SEIU ULTCW Kicks-Off Labor Day Weekend by Helping 6,000 Local Children and Family Members at Fresh Start Festival
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Focused on the needs of local families and children during these difficult economic times, the members of SEIU ULTCW (United Long Term Care Workers' Union) kicked-off the Labor Day weekend by hosting the LA Fresh Start Working Families Community Festival - a free event that drew an estimated 6,000 people. The Festival provided children with back-to ...
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Bruce Chatwin: Could this be the last great man of letters?
During the winter of 1969, Bruce Chatwin wrote an exceptionally long letter to Tom Maschler, the head of Jonathan Cape. "You asked me to write you a letter about my proposed book on nomads," he wrote. "The question I will try to answer is, 'Why do men wander rather than sit still?'" It was a question that preoccupied the author for his entire life, from his prep-school days in the 1940s to his ...
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Vacation from hell: Readers share their tales of woe
Kid locking herself in a motel bathroom? That’s, well, kid stuff. Clutching a barf bag and turning green on a plane? Ho-hum.
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Johnson's Shut-Ins are just as thrilling as ever
MIDDLEBROOK, MO. • Scaling Johnson's Shut-Ins is a lot likehitching up a pair of too-tight pantyhose — you just can't do itgracefully. That was one revelation I had as I hoisted myself,walrus style, atop a lump of prehistoric rhyolite. The otherthought I had: I could die here.
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13th Annual Henry Schein Back-to-School Program Serves Record Number of Children
Henry Schein, Inc. , the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, is helping a record number of children return to school wearing new outfits and carrying backpacks filled with school supplies and hygiene products through the 13th annual Henry Schein Back-to-School program. Â This year, the Back-to-School program is supporting more than 2,200 children ...
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