Sam s best friend Jai died suddenly â the grief veered Sam off a dark path and toward post traumatic growth
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Sam Ellis lost his best friend at 16 years old, an experience that shifted his perspective and gave him renewed motivation.
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Sam Ellis s best friend Jai Reed was in the waiting room when Sam was born, and for the next 16 years they were inseparable.
Their mothers were childhood best friends and the two boys â born six months apart â looked set to extend that bond for another generation. Jai was this really outgoing kid, there wasn t a single person that met him that didn t love him, Sam said.
February 16, 2021
Dubbed âone of the most exciting new voicesâ (CelebMix), pop-country artist Tyra Madison releases a powerful new single âHostageâ – available today across all digital and streaming platforms. The mid-tempo tune, which showcases the Kentucky nativeâs powerful pipes backed by an earworm, hard-to-shake melody, was co-written by Sam Ellis, Sarah Haze, and Ben Caver, and was produced by Brad Hill and Dave Thomson (Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, Brett Young).
Hitting her stride right out of the gate in 2021, the Cosmopolitan Country songstress saw viral success on TikTok last month (watch here) when a video clip for past release âRight Girl Wrong Timeâ prompted her female-dominated following to jump over from 14,000 followers to over 159,000. The clip itself has been viewed over 3.8 million times.
Friday, 12 February 2021, 11:40 am
Runners from across New Zealand will take to the trails
around Rotorua this weekend for the 13th edition of the
Tarawera Ultramarathon.
Approximately 3,000 runners
are preparing to take part in New Zealand’s largest trail
running event, with race distances of 21km, 50km, 102km or
100-Miles.
Race Director Sam Ellis said that the team
was looking forward to welcoming runners back to the region
this weekend.
“The Tarawera Ultramarathon is an
incredible community event that the Rotorua region has
embraced over the last 13 years and we can’t wait to see
almost 3,000 runners hit the trails this weekend,” said
Press Release – Tarawera Ultra Marathon
Runners from across New Zealand will take to the trails around Rotorua this weekend for the 13th edition of the Tarawera Ultramarathon.
Approximately 3,000 runners are preparing to take part in New Zealand’s largest trail running event, with race distances of 21km, 50km, 102km or 100-Miles.
Race Director Sam Ellis said that the team was looking forward to welcoming runners back to the region this weekend.
“The Tarawera Ultramarathon is an incredible community event that the Rotorua region has embraced over the last 13 years and we can’t wait to see almost 3,000 runners hit the trails this weekend,” said Ellis. “With international borders still closed we’re thrilled with the support the event has received from New Zealanders, with runners traveling from across the country to take part.
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The names of 13 new key appointees at the Presidency in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s second term have been released.
All the appointees are to undertake their duties in acting capacities, subject to consultation with the yet-to-be constituted Council of State.
The list includes new entrant Dr Isaac Owusu Mensah as Director of Research who is replacing Victor Newman who recently passed on.
Emmanuel Adumua-Bossman
Other new entrants are Emmanuel Adumua-Bossman and Fawaz Aliu as the two new Deputy Chiefs Of Staff to replace Francis Asenso Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor who are now Members of Parliament.
Adumua-Bossman worked as the Director of the Impact Assessment Unit in the Office of the President from 2018 to 2020 and was also the Director for Planning and Implementation with the National Security unit from 2017 to 2018.