After 30 years of teaching preschool, Lisa Guise is counting down her last 30 days as a director and teacher at First Steps Preschool in Brighton. I ve been at this for 30 years and with COVID over the last year it was more difficult, Guise, 60, said. I think maybe I ve had enough. I want to go out while I m healthy and young enough to enjoy something else.
After so many years in the Brighton community, Guise has taught hundreds of children and has touched countless lives.
When Tara Ruiz was looking for a preschool for her son, she instantly loved First Steps. My oldest was 3 when we moved here and we did a ton of research, Ruiz said. We went on a handful of tours and as soon as I walked into that classroom and met Lisa, she was talking about her policies and philosophy and it was like God was shining a light down like this is the one.
Lambert here: Good news! Leave the stuff in the ground. Oh, and thanks, Obama!
By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Originally published at DeSmogBlog.
Five environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in a Montana federal court alleging that the way that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issues permits for oil and gas pipelines nationwide violates some of the country’s cornerstone environmental laws.
This new lawsuit, filed May 3, is the most recent round in a nearly decade-long battle, sparked under the Obama administration, over how regulators approach the environmental impacts from oil and gas pipelines and the extent to which the public gets a say in the permitting process.
Earlier in the week, Wealth Enhancement Group agreed to purchase Pillar Pacifica Capital Management, a San Marino, Calif.-based firm with $1.6 billion in AUM. WEG’s AUM will increase to $30.2 billion once the deal closes.
Creative Planning, an RIA consolidator with $76 billion in AUM picked up a new business line and client service: Business valuations. The firm, Castle Wealth Advisors, offers wealth management and business valuations for business owner clients looking to sell. Castle manages $320 million in AUM.
Below are more mergers, acquisitions and advisor moves you may have missed the week of April 26, 2021.
Steward Partners Closes on Umpqua Investments Acquisition
People of color and those with incomes below the poverty line are more likely to live near oil refineries where air monitors show benzene levels that should trigger federal action.
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