Kids helping kids: Mount Pearl hockey team hopes to clinch the Good Deeds Cup
The City Tire Blues are one of 11 regional finalists across Canada vying for the grand prize, which would help the Canada-wide counselling organization provide services to more children in need. Voting ends Wednesday.
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Topsham selectmen on Thursday set the referendum vote for June, when voters will decide whether to form a commission to consider improvements to how the town government runs.
Australiaâs âRebel Reverendâ Goes Viral With Barbed Liberal Messages
The Rev. Rod Bower became a national sensation with pugnacious political signs shared by millions over social media. Now heâs questioning the internet dynamics that made him famous.
The Rev. Rod Bower with the sign outside his church in Gosford, Australia, whose messages have become a social media sensation.Credit.Matthew Abbott for The New York Times
Feb. 13, 2021
GOSFORD, Australia â The Rev. Rod Bower, Australiaâs most famous gadfly in a clerical collar, strolled behind a crowd of demonstrators at a busy street corner, admiring their handmade protest signs.
Meet the coastal warrior creating couture from Sydneyâs shore waste
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Artist Marina DeBris starts each day combing the beaches of Sydneyâs eastern suburbs for rubbish that she fashions into a kind of couture called âtrashionâ. Itâs not hard for this âtrashionistaâ to find raw materials for her creations.
âYou wouldnât believe some of the things I find washed up on the beach,â she says â the most common: cigarette butts; the strangest: a latex sex toy.
Model and scientist Laura Wells wears âThe ones that got awayâ, which Marina DeBris made from aluminium cans and plastic bottles.Â
Topsham to send government review option to voters
Selectmen voted 4-1 Thursday to propose a charter commission that explore changes to make the town run better.
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Topsham selectmen discuss Thursday whether they want to ask voters to form a charter commission review possible ways to make the town run more effectively.
Topsham voters may decide in coming months whether the town should form a group to consider changes to its charter.
Selectmen voted 4-1 to move forward with the referendum, with the long-term goal of helping the town run better.
The commission would review local government and recommend updates through a new charter, which is a local constitution governing the form and powers of municipal government.