural life.

And I can tell you as someone who lives in a neighborhood that is Orthodox Jewish you can not mistake their clothing for anything other than clothing.

There is a confidence — from those who have been delivered from drug addiction to those who grew up in the county with our proverbial silver spoons — that the present reality and its attendant despair will not always define our neighborhood, and that as we trust in Christ individually, that transformation radiates outwards in service and love to others.

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.

Some are unknown, such as the Jewish drycleaner from his neighborhood, a former nun now living as a man, and a young man he ministered to who later shot himself, and others are more famous, like Venerable Solanus Casey, Mother Angelica, Cardinals Cooke and O'Connor, and Frank and Maisie Ward.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

If you have money you want to put to use to help others in need, you would be better off (as would the people who need the help) to put it to use in your own town, your own neighborhood, and your own city.

Before you head overseas to be a father to children in other parts of the world, look around your neighborhood and community today to find who needs a father.

Helping our neighbors, be they those who live nearby or those we know from other neighborhoods, can become second nature.

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

Let's ask the numerous children and now adults who were molested by your neighborhood Priest or other people who work in Churches.

For the 100 - plus people who came to show their support in person back in 2013, and many other Mueller residents, being able to walk or bike to Kerbey Lane in their neighborhood is going to be a dream come true,» Sokolic says.

Researchers looked at data from 549 healthy adolescents between the ages of 12 and 16 in Baltimore, Md., and Seattle, Wash., who wore accelerometer and global positioning system trackers during waking hours at home, at school, in their neighborhoods and other locations.

Relief workers who help in Latino neighborhoods say many of their intended recipients are undocumented immigrants, who worry that applying to food banks or other seemingly official institutions might result in deportation.

Angel Cregan, who has spent countless hours chauffeuring her son and other neighborhood children to private skate facilities in Orland Park, Mundelein and Rockford, was told that Ald.

I've heard of several other kids who stopped nursing down of their own accord somewhere in the 10 -12-month neighborhood, but I'm wondering if this is common.

Get in touch with other parents in the neighborhood who will be schlepping their kids to the same places as you will.

Chicago taxpayers are likely on the hook to pay a $ 1.5 million settlement to a bicyclist who suffered brain damage and other injuries that left him with quadriplegia when he crashed into a barricade guarding a sunken catch basin in a late - night accident in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

Though basketball has been a centerpiece of some anti-gang efforts in some neighborhoods, the Park District has been pressured to take down hoops by neighbors in other areas who believe they attract gangs and crime.

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.

Clinton only received 33 percent of the vote from the sample, which targeted voters who live in specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and a few other locations around the state including the Bronx, Albany and the Hudson Valley.

The program, Tejada says, educated middle - class whites, who have been priced out of other neighborhoods, to the question of illegal rent increases.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

«There are others who practice a politics of the moment, who are heroic in election years, but not engaged in the day - to - day fight to save our neighborhoods when their names aren't on the ballot,» he said, presumably a shot at Thompson.

And in what appeared to be a critique of Bill Thompson, who re-emerged recently after running for mayor four years ago, de Blasio said there were others candidates «who practice a politics of the moment, who are heroic in election years but not engaged in the day to day fight to save our neighborhoods when their names aren't on the ballot.»

The speaker took heat for his position from local leaders and housing advocates who accused him of opposing affordable housing to preserve his voter base in the largely Jewish neighborhood by keeping out other groups.

The following day, led by community organizer Yetta Kurland and others, over 100 volunteers transported the materials to community organizer Jacques Leandre who then distributed the goods to desperately underserved areas in the Far Rockaway section of Queens — neighborhoods that still had no electricity and very limited access to resources.

«I think it's a big problem, of course, and it's a big problem for (the minority community),» said Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, an African - American Democrat who has represented Bedford - Stuyvesant and other Brooklyn neighborhoods since 1985.

But Gersteman, who also does other volunteering work in the community, said she hopes she can serve as a voice for other newcomers to the neighborhood, and tackle quality - of - life concerns.

City officials contend that the 75 other SURA employees — who work in the departments of law, neighborhood and business development, or planning and sustainability — are dedicated to urban renewal work.

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.

From mayoral races to state legislative campaigns, teenagers and others who are too young to vote are canvassing neighborhoods and learning the intricacies of electoral politics.

Two incumbent city councilmen who represent other portions of the neighborhood are also seeking to defend their seats, as they are being challenged by community activists and political novices.

Colleagues showered praise on Councilman Rafael Espinal, who represents the majority of the area slated for rezoning, saying he set an «historic» model and a «very high bar» for other neighborhoods with the capital funding commitments secured for his community.

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.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

I support the Long Island City Artists, Merchants, Queens Community Board 2, Long Island City Partnership and other community leaders and residents who are advocating for the neighborhood and I am very disappointed that the MTA has not been able to provide a better response.»

«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.

Syracuse, NY - KyArie Rolon, 12, watched in his front yard on Marcellus Street as his mom, a paramedic, told her story about buying her first home last fall in a neighborhood she hopes will fill up with others who look out for each other.

Kruger, a powerful Democrat who represented a district comprising Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and surrounding neighborhoods, was indicted in March 2011 — alongside Boyland Jr. and six other defendants — on federal bribery charges.

«You are never too young to contribute to your neighborhood and to your community,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «We need more young people like the Bronx Youth Corps student volunteers, students who want to be engaged in the world around them and who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

Schroeder announced a plan to introduce more police officers in city neighborhoods — who would be dedicated to community policing, an effort that he said would see police officers and residents more engaged with each other, to make neighborhoods safer.

The difference was significant: For every new ex-con who moved into a neighborhood of 1000 people, the reincarceration rate for other new parolees living there went up by 11 %, Kirk reports online this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

Dr. Brookfield and her colleagues studied Florida women with invasive cervical cancer and found that white or Hispanic women lived longer than African - Americans (who tended to be diagnosed later than other women), as did those with health insurance or who lived in wealthier neighborhoods.

[neighborhood summary] who:: Anyone from you, yourself, + I, to a romantic walk along the water with a sig - other, to a big group of friends.