Apprenticeships Getting more young people into apprenticeships and then full-time work is the aim of a new plan adopted by Swindon Borough Council. The authority’s Apprenticeships Action Plan has been approved and coincides with National Apprenticeship Week, which starts today. The plan focuses on helping employers to overcome barriers to taking on apprentices, promoting apprenticeship opportunities within schools and further education colleges, and extending the Young Apprentice Ambassador Network. Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership, will run a marketing campaign for parents and students to show how an apprenticeship might be a good career choice. And New College Swindon will promote apprenticeship opportunities available in 2021 at the town’s new Institute of Technology when it opens in September.
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided use
• 1⁄2 cup pizza or marinara sauce
• 1 stick pepperoni, 3⁄4 diced and 1⁄4 sliced in circles
• 4 basil leaves
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a bowl, mix cream cheese, sour cream, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, 1⁄8 cup Romano cheese, 11⁄2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, diced pepperoni. Layer on the bottom of a casserole dish. Top with pizza sauce.
Next, add remaining shredded mozzarella, grated Romano cheese, and sliced pepperoni.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until hot and golden brown on top.
Garnish with sliced basil leaves and serve with garlic knots.
Note: You can make your own garlic knots using pizza dough. Separate dough into long strands like bread sticks. Tie them into knots and bake at 350 degrees until done or golden brown. Then toss with melted butter, garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Add other pizza toppings or mix-ins to this recipe as desired.
CALLS for compassion and moving stories of those who escaped genocide filled this year s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony. The restrictions caused by the pandemic did not stop the annual remembrance event that has been held in Swindon for 20 years from going ahead. Though this year, councillors, MPs, community representatives and Swindonians gathered in a Zoom meeting rather than in person. Matt Holland organised the virtual ceremony, which began with the midday bells of the town centre clock echoing through the speakers of the 51 people in attendance and a performance from cellist Debbie Jennings. He spoke of this year s theme, being a light in the darkness, which encourages people to help others who face prejudice and persecution, and resist the spread of misinformation and divisive talk of us and them .
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The HEARTS Awards is a one-time special event being held in partnership and solidarity with thirteen leading industry organizations to honor thirteen companies that have shown outstanding leadership, empathy and service during the COVID-19 pandemic by going above and beyond in service to their industry and/or community. The celebratory event, which will pay homage to the “hearts and heroes” of 2020 will be held during June Total Home & Gift Market, and hosted by Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia.
The recent Total Home & Gift Market in Dallas had strong attendance and order writing including a record number of buyers attending for the first time. Dallas Market Center reported that 25% of buyers at the show were first time attendees, the largest percentage in more than ten years.
Failure to use eye drops correctly is putting hundreds of thousands of Britons at risk of blindness, experts have warned. The concern follows recent reports that only half of the 480,000 sufferers of glaucoma – the most common eye condition in the UK – are given clear instructions for using their medication.
It is essential to apply pressure to the inner corner of the eye, or the tear duct, when squirting in the liquid to stop the medication draining out, rendering it ineffective.
But experts say specialists are failing to relay this information, causing patients to lose their sight needlessly.
‘It is doctors’ responsibility to tell patients how to use the medication they prescribe, not just assume they know how to use it because most don’t,’ says Dr Louise Gow, an eye health specialist at the Royal National Institute for Blind People.