LNU assistance center going up in Vaca; board OKs fee reductions
The county estimates it will lose nearly $1.69 million in revenue.
The board also agreed to place a temporary assistance center at the county property on Brown Street in Vacaville, next to the William J. Carroll Government Center.
Staff expects the center to be operational for three to five years.
The site was the proposed location of the Tiny Shelters project, and one area resident was concerned that the activity at the site, without any effort by the county to let area residents know what is happening, is going to cause some panic.
Ryan S. Clark of The Athletic join Buffalo Sabres TV host
Brian Duff for a conversation about, but not limited to, the meaning of Black History Month, race in hockey, how to grow the sport at the youth level, and the challenges they ve faced over the course of their careers.
Watch the full roundtable here:
This year, the Sabres commissioned local artist
Edreys Wajed to design a T-shirt for the Sabres that paid tribute to Black History Month, and that logo is featured in the background of the roundtable video.
Wajed landed on a design that paid homage to Val James, who became the first Black player born in the United States to appear in an NHL game when he made his Sabres debut on Nov. 1, 1981.
Breaking the barriers of stigma, shame, and silence
Combatting barriers in the least combative way
Jack.org is a Canadian organization with the goal of training and empowering youth and young adults in the area of mental health. More specifically, they aim to train the individuals who attend their events to identify and challenge barriers to mental health within their individual community. Earlier this month I attended a virtual summit for the region of the prairies titled Breaking Barriers.
I’ll be frank – I had very low expectations going in. Granted, my expectations are a little biased due to the knowledge I have; in early November last year I wrote an article for the
According to information on the NASA website, her passion for the world of space started at the age of nine, after watching an episode of the famous science fiction series Star Trek. Photo: AFP Relaxnews
The Mars 2020 mission orchestrated by NASA has just passed a crucial stage, with a successful landing of a rover on the red planet. At the head of operations is Swati Mohan, an Indian-born engineer with a promising career. Historic. This is how the arrival of NASA s Perseverance Rover on the planet Mars was described on February 18, after a journey of nearly seven months, after being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 30,2020.
Who said that being a nerd was uncool? Photo: AFP
Women remain underrepresented in the scientific community, as they make up less than 30% of the world s researchers according to the United Nations.
While research has shown that girls start doubting their abilities to take on male-dominated roles at a very young age, podcasts can be a great way to encourage them to overcome the many institutional and cultural challenges of being a woman in science.
Here is a selection of four podcasts to listen to in observance of this year s International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
We often imagine scientists as being cartoonish, eccentric figures with wild hair playing with tubes in a lab. People who are not like us.