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James Brickey, president of the Roadrunner Curling Club right teaches Tammany Peters how to throw the stone. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
Looking for a safe and fun sports activity that the entire family can enjoy together, Tammy Peters thinks she found just the thing.
But it requires a little thinking outside the box.
After going through an instructional session Peters, and her daughter, 11-year-old Tammany Peters, are thinking of joining the Roadrunner Curling Club at the Outpost Ice Arenas in the northeast heights. The RCC hosts several different curling leagues.
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“One of my friends is in the league,” Tammy Peters said. “She had invited us to check it out and it looked like a lot of fun so we thought we’d try it out.”
The St. Regis Bora Bora Celebrates French Polynesia s Re-Opening with Exciting New Offers
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“I am particularly excited about The Ultimate Bora Bora Reset because it brings together the things that make The St. Regis Bora Bora so special. We want guests to indulge themselves while enjoying the simple pleasures of life, said General Manager, Emmanuel Richardet. FRENCH POLYNESIA (PRWEB) May 10, 2021 French Polynesia has officially re-opened its borders to visitors as of May 1 and the award-winning St. Regis Bora Bora is celebrating liberation from lock-down and better days ahead with two exciting new offers.
Education: the pathway to freedom in Africa
Africa (MNN) Poverty, disease, and war entrap countless multitudes throughout the continent of Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for two-thirds of the
According to
the latest global report, children make up two-thirds of Africa’s human trafficking victims:
Trafficking flows out of Sub-Saharan Africa have a global dimension, with victims detected in Western and Southern Europe, in North Africa and in the Middle East. Victims from Sub-Saharan countries are also detected in North America and East Asia.
“Education is freedom for so many,”
TeachBeyond’s Tammy Peters says.
(Photo courtesy of TeachBeyond)
Throughout Africa, TeachBeyond focuses on communities with little or no access to education. “We have a program called
Next Generation pays for Africa’s school closures with its future
Africa (MNN) Students throughout Africa pay a steep price for pandemic-related school closures.
“Vulnerable children have become more vulnerable because they’re more prone to abuse,”
TeachBeyond’s Tammy Peters says. Families desperately need money, so girls are sold off as child brides while young boys enter the workforce.
Last year, 50-percent of African countries restricted school access within three days of the first COVID-19 cases. On average, schools were closed for more than 100 days throughout the continent.
“Schools have closed down, and they’ve been closed for a long, long time. Some have tried to reopen, and then closed down again,” Peters says.
Before Awa Behm, a first grader at Braden River Elementary School, left to move out of the area last week, she went to the school’s new kindness garden and picked up a small rock with an owl painted on it.
The rock was Behm’s way of being able to take a piece of Braden River Elementary with her.
Third grader Corbin Bennett helps deliver the kindness rocks to the new kindness garden. Courtesy photo.
“It made her feel special because she was sad about leaving,” said Tammy Peters, Behm’s teacher.
Peters’ class worked with their reading buddies in Joadie Durfee’s fifth grade class Jan. 26 to create kindness rocks. After the students were done painting positive messages, such as “I’m proud of you,” “You’re amazing,” and “You’re my sunshine,” on the rocks, they needed the perfect place to put them.