Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville celebrates International Women Build Week
Habitat for Humanity celebrates International Women s Build Week By Elizabeth Holmes | March 13, 2021 at 10:36 PM EST - Updated March 14 at 7:17 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Tashae Anderson and her soon-to-be neighbor Jeronda Jackson spend their Saturday building on-site with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville. Honoring International Women Builders week, they joined a female-led crew, something Samantha Anderson, their crew leader, says is somewhat rare in building and construction.
“It is male dominated, I’ve got a couple midweek crew that are females and having them on a regular basis is great. I get to know them really well personally and it’s just nice getting to have a bit of a change up sometimes,” Samantha Anderson said.
New tools to catch stop arm violators could be coming
Topeka Capital-Journal
In a normal year, Newton USD 373 bus drivers observe between 100 to 150 drivers who fail to stop for a bus with stop arms deployed.
The 2020-21 school year has been anything but normal, and stats on stop arm violations are far from complete. In the 2018-19 school year, 102 drivers in Newton illegally passed stopped school buses, according to USD 373′s transportation department. That was down about 75 from the year before.
Each violation, according to district staff, is a big deal. Our students’ safety is our department’s No. 1 priority. We want to keep them safe and we can’t do that alone. We need the community’s help,” said district director of transportation Sheila Zwahlen after reviewing numbers in 2019.
Swiss startup competition venture is calling for up-and-coming entrepreneurs to send in their applications for this year.
Founded by Dr. Thomas Knecht in 1997, the venture competition aims to empower young entrepreneurs to develop their viable business ideas into startup companies.
The competition is a joint initiative between public research university ETH Zurich, McKinsey & Company, Swiss transportation company Knecht Holding, Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). venture is looking for applications from five industry verticals; finance and insurance, health and nutrition, ICT, industrials and engineering as well as retail and customer services. The finance and insurance vertical is the latest addition to their long-standing competition.