Sentences with phrase «with shelter directors»

The program is taught by secondary school science teachers in collaboration with shelter directors.

If you don't like the answer, schedule a meeting with the shelter director.

Earlier this week, a video surfaced of animal control officers, along with the shelter director of the Town of Hempstead (NY) clowning around, and joking around while about to «euthanize» a kitten even to the point of chanting «kill the kitty, kill the kitty» as the frightened kitten was pulled from its traveling kennel with a catch pole.

One person could make a difference by working with the shelter director on a marketing program, including low - fee adoption events.

After a fun tour of the sparkling clean little facility, complete with 50 adorable, long - eared, cotton - tailed, and wiggly - nosed residents, I had a chance to sit down with Shelter Director and rabbit aficionado Jennifer McGee, who gave me the low - down on some of the biggest misconceptions about this very misunderstood companion animal.

Not exact matches

«Our priority is to give those in shelters immediate relief with perishable and non-perishable food items and water,» said Heidi Clarke, executive director of the Sandals Foundation, who flew into Turks & Caicos with a team to assess the damage this week.

Diane Doherty, executive director of the Illinois Hunger Coalition, called the decline perplexing and said it wasn't consistent with the number of families who show up at shelters and pantries for emergency food.

With: Josh Ryan - Collins, Associate Director, New Economics Foundation; Toby Lloyd, Policy Director, Shelter; Peter Hetherington; and Beth Stratford, PhD student University of Roehampton and visiting lecturer at University of Masaryk and the Centre for Alternative Technology.

Oneida County Workforce Development Director David Mathis said, «This project will help our Working Solutions System reach out into the community's areas of need, and work with the community agencies and faith - based organizations that are already feeding and sheltering homeless people.

Community Voices Heard (CVH), a member led organization of low - income families with chapters in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers and NYC; Current and former Emergency Shelter clients and homeless Poughkeepsie residents; Rev. Blake Ryder of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie; Brian Riddell, Executive Director of Dutchess Outreach; other social service providers, faith and community leaders.

«With shelters at the breaking point and emergency homeless services on the chopping block, this is not the time to be giving millionaires another tax break,» said Mary Brosnahan, the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

As CountyExecutive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

As County Executive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new shelter, increase adoptions, save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

When the influenza results came back positive NYACC reached out for assistance to Dr. Sandra Newbury, the Director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (UW - SMP), because of her recent work with influenza in dogs and cats in the Midwest.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Jeff Nichols, the talented director of «Shotgun Stories» and «Take Shelter» is back at Cannes with his third film, «MUD.»

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Inevitably, Nichols can't entirely avoid the public face of this injustice, and later scenes with lawyers and the media feel especially perfunctory (Michael Shannon, helping out his old Take Shelter director, has a cameo as a Life photographer).

It's not quite as good as «Take Shelter» but this is a director that has started strongly, backed it up with one of the best film's of 2011 and I believe will continue to go from strength to strength — time will tell with his forthcoming film «Mud» released later in 2012.

TAKE SHELTER director Jeff Nichols» next project is taking shape with a number of familiar faces joining MUD.

He proves why once more in «Take Shelter,» writer - director Jeff Nichols» compelling but discomfiting study of a man struggling to balance his unshakable belief that the end is near with his recognition that he is, in all likelihood, going crazy.

In Take Shelter, writer / director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, also with Michael Shannon) makes that threat — this 21st century fear of losing everything you have — and makes it physical.

Having wowed critics and, to a smaller degree, moviegoers with original stories on Mud, Take Shelter, and Midnight Special, writer - director Jeff Nichols changes gears on Loving, a drama based on a true story.

Mud Year: 2013 Director: Jeff Nichols In 2011, Jeff Nichols turned heads at Sundance with his second film Take Shelter, as did his fast - rising stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon.

In Take Shelter we saw Nichols and Shannon examine the nature of paranoia in a fascinating way, but with an added sci - fi element and a thriller pursuit narrative, Midnight Special opens up a world of possibility for the actor - director team.

The Take Shelter and Mud director reunites with a surging Michael Shannon to tell the story of a father (Shannon) protecting his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), from a government task force and a scary religious sect as they race to a secret location.

Director: Patty Jenkins Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, David Thewlis, Said Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremmer, Lucy Davis with Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen Plot: Diana (Gadot) is a mythical Amazonian, a female warrior race designed to fight war, only Diana discovers that their island shelters them from the biggest war there is.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) continues his clean record of outstanding cinema with another southern tale dense in its display of romantic ideals, youthful ignorance, emotional transference and the wisdom contained in broken adults.

Five years after winning Cannes» Critics Week competition with «Take Shelter,» American director Jeff Nichols is back with a true story of an interracial Virginia couple fighting unjust laws in the 1960s.

Fresh: A clever blending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, ET and The Day the Earth Stood Still... writer / director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) weaves the piece together with a deft balance of tension and wonderment.

Jeff Nichols, the writer and director of Take Shelter and Mud, teams with Michael Shannon once again for a sci - fi drama about a father taking his son on the run to protect him after learning he has special powers.

Another film about the struggle of a real - life interracial couple comes from director Jeff Nichols, who impressed with Take Shelter and Mud.

January 2014 GIM ME SHELTER with Vanessa Hudgens, writer / director Ron Kraus and Kathy Difiore in attendance December 2013 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY November 2013 SAVING MR. BANKS

We sat down with the ace writer / director of Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special to find out.

Beginning with the doom - laden «Take Shelter,» composer David Wingo has had a unique musical relationship with director Jeff Nichols, painting a world of southern gothic characters without being particularly «southern» about it with «Joe,» «Mud» and the forthcoming «Loving.»

In his first four films (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special), writer / director Jeff Nichols created a series of strong, brave characters, most notable for their quiet restraint as they deal with momentous events in their lives.

The latest brainchild of writer / director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), Mud is an earnest rumination on love and change, set against a unique backdrop (backwater Arkansas) and populated with a series of very well - drawn characters.

Teaming up once more with Fantastic Mr Fox's director of photography Tristan Oliver (whose credits include Aardman's The Curse of the Were - Rabbit and Laika's ParaNorman), Anderson conjures shelters made from multicoloured bottles and used sake cans in which our fantastically empathetic canines take refuge.

He rounded out the 90's with the title role in George of the Jungle, a serious dramatic role in the superb film Gods and Monsters about the director James Whale and a flirtation he has with the Fraser character, and another supremely underrated comedy, Blast from the Past, about a man who emerges from a bomb shelter after 35 years and falls in love with Alicia Silverstone.

With Loving, writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) lionizes two such everyday heroes: Richard and Mildred Loving, whose nearly decade - long battle to legalize their interracial marriage in the state of Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court, bringing to an end anti-miscegenation laws.

Nevertheless, with Shelter, actor - turned - writer / director Paul Bettany (Avengers: Age of Ultron) has opted to shed light on the plight of the least of our brethren.

The optimism of youth gets scrambled with the affairs of adults in «Mud», the latest film from writer / director, Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter»).

Author Bio Andy Swain is the Managing Director of SAS Shelters, who are a family run business with over 50 years of experience in the design, manufacture and installation of school building products such as school canopies, sail shades and shelters.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

«We were pleased to welcome the director of our local shelter to this year's event,» says Mitchell, a sales representative with Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty.

Its education department, led by director of education Sue Tasa, regularly gives presentations to the many animal shelters and rescue groups that Pet Food Express works with, educating them on a variety of topics, such as proper pet nutrition and animal care and control.

Phil Peckinpaugh, director of Muncie Animal Shelter, came up with the idea as he was equally in love with the game.

After the family retreated with the old Lab, the shelter director advised me that at the next shelter the family would probably just swear they had found her by the side of the road.

«As we took crisis calls and spoke with survivors we noticed that fear for the lives of pets was a common barrier that prevented families from seeking safety at our shelter,» said Carissa Bratschun, director of communication and marketing for DVIS.