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Veteran leftist leader Iqbal Alvi passes away
Karachi
May 13, 2021
Iqbal Alvi, a devoted left-wing activist associated with the Communist Party of Pakistan, passed away on Tuesday night. He was 90.
On Wednesday, his funeral prayers were offered at Abubakar Masjid in Clifton and he was buried at a Model Colony graveyard. He has been survived by two daughters and a son. A large number of intellectuals, social and political activists, and trade unionists attended the funeral.
Born in United Province, Ali had moved to Hyderabad Deccan where he was influenced by the trade union movement. After Partition, Ali came to Lahore to meet his maternal uncle - Syed NaqI Ali - who was a central leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Author of the article: Beth Wilkins
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We leave David Thompson, who we and Charlotte accompanied across Canada in his surveying, map-making, and boundary pursuits. As you will recall, he died in 1857, age 86, destitute. Wife, Charlotte, age 72, mother of their 13 children, followed three months later. They were buried in the family plot of daughter Eliza’s husband, Dalhousie Landall, in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montréal. Although, initially in an unmarked grave, their site was, in 1927, recognized with a white Grecian-like column upon which was a brass sextant – later removed “for safe
Letters: Lanterns on the Awa a brilliant community success
12 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Lanterns on the Awa festival lit up Whanganui on Saturday. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Whanganui Chronicle
Your reporter sadly understated the numbers who attended Saturday s Lanterns on the Awa (News, May 10).
We were told by various experts that there were 3000-5000 over the course of the evening. (
Ed s note: The attendance figure came from a member of the NZ-China Friendship Society Whanganui branch)
UCOL was not involved this year, but Chinese courtesy insists we honour Bronwyn Paul and her team who initiated and directed the event in 2018-19.
Democrat group Blue Tigers help Feed America
Compiled by Michelle Graves, mgraves@pioneergroup.com
May 11, 2021
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Members of the Blue Tigers, the community outreach organization of the Manistee County Democrats, presented a donation for $900 to the Manistee Friendship Society on April 28 at the Armory Youth Project in Manistee. (Courtesy photo)
MANISTEE The Manistee Friendship Society has been instrumental in hosting the Feed America Food Truck since March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many families without employment and without enough money to buy food.
“The needs in our community continue to rise and coming together as a whole to help support one another in a time of need has been quite the blessing, Cassandra Kamaloski, executive director of the Manistee Friendship Society, said in a news release. When we put all hands on deck we can make quite the difference. We have people coming to donate their time to help unload the tru