GALLERY: A week in Kuri Bay
By Scott Thomas | 10 June 2021
ROUGHLY 300km north of Broome is a tiny pearl farm called Kuri Bay. On a chart it’s a tiny dot in a maze of unsurveyed bays, reefs and islands.
This part of the Kimberley is very remote and only accessible by float plane or helicopter. The nearest road is hundreds of kilometres away and travelling by boat is time consuming and risky for the inexperienced.
Thankfully, Peter Tucker, operator of Kuri Bay Sport Fishing and Adventures, has taken done all the hard work so visiting anglers can experience the world-class fishing on offer with ease and comfort.
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An art class takes place outside adjacent to Rockefeller Arts Center.
Sales of artwork created by State University at Fredonia Department of Visual Arts and New Media students have provided a financial boost to Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua County, a non-profit that provides tutoring services in reading, math, English language and other subjects.
The spring semester art sale, held in-person on April 19 at the Williams Center Multipurpose Room, generated $2,215 for Literacy Volunteers. Students donated the proceeds on Wednesday, April 28.
“It went really well, better than the sale last semester,” said Angeline Ginsberg, a junior majoring in Ceramics from Lindenhurst and one of the show’s organizers.
Mayor/SLPP Versus Ignorance/Enlightenment
I was bemused and amused after reading the March 31, 2021 “Press Statement” by the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), with the pedantic word in its title “Incendiarism”, accusing the Mayor of Freetown, Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, of “Hate Speech”.
What triggered my mirth the most were these words in paragraph 3: “After keenly listening to the five different audios, transcribing the words into English, having our own team of Linguists, Psychologists, Anthropologists, Sociologists, Political Scientists and Security Experts analyze the contents….” The style of the Release, its unusual length, reads like that of students at university flaunting their jingoistic intellectual prowess; and worse, it reeks with that individual and collective egoistic-ism of too many of the Mende-speaking educated elite who dominate in the SLPP – that which non-Mendes do find so irksome. If it is a political document, it sure is u
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