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Isle Of Wight Mardi Gras Replaced With Pop Up Children s Carnival
By Iona Stewart-Richardson
Tracy Curtis, Newchurch Primary Mardi Gras 2019
The National Children s Carnival Week will replace the annual Mardi Gras celebrations this year, and everyone is invited to take part!
The New Carnival Company (NCC) has been working with Isle of Wight schoolteachers and national carnival organisers to bring the joy of carnival to children, teachers, and families at the end of what has been an extremely difficult and challenging academic year.
i want to say a big thank you to sf made and everyone here. this is a really great honor for a young business and it means a tremendous amount to us. our colleague mark manning could not be here tonight because he is traveling internationally, but we are trying to spread the word for dodo case in those manufacturing markets. thank you very much. [applause] congratulations. our next award is the sf made founders award, approved presented by the sf made founder, marked right. mark dwight. thank you for coming out tonight. this is really amazing. i created this concept almost 10 years ago now, and i used it in my realm business and it was not until about three years ago that we formalize it appeared and it has come to this. it is really gratifying for me. my oldest son is here to watch his dad in action. that is pretty cool. there is my son, spencer. it is my privilege as the founder of sf made to get out the founders award. the founders award goes to an established
what s new. i will put it there. commissioner campos: if we can have a motion to except the 2012-2013 lafco budget? seconded by commissioner schmeltzer. can we take that without objection? done. call item number six. authorization to amend the agreement with miller and dolan to extend the term to june 30, 2013. fason fried, lafco staff one more time. the contract for miss miller s services will be expiring. this is a continuation of her contract. for whatever reason, the contract has gotten off of the calendar or budget cycle. staff is recommending that instead of extending it for one year and have it, and not point in time, we are recommending that we extend it through the end of next fiscal year that will mean that contract will be a 16-month contract in total. over that 16 months, over the last year, we spent $88,000. most of it has come out of the cca fund for her legal services. we re asking and the contract itself is for 125,000. we re asking to keep it under $125
good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us. i am the director of the mayor s office of economic and airport development, and i m delighted to welcome you here as we announced the recapitalization of the city s small business revolving loan fund. we are recapitalizing this bond with $1.5 million, thanks to a partnership between the city and wells fargo, and working with working solutions as our community lender. without further ado, will introduce the merit to describe these resources available for small businesses. thank you, jennifer. thank you for all your hard work. welcome to brenda s. i want to thank and knowledge board president and district supervisor david chiu for joining us this morning. scott wiener, of course, as well. for some time now, as mayor of the city, interim and elected, these two supervisors have been talking to me about the support we need to give to our small businesses. i know much of my leadership so far has been around our techno
last year, on the campaign trail, many of the candidates talk about the importance of recapitalizing this loan program. i know this has been a huge concern ever since i served on the small business commission. small businesses all over the city have been clamoring for help that has not been provided by financial institutions. i want to thank wells fargo for your leadership. they understand the issues that our city has, certainly in the southeast neighborhoods where we have had a record number of foreclosures, in part, driven by the lack of small businesses and the ability to get loans. many of us that the board of supervisors want to ensure this program gets as big as possible. i want to thank the mayor for your commitment. i hope in the term we are serving together, we figure out how to surpass the $5 million number. if we look to get this through the board as quickly as possible and eating many more soul food breakfasts at places like brenda s. [applause] thank you. the l