Student helps create mental health site for farmers
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Madison Smith freely admits it’s not necessarily the academic journey she anticipated.
The recent graduate from the University of Georgia’s School of Social Work grew up on a small farm her grandfather operated in North Georgia. She initially thought she had left that life behind, but a project in the final year of her master’s degree program ultimately would marry them together.
Farmers in trouble
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, farmers in the U.S. have one of the highest rates of suicide for any vocational group. This sobering statistic is the primary driver behind a recently launched initiative between the School of Social Work and the American Farm Bureau Federation aimed at facilitating greater use of mental health resources for farmers and ranchers.
The first attempts to resume peaceful resolution of conflict between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots since the fall through of the last peace deal in 2017, has failed yet again. The UN has reported its dismay with the failure to heal the rift between the two groups at its most recent meeting In Geneva. Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, has reported that the purpose of the meeting was to “determine whether common grounds exist for the parties to negotiate a last solution to the problem in Cyprus within a foreseeable horizon.”
The long ongoing conflict in Cyprus begun in 1974, when Turkey occupied the northern third region of the Island following a military coup. Cyprus was settled by Greece, and then transitioned to Ottoman rule before gaining its independence in 1960. The Turkish minority were left with an unjust amount of power resulting in the divides between the country. Today, Northern Cyprus is occupied by Turkish Cypriots,
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Cast announced for Chipola’s “Disney Winnie the Pooh Kids”
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MARIANNA Chipola College Theater Director Raines Carr recently selected the cast for the children’s musical, “Disney Winnie the Pooh Kids,” which will be presented to hundreds of elementary school children in May. Public performances are May 20 & 21 at 7 p.m.
The cast includes: Bryce Etheridge as Pooh, Elijah Wells as Piglet, Michael Anthony as Owl, Alexis Hall as Rabbit, George Roulhac as Tigger, Gwyneth Davis as Kanga/Roo, Tristan Pettus as Eeyore, Dorian Chancey as Christopher Robin, and chorus members: Madison Smith, Ashley Lytle, Niya Bright, Phillip Bridges, and Ricky Coachman.