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A “CREATIVE and inventive” version of Dunbar Civic Week is being planned to brighten up the summer. Many larger traditional community events usually held in East Lothian in the coming months have been cancelled or been scaled down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The volunteers behind Dunbar Civic Week have vowed that there will be celebrations this year, although there will no mass gatherings. This summer also marks 50 years since the first Dunbar Civic Week in 1971. George Robertson, who chairs the Civic Week planning committee, said there would still be fun in the town in June. “We are keen for Civic Week to be a celebration of our wonderful community,” he told the Courier.
The ongoing trial of a former Minnesota police officer charged in the death of George Floyd last year has the attention of people here in Floyd s birthplace of Fayetteville.
Floyd, 46, a Black man, died May 25, 2020, while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prosecutors alleged in opening statements Monday that Officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes; more than two minutes of which Floyd was unresponsive as a crowd filming the arrest pleaded with police to check his pulse. Three other officers have also been charged in Floyd s death. Their trials are set for August.
FOX61, Central Connecticut Celtic Cultural Committee team up with $10k donation to Foodshare / The Connecticut Food Bank Foodshare has stepped up leaps and bounds above so many other groups and organizations to reach out and help people Author: Keith McGilvery Updated: 5:09 PM EDT March 16, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. Foodshare and the Connecticut Food Bank continue to feed thousands of hungry Connecticut families more than a year into the pandemic.
Tuesday morning the non-profit got a big boost from our FOX61 family and The Central Connecticut Celtic Cultural Committee as each donated $5,000 to help the food-insecure.
“Our parade has been supported for so many years, for 49 years by every community that surrounds and participates in it and everyone in that community has been affected this year by Covid and the pandemic and Foodshare has stepped up leaps and bounds above so many other groups and organizations to reach out and help people and put