May 11, 2021
SAINT PAUL, Minn., May 11, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) LAK Technology Inc. recently announced that two of its DBAs, PowerSource Staffing Inc. and Empowers Staffing Inc. are working to fill two distinct niches in the recruiting and staffing industry. They re not only helping companies to improve their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), but they re also helping people of color who may have lost work during the COVID crisis to get back to business.
It usually takes more than half a year for individuals to complete an Appalachian Trail experience. Local families will need just a weekend for the same thanks to State College Area School District librarians.
On Saturday and Sunday, the library department will hold “State to State: Hike the Appalachian Trail Across SCASD,” part of this year’s
SCASD Reads (#ScasdREADS) campaign, “Read It, Walk It, SCASD Libraries on the Trail.” The campaign this spring has featured the books “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk,” an account of Emma Gatewood’s historic solo AT hike as a 67-year-old grandmother in 1955, for State High students; “The Unlikely Thru-Hiker,” Derick Lugo’s memoir about traversing the trail as a novice African-American hiker from Brooklyn, for middle school students; and “Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail,” a children’s book read to elementary students on May 3, the date Gatewood began the first of her three AT hikes.
From the removal of a student teacher due to their involvement in a gay student organization to the building of a center focused on fostering a diverse campus climate, Penn Stateâs LGBTQ community has an expansive â and often elusive â history.
Sonya Wilmoth, the interim director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, said she believes select students are drawn to the university s LGBTQ history, while many others remain unaware of its intricate past.
âI think the history directs and defines what is happening now,â Wilmoth said. âIf you go back and understand the history of where weâve actually come from and the strides that have been made and the investment in students â I think thatâs very telling.â
Food insecurity has been an issue in State College and at Penn State long before the coronavirus pandemic began. But the pandemic only worsened the issues, making it easier to spot and sparking a sense of urgency in the community to help one another out.
The State College YMCA, State College Food Bank, Lionâs Pantry, and members of the Student Farm at Penn State and the University Park Undergraduate Association have come together to raise awareness of the food insecurity problem on, off and around campus.
Mel Curtis, the anti-hunger director of the YMCA, has organized various events before and throughout the pandemic to provide Centre County families with food in times of need. According to Curtis, food insecurity is something that isnât âeasily detectedâ and hard to tell if a person or family is struggling.
This interview appears in the April 2021 issue of Town&Gown.
Now with more than 2,200 units and branches, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country. As the largest civil rights organization in the nation, its mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
The State College chapter of NAACP was established in
December 2019, with Lorraine Jones serving as president. She is responsible for raising community awareness of policies and practices of discrimination, racial inequity, and other violations of civil rights. She is also responsible for responding to referrals from community members needing advocacy, and improving the political, educational, social, and economic status of racially marginalized community members.