Recognitions: Achievements and awards
Fortenberry receives historical commission award
The recent Texas Historical Commission’s Real Places 2021 virtual conference brought together hundreds of individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting and preserving Texas’ historic places and the stories they tell. During the conference, the agency honored worthy recipients for accomplishments and exemplary leadership in the preservation of Texas’ heritage.
Sandy Fortenberry of the Lubbock County Historical Commission received the John Ben Shepperd County Historical Commission Leadership Award for her work as “manager, cheerleader, and collaborator” with her members to preserve the county’s history.
Lubbock County has received a Distinguished Service Award during each year of her tenure.
Global histories of anti-colonial rebellion are laden with male leaders. Across Africa, leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba and Jomo Kenyatta steered resistance against their colonial overlords in Ghana, Congo and Kenya. Thankfully, recently the contribution of women within such movements has also emerged from the shadows of history. Mekatilili wa Menza is one such activist who deserves recognition for her anti-colonial defiance in Kenya.
Believed to have been born in the 1840s in Kilifi County, Mekatilili wa Menza became politically active between 1912 and 1915, leading the Giriama people against British colonial forces.
[1] Most of Mekatilili’s activism therefore began when she was in her seventies. Around that time, the British authorities began to increase economic pressures on the Giriama people by implementing ‘hut taxes’ and by attempting to control the palm wine and ivory trade. They also attempted to recruit as workforce young Giriama men, taking the
KENDALLVILLE â The stages at area high schools went dark in early 2020 as band and choir concerts and live theater productions shut down and the coronavirus pandemic ramped up.
The nature of live performances, with large gatherings of cast members and audiences, magnified the effects of the pandemic. Social distancing and state restrictions on the size of gatherings created barriers for musicians and cast members to rehearse and prepare for concerts and live theater together, and for audiences who couldnât pack the auditoriums.
With recent decreases in coronavirus cases, some schools have begun planning for performances within health department guidelines, while others still are holding off.
Wagner Araujo
Wagner and Elaine Araujo quarantined for 11 days after landing in the UK the day new rules came into force.
At the Radisson Blu Hotel at Heathrow, they washed laundry in the tub and watched 70 episodes of Suits.
They left the modest twin room just once to stretch their legs in the car park.
Brazilian-born couple Wagner Araujo, 43, and his wife Elaine Araujo, 41, had to isolate in a small hotel room for 11 days thanks to the UK Government s order that anyone travelling from a red list of countries would have to quarantine on arrival to combat the spread of new variants of COVID-19.
Premium Content
Subscriber only
Central Queensland touch and rugby league players will get to learn from some of the codes’ most accomplished figures this weekend.
CQ Bulls Touch is presenting the 6 Again Clinic featuring NRLW stars Ali Brigginshaw, Millie Boyle, Tarryn Aiken, Lauren Brown, Shenae Ciesiolka and homegrown talent Tamika Upton.
The decorated athletes will run touch and rugby league clinics in Rockhampton and Yeppoon on Saturday and Sunday and attend a gala event at Rockhampton’s Cocobrew on Saturday night.
CQ Bulls general manager development Tracy Upton said it was exciting to deliver the clinics for the first time.