Sentences with phrase «rural residents on»

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«With today's approval, the Legislature has provided critical funding for the Rural Outreach Center, which works on a tight budget to help as many rural residents as possRural Outreach Center, which works on a tight budget to help as many rural residents as possrural residents as possible.

A majority of the residents who addressed the Lancaster Town Board trustees lived on Peppermint Road, a rural neighborhood in northeastern Lancaster that is home to horse barns,...

The Erie County Health Mall and regular county funding for Meals on Wheels and Rural Transit Services are a few ways that Erie county government provides for underserved residents every day.

And in recent days, Mr. Flanagan has shown flashes of political sophistication in his own party, working outward from his base on Long Island — where nine Republican state senators, including Mr. Skelos, live — while reassuring more conservative upstate Republicans on issues like the Safe Act, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, which he supported but many rural residents abhor.

«Any proposal should be premised on a principle of fairness to all New Yorkers, city residents, suburbanites and rural residents alike.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

► In a 2012 feature focused on research and careers in rural northern Brazil, we profiled Miguel Nicolelis and mentioned the big neuroscience lab he was building on a hilly site in the outskirts of Natal, a city in Brazil's northeast with about 1 million residents.

In some cases, it has also meant ditching planned improvements and falling back on tried - and - true methods, including a method of first contacting millions of residents in rural and remote areas that Census officials had hoped to replace with a more efficient approach.

Beyond that, the negative impact on soil, coupled with the toxic runoff to water supplies in largely rural impoverished communities causes even more health problems for innocent residents.

Robinson is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on education policy issues including choice in public and private schools, regulatory development and implementation of K - 12 laws, the role of for - profit institutions in education, prison education and reentry, rural education, and the role of community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in adult advancement.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $ 5 million in competitive grant funds to enhance public transit service for American Indians, Alaska natives and other residents on rural tribal lands.

Residents of the rural West, many of the queens Burbick interviewed for the book are skilled ranchhands who were raised on horseback, capable of breaking horses and branding beeves women who have witnessed the waning of farm life.

Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library — Hoopa, CA Year: 2007 Amount: $ 10,000 Grant: National Award for Library Service As California's only joint county - tribal library on an Indian reservation, the Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library has become a center for the rural community of Hoopa Valley, connecting thousands of residents of all ages with Native American reading materials, computer access and the prospect of a better life through literacy.

Stopping Pet Overpopulation Together (SPOT), a program of the Southern Hope Humane Society, has a mission to reduce the number of animals impounded and killed in Atlanta area animal control facilities by: funding and providing low to no cost spay / neuters for pets of disadvantaged residents of the metro area (targeted geographical areas for spay / neuter programs include the metro Atlanta area and rural communities with no low - cost spay / neuter resources); providing community education / counseling services to individuals regarding the effects of pet overpopulation on the community, the benefits of spay / neuter, tenets of responsible pet guardianship and the importance of pet identification; promoting companion animal adoption.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and resident in São Paulo since the 1990s, her works have been shaped by the influences of the urban metropolises on the rural environment.

At stake is India's ability to bring electricity to 400 million rural residents — a third of the population — as well as keep the lights on at corporate office towers and provide enough fuel for 1.5 million new vehicles added to the roads each month.

Traditional Mountaintop Cisterns Sabrina Faber, a longtime resident of Yemen, noticed while trekking in the countryside that rural residents still employed a traditional way of coping with the country's frequent water shortages: collecting rainwater on mountaintop cisterns.

In a dramatic win for residents» groups who have raised widespread concerns about the impact of wind farms on rural communities, the committee recommended that noise measurements be expanded to include low - frequency noise, or infrasound.

Wind - powered community microgrids are providing both electricity and heat to four small rural communities in Alaska, cutting residents» fuel bills and reducing dependence on diesel fuel.

As a Toronto urbanite who grew up on a farm in rural Ontario, and who identifies with both city and country life, I recently became aware of a battle that rural residents of Ontario have been waging for five years, namely against the scourge of towering industrial wind factories that have been forced on -LSB-...]

The decision is far - reaching as it indicates not only the lengths to which wind power companies will go to intimidate residents opposed to the huge power projects in their small rural communities, it also puts a «chill» on participation in research studies, if confidentiality can not be assured.

It's on the ground, in partnership with SaskPower and in collaboration with the residents of Saskatchewan's rural municipalities, that these projects will move forward and Saskatchewan's goal of having wind energy make up 30 per cent of the province's generating capacity will be met.

Many Nevada residents are excited about the new increased speed limit, as it will reduce the time it takes them to travel through rural parts of the state on the way to or from Las Vegas.

The impact of these services on access to justice is significant for residents of rural Canada and will likely become even more important as providers of legal information and legal services seek new ways to serve rural communities that are increasingly losing lawyers in their communities to retirement.

Among rural residents, forty - four percent said they feel safe using a cell phone on a rural highway versus fourteen percent who feel safe using a cell phone on an urban freeway.

Among rural residents, sixty - nine percent felt relaxed on rural highways versus just thirteen percent who felt relaxed on urban freeways.

I am currently a Reserve firefighter for the City of Oakdale and I have volunteered my time for numerous programs including Team - up Against Graffiti where I helped remove graffiti on both public and private property, I mapped out all of the hydrants in the city of Oakdale including the surrounding rural areas with a hand held GPS device for the Oakdale City Fire Department and Oakdale Rural Fire Department, and I was involved in the Weed Abatement program where I identified problem properties, contacted residents, followed up on compliance, entered data onto spreadsheets, and filed all documentarural areas with a hand held GPS device for the Oakdale City Fire Department and Oakdale Rural Fire Department, and I was involved in the Weed Abatement program where I identified problem properties, contacted residents, followed up on compliance, entered data onto spreadsheets, and filed all documentaRural Fire Department, and I was involved in the Weed Abatement program where I identified problem properties, contacted residents, followed up on compliance, entered data onto spreadsheets, and filed all documentation.

On average, males and urban residents show slightly better subjective well - being scores than their female and rural counterparts.

A cross-sectional comparison study on the iodine nutritional status between rural and urban residents in Zhejiang Province, China

-- Focusing on workforce incentives to attract and retain valuable health professionals in rural and remote areas would pay for itself through increased productivity and economic growth, driven by healthier rural and remote residents.

When Thornton tried to remove the parcel from the ALR in the late 1990s, residents in what is primarily a rural farm area heard of the development plans and the fight was on.