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Like the best love stories, Teresa Whitter’s started on the dance floor.
It’s where she met Laith Sami, a UK film-maker who offered her a leading role in his version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Called Crime of Passion, the feature-length movie...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019
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YouthNet’s mission is to empower students to make positive life choices through school-based mentoring.
Adults and peers volunteer to support, guide, and be a friend to a young person for a period of at least one school year.
By becoming part of the...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019
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Young Observer
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The Peer Mentoring Programme matches older students with their younger counterparts, within the same school or close by, to provide friendship and support.
One of the most important influences on young people today is peer pressure.
Too often, youn...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019
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Young Observer
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Hiking the Appalachian Trail is not for the faint of heart. It’s a brutal 2,189-mile trek over treacherous, mountain terrain stretching across 14 eastern American states.
Rory Gorman undertook the journey in 2017, having never camped or hiked a day...
DATE: Mar 20, 2019
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Daniel Mannus’s living room is filled with photos — of his daughter, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
The pictures are poignant because he once thought he might never have a family.
“My wife Elaine and I had been trying for years and it...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
The Reading Mentoring Programme matches individuals or teams (from the community, business sector, and high school) with students in public primary school classrooms to strengthen literacy skills.
Not only do the mentors help improve attitudes towar...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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Young Observer
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It all started one ordinary Tuesday evening ...” So begins Tina Arorash’s tale of a well-meaning but misunderstood dog and his owner.
Tired, Tass jokingly asks Boris to clean up the kitchen; she wakes from a nap to a room full of bubbles.
At its hear...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019
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‘We are blessed to be a blessing’ is the mantra Pahn-ya Ratteray and Janita Burke-Bean live by.
They’re part of Mission Possible, Restoration Fellowship’s community fair that hopes to raise funds for causes here and overseas on April 6.
“The fair is...
DATE: Mar 16, 2019
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Religion
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TODAY
• St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church: Join us for a family kite-making workshop every Saturday through April 6 from 10am until 12.30pm and a kite competition on April 13. Kite materials will be provided free. Registration forms, $10, are availab...
DATE: Mar 16, 2019
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The Junior Open Pairs Championship was held over two sessions last Saturday, and congratulations to Nick Kempe and Delton Outerbridge who had a great first session and then held on fairly comfortably to take the title.
Finishing second were the pair...
DATE: Mar 16, 2019
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