Churches, businesses come together to help single moms, widows, and wives of deployed soldiers. 6:00 am, May 17, 2021 ×
Noah McGuffey, left, and Herb Dowse, look on as Joshua McGuffey inspects under a car at the Single Moms Car Clinic Saturday, May 15, 2021, at Veterans Pavilion Park in Austin. The annual clinic helps keep cars running for single mothers, widows and wives of deployed military members. (Brian Todd/btodd@postbulletin.com)
AUSTIN A broken fuel gauge put a crimp in Sara Abella s day recently. I was driving to work, and I ran out of gas, she said. My sister had to bring me a container of gas.
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The family-owned toy retailer, The Entertainer has raised an impressive £650,000 for the dedicated charity of the Bristol Children’s Hospital, The Grand Appeal, just two weeks after reopening the doors of its high street stores.
The Entertainer has been raising money for the sick children at Bristol Children’s Hospital by simply asking customers to round up their purchases to the nearest pound when shopping in store, by partnering with Pennies, the micro-donation charity.
Despite UK retail sales suffering due to long periods of closure and reduced footfall during the pandemic, the toy chain has raised almost £100,000 for The Grand Appeal in the last year alone, exceeding £650,000 as stores reopened the week before last.
Six-plus months into his sixth year as city manager of Corvallis, Mark Shepard is working through a routine period dominated by the coronavirus, homelessness and the need to replace more than 120 years of staff institutional knowledge.
In other words itâs business as usual for a person seeking to manage a city of nearly 60,000 people.
âItâs certainly a very interesting and challenging job,â said Shepard, 55, in a bit of an understatement.â
Shepard participated in a pair of dual Gazette-Times interviews, one via email and one via telephone, in an effort to provide an overview of his tenure with the city, which began May 1, 2015.