Sentences with phrase «small town i work»

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When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.

«An unforgettable cast of small - town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by number one bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout,» explains Amazon.

He previously worked as a small - town district commissioner, a combination between a police chief and a prosecutor.

It took a year of big town hall meetings, small working sessions, and internal conversations on Workplace by Facebook to find the answer.

The locals saw us doing this and started coming to us with all kinds of electricity issues, work issues, transportation issues — I spent the majority of my first deployment acting essentially as the mayor of a small town.

Chouinard, 76, still comes into work when he's in town, and his beat - up wooden desk is across a small room from Marcario's.

David's «Made in America» series has become a hallmark of World News, showing just how impactful our work can be as he champions small town triumphs and companies creating jobs.

The goal of the presentation is to provide audience members with information that will inspire them and encourage them to return to their own town or city and work to increase engagement of underrepresented segments of their community in entrepreneurism and small business growth.

Drivers say the current rules benefit ride - hailing service Uber or NCCs - cars rented with a driver - because unlike taxis they can purchase licenses in smaller towns, where they cost less, but use them to work in cities.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

You must live in a small town if you are considering changing where you live and where you work to get away from this church.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

To readers of Gilead and Home, the earlier of Robinson's works focusing on the small Iowa town, Lila will be familiar as the much - younger wife of John Ames, the town's Congregationalist minister (and the narrator of Gilead).

I strongly believe that God has a great work that He desires to do in «small town USA» and the world.

If you live in a small town and know that the people on the street corners are really homeless, your plan should work.

The system I have seen that worked the best was a system where all of the churches in several contiguous mid-size towns rented one small office that served all of the churches in those towns.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

So far the work reminds me of my experience serving on a small town city council in Missouri.

But he was happy to report in 1844 that only a small fraction of the towns used the Bible as a devotional work; the rest used it as a reader.

Small town Midwestern culture is becoming, if not urban, at least suburban, a place where people commute to Des Moines to work at Home Depot rather than walk down the street to run the local hardware store.

In the small town of Katugastota, Ikram Mohamed, a Muslim said Sinhalese Buddhist mobs burned down the textile shop he worked in.

I was interested to know what that has taught a guy who grew up in a modest home during the Great Depression, in a hard - working, small - town community, who himself lived paycheck - to - paycheck for most of his working years.

But circa 2005 I had been working as an apprentice chef in a crappy hotel kitchen in a small tourist town in Scotland.

I have no idea why but when working at a small town library, they would seriously have us take a tea break together for 30 minutes and then the library could resume again.

An adventure mobile, a small town nearby, a trip budget, the ability to work from home (or close), and a quality of life unknown to us now.

We'll soon see if the Chef's Table formula will work its magic a second time around on chefs like Ana Roš, whose Slovenian restaurant Hiša Franko is located in a small town that doesn't have any produce shops, because all its residents cook with ingredients from their own gardens.

This book is super cozy — probably because it takes place in a small town in Vermont, and because the protagonist has a dog named Salty, and because she's a baker who spends her days working at an inn.

Travel with us to beautiful Kokernot Field, a gem of a place where time has stopped and small - town baseball has been elevated into a work of fine art

The former Ispwich Town star, who signed for the Hammers last summer, has been a bit hit at Upton Park so far this season — thanks in no small part to his tireless work - rate.

We have found since we started that a smaller number of teams works best for us in keeping that small town feel in a huge volleyball environment.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

Lackey is 35 years old, and his most recent residence was Williamson, W. Va., a small coal - mining town, where he worked for the Federal Government on a disaster - relief team.

I'm active in PTA, shuttle our two daughters and their friends around town, play on a community softball team, go to a gym twice a week, and work Wednesdays in a small sports equipment store.

I think that the small town atmosphere lends itself to some great opportunities for getting to know people and working together to benefit everyone.

Alyssa: We live and work in a very small town.

I was fortunate to find a doctor in my small town who would work with my desires and who delivered babies in a birthing center at the small, local hospital.

I bought it for a weekend trip out of town It worked great the only complaint I have is It was a little too small on the actual toilet seat.

«New York, L.A., and Miami have more opportunities than a small town in Georgia, but an agent can't guarantee anyone work.»

I work from my home in a small market town in Somerset, tucked away in an upstairs room that overlooks our garden, where I can look out the window and hear the birds singing all day.

Small towns just bite sometimes.I wish could just pull about another 4 - 6 hours out of every day so I would be able to do more work from home, exercise more to lose this baby weight, and have some time to do something creative.

Currently she works in finance and administration in small business in her home town of Kalgoorlie WA.

I work in a small town, so the number of refugees we see is manageable, not the massive arrival of groups like it is in the capital or other major cities.

Born in 1922 in a small Galician town, he was the son of Spanish immigrants who had spent a year working in Cuba.

«The Town Board's recommendations, if enacted, will not only put hardworking pilots out of work,» Mr. Riegelhaupt's statement continued,» but will also have a dramatic and harmful impact on all of the local small business that rely on a strong real estate market and summer visitors.»

Saying that he is a «big believer in committees,» Zatz encouraged the reconstituted Town Board to be proactive about breaking itself down into smaller working groups to address specific tasks as needed, and also urged its members old and new not to get bogged down in endless rehashing of issues when consensus is not possible.

If the Secretary of State relocated most of the work to Wellingborough, he would work in a friendly and pleasant town, save a small fortune in accommodation costs, yet would be only 50 minutes away from London.

It is in working - class small - town Britain that Labour faces its greatest challenge.

«Yes, a contractor who has worked and continues to work in Bayelsa State and other parts of Nigeria thought it fit, in fulfillment of its Corporate Social Responsibility, to facilitate the renovation of the small church in the President's home town of Otuoke.

Our smaller cities and towns are taking an active role in their revitalization, utilizing historic buildings, waterfronts and green spaces to create places where people want to come live, work and play.»

Handy calls Davis a small town that really works.