Jan 6, 2021 LAKE PLACID Since March, Adirondack Foundation and its many funding partners have awarded nearly $1.2 million through 175 grants to nonprofits, schools and community-based organizations specifically toward COVID-19 response. This rapid-response community assistance is thanks to a coalition of corporate, philanthropic and nonprofit partners supporting local frontline organizations many of which serve people who are disproportionately affected when crisis strikes. With more than $1.3 million raised, grants are being deployed across the Adirondack region, helping to serve tens of thousands of people experiencing hardship from the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, and supporting a variety of community needs. These emergency-response and longer-term, deeper investment grants fall into the following broad categories.
Aw! These goats are enjoying leftover Christmas trees Share Updated: 4:05 PM PST Jan 1, 2021 Brandon Menard Share Updated: 4:05 PM PST Jan 1, 2021
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Show Transcript WHICH CAN SERVE AN EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE. SOME OF YOU MIGHT NOT BE READY TO HEAR THIS.. BUT IT MAY BE TIME TO THINK ABOUT PUTTING YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE OUT TO PASTURE. ONE NORTH COUNTRY VILLAGE IS DOING ITS BEST TO PUT THEM TO GOOD USE. NBC5 S BRANDON MENARD EXPLAINS. TAKE SOT: (0:01) TIFFANY CHAPMAN - OWNER, BAREFOOT ACRES - THE GOATS REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE TREES IT S TIME FOR A CHRISTMAS SNACK AT BAREFOOT ACRES IN CHAZY. TYPICALLY I DRIVE AROUND SOMETIMES AND PICK THEM UP, PEOPLE WILL MESSAGE US. IT S BEEN A A VERY WEIRD YEAR. BUT THIS YEAR TREES ARE COMING TO THE FARM. NAT OF GOAT THEY RE BEING DELIVERED BY THE VILLAGE OF CHAMPLAIN. AFTER THE VILLAGE CLOSED ITS BRUSH COLLECTION AREA LAST SUMMER IT NEEDED TO COME UP WITH A WAY TO DIS
January 1, 2021
LONDON: The Pakistan High Commission has made a payment of $28.706 million (Rs4.59 billion) on behalf of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to the assets recovery firm Broadsheet LLC after losing the long-running litigation at the London High Court – 17 years after hiring the firm to trace alleged foreign assets of dozens of Pakistanis and being unable to find any.
The London High Court’s Financial Division had issued on 17 December a Final Third Party Order for payment to the NAB’s former client Broadsheet by 30th of December – drawing curtains on a case that has cost Pakistani taxpayers billions of rupees. Ironically, Broadsheet was hired by NAB during Pervez Musharraf’s government in 2003 to trace assets in the UK and USA of more than 200 Pakistanis (called ‘targets’ in the contract) including generals, politicians, businessmen - Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif as the chief targets. The firm didn’t recover a single asset o
LONDON/ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan High Commission has made a payment of $28.706 million on behalf of the National Accountability Bureau to the assets recovery firm Broadsheet LLC after losing the.
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Essex County Public Health Director Linda Beers speaks in Elizabethtown during the department’s first press conference of the pandemic on March 18. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Friends drive by Ruth Hart’s home on Interlaken Avenue Sunday, May 3, 2020 wishing her a happy 101st birthday. Instead of her usual party at the Crowne Plaza, in which she invited friends to visit her in 2018 and 2019, the community held a drive-by parade in her honor due to coronavirus health and safety guidelines. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Adirondack Health Assistant Vice President of Patient Care Services Carrie Reardon, left, prepares to test Lake Placid Elementary School Technology Coordinator and Village Trustee Jason Leon, right, for COVID-19 at a mobile testing site at the North Elba Show Grounds on May 13. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo)