A cross-Canada train excursion is marking the centenary of a migration that saw some 21,000 Mennonites from the Soviet Union emigrate to Canada but is also striving to address reconciliation while fulfilling a deathbed promise.
HANOVER Growing up, Dr. Hilda Weyl Sokol’s children associated her career with rats.Her son, Niels Sokol, and her oldest daughter, Kirstin Sokol, remember taking trips to pick up rats. One, nicknamed Snow White, even became a pet to Sokol’s youngest.
Delaware Business Now
Delaware Electric Cooperative, Greenwood, named
Greg Starheim the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Greenwood-based organization.
Starheim most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Business and Industry Development at the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) and will replace longtime CEO, Bill Andrew.
The co-op’s board selected Starheim in May to lead DEC’s 170-person workforce after a national search.
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“The energy industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation. The board is confident that Greg’s expertise will guide the Co-op and its dedicated employees through these changes and allow DEC to provide members with energy that is even more reliable, sustainable, and affordable,” said board member Michael Brown, who worked with CarterBaldwin Executive Search and other board members to select the new CEO.
Schroeder s once only allowed men for its lunches. Here s how that policy changed Dianne de Guzman, SFGATE
In the fall of 1970, Carol Weintraub insisted to the San Francisco Chronicle that she wasn t suing hofbrau Schroeder s because of the women s liberation movement.
Instead, Weintraub told the newspaper it was merely because she preferred a bit of German food for lunch. It so happens I like German food which Schroeder s is noted for and I wanted to eat it during my lunch hour, she was quoted as saying. ( She simply likes German food, reads the caption beneath Weintraub s photo in The Chronicle.)