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NVRH and Umbrella Inc. partner to support prevention efforts throughout the Northeast Kingdom
Vermont Business Magazine Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) has received the Vermont Prevention Center of Excellence’s Grant. This grant is a one-year grant opportunity with goals to reduce underage drinking, high-risk alcohol consumption, marijuana and tobacco misuse, prescription drug and stimulant misuse, and illicit stimulants and opioids. In order to build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the community, as well as regional levels, NVRH is partnering with Umbrella Inc.
The grant, which totals $450,000, tackles two components of prevention: the promotion of healthy lifestyles and norms that reduce the risks associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and the reduction of the impact of those at higher-than-average risk for substance misuse. This includes individuals currently experiencing problems related to use.
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In Spanish writer Victor del Árbol s world, little to nothing happens that doesn t carry consequences and in most cases results in a heavy load to bear. Much as he did in A Million Drops which ranged in time from the Spanish Civil War to modern day, del Árbol in his latest book weaves his. Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 4 a.m.
Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, the Mob, and the Summit By Richard A. Lertzman with Lon Davis 367 pp. $24.98 Prestige Books For a brief time in the early ‘60s, they were the Connoisseurs of Cool and the Sultans of Swinging Swagger, taking Las Vegas by storm with a base.
Before there was the Fab Four there was the Rat Pack.
This week, two of their main members share historical moments. It was 40 years ago Tuesday, Dec. 8, that we lost John Lennon to an assassin s bullet and this Saturday we mark what would have been Francis Albert Sinatra s 105th birthday.
It s also the 60th anniversary of The Rat Pack.
Richard A. Lertzman and Lon Davis marks the occasion with a new book called
Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob, and the Summit. It breaks down the 28 consecutive nights in February 1960 that Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford took over the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, made the original Ocean s 11, performed shows in front of packed audiences including future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and partied in between.