Despite challenges, parents still focusing on the gifts of this time in life 8:00 am, Feb. 16, 2021 ×
Justin and Taylor King welcomed daughter Sydney in August 2020. Photo courtesy of J Lynn Photography
Becoming a parent for the first time is stressful. You don’t know what you’re doing, you’re sleep deprived and terrified that you’ll somehow make a grave mistake while trying to figure out how to keep your new little baby safe and happy and fed.
Now imagine becoming a parent for the first time during a global pandemic.
For some local parents, the experience has proven challenging in a number of ways, but they are doing what they can to take it all in stride and just deal with the issues the pandemic and being first-time parents throw at them.
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This Thursday, homeless New Yorkers will ask questions directly of New York City mayoral candidates during a virtual forum. The historic event’s conception and organization was led in part by a New Yorker who is homeless himself – Shams DaBaron, an advocate for the city’s homeless and a resident at the Lucerne, an Upper West Side hotel operating as a shelter, who developed the event in partnership with activist groups including the UWS Open Hearts Initiative.
Thursday’s forum marks the culmination of a recent foray into activism for DaBaron, who spent last fall organizing and speaking at rallies alongside locals and his fellow residents to successfully block New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to move its occupants elsewhere.
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A joint police drug investigation and traffic stop Wednesday has netted authorities a substantive seizure of illicit drugs leading to criminal charges laid against three Toronto men, a Cornwall-area man and a Belleville woman.
Project Renewal, a joint operation between Belleville Police and Ontario Provincial Police units, said Thursday a list of drug-offences charges were laid after a vehicle was pulled over and searched in the city’s east end Wednesday.
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A search was conducted of a home in the west end of the city following the traffic stop and more drugs are alleged to have been found.
A film on Menachem Begin hits home for an Israeli musician
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during a Joint Session of Congress when U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords, Sept. 18, 1978. Credit: Warren K. Leffler of U.S. News & World Report, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.
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A film on Menachem Begin hits home for an Israeli musician
“Upheaval” is part of a larger effort to tell the story of the Jewish nation’s founding to young Jews, many of whom have barely a passing knowledge of the country, its accomplishments and its continuing struggles to survive.
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