Community News/Events

By Jim Garamone Forecasters said the hurricane would be bad, but no one expected a Katrina. Hurricane Katrina hit the American Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, causing initial destruction from Texas to Florida. It wreaked such damage over such a large area that it changed the way the U.S. government responds to disasters. According to the National Hurricane Center …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Rockefeller Foundation, and Cities of Service announced on Thursday, the 10 cities selected to pilot Resilience AmeriCorps. The cities include Anchorage, Alaska; Boulder, Colo.; Chicago, Ill.; El Paso, Texas; Minot, N.D.; New Orleans, La.; Norfolk, Va.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Tulsa, Okla. The selection of these cities …

By Nosakhare Okunmwendia More than 3,700 graduates recently joined a community of 84,000 living alumni of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, thereby boosting United States labor force. At the commencement ceremony which took place at Tsongas Center of UMass Lowell, on May 16, 2015, the university awarded 124 doctoral, 995 master’s and 2,567 baccalaureate degrees to the deserving students. Special …

Mother, it is a year today, May 12, 2014 since you left us to be with the Lord. Not a day goes by when you are not loved and missed. Our hearts still ache in sadness, and secret tears still flow. No farewell word was spoken, there was no time to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, …

By Alltimepost.com. Benin City – Seventeen indigent students of Eghosa Grammar School in Benin City, Edo State, representing different academic grades were recently awarded scholarships by the school’s alumni body, Eghosa Old Boys Association (EGHOBA). Of the seventeen students, fifteen of them have been physically presented with their awards while the remaining two were added to the list two days …

…National Solutions Summit Launches Year of Commemoration and Innovation Washington, D.C. — Today the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and leading experts on issues of poverty in the U.S. kicked off the 50th anniversary of AmeriCorps VISTA with the first-ever National Solutions Summit. This half-day event will focus on the program’s accomplishments and feature innovative ways AmeriCorps VISTA …

Just when it seemed that the lingering bloody conflict between Benue farmers and Fulani herdsmen had at last been contained, the crisis suddenly resurfaced and escalated in parts of the state, especially in Agatu and Logo local government areas of the state. As at last count, well over 300 persons may have lost their lives in the last few weeks, …