Project offers long-distance helping hand July 28, 2021
It began with Sr. Fay Trombley of Catholic Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception.
Upon settling into her new home of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., over 15 years ago, she quickly noticed that this small hamlet nestled close to the Arctic Ocean perennially experienced shortages of food and goods.
She mobilized her contacts, particularly the Society of Saint Vincent De Paul (SSVP) in Alberta, to secure the items and funding to make a difference.
Her grassroots effort germinated into the SSVP North of 60 Project, an ambitious initiative executed by nine different parish teams, including eight in northern Alberta and one from Calgary. Each SSVP conference twins with a Northwest Territories municipality north of the 60th parallel as steep food and goods prices perpetrate impoverished conditions upon these communities.
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LEWISTON In a room that buzzed with energy, the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on Thursday introduced its new Explore + Discover guide to local business leaders.
“For us, this Explore + Discover guide the accompanying Discover LA name, what today’s breakfast is about is all linked to a clear economic growth strategy,” President and CEO Shanna Cox said. “Our regional round table put together the blueprint for economic growth, and the first strategy is to attract populations, specifically to support our workforce needs, and our future economic growth needs, to the region.”
The guide was developed to attract new visitors and residents to the area in conjunction with the revamp of the DiscoverLAMaine.com website, a site that was recently redesigned to digitally resemble the Explore + Discover guide.
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Luzerne County Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to discuss and possibly take action related to the appointment of Councilman Stephen J. Urban as chairman of the county board of elections.
Councilwoman Linda McClosky Houck proposed resolutions that would declare vacant the election board seats held by Urban and the two board members who voted to appoint him chairman on Wednesday: Joyce Dombroski-Gebhardt and Keith Gould. All three are Republicans.
Board member Audrey Serniak, a Democrat, voted no on Urbanâs appointment.
Dombroski-Gebhardt and Gould âwillfullyâ violated sections of the county charter when they voted to make Urban chairman, which is grounds for their seats to be vacated, Houck alleges.