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North Bay’s Nipissing Trackers has received the June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism.
The Ontario government announced Thursday the Trackers was among 16 individuals and volunteer organizations presented with the award during a virtual ceremony.
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Recognizing the exceptional leadership, innovation and creativity of volunteers and administrators, the award is named after journalist, author and Order of Ontario appointee, the late June Callwood, one of Canada’s most well-known social activists who founded or co-founded more than 50 social action organizations, a statement from the province says.
Out of Africa
Rick Taylor shines a light on Africa as a next choice for meeting, change and legacy opportunity.
Africa is 30.2m sqkm in size and home to 16.7% of the world’s population. Sub-Saharan Africa is the youngest region in the world with a median age of 19.5 compared to 38 in the US, 43 in the EU and 47 in Japan.
Against the aspirations of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 (a plan for transformation of the continent by 2063), Africa’s tourism competitiveness is increasing as destinations scale up their development agendas specifically into the business events sector. The importance of the business events sector, with its unmatched value chain and deep social impacts, has become even more evident during Covid-19.
Zoo in Mississippi to get 2 giraffes, seeks accreditation msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hattiesburg Zoo to get giraffes, will seek accreditation in 2021
Hattiesburg Zoo to get giraffes, will seek accreditation in 2021 By Charles Herrington | January 23, 2021 at 8:14 PM CST - Updated January 24 at 6:31 AM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for the Hattiesburg Zoo.
Visitors will see some new and very tall animals in the late spring or early summer when the zoo receives two giraffes for a new exhibit.
“The giraffes we are going to start with will be a female giraffe and her juvenile offspring,” said Rick Taylor, executive director of the Hattiesburg Convention Commission.
“That sets the stage for our future, which is to bring in a male,” Taylor said. “Our exhibit is designed to be a giraffe breeding facility, so, we will increase that and we have the capacity to go up to possibly six giraffes, that would be our long term goal.”