Delta State University is promoting its OKRA summer day camps for youth and loads of athletic camps.
Thousands of Mississippi kids are eager to pack up and have fun at summer camps marking their return in 2021. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down activities for young people at colleges from south of Memphis to the Gulf Coast, camps are bouncing back.
University officials, parents and grandparents are delighted. College leaders are ecstatic to once again attract young people to sports, music, cheerleader, ecology and robotics camps to showcase their institutions.
Camps also deliver a nice financial boost to schools during the slower summer months. Families are investing in summer camp options for kids who were often cooped up at home with their games, smart phones and computers since the health emergency began in March 2020. With three million COVID vaccines getting in the arms of Americans daily, people hope the pandemic gets in rearview mirrors in a few months.
March 9, 2021
The College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows program welcomed 20 new student entrepreneurs to its latest cohort, where they will explore entrepreneurship through academic coursework, mentorship with entrepreneurs in residence and a summer internship with a successful startup of their choice.
This year, the program expanded to include Cornell juniors from all disciplines interested in entrepreneurship – it was previously limited to STEM students – bringing a myriad of academic perspectives to the 2021 Kessler Fellows cohort.
“I want to challenge myself to think outside of the box – not only of my career, but also of the value that I could bring to society,” said Anna Hu ’22, a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, and an alumni of student startup accelerator, eLab. “It’s rare to see a group of people so genuinely passionate about some ideas. I love being close to this kind of energy.”
Local Girl Scout sells cookies in all 50 states
Sophia Hammond of Plymouth used her networking skills to find friends and family in all 50 states to sell Girl Scout Cookies. (Courtesy Photo) (
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March 03, 2021PLYMOUTH When a Girl Scout sets a goal, she often doesn t just meet it, she exceeds it! Just ask Sophia Hammond, nine, a Girl Scout Junior and student at Plymouth Elementary School. She decided that she wanted to sell Girl Scout Cookies to people in all 50 states and did so in just a few weeks, doubling her goal by selling more 600 packages of cookies. Now she s upped her goal to 700 packages, running her cookie business through March 22.
February 22 2021
Stan Penkin, Kim Silverman, Tiffany Hammer, Bob Davis, Vadim Mozyrsky and Alex Stone are members of Portland s Public Safety Action Coalition.
One of the primary responsibilities of government at any level is to provide a safe environment for its population. In the past year, our city has reduced the Portland Police Bureau budget by $27 million and is seeking a 5% reduction across all bureaus in the next fiscal year, including the police.
Police Chief Chuck Lovell has requested that the bureau budget be cut by only 1% to allow for the filling of more than 100 vacancies. Reducing the police bureau budget by 5% at this time is inadvisable, and City Council should heed that request.
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