OK, pay attention now: this is a lesson in the First Amendment. And in common sense.
Almost 40 years ago in the suburbs of Chicago I organized something we called Operation BookLift. It responded to a plea from an inner city teacher who lamented that many of her economically-challenged students had no books at home. None. Zilch.
Operation BookLift worked with schools, churches and parents to collect more than 20,000 children’s books of all types. The goal was to provide these books to children who could take them home as their own. It succeeded wildly.
We culled through the vast piles of collected books in a borrowed school gymnasium looking for torn or dirty copies and inappropriate ones. Sure, there were a number meant more for grownups and even a couple of Playboy magazines that got caught up in the collection.
Dean Proctor: ‘The FSCS needs a review – and soon’
7IM CEO on balancing culture and strategy, assessing value, as well as corporate social responsibility and tech-led disruption
Nobody in search of an easy life chooses to be a chief executive – indeed, as 7IM CEO Dean Proctor points out: “The reality is that barely a day or a week goes by when a CEO is not dealing with some crisis or another – so you need to be good at handling all sorts of situations.” Even so, the role must come with one further wrinkle still when you take over the reins from the company’s co-founder.
Deaths in Longford - Monday, February 22, 2021
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TJ (Thomas Joseph) Walshe, Springfield, Clondra, Longford
The death occurred, peacefully, at home surrounded by his loving family, following an illness bravely borne, on Saturday, February 20 of TJ (Thomas Joseph) Walshe, Springfield, Clondra, Longford and formerly of Athlone, Co Westmeath. Beloved husband of Noeleen (nee Gately), much loved Dad to Rosie, Sarah and Eimear. He is predeceased by his parents Jack and Sadie, and brothers Dick and Michael. TJ will be sadly missed by his loving family, granddaughters Cara and Robin, son-in-law Mark Sheehy, mother-in-law Maisie Gately, brothers Seán and Seamus, sisters Madeleine, Mary, Jacqueline and Rose, along with his aunt, nephews, nieces, extended family, good neighbours and his many friends.
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Once upon a time there was a town. A very nice, happy town. Everyone felt safe in their little town. Beyond the town there were inviting fields. People often wandered out into the fields. There was farming and picnicking and even just doing nothing,
Then, one sad day, something terrible happened.
There was a beast also wandering in those fields. And the beast was dangerous.
The beast had wandered in those fields before. But not in living memory of the townspeople. So the people had forgotten that dangerous beasts had long prowled the deep woods and sometimes even ventured into their comfortable fields.