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Library Outlines Reopening Plans

The St. Mary’s County Library has announced its Phase 1 reopening plans. The book drops at all three library locations — Charlotte Hall, Leonardtown, and Lexington Park — will be opened to receive checked out materials Wednesday, June 17. All three locations will start curbside pickup of reserved materials on Monday, June 22.

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42 governors, including at least 19 Republicans, consent to resettle MORE refugees

How to turn red states blue, and first world third. Trump should have ended the fraudulent refugee resettlement program on day one in office.

Read more at Refugee Resettlement Watch via Three More Republican Governors Turn on Trump, Cave to Leftists on Refugee Program Reform 

The list below is from one of the taxpayer-funded enemies within who is flooding America with refugees and flipping cowardly, weak-kneed Republicans (in name only). via Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services

Governors who have given consent

Gov. Wolf (D-PA) Public Statement and Letter of Consent

Gov. Whitmer (D-MI) Public Statement and Letter of Consent

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) Public Statement via Spokesperson

Gov. Murphy (D-NJ) Public Statement and Letter of Consent

Gov. Polis (D-CO) Public Statement and Letter of Consent

Gov. Grisham (D-NM) Letter of Consent

Gov. Baker (R-MA) Public Statement and Letter of Consent

Gov. Kate Brown (D-OR) Letter of Consent and Tweet

Gov. Gary Herbert (R-UT) Letter of Consent (& Salt Lake Tribune Article)

Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) Letter of Consent

Gov. Burgum (R-ND) Public Statement, Consent Letter, and AP article

Gov. Northam (D-VA) Press Release and Letter of Consent 

Gov. Sununu (R-NH) Letter of Consent and AP Article

Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT) Letter of Consent

Governor Laura Kelly (D-KS) Letter of Consent and Press Release

Governor Ducey (R-AZ) Letter of Consent and Article

Governor Cooper (D-NC) Letter of Consent

Governor Lamont (D-CT) Letter of Consent

Governor John Carney (D-DE) Letter of Consent

Governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA) Letter of Consent

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) Letter of Consent and Press Release

Governor Gina Raimondo (D-RI) Letter of Consent

Governor Eric Holcomb (R-IN) Letter of Consent

Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) Public Statement with Expected Consent and Letter of Consent

Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) Letter of Consent, Press Release, and Letter to the Lt. Governor & State Speaker of the House

Governor Tony Evers (D-WI) Letter of Consent

Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) Letter of Consent

Governor Kevin Stitt (R-OK) Letter of Consent

Governor Pete Ricketts (R-NE) Anticipated Consent via Spokesman

Governor Steve Sisolak (D-NV) Letter of Consent

Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) Article on Consent

Governor Bashear (D-KY) anticipated consent 

Governor Justice (R-WV) Letter of Consent & Press Release

Governor Edwards (D-LA) Letter of Consent and article 

Governor Hutchinson (R-AR) Letter of Consent and article 

Governor Newsom (D-CA) Letter of Consent

Governor Parson (R-MO) Letter of Consent and article

Governor Little (R-ID) Letters of Consent by county and article

Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) Letter of Consent and article

Governor Dunleavy (R-AK) Article on Consent

Governor Cuomo (D-NY)

Governor Phil Scott (R-VT) Article on Consent

Local Authorities who have given consent*

*Non-exhaustive list

Mayor Ben Walsh – Syracuse, NY

Mayor Jacob Frey Tweet of consent– Minneapolis, MN

Mayor Andrew Ginther– Columbus, OH

Mayor Steve Schewel and Letter of Consent – Durham, NC

Mayor Jenny Durkan Letter of Consent – Seattle, WA

Mayor Nancy Vaughan Letter of Consent – Greensboro, NC

Alexandria City Council resolution, statement from Mayor Justin Wilson – Alexandria, VA

Durham County, NC Board of Commissioners – Letter of Consent

Knoxville City Council Consent – Knoxville, TN

Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price (R) letter to Governor Abbott

Erie County, NY – Letter of Consent

Mayor Byron Brown Letter of Consent – Buffalo, NY

Mayor Patti Garrett Letter of Consent – Decatur, GA

Chatham County, GA – Letter of Consent

Polk County, IA – Letter of Consent

Warren County, KY – Letter of Consent 

Daviess County, KY – Letter of Consent

Mayor Nicole LaChapelle Letter of Consent – Easthampton, MA

Mayor Alex B. Morse Letter of Consent – Holyoke, MA

Mayor David Narkewicz Letter of Consent – Northampton, MA

Mayor Kimberly Driscoll Letter of Consent – Salem, MA

Mayor John Engen Letter of Consent – Missoula, MT

Mayor David Engen Letter of Consent – Grand Forks, ND

Mayor Frank G. Jackson Letter of Consent – Cleveland, OH

Mayor Michael P. Summers Letter of Consent – Lakewood, OH

Mayor Timothy J. DeGeeter Letter of Consent – Parma, OH

Mayor Nan Whaley Letter of Consent – Dayton, OH

Erie County Pennsylvania – Letter of Consent

Mayor Jorge O. Elorza Letter of Consent – Providence, RI

Bexar County, TX – Letter of Consent

Mayor Ron Nirenberg Letter of Consent – San Antonio, TX

Mayor Levar Stoney Letter of Consent – Richmond, VA

Kalamazoo County, MI – Letter of Consent

Kandiyohi County, MN – Letter of Consent 

Pima County, AZ Letter of Consent – Pima County, AZ

Mayor Kim Maggard Letter of Consent – Whitehall, OH

Mayor Betsy Price Letter of Consent – Fort Worth, TX

Mayor John Dailey Letter of Consent and Proclamation – Tallahassee, FL

Burleigh County, ND – Commission Vote

Franklin County, OH – Final Resolution / Commission and Article

Mayor of Dallas Letter of Consent – Dallas, TX

Mayor Thomas McNamara Letter of Consent – Rockford, IL

Winnebago County, IL – Letter of Consent 

DuPage County, IL – Letter of Consent

Mayor Jim Bouley Letter of Consent – Concord, NH

Mayor Kate Gallego Letter of Consent – Phoenix, AZ

Mayor Jonathan Rothschild Letter of Consent – Tucson, AZ

Mayor Edward Terry Letter of Consent – Clarkston, GA

Mayor William Reichelt Letter of Consent – West Springfield, MA

City of Ypsilanti, MI – Council Resolution and Consent 

Olmsted County, MN  Letter of Consent 

Mayor Lyda Krewson Letter of Consent – St. Louis, MO

Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin Letter of Consent – Raleigh, NC

Cass County, ND – Letter of Consent

Mayor Alvin Brandl Letter of Consent – Madison, NE

Mayor Jim Donchess Letter of Consent – Nashua, NH

Mayor Joyce Craig Letter of Consent – Manchester, NH

Hamilton County, OH – Letter of Consent

Montgomery County, OH – Letter of Consent

Mayor Lucy Vinis Letter of Consent – Eugene, OR

Mayor Christine Lundberg Letter of Consent – Springfield, OR

Mayor Wayne Evans Letter of Consent – Scranton, PA

Mayor Andy Berke Letter of Consent – Chattanooga, TN

Cache County, UT – Letter of Consent

Salt Lake County, UT – Letter of Consent

Weber County, UT – Letter of Consent

Fairfax County, VA – Letter of Consent

Mayor Sherman Lea, Sr. Letter of Consent – Roanoke, VA

Mayor Kelli Linville Letter of Consent – Bellingham, WA

Pierce County, WA – Letter of Consent 

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway Letter of Consent – Madison, WI

Mayor Fischer Letter of Consent – Louisville, KY

Mayor Kenneth Miyagishima Letter of Consent – Las Cruces, NM

Mayor William Peduto Letter of Consent – Pittsburgh, PA

Mayor Mark Behnke Letter of Consent – Battle Creek, MI

Macomb County, MI – Letter of Consent

Washtenaw County, MI – Consent Resolution 

Wayne County, MI – Letter of Consent 

Oakland County, MI – Letter of Consent 

Mayor David Berger Letter of Consent – Lima, OH

Mayor Martin Walsh Letter of Consent – Boston, MA

Mayor Joe Hogsett Letter of Consent – Indianapolis, IN

Dallas County, TX – Letter of Consent

Ingham County, MI – Consent Resolution 

Mayor Stephen C.N. Kepley Letter of Consent – Kentwood, MI

Las Vegas, NV – Article on Consent 

Henderson, NV – Article on Consent 

Reno, NV – Article on Consent

Wake County NC – Letter of Consent 

Buncombe County NC –  Letter of Consent 

Onondaga County, NY – Article on Consent 

Cook County, MN – Article on Consent

Cumberland County, PA – Article on Consent

Ramsey County, MN – Article on Consent

Minnehaha County, SD – Article on Consent

 Boulder County, CO – Article on Consent

Grand Traverse County, MI – Article on Consent

New Castle County, DE – Article on Consent

Utah County, UT – Article on Consent

Otter Tail County, MN – Article on Consent

Twin Falls County, ID – Article on Consent

Spokane County, WA – Article on Consent

Dane County, WI – Press Release on Consent

Boone County, MO – Article on Consent

Mecklenburg County, NC – Article on Consent

Ann Corcoran of RRW blog notes:

I continue to argue that these nine contractors are the heart of America’s Open Borders movement and thus there can never be long-lasting reform of US immigration policy when these nine un-elected phony non-profits are paid by the taxpayers to work as community organizers pushing an open borders agenda.

Church World Service (CWS)

Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)

Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM)

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular)

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular)

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

World Relief Corporation (WR)

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How PPP kept Greater Lansing nonprofits afloat

LANSING – While the COVID-19 pandemic halted social gatherings, personal work, personal schooling, and indoor eating, one thing that didn’t stop was grief.

Ele’s Place, which provides free grief counseling services to children, teens and families, had to continue to meet their customers’ needs during the pandemic, especially as personal funerals and memorial services were restricted or prohibited.

But these services are fully funded by donations and financial support, and the pandemic forced the organization to cancel large fundraising drives and move their annual 5K to a virtual race, director Kristine Kuhnert said.

Because of this, the paycheck protection program has been a lifeline for nonprofits like Ele’s Place. According to an analysis of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s PPP data, PPP loaned $ 87.3 million to 394 Greater Lansing nonprofits that kept 10,640 jobs during the pandemic.

“This PPP money held out until we could start fundraising again,” said Kuhnert. “We are 100% supported by our community.”

Ele’s Places received two PPP loans totaling $ 1 million, saved 76 jobs in the first round and 78 in the second round, according to the SBA. Eles Platz has repaid its 2020 PPP loan.

According to Kuhnert, face-to-face meetings could not be held, the peer-to-peer groups went online and staff started working remotely. She said she hoped to start face-to-face sessions in the fall and continue some virtual sessions.

“It was absolutely necessary for us to continue operations,” said Kuhnert.

So many nonprofits are doing such a great job, but the pandemic has presented them with many challenges, she said.

PPP was developed to cover payroll, mortgage or rent payments, utility or worker protection costs for COVID-19, according to the SBA. PPP ended on May 31, 2021.

Corporations and nonprofits are eligible for loan waiver if 60% is spent on payroll within the first 8 to 24 weeks of receiving the money. According to the SBA, the remaining 40% can be used for mortgage subsidies, rent or operating costs.

Those who received the loans may have to repay the full amount if they fail to meet the award criteria, according to the SBA.

More:Greater Lansing companies received $ 947 million through PPP. The money flowed here

Here’s how charitable support in Greater Lansing collapsed:

In Ingham County, 273 organizations received $ 59.9 million, saving 7,119 jobs

In Eaton County, 88 organizations received $ 23.7 million, saving 2,949 jobs

In Clinton County, 33 organizations received $ 3.7 million, which saved 572 jobs

PPP protected staff, assisted programming

The Lansing Diocese and its churches struggled as face-to-face services were canceled for months and collections to support their work dwindled.

The diocese, through its churches, schools, and charities, has the role of raising children, feeding the hungry, supporting families, and continuing to serve the religious needs of parishioners, said spokesman David Kerr.

“Much of this wonderful work has obviously been at risk from the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected most people and institutions in our community alike,” said Kerr. “Hence, PPP loans have been a blessing to help these apostolic and charitable institutions continue their essential work for the good of all, and in a way that has been genuinely resourceful as often as the need required.”

According to the SBA, the diocese received a loan of $ 971,110 through PPP to keep 85 jobs. The diocese has repaid its loan in full.

The ability to maintain operations enabled the diocese to keep their schools open for face-to-face tuition, switch to a drive-through format for their pantries, continue charitable counseling through Zoom, and assign a “call tree” for parishioners start to check each other out, Kerr said.

Religious organizations were more than a third of the non-profit organizationsin Greater Lansing, which was supported by PPP.

More:Some nonprofits in the Lansing area are weathering the pandemic, but arts organizations are struggling

Even member-funded organizations needed help.

The Michigan Education Association saw PPP as a stopgap measure to continue their advocacy services, despite questions about whether their member educators would continue to be paid during the pandemic. The MEA received a $ 6.4 million PPP loan to keep 285 jobs, according to the SBA.

“When MEA applied for the paycheck protection program, there was tremendous uncertainty as to whether public school teachers would continue to be paid during the pandemic,” spokesman David Crim said in a statement. “If payment to educators had stopped, they would have been” unable to pay the fees required for MEA to support our educators and help them deliver world class education to our students.

“When it became clear that the teachers would continue to be paid, MEA repaid the loan in full because it was right,” he added.

Which organizations have benefited most from PPP?

Ingham County:

Michigan Education Association: $ 6.4 million to maintain 285 jobs. MEA has repaid its loan in full.

Michigan Education Special Services Association: $ 6.12 million, 275 jobs preserved

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services: $ 2.87 million, added 223 jobs

Highfields Inc .: $ 2.56 million, added 118 and 128 jobs in two rounds. Highfields has repaid its 2020 PPP loan.

Burcham Hills Retirement Center II: $ 2.3 million, 378 jobs preserved

Eaton County:

Olivet College: $ 3.75 million, 387 and 217 jobs saved in two rounds. The college has repaid its 2020 loan.

St. Vincent Catholic Charities: $ 2.99 million, adding 148 and 147 jobs in two rounds. St. Vincent has repaid its loan for 2020.

Eaton County’s Health and Rehabilitation Services: $ 2.48 million to keep 360 jobs

Michigan Virtual University: $ 2.17 million, 267 jobs saved

Michigan Crossroads Council Inc., Boy Scouts of America: $ 1.77 million, saves 154 jobs. The council has repaid its loan in full.

Clinton County:

Michigan Crossroads Council Inc., Boy Scouts of America: $ 1.41 million, added 150 jobs

Michigan Area United Methodist Camping: $ 372,863, which will keep 25 and 20 jobs over two rounds. The organization has repaid its loan for 2020.

St. Francis Retreat Center DeWitt: $ 310,496, which will save 55 and 48 jobs over two rounds. The center has repaid its loan for 2020.

St. Mary Parish Westphalia: $ 296,800, 48 jobs preserved. The community has repaid their loan.

St. Joseph Parish St. Johns: $ 273,165, saving 37 jobs

Contact reporter Craig Lyons at 517-377-1047 or calyons@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @craigalyons.

source https://www.cassh24sg.com/2021/06/27/how-ppp-kept-greater-lansing-nonprofits-afloat/

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New York Power Authority’s Response to the Coronavirus Epidemic

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is ever-evolving, the New York Power Authority remains steadfast in our mission of supplying low-cost power to all of our customers. To ensure that the tasks associated with critical infrastructure proceed smoothly, 85 personnel have been sequestered at the Niagara, St. Lawrence, Blenheim-Gilboa, Clark, Flynn and Zeltmann facilities, working 12-hour shifts. Control room operators continue to manage the flow of electricity, monitoring screens and computers for any operating equipment abnormalities. Troubleshooting and repair work is coordinated with staff that come in to address any emergent work on critical equipment. 

With that, utility crisis management teams are being put to the test to come up with creative strategies to minimize potential coronavirus exposure while still allowing utility workers to go into the field and perform critical tasks like restoring power after outages and keeping the generators running. "We did have an outage at a combined-cycle plant that went off at the beginning of this event," Paul Tartaglia, Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation, said. "To help minimize that risk, we first cut the scope of the outage down significantly to only those things that would be considered essential to getting us through the summer operational period. We went down from the 'nice to have' stuff to the 'have to do' stuff."

Though there has been a lot of negativity in the news and uncertainty during this time, NYPA staff has stepped up to the plate to give back to those on the frontlines battling this virus. 

NYPA’s Needlecraft group, led by Mary Helmsworth-Hamby, Manager of Proposal Development, had the idea to share knitting projects and provide an outlet for members suffering from cabin fever. "It's always great to get together to talk about knitting and other creative projects, but particularly now when many people are feeling stressed and isolated. It's been great to reach out so that people don't feel so alone," Helmsworth-Hamby said.

The Needlecraft group is currently working on a project that centers on sewing face masks for healthcare workers in Westchester. “It is a privilege to be involved with this project as we all know what our medical workers are up against,” said Maura Balaban, Media Relations Specialist. NYPA’s Needlecraft group has a record of taking on community-service  projects, including knitting hats, gloves and scarves for low-income children in White Plains; cotton hats in support of the American Heart Association's "Little Hats, Big Hearts" campaign, for babies born with heart defects; and blankets for homeless LGBTQ youth.

The spirit of helping continued to be exemplified over the weekend by the actions of 63 NYPA and Canal employees in responding to a request by Governor Cuomo seeking the help of state agencies and authorities to assist the New York State Office of Technology with outreach to more than 274,000 New Yorkers who have filed for unemployment insurance during the pandemic. Each of the volunteers made a minimum of 40 calls per day over three days. We all know about the shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for safeguarding frontline health-care workers treating COVID patients. Cullen Brown, Associate Key Account Executive, brought a community push for distributing 3D-printable face shields to NYPA’s attention, which his wife, Madiha Choksi, a library technologist at Columbia University, has been heavily engaged in over the last few weeks. Brown supported his wife in the effort for getting face shields to nurses and doctors to use – so far, more than 7,000 have been produced and distributed to New York City metropolitan-area hospitals utilizing 3D printers at various facilities. 

"The shortage in PPE is heartbreaking and we just want to help out, like so many other people who are providing aid during this desperate time," Brown said. To further augment the need for necessary PPE and medical supplies, ReCharge NY customer Manifold Center, a precision metals manufacturer in Suffolk County, responded to the urgent call for ventilators by maximizing its production of components for the life-saving equipment. 

One way the Canal Corporation has helped in the fight against COVID-19 was having employees from the Waterford maintenance section support New York State's COVID drive-thru testing area at SUNY University at Albany as part of the fueling operation – making sure generators, light stands & other equipment are full of fuel and operating correctly.

"I am so proud of our commitment to New Yorkers in need. Great job." More broadly speaking, Gil said that the performance of the workforces of NYPA and Canals, in rising to the current unprecedented challenge—whether working from our facilities or remotely—reflects "one of our finest hours—a shining moment."  

Further, he noted, "We are helping to keep the hospitals and essential services running, powering New York through this terrible pandemic. Like so many times before, we are getting the job done...Let's continue to support one another and we will overcome whatever additional challenges lie ahead."  

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New top story from Time: ‘They’re Trying to Wipe Us Off the Map.’ Small American Farmers Are Nearing Extinction 

Fremont, Wisconsin — For nearly two centuries, the Rieckmann family has raised cows for milk in this muddy patch of land in the middle of Wisconsin. Mary and John Rieckmann, who now run the farm and its 45 cows, have seen all manners of ups and downs — droughts, floods, oversupplies of milk that sent prices tumbling. But they’ve never seen a crisis quite like this one.

The Rieckmanns are about $300,000 in debt, and bill collectors are hounding them about the feed bill and a repayment for a used tractor they bought to keep the farm going. But it’s harder than ever to make any money, much less pay the debt, Mary Rieckmann says, in the yellow-wallpapered kitchen of the sagging farmhouse where she lives with her husband, John, and two of their seven children. The Rieckmanns receive about $16 for every 100 pounds of milk they sell, a 40 percent decrease from six years back. There are weeks where the entire milk check goes towards the $2,100 monthly mortgage payment. Two bill collectors have taken out liens against the farm. “What do you do when you you’re up against the wall and you just don’t know which way to turn?” Rieckmann says, as her ancient fridge begins to hum. Mary, 79, and John, 80, had hoped to leave the farm to their two sons, age 55 and 50, who still live with them and run the farm. Now they’re less focused on their legacy than about making it through the week.

In the American imagination, at least, the family farm still exists as it does on holiday greeting cards: as a picturesque, modestly prosperous expanse that wholesomely fills the space between the urban centers where most of us live. But it has been declining for generations, and the closing days of 2019 find small farms pummeled from every side: a trade war, severe weather associated with climate change, tanking commodity prices related to globalization, political polarization, and corporate farming defined not by a silo and a red barn but technology and the efficiencies of scale. It is the worst crisis in decades. Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies were up 12 percent in the Midwest from July of 2018 to June of 2019; they’re up 50 percent in the Northwest. Tens of thousands have simply stopped farming, knowing that reorganization through bankruptcy won’t save them. The nation lost more than 100,000 farms between 2011 and 2018; 12,000 of those between 2017 and 2018 alone.

Jason Vaughn for TIMEThe Rieckmann’s mantle in their home in Fremont, Wisconsin, on Nov. 20, 2019.

Farm debt, at $416 billion, is at an all-time high. More than half of all farmers have lost money every year since since 2013, and lost more than $1,644 this year. Farm loan delinquencies are rising.

Suicides in farm communities are happening with alarming frequency. Farmers aren’t the only workers in the American economy being displaced by technology, but when they lose their jobs, they also ejected from their homes and the land that’s been in their family for generations. “It hits you so hard when you feel like you’re the one who is losing the legacy that your great-grandparents started,” said Randy Roecker, a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has struggled with depression and whose neighbor Leon Statz committed suicide last year after financial struggles forced him to sell his 50 dairy cows. Roecker estimates he’s losing $30,000 a month.

Even large companies are facing unprecedented challenges; Dean Foods, a global dairy producer that buys milk from thousands of small farmers, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, November 12, and is seeking a sale, a move that could further hamper farmers looking for places to sell their milk.

Farmers have always talked of looming disaster, but the duration and severity of the current crisis suggests an alarming and once unthinkable possibility — that independent farming is no longer a viable livelihood. Small farms, defined as those bringing in less than $350,000 a year before expenses, accounted for just a quarter of food production in 2017, down from nearly half in 1991. In the dairy industry, small farms accounted for just 10 percent of production. The disappearance of the small farm would further hasten the decline of rural America, which has been struggling to maintain an economic base for decades.

“Farm and ranch families are facing a great extinction,” says Al Davis, a Nebraska cattle producer and former state senator. “If we lose that rural lifestyle, we have really lost a big part of what made this country great.”

Jason Vaughn for TIMEView from the barn into the cow pasture; one of the many farm cats at the entrance to the barn.

A perfect storm of factors has led to the recent crisis in the farm industry. After boom years in the beginning of the 21st century, prices for commodities like corn, soybeans, milk, and meat started falling in 2013. The reason for these lowered prices are the twin forces upending much of the American economy: technology and globalization. Technology has made farms more efficient than ever before. But economies of scale meant that most of the benefits accrued to corporate farmers, who built up huge holdings as smaller farmers sold out. Even as four million farms disappeared in the United States between 1948 and 2015, total farm output more than doubled. Globalization brought more farmers into the international market for crops, flooding the market with soybeans and corn and cattle and milk, and with increased supply comes lower prices. Global food production has increased 30 percent over the last decade, according to John Newton, the chief economist of the American Farm Bureau. If that’s a good thing for feeding the planet, it also reduces what comes back to producers, whose costs don’t fall with prices.

President Trump’s trade war hasn’t helped matters. After the United States slapped tariffs on Chinese goods including steel and aluminum last year, China retaliated with 25 percent tariffs on agricultural imports from the U.S.. China then turned to other countries such as Brazil to replace American soybeans and corn. “This was a market that took years to develop,” says Barb Kalbach, a fourth- generation corn and soybean farmer in Iowa, referring to China. “The president has worked very hard to make our markets unstable.” Her soybeans are harvested and sitting in a grain elevator as she waits to see if China will buy despite the tariffs. Agricultural exports between January and August this year were down 5 percent, or $5.6 billion dollars, from the same period last year. The Trump administration has made $16 billion in aid available to farmers affected by the trade war, though small farmers complain the bulk of the money has gone to huge producers with large crop losses. Around 40 percent of the $88 billion in farm income expected this year is going to come in the form of federal aid and insurance, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Farm income absent that assistance, at $55 billion, is down 14 percent since last year and is half of what it was in 2013.

Smaller farms have found it especially hard to adapt to these changes, which they blame on government policy and a lack of antitrust enforcement. The government is on the side of big farms, they say, and is ambivalent about whether small farms can succeed. “Get big or get out,” Earl Butz, Nixon’s secretary of agriculture, infamously told farmers in the 1970s. It’s a sentiment that Sonny Perdue, the agriculture secretary under President Trump, echoed recently. “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out,” Perdue said, at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. The number of farms with more than 2,000 acres nearly doubled between 1987 and 2012, according to USDA data. The number of farms with 200 to 999 acres fell over that time period by 44 percent.

Many small American farmers are routinely selling their crops for less than it costs to produce them. “It’s very intimidating, you work hard every day, and every day, it seems like you’re just always struggling,” says Rieckmann.

Prices are so low that farmers like the Rieckmanns are trying to figure out other ways to come up with the money to keep their farm going. But like many other rural areas around the country, their town of Fremont does not have a bustling economy. Both a Kmart and another department store, Shopko, closed in Waupaca county this year, costing dozens of workers their jobs. Mary Rieckmann who will turn 80 in January, got a job delivering newspapers; the family also launched a GoFundMe account. But after Mary crashed her car on a foggy night, her husband and sons convinced her to abandon her paper route. In the past, the family has sold calves to raise extra money, but John recently brought two calves to the stock market and got $20 for one and $30 for another—two years ago, those calves would have brought in $300 to $400 each. “If somebody would have told me 20 years ago what it was going to be like now, I think I would have called him a liar,” Rieckmann says.

Jason Vaughn for TIMEA shuttered Mobil Mart in Fremont, Wisconsin, on Nov. 20, 2019.

Heavy rain and unseasonable snow this year have also hurt many Midwestern farmers. This year “has been one of the most significant weather event years,” said John Newton, chief economist of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Portions of Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota experienced record flooding this year, with the upper Mississippi River receiving 200 percent more rain and snow than normal. Unusual rain and snow prevented farmers from planting on 19 million acres this year, the most since the USDA began measuring in 2007. Last year, by contrast, weather prevented planting on just 2 million acres.

Mike Rosmann, a clinical psychologist and farmer from Iowa who works with farmers in distress, says that this spring, he got seven calls per week from farmers who were having mental health problems because of their farm’s finances. One farmer called Rosmann to say he was considering suicide — floods destroyed the corn he had already harvested and stored in a grain elevator, but neither crop insurance nor flood insurance would cover it, since he had already harvested the crop. “When that farm is lost, it’s a huge amount of loss of self,” says Scott Marlow, senior policy specialist at the Rural Advancement Foundation, which runs a hotline for farmers in danger of losing their farms. John Hanson, who runs an assistance hotline in Nebraska, says that this year he has gotten calls at midnight from desperate farmers, including one sitting in his kitchen with a loaded shotgun and the lights out.

“It’s very, very bleak for us, and many farmers I know are in the same boat,” said Brenda Cochran, a small dairy farmer in Pennsylvania who says she knows of nine suicides related to low milk prices over the last two years. “It would take a miracle to sustain us for five years.” Farm Aid operates a 1-800 hotline for farmers facing crisis, and calls to that hotline were up 109 percent last year from the year before, says Alicia Harvie, director of Farm Aid’s Advocacy and Farmer Services. The newest farm bill sets aside $50 million over five years for behavioral health supports for distressed farmers.

Rural America has been shrinking for decades, and the Great Recession accelerated that contraction as rural manufacturing jobs disappeared and people moved to cities and suburbs seeking work. That is indeed where the jobs are. Between 2008 and 2017, metropolitan areas that included central cities of at least 50,000 people accounted for 99 percent of all job and population growth, according to data crunched by David Swenson, an economist at Iowa State University. In the Midwest, 81 percent of rural counties saw population declines between 2008 and 2017, and in the Northeast, 85 percent of rural counties shrank over that time period.

Jason Vaughn for TIMESteven Rieckmann loading a bale of hay on Nov. 20, 2019.

Kalbach, the Iowa corn and soybean farmer, says on the square mile of land where she lives, five farm different families used to grow corn, beans, hay, cattle, and pigs. Over the past 15 years, the other four families have given up and moved away. As farmers sold to bigger operations, the local businesses that were dependent on small farmers went belly-up, too. The place where the Kalbachs buy chemicals is now 75 miles away. Her county’s lone pharmacy closed earlier this year. There is no longer a local place where she can get farm equipment repaired. “All the thousands of farmers that have left the land—all the businesses have gone with them,” she says.

So have the institutions that make a community. Around 4,400 schools in rural districts closed between 2011 and 2015, the most recent year for which there is data available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics; suburban districts, by contrast, added roughly 4,000 schools over that same time period. In Wisconsin’s dairy country alone, the Antigo School District, in north central Wisconsin, closed three elementary schools this year, and 44 schools have closed since 2018.

“I used to have a lot of neighbors, now I have almost no neighbors,” says George Naylor, an Iowa corn and soybean farmer who is trying to transition to organic farming to stay afloat.

Cochran is worried about the future of her rural Pennsylvania community as more farmers give up. Two neighbor farm auctions are scheduled soon. The dairy refrigeration supply business where she buys equipment is on the verge of collapse. Young people, seeing economic despair all around them, get out as quickly as they can. “I see this as a wholesale removal — or extermination — of our rural class,” she says.

There’s nothing on the horizon to turn around these rural areas. Americans are increasingly concentrating in a few metropolitan areas — by 2040, 70 percent of Americans will live in 15 states. The regions surrounding America’s family farms may become the country’s next ghost towns. “We have to think about what we really want rural America to look like,” says Jim Goodman, president of the National Family Farm Coalition. “Do we want it to be abandoned small towns and farmers who can’t make a living, and a lot of really big farms that are polluting the groundwater?” (Large farms, which have more animal waste to deal with because of their size, have been found to pollute groundwater and air.)

Most family farmers seem to agree on what led to their plight: government policy. In the years after the New Deal, they say, the United States set a price floor for farmers, essentially ensuring they received a minimum wage for the crops they produced. But the government began rolling back this policy in the 1970s, and now the global market largely determines the price they get for their crops. Big farms can make do with lower prices for crops by increasing their scale; a few cents per gallon of cow’s milk adds up if you have thousands of cows.

Jason Vaughn for TIMEMary Rieckmann on her farm in Fremont, Wisconsin, on Nov. 20, 2019.

Smaller farmers warn that a country without local farmers can create problems in the food supply chain. If one company is providing all the milk or cheese to an entire region, what happens when that plant gets contaminated or a storm isolates it from the rest of the country? “It’s an incredibly fragile supply chain, and when it fails, it fails completely,” says Marlow, of the Rural Advancement Foundation.

Family farmers say concentrating farmland among a few big companies is akin to feudalism, and un-American. It also diverts whatever profits might come from farming to faraway investors, aggravating the economic and geographic divisions that feed the nation’s political divide. “There’s a strong reason to be deeply concerned when instead of having 10 mid-sized dairy farms producing income whose owners spend it in town, you replace that with a large farm owned by a set of investors whose profits go running off to New York and Chicago,” said Peter Carstensen, a professor of law emeritus at the University of Wisconsin law school.

Farmers say the best solution is government policy that cracks down on consolidation of the grocery stores and food processing facilities that buy food from farmers. Existing antitrust law would allow the government to prevent big mergers that mean farmers have fewer places to sell their crops and that supplies are more expensive, but those laws go largely unenforced, says Carstensen. Earlier this year, a Wisconsin congressman introduced legislation to put a moratorium on large food and grocery mergers. Farmers are advocating for better antitrust enforcement across the country; in October, cattle ranchers held a ‘Rally to Stop the Stealin’!’ to urge Congress to protect family farmers from monopoly power, and in Vermont, dairy farmers have filed a lawsuit alleging that a conglomerate of milk buyers conspired to set low prices on milk.

One category of small farmers is thriving in the current marketplace: organic farms who can charge a premium for their crops and who can sell them locally. There were more than 14,000 certified organic farmers in 2016, up 58 percent from 2011. But switching to organic is expensive, and for farmers like the Rieckmanns who are already deeply in debt, not an option. They haven’t gotten a cent of aid from the government, Rieckmann says, since the assistance goes to the farms with the most farmland and animals. They’re not holding their breath that anything will change. “I sometimes feel,” says Mary Rieckmann, “like they’re trying to wipe us off the map.”

If you or someone you know may be contemplating suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line. In emergencies, call 911, or seek care from a local hospital or mental health provider.

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Capacity Building Is More Than a Buzzword for MIND’s Partners

In the philanthropic world, a lot of organizations talk about capacity building partnerships—but what does that really mean? One definition states that capacity building “is a measurable improvement in an organization’s ability to fulfill its mission through a blend of sound management, strong governance, and dedication to assessing and achieving results.” 

At MIND, where our core values revolve around people, problem-solving and learning, we take the development of capacity building partnerships very seriously. Are we looking for financial support? Of course! We are a nonprofit, social impact organization, after all. But in addition to the financial support that has helped us reach over 1.2 million students with our award-winning program ST Math, we are also extremely grateful for the type of guidance and support that has led us to achieve significant results at scale and receive 9 US patents! Talk about impact and innovation!

Partners Are Key to Advancing the Mission

To continue to make breakthroughs in education and ultimately achieve our mission of ensuring all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most challenging problems, we count on the feedback and advice of our partners.

In May, we had the honor of hosting several of our key partners in Irvine, California for our 2019 Partner Advisory Forum. In this short video interview, we are proud to share thoughts from Kyle Thornton, Education Portfolio Manager at Cisco Foundation; Stacy Zaja, Manager Global Community Relations & Contributions Program at Rockwell Automation; Pat Barnes, Global Program Director, STEM & Youth Education at John Deere; and Larry Plank, Director, K12 STEM Education for Hillsborough County School District.

In addition to the above mentioned partners, we also had the honor of receiving Claudia Kreisle, Director of Philanthropy at Phillips 66; Ashwin Ranjera, Education Portfolio Manager at One8 Foundation; Olga Dinova, Corporate Citizenship & Philanthropy at Pitney Bowes; and Lina Klebanov, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Tata Consultancy Services. Each participant contributed greatly with insightful questions and suggestions, challenging us to think both bigger and more deeply of the impact we can achieve together.

As Mr. Thornton stated, “The partnership works so well because of the emphasis of MIND on outcomes—in truly driving towards learning outcomes that benefit the lives of students to learn and comprehend and become proficient in mathematics.” 

From my perspective, our partnerships work so well because in each of these organizations, we have people who truly believe in and are committed to the work we do. For example, in addition to joining us for our Partner Advisory Forums, Ms. Kreisle is also a member of our Board of Directors, along with Cisco’s Mary deWysocki, and Rockwell Automation’s Becky House. Alongside our partners, MIND continues to see measurable improvement in our organization’s ability to fulfill its mission. We are so grateful for our partners' true capacity building support.

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St Mary Redcliffe secures support from the Cathedrals Project Support Panel

The Cathedrals Project Support Panel (CPSP) is a panel of voluntary experts who give their time to ensure that major projects in cathedrals are successfully devised, managed and delivered. The panel is made up of experts who offer their time voluntarily to help cathedrals navigate the early stages of large development projects. 

Following an autumn 2018 meeting with statutory stakeholders, including the Church Buildings Council, St Mary Redcliffe was offered support from the panel due to its status as one of the county’s greater parish churches and the scale and complexity of Project 450.

Thanks to this generous offer, the church will now have access to a panel of experts who will provide advice at key project stages, testing ideas and challenging assumptions, helping to ensure that all factors have been taken into consideration.

The initial meeting with the CPSP will take place on Wednesday 3 April. 

CPSP members in attendance will be:

Ed Baldwin, a retired senior partner in Arcadis, a global design, engineering and management consulting company, who is an expert in business development and large capital projects. 

Bonnie Kitching, an architect who describes her work as a portfolio ... spanning a decade that has been primarily focused in working with large complex sites embodied with built fabric and heritage that sit at the heart of community life. She has worked on a number of church projects and with the cathedral architects at York Minster, Southwark Cathedral, Shrewsbury Catholic Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral. 

Revd James Bryson, an architect with 20 years experience, now Parish Priest at St John the Baptist, Eltham, South London, who has particular interest in pre-project advice and the clarification of mission. He was Founding Director of Grace Architects, which worked for five years solely with church clients.

Jill Preston who has wide-ranging experience in marketing communications, project leadership and business planning both in major corporations and in senior roles at heritage and visitor attractions, including Kew Gardens. She is a former board director of ALVA (the Association of Large Visitor Attractions) and a board member of of the National Trust London and SE region. She also chaired Chelmsford Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee. 

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SPRINGFIELD — Florence Bank broke ground last week on its second Hampden County branch, at 1444 Allen St. in Springfield, and leaders said the full-service location will open later this year.

“We’re coming to Springfield,” John Heaps Jr., Florence Bank’s president and CEO, told a crowd of roughly 50 people who gathered for the celebratory event. “Our focus is on our customers and on helping to reinvigorate the community.”

Heaps grew up in the Springfield area, and he said the expansion into Springfield “is like coming back home. I used to hang around here. This feels great.”

Likewise, Nikki Gleason, branch manager for the Allen Street location, noted that “Springfield is my home, where I work, volunteer, and spend much of my time. I am thrilled to be serving as the branch manager and happy to be working for Florence Bank. I look forward to seeing many familiar faces and meeting new customers and friends.”

Last September, Florence Bank opened its first branch in Hampden County at 1010 Union St. in West Springfield. The Springfield branch marks the second of an anticipated four branches in the region.

“We’re looking at opening two more,” Heaps said. “This is not just dipping our toe in the water. We’re here, and we’re going to be part of this community for a long time.”

Heaps said the time was right for expansion into the Springfield area because bank mergers and acquisitions in past years have left Springfield without a local bank headquartered there.

As he spoke to the crowd at the groundbreaking, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno picked up on this point. “Sometimes, the community touch is lost,” he said. “Florence Bank is accessible. A person will answer the telephone. The city of Springfield is growing, and Florence Bank will continue to move it forward.”

Also in attendance at the event were Joe and Wendy Bonavita, the site’s former landowners; Kevin Kennedy, chief Development officer for the city of Springfield; Mary Dionne, vice president of the Outer Belt Civic Assoc.; Myles Callender of Revitalize Springfield; and representatives for the developers, Marois Construction of South Hadley, HAI Architecture, and for Bohler Engineering. Florence Bank employees, board members, and corporators were present as well, along with State Rep. Angelo Puppolo and Springfield City Councilors Tim Allen and Mike Fenton.

Like the West Springfield banking center, Heaps said, the Allen Street branch will have an open floor plan with a full-service teller pod and innovative technology for quick cash handling. The location will also feature a drive-up ATM with SMART technology for easy depositing and a comfortable waiting area inside with a coffee bar and free internet.

Florence Bank has nearly 3,800 customers living in Hampden County, including 700 business customers.

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In Memoriam: 2017-2018 season in Palm Beach

Philip and Mary Huiltar posed for a photograph taken sometime before his death in 1992. The couple moved to Palm Beach in the 1960s. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

June 21, 2017

Longtime resident Mary Hulitar, known for her unassuming generosity, died at her home. She was 90.

+ Mary Hulitar

Mrs. Hulitar was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. She served on the boards of Hospice of Palm Beach County, whose Charles W. Gerstenberg Hospice Center in West Palm Beach is named for her father; the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii; and The Society of the Four Arts. She joined the Garden Club of Palm Beach in 1978 and was an active member for the remainder of her life.

Her honors include the Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ John C. Randolph Award, the Hospice Foundation Hero Award and Town of Palm Beach Centennial Ambassador.

Mrs. Hulitar spent many hours volunteering for the Four Arts’ library.

Sept. 5

Myra Mann Morrison

Resident Myra Mann Morrison, who enjoyed careers in nursing and real estate, died at age 85.

+ Myra Mann Morrison

A native of Victoria, Australia, Mrs. Morrison completed her nursing training in Melbourne, Australia, in 1953 before

traveling to the United States to visit family in Palm Beach.

She lived in Atlanta, where she worked as a registered nurse. In 1967, she married the late Earl Mann, then owner of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. They moved to Palm Beach in 1970. Mrs. Morrison worked as a registered nurse at Good Samaritan Medical Center. In the 1970s, she became certified in real estate and was a longtime Realtor with Brown Harris Stevens.

In 2008, she married John Morrison, a career officer in the U.S. Army whom she met at Royal Poinciana Chapel. He also was a licensed real estate broker.

Oct. 18

Dennis Wayne

Dancer and choreographer Dennis Wayne, dubbed the Bad Lad of Ballet for his good looks and rebellious attitude, died of respiratory failure at 72 in West Palm Beach.

+ Dennis Wayne

Born Dennis Wayne Wendelken in St. Petersburg, his career in ballet began in the 1960s with Harkness Ballet. He then became a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theater. He was a frequent visitor to Palm Beach and spent his later years in West Palm Beach.

He was still under contract to American Ballet Theater when he formed his own company, DANCERS, in 1975 and recruited six American Ballet Theater dancers to perform in it, The New York Times said. American Ballet Theater ordered him to disband his company or leave. He acquiesced for a year, then revived his company with financial backing from actress Joanne Woodward. DANCERS debuted in December 1976 at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse.

After suffering serious injuries in a car accident in 1980, he took up choreography and even returned to the stage in 1985 when he and his company performed at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse for the Palm Beach Festival. Wayne danced several times in the 1990s at the Flagler Museum with small freelance troupes he organized. In 1996, he choreographed a fashion show benefit for the Palm Beach Zoo. He created dances for the 2005 Palm Beach Follies fundraiser at The Society of the Four Arts, which raised money for the hurricane-ravaged Four Arts’ gardens.

Nov. 6

Jane Dudley, a longtime winter resident and a stalwart of the island’s society and fashion sets, died at her home in West Nashville. She was 92.

+ Jane Dudley

She was the widow of Guilford Dudley Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark and longtime chairman of The Coconuts. At the time of his death in 2002, they had been married for 52 years.

A native of Nashville, she was the daughter of William and Nancy (Joseph) Anderson. Her father was the coach of Vanderbilt University’s track team. She was a graduate of the Parmer School; Ward Belmont Ladies Seminary and Vanderbilt University.

After college, she worked for the Nashville Tennessean newspaper. Later, she managed corporate accounts for Tiffany & Co. for more than two decades. After marrying, she traveled the world as an ambassador’s wife, acquiring the skills that would later make an invitation from her among the most coveted in Palm Beach, Nashville and New York.

Mrs. Dudley was active in charitable and cultural causes.

Nov. 6

John Bowden Dodge

Longtime resident, businessman and sportsman John Bowden Dodge died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86.

+ John Dodge

A native of Boston, he was the son of Frank Schuyler Dodge and Mary (nee Bowden) Dodge. After serving with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he graduated from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Management in 1957.

His love of the hospitality industry began when he worked at his family’s historic hotel, The Mountain View House in Whitefield. His career included management stints at American Airlines’ Sky Chef division and the Casa Blanca, both in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Charlie Farrell’s Racquet Club in Palm Springs; and the Townhouse in Rochester, N.Y. Later, he became a developer of golf course communities in the Virgin Islands, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Florida. His favorite project was Harbour Ridge, which he chose for its proximity to the St. Lucie River’s scenic North Fork.

An accomplished athlete, he was a diver and loved spending time on his boat, the Lorelei; he also was an avid skier, tennis player and hiker, especially in the White Mountains’ Presidential Range. He considered his greatest athletic accomplishment to be his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1986 at the age of 55.

Mr. Dodge was widely active in civic, charitable and cultural causes.

Nov. 14

Parker Ladd

Parker B. Ladd, a part-time resident, publishing executive and philanthropist, died at his home in New York.

+ Parker Ladd

Mr. Ladd was a graduate of the University of Vermont. After serving in the U.S. Army, he worked as a book seller in Sweden before eventually landing in New York. Mr. Ladd enjoyed a successful career at Charles Scribner’s Sons and was a director at the Association of American Publishers.

Following his retirement, Mr. Ladd served as a television producer for the A&E program, Open Book, an interview talk show featuring authors and their work. In Palm Beach, he developed an interview format breakfast series at The Brazilian Court called the Book and Author Breakfast.

Mr. Ladd, along with his husband — international fashion designer Arnold Scaasi — and their friend and journalist Liz Smith, was a founder of the nonprofit organization Literacy Partners Inc.

Nov. 18

Betty Marcus of Jupiter, formerly of Palm Beach, died at 94.

+ Betty Marcus

Mrs. Marcus was born in 1923, the year that her father, Leo Gerstenzang, invented the Q-tip. She grew up in New York City and spent one year at Northwestern University before marrying Robert (Bob) Marcus, in 1943. She finished her education at Parsons School of Design and became an interior decorator.

Residents of Scarsdale, N.Y., she and her husband bought a second home in Palm Beach in the 1970s that eventually became their full-time residence. Her husband, who died in 2001, was president of Q-tips from 1947 to 1959 and later president and owner of S&K Sales Corp.

Mrs. Marcus and her husband were members of the Palm Beach Country Club.

Nov. 18

North Palm Beach resident Irma Lee Anapol, an award-winning angler who was active in charitable causes in Palm Beach, died at 83.

+ Irma Anapol. Photo by Debbie Schatz

A native of New Bedford, Mass., she was married to Joel Anapol of Fall River, Mass., for 51 years. Mrs. Anapol was a member of the Chub Cay Club in the Bahamas and the Nantucket Anglers Club.

Among her charity works, the three-time breast cancer survivor committed herself to counseling other cancer patients. She partnered with Estee Lauder to provide cancer patients with cosmetics and guidance on fashionable ways to wear makeup, wigs and hats during treatment.

She also was active in “Our Kids Sake,” a national educational program against pesticides in food. A founding member and major supporter of the YWCA’s Harmony House, she received the group’s Grace Hoadley Dodge Award in 2013. She also supported the Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation, Wheelchairs for Kids and The Angels of Charity.

Nov. 18

Longtime resident Alec Engelstein, a real estate developer and philanthropist, died at 87.

+ Alec Engelstein

Born in Romania, he survived the Holocaust and in 1948, with the help of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, moved to Montreal, where he met his future wife, Sheila. In 1968, the family moved to Florida, where Mr. Engelstein became a real estate developer. His Engel Homes became one of the largest home builders in the United States.

For more than 40 years, Mr. Engelstein was pivotal in expanding Jewish life in Palm Beach County with support of organizations including the Friedman Commission for Jewish Education, MorseLife Health System and Temple Emanu-El.

During his four-year tenure as its board chairman, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County established Partnership2Gether, providing a lifesaving link between the Palm Beaches and Israel’s TZAHAR region. He was a member of the Prime Ministers Council, the most generous donors to the federation’s annual campaign.

Nov. 27

Frederic Alan Sharf of Palm Beach, a businessman, philanthropist, scholar and avid collector of forgotten treasures, died in West Palm Beach after a long illness. He was 83.

+ Fred Sharf

Mr. Sharf, a Boston native, turned down a job teaching history at Harvard University to go into the family business, channeling his love of history into collecting. He sought things that were overlooked by other collectors, including Spanish-American War illustrations, architectural drawings, automotive design drawings, Japanese Meiji period woodblock prints, fashion illustrations, 1940s British women’s wear and, most recently, cartoons. Through his scholarship and initiative, he elevated his collectibles into museum-worthy objects. He curated exhibitions from his collections, wrote or edited more than 40 books and donated collections to museums.

He was a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Essex Institute, and The Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami Beach, as well as Beth Israel Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In 2016, Mr. Sharf and his wife, Jean, donated $1 million to MorseLife in West Palm Beach for the senior care facility’s welcome center.

Mr. Sharf built the family business, M. Sharf & Co., into a sports marketing and management company offering services to professional ice hockey and tennis athletes.

Nov. 28

Irving Luntz

Longtime Worth Avenue art dealer Irving Luntz, regarded by many as the Avenue’s canniest and most colorful businessman, died at 88 at his island home.

+ Irving Luntz. Photo by Lannis Waters

A native of Milwaukee, Mr. Luntz opened Irving Galleries in 1974 in Palm Beach, focusing on top-quality modern master and contemporary art. He retired in 2011, when he turned over 332 Worth Ave. to his son, photography dealer Holden Luntz.

As a young man, Mr. Luntz played clarinet and saxophone in jazz bands. After he married, he worked for his father-in-law’s business leasing heavy equipment for commercial developments in Milwaukee.

When he and his wife divorced in the early 1960s, Mr. Luntz went into the art business. He taught himself the trade. He opened his first gallery in 1959 in Milwaukee.

Dec. 5

Leandro Rizzuto of Palm Beach, the co-founder and board chairman of Conair Corp., died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

With his parents, Mr. Rizzuto founded the company in 1959. Forbes reported that Mr. Rizzuto, who was worth $3.4 billion, left St. John’s University to help set up Conair in the basement of the family’s home in Brooklyn. He was tied for No. 212 on the 2017 Forbes 400 list, and No. 367 on Forbes’ list of world billionaires.

Mr. Rizzuto owned a $2.3 million condominium in Winthrop House, according to county records. He also owned a single-family home in Highland Beach and condominiums in Sheridan, Wyo.

Jan. 4, 2018

Bruce Halle

Discount Tire chairman Bruce Halle, a seasonal resident who grew the retail chain he founded into a business empire, died in his sleep at age 87.

+ Bruce Halle. Photo courtesy of Discount Tire

Mr. Halle, who served in the Korean War as a Marine, opened his first Discount Tire store in 1960 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Today, the company is the world’s largest tire and wheel retailer and is expected to have more than 1,000 stores this year in 34 states. In October, Forbes.com’s annual Forbes 400 list estimated his net worth at $4.6 billion and ranked him in 144th place. Mr. Halle and his wife Diane shared a house on North Ocean Boulevard they had bought in 2012.

The Halles were active in civic and charitable causes as well as the arts. The Bruce T. Halle Library on his alma mater campus at Eastern Michigan University is named after him. Mr. Halle and wife established The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation to fund a range of charitable endeavors. He also created programs to help his employees in need, including the Bruce T. Halle Assistance Fund and a scholarship program for employees’ college-bound children.

In town over the past two seasons, the Halles attended charitable functions that included events supporting the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Navy SEALs and The Lord’s Place. The Halles also were significant art collectors, with a collection that concentrated on Latin American art and contemporary sculpture.

Jan. 14

Norbert Goldner, chef and owner Café L’Europe, one of the island’s most beloved restaurants, died at age 77.

Mr. Goldner was born in Berlin and managed the New York City restaurant The Sign of the Dove before opening the first Cafe L’Europe in Sarasota in 1972.

+ Norbert Goldner

In 1980, Cafe L’Europe opened in Palm Beach, where, in the weeks that followed, it was so popular that there often was a line out the door before dinner hours. Cafe L’Europe became an island staple, and Mr. Goldner became known as an outstanding chef.

Customers remember Mr. Goldner for his warm personality, his love of walking around the restaurant and talking to customers, and his meticulous attention to detail in operation of the restaurant.

Jan. 22

William P. Rayner

Water-colorist and travel writer William P. Rayner died in New York City at age 88.

+ Billy Rayner

Mr. Rayner was born in Washington, D.C. He was educated at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was introduced to art at an early age. His mother, Emily Rayner, was a director of the Worth Avenue Gallery, a Palm Beach fixture from the 1940s to the 1960s.

His aunt was the celebrated New York art dealer Betty Parsons, with whom he spent many summers on Long Island. Through her, he met artists such as Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock.

Rayner was the editorial business manager for Conde Nast for 30 years. His job provided him with a passport to exotic locales and vehicles for publishing the writing and paintings inspired by his many trips with his wife, Kathy, the daughter of Anne Cox Chambers of Cox Enterprises, the former parent company of the Palm Beach Daily News.

Feb. 11

Vic Damone, longtime resident whom Frank Sinatra once described as “having the best pipes in the business,” died from respiratory failure at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. He was 89.

+ Vic Damone

Born Vito Farinola in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood, he was the son of Italian immigrants from the Adriatic seaside city of Bari. His father, Rocco Farinola, was an electrician; his mother, Mamie Damone Farinola, was a homemaker and piano teacher. Mr. Damone was a 14-year-old dropout working as an usher at New York’s legendary Paramount Theater when he found himself in an elevator with the evening’s headliner, Perry Como. He told Como he was taking voice lessons and began singing, then asked Como if he should continue his voice lessons. Como — who would also, later in life, become a Palm Beach County resident — said “Keep singing!”

He served in the Army from 1951-53. After his military service, he took his mother’s maiden name professionally and carved out a career that encompassed film, television, concerts and more than 2,500 recordings. He received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. He moved to Palm Beach, where he met and married his fifth wife, Rena Rowan, and moved into a home on Via Bellaria and lived the life of a retiree.

He was active in many causes, including Palm Beach Island Cats, Vita Nova, the Renaissance Learning Center for Autism, St. Edward Church, and the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook, founded by Old Port Cove resident Dick Robinson. Mr. Damone was the first recipient of the organization’s Legend Award.

March 10

Hubert de Givenchy

French couturier Hubert de Givenchy, 91, who popularized the little black dress, died at his home outside Paris.

+ Hubert De Givenchy

Some of his best-known pieces include the Bettina blouse inspired by model Bettina Graziani and Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Mr. Givenchy was known for making everlasting friendships with his clients.

Born in Beauvais, France, he was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents from a young age after his father, a business executive and amateur pilot, died.

Mr. Givenchy developed an eye for art and aesthetics from his grandfather, an administrator of a tapestry workshop in Beauvais. In Paris, couturier Jacques Fath took Mr. Givenchy under his wing for two years, where he learned sketching, cutting and fitting haute couture styles. After working for the house of Piguet and Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, he founded his own design house in 1952, which proved to be an instant success.

March 15

Marie D. Schwartz

Marie D. Schwartz, of Greenwich, Conn., and formerly of Palm Beach, died at Greenwich Hospital. She was 97.

A native of Atlanta, she attended the University of Georgia. She held an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Long Island University College of Pharmacy.

She was a staff writer for The Washington Post from 1954 to 1970, covering the White House. She served as president of the American Newspaper Women’s Club. She also wrote a number of books, including Entertaining in the White House, The President’s Lady: An Intimate Biography of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and White House Brides.

In 1970, she married New York City oil company executive Arnold Schwartz, and left Washington and the newspaper world behind. The couple served as benefactors for the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Kidney Dialysis Center at St. Mary’s Medical Center and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. She was a board member of St. Mary’s and the Norton.

March 15

John Weller “Jack” Hanley

John Weller Hanley, a former Palm Beacher, died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He was 96. Mr. Hanley was a resident of Winston-Salem and Roaring Gap, N.C.

+ Jack Hanley

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, he was a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering and the Harvard University’s School of Business with an MBA. Following graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy serving primarily in the Pacific Theater.

After the war, Mr. Hanley graduated from the Harvard Business School and began a career with Procter & Gamble. After serving as executive vice president of P&G, he was served as president, and CEO of the Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri. He served there from 1972 to 1983 before retiring from business to concentrate on his private passion preventing and treating substance use disorder. Recognizing his contributions on the national scene, he was awarded honorary law degrees from the University of Missouri, Maryville College, Notre Dame University, University of the Pacific, Washington University in St. Louis, and Webster College.

The post-retirement activity that occupied much of his time was built around his family’s interest in helping people suffering from alcoholism and drug dependency. In Palm Beach County, he and his wife co-founded the Hanley Center in West Palm Beach and Gate Lodge in Vero Beach as well as the research laboratory at Penn State.

March 20

Marvin Kamin

Marvin Kamin, a member of the Pittsburgh and Palm Beach communities, died at age 90.

+ Hannah and Marvin Kamin. Daily News file photo

He was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering. He had a long career in real estate development with the National Development Corp., which is based in Pittsburgh with offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Florida.

He served on the boards and a supporter of The United Jewish Federation, the Red Cross, United Way, Palm Beach International Society and The Round Table. He also was an original member of The Mar-a-Lago Club.

March 23

Rhoda L. Kleid, wife of Richard Kleid, who retired in March from the Town Council, died unexpectedly. She was 80.

The Kleids, who celebrated 59 years of marriage in November, celebrated his 13 years as a member and president of the council at a party on March 22. at Club Colette. She died while asleep at home the next day.

+ Rhoda L. Kleid

Mrs. Kleid attended every council meeting, as well as meetings of other town boards, including the Planning and Zoning Commission, on which her husband served before joining the council.

A native of Philadelphia, Mrs. Kleid was a graduate of Columbia University’s Barnard College. She enjoyed a long career as a residential real estate agent, in Pittsburgh and Palm Beach, most recently with The Fite Group. She volunteered for the Junior League of Pittsburgh and the United Way Allocation Committee in Palm Beach, and she worked to register voters in Palm Beach County. Mrs. Kleid was a docent at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.

March 24

Artist Stewart Colwell Broberg, a resident, died at age 92.

She was born in Chicago and raised in Urbana, Ohio. She was an avid horse lover in her youth and attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

+ Stewart Colwell Broberg

She married Gustave T. Broberg Jr. in 1946 and moved to Palm Beach in 1950. Through the years she was involved with Opportunity Inc., the United Way and The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea bookshop. She was an active artist; one of her works depicting Chief Justice John Marshall is on display at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. She also was a member of the Coral Beach Club and the Sailfish Club.

March 24

Denise S. Meyer, a resident, died after a battle with cancer. She was 67.

She was the wife of William A. Meyer, former board chairman of the Kravis Center, former vice chairman of JFK Medical Center and chairman of Meyer Jabara Hotels.

+ Denise Meyer

She designed and oversaw the construction of Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens; designed two spec homes in Palm Beach; designed and rebuilt her 1938 landmarked home; worked on the 1860 carriage house of her son and daughter-in-law, Andrew (AJ) and Jess, in Cambridge, Mass.; and worked on the design of the Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy.

A resident of Palm Beach County for 42 years and the town for 25 years, Mrs. Meyer grew up in East Lansing, Mich. She was a travel agent and then worked in the Michigan legislature. Upon moving to Palm Beach County in 1976, she became assistant to John Sansbury, the then-county administrator. She later ran the office of lunar astronaut Ed Mitchell and subsequently started her own advertising specialties company, The Specialty Shoppe.

April 7

Hannah Honig Kamin, of Pittsburgh and Palm Beach, died 18 days after the death of her husband of 59 years, Marvin Kamin.

She was a graduate of Chatham University. With her husband, she was well-known in her communities as well as nationally as a leader, fundraiser and philanthropist.

In Palm Beach, her board and leadership positions included the American Lung Association, Ballet Florida, Jewish National Fund, Jewish Guild for the Blind and UJA Women’s Executive Committee.

Nationally, Mrs. Kamin was a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Millennium Committee to Save American’s Treasures and the Women’s Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee. She also was active with the National Council of Jewish Women.

April 14

Peter Pulitzer

Peter Pulitzer, businessman, sportsman and scion of two prominent American families, died at home, surrounded by his children. He was 88.

+ Peter Pulitzer. (Karen T. Borchers/The Palm Beach Post)

Born Herbert Peter Pulitzer, he was the son of Herbert Pulitzer and Gladys Munn. His maternal grandparents were Charles and Carrie Louise (nee Gurnee) Munn. His paternal grandparents were newspaperman Joseph and Katherine (nee Davidson) Pulitzer. He attended St. Mark’s in Southborough, Mass., a feeder school for the Ivy League.

He went to college but soon become bored and dropped out, using a half-million dollars of his family’s money to seed a business career that began with a liquor store and bowling alley and grew to include citrus groves, cattle ranches, a popular Palm Beach restaurant, wide real estate holdings, and hotels.

Along the way, he gained a reputation as a ladies man and married three times. The first was to Lillian “Lilly” McKim who went on to achieve fame as a fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer. He married Roxanne Dixon in 1976 and their acrimonious divorce in 1982 became tabloid fodder. His marriage to Hilary King in 1986 was his longest, 32 years.

April 28

Judith Leiber

Handbag designer Judith Leiber, 97, known for her ornate shiny bags, died within hours of the passing of her husband, abstract painter Gerson Leiber, in their Springs, N.Y., home. They had been married for 72 years.

+ Judith Leiber

Mrs. Leiber was born in Hungary in 1921. She hid in a crammed apartment to survive the Holocaust during World War II. She met her husband, an American GI, during the war and moved to the United States. In 1963, she created her brand, which is best known for its bejeweled bags in whimsical designs. Her bags were popular on the island.

By 1973, Mrs. Leiber was the first woman in her field and first accessories designer to win a Coty award, according to Harper’s, and 20 years later she was the first handbag designer to win the lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She sold her company in 1993 but continued to design for the brand for nearly five years.

April 29

Jean-Pierre Leverrier

Jean-Pierre Leverrier, chef and owner of Chez Jean-Pierre, died at age 62.

+ Jean-Pierre Leverrier

Mr. Leverrier’s restaurant was known for its classical northern French cuisine, family-owned atmosphere and freshly baked bread. Mr. Leverrier himself was best known for his charm, his warmth, his love for teaching cooking techniques to his children and grandchildren, and his thoughtful and carefully crafted dishes.

A native of Normandy, he opened Chez Jean-Pierre in November 1991, quickly gaining attention and loyal customers. Mr. Leverrier’s legacy will continue with his sons, Guillaume and David, who are now running the restaurant.

April 30

Lory A. Volk, 60, a resident and passionate preservationist, died after a long illness.

She was a graduate of Forest Hill High School and the University of Florida.

+ Lory Volk

Mrs. Volk was an outspoken advocate for preserving the history and archives of her late father-in-law, noted Palm Beach architect John L. Volk. She co-authored the book John L. Volk, Palm Beach Architect with her late mother-in-law Jane Volk and was chairwoman of the John L. Volk Foundation.

For more than 30 years, Mrs. Volk was a weekly volunteer at the Lourdes-Noreen McKeen residence for geriatric care in West Palm Beach.

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Councils awarded £866m civils cash for housing projects – Full list

Up to 200,000 homes are set to get off the ground after the government allocated £866m to councils to support local housing projects today.

More than 130 council-led projects will receive Government funding to support civil engineering projects to make housing developments viable and get much-needed homes built quicker.

With the government committed to building 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s,

The release of funding is the first wave of funding allocation from the £5bn Housing Infrastructure Fund established to fix the broken housing market.

This will fund key local infrastructure projects including new roads, cycle paths, flood defences and land remediation work, all essential ahead of building the homes.

Without this financial support these projects would struggle to go ahead or take years for work to begin, delaying the homes these communities need. Together with the government’s Industrial Strategy, it will provide high-quality infrastructure to support economic growth.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, said: “Today marks the first step of the multi-billion pound investment we announced at the Budget to help build the homes our country needs.

“This fund finances vital infrastructure such as roads, schools and bridges, which will kick-start housing development in some of Britain’s highest-demand areas.

“This support will help us meet our ambitious plan of building 300,000 new homes each year and ensure we have enough housing in areas which need it most.”

HIF projects from County Durham to Cornwall

£10m for highway infrastructure to unlock further development at the Ashton Green housing site in Leicester, helping to unlock 3,300 homes

£10m for construction of a bypass in Botley, Hampshire, a critical strategic road infrastructure project that will help unlock the delivery of 1,000 new homes

£3.6m for drainage works, new roads and footpaths at the Manor Cluster, south-east Sheffield to help unlock more than 400 homes by 2025

£6.5m to help build a new primary school as part of the Ilfracombe Southern Extension in North Devon. This will help unlock 750 new homes.

First wave awards to councils from new Housing Investment Fund Local Authority Project HIF Funding (£) Adur Free Wharf – Western Harbour Arm (Shoreham-By-Sea) 10,000,000 Aylesbury Vale Aylesbury Link Road & Junction Improvements for Aylesbury Garden Town 9,500,000 Barnet Finchley Central Station 9,800,000 Barnsley Seasons Phase 3, Thurnscoe Housing Development 2,227,270 Basildon Basildon Town Centre – East Square Regeneration 9,799,500 Basingstoke and Deane Manydown 10,300,000 Bath and North East Somerset Bath Riverside 12,500,000 Bolton Rivington Chase 12,000,000 Boston Quadrant Q1 Boston 3,500,000 Breckland Thetford Northern Sustainable Urban Extension (TNSUE) 9,950,000 Brent Northwick Park 9,900,000 Brent Peel Development Site – South Kilburn Regeneration 9,999,442 Brighton and Hove King Alfred Development 15,222,601 Bristol Unlocking Lockleaze Development 6,686,000 Bristol Glencoyne Square Access scheme 3,000,000 Camden Abbey 10,000,000 Central Bedfordshire Dunstable Town Centre Regeneration 6,300,000 Chelmsford Chelmer Waterside 5,700,000 Cheltenham Portland Street, Cheltenham 3,000,000 Cherwell Howes Lane Tunnel for North West Bicester 6,700,000 Cheshire East North West Crewe Growth and Infrastructure Package 10,000,000 Cheshire East South Macclesfield Development Area 10,000,000 Cheshire West and Chester Rossfield Park, Ellesmere Port 3,000,000 Colchester Northern Gateway 5,500,000 Corby A43/Steel Road Roundabout 3,973,252 Cornwall Hayle Harbour North Quay Redevelopment – Phase II Access Spine Road 5,655,000 Cornwall West Carclaze Garden Village 2,300,000 County Durham Newton Aycliffe Housing Growth 6,875,000 Coventry Eastern Green Unlocking Development 12,727,700 Crawley Telford Place 2,000,000 Crawley Forge Wood 4,423,280 Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre – transport works 10,000,000 Darlington West Park Garden Village 2,788,360 Derby Castleward Urban Village 3,150,000 Dover Dover Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) 15,803,269 Ealing Grand Union Avenue Phase 3 1,000,000 East Cambridgeshire Soham Eastern Gateway 6,330,000 East Devon Axminster North-South Relief Road (ANSRR) 10,000,000 East Dorset West of New Road Link Road, West Parley 2,250,000 Eastbourne Bedfordwell Road 1,230,000 Eastleigh West of Horton Heath Strategic Development Proposal 9,330,656 Eastleigh Construction of a bypass for Botley 10,000,000 Exeter Greater Exeter Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space 3,700,000 Fareham Welborne Garden Village 9,977,045 Fylde M55 Heyhouses Link Road 3,810,000 Guildford Ash Road Bridge, to unlock housing near Ash and Tongham 10,000,000 Hackney Woodberry Down 9,960,000 Harrow Grange Farm 10,000,000 Hastings Combe Valley Sports Village 2,225,000 High Peak Hogshaw and Granby Road sites, Buxton 2,000,000 Ipswich Ipswich Garden Suburb (IGS) 9,868,351 Kettering Desborough North Marginal Viability Bid 3,636,476 Lambeth 8 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SP 10,000,000 Lambeth Somerleyton Road, Brixton 10,000,000 Leeds Land East of Otley 6,318,000 Leeds Roundhay Road / Leopold Street: ChaCo & Unity Development 990,000 Leicester Ashton Green, Leicester 10,000,000 Lewes North Street Quarter, Lewes 10,000,000 Lewisham South Circular Road – Catford Town Centre 10,000,000 Lewisham Lewisham Gateway 10,000,000 Lincoln Spa Road development 2,824,579 Maldon Heybridge Flood Alleviation and Regeneration Scheme 7,344,700 Manchester Moss Side Integrated Healthcare Centre, Bowes Street, Moss Side 3,314,256 Manchester New Victoria, Corporation Street, Manchester 10,074,000 Mid Devon Cullompton and Culm Garden Village M5 Junction 28 upgrade 10,000,000 Mid Devon Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension access – phase 2 new A361 junction 8,200,000 Mid Sussex Northern Arc, Western Gateway 6,540,000 Newcastle upon Tyne Ouseburn – Ouseburn Mouth (OM) 1,250,000 Newcastle upon Tyne Outer West Infrastructure 9,656,714 Newcastle upon Tyne Science Central Residential Sector – Infrastructure/ Public Realm 5,000,000 North Devon Westacott, Barnstaple, North Devon 2,080,000 North Devon Ilfracombe Southern Extension, North Devon 6,500,000 North Dorset Gillingham Strategic Site Allocation 4,064,250 North Kesteven Sleaford West Quadrant 2,000,000 North Somerset Provision of utilities to land at Parklands Village 930,974 North Tyneside Killingworth Moor Key Strategic Site 8,900,000 Northumberland St Georges Hospital Link Road 4,491,278 Norwich Anglia Square 12,226,232 Oldham Broadway Green Phase 2 4,947,274 Oxford Blackbird Leys District Centre Regeneration Scheme 3,750,000 Oxford Northern Gateway (also referred to as Oxford North) 10,000,000 Oxford Osney Mead Innovation Quarter (OMIQ) 6,090,000 Peterborough Yaxley Loop Road 4,570,000 Plymouth North Prospect Regeneration Phase 4 2,825,550 Poole Poole Town Centre Regeneration – Phase II (Town Centre North) 6,000,000 Reading Dee Park Regeneration – phase 3 6,000,000 Reading Central Pool 1,392,636 Rother Blackfriars, Battle 3,240,000 Rushcliffe South of Clifton Housing Infrastructure 9,995,239 Rushmoor Aldershot Town Centre 8,400,000 Salford Plot E7/E8, Chapel Street, Salford 1,176,819 Sedgemoor East of Bridgwater Allocation 5,500,000 Selby Olympia Park, Selby 8,878,000 Sheffield Manor Cluster 3,552,558 Shropshire Western Shropshire Interchange Improvements 9,321,963 South Bucks Beaconsfield Relief Road 4,472,144 South Holland Spalding Western Relief Road 12,000,000 South Norfolk Land south of the A11, Cringleford 5,500,000 South Somerset Brimsmore Key Site, Thorne Lane, Yeovil, Somerset 1,950,000 Southampton Townhill Park Regeneration 3,750,000 Southend-on-Sea Better Queensway (BQ) 15,000,000 Stockport Weir Mill 5,617,000 Stockport Stockport Interchange – Residential 2,600,000 Stockport Hopes Carr – Hempshaw Brook 303,815 Stockton-on-Tees West Stockton Strategic Urban Extension – Elton Interchange Improvements 10,000,000 Stoke-on-Trent Burslem Town Centre 10,000,000 Stratford-on-Avon Long Marston Airfield Garden Village (LMAGV) – Phase 1 13,438,417 Swale Queenborough & Rushenden Regeneration 3,500,000 Swindon New Eastern Villages – Rowborough Eastern Access 5,000,000 Swindon Kingsdown Bridge 6,500,000 Tameside Godley Green Garden Village 10,000,000 Taunton Deane Staplegrove Spine Road 7,200,000 Teignbridge Dawlish Link, Bridge and Cycleway 4,200,000 Tewkesbury Tewkesbury Ashchurch Housing Zone – Access to the North 8,132,465 Thanet Manston/Haine Roundabout 2,544,384 Thurrock Claudian Way, Chadwell St Mary 538,000 Trafford Trafford Waters 4,080,000 Trafford Future Carrington – Phase 1 8,400,000 Trafford Partington Canalside 6,714,000 Vale of White Horse Wantage Eastern Link Road (WELR) 7,717,989 Wakefield Infrastructure for Growth at City Fields, Wakefield 1,577,500 Warrington Centre Park Link 3,685,904 Warwick Kenilworth Education & Growth 9,591,000 West Berkshire Sterling Cables Development, Newbury. 1,500,000 West Dorset Chickerell Urban Extension 1,500,000 West Lindsey Gainsborough Southern Urban Extension 2,123,184 Weymouth and Portland Ocean Views, Portland 2,838,000 Wiltshire Ashton Park Urban Extension 8,784,000 Wirral Northbank, Wirral Waters 6,004,160 Woking Sheerwater Regeneration 9,384,000 Wycombe Princes Risborough Expansion Area 12,000,000 Wycombe Realignment of Abbey Barn Lane and junction reconfiguration 7,500,000 Wyre Forest Churchfields Urban Village – Highway Infrastructure 2,700,000

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/02/01/866m-civils-funding-to-kick-start-housing-projects-list/

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Library to Host Navy’s PFAS Open House Residents in the vicinity of Naval Air Station Patuxent River and other interested parties are invited to attend a public information meeting from 5 to 7 pm Tuesday, March 3, 2020, to learn about the US Navy’s assessment of on-base surveys of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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Hold the Mayo and Save Our Hospital

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD

There is a grassroots movement, 4300 strong, known as “Save Our Hospital” gaining notoriety in Albert Lea, Minnesota.  This story is symptomatic of the fact that hospital consolidation has slowly become a national pastime.  With declining revenue under the Affordable Care Act, mergers increased by 70%, leaving small communities scrambling for healthcare access.  The latest casualty in the ‘hospital-consolidation-for-sport’ trend is Albert Lea, a small city located in Freeborn County, Minnesota.

Known affectionately as the ‘Land between the Lakes,’ it has a population of 18,000 spread over 14 square miles.  Not surprisingly, Mayo is their largest employer; the 70-bed hospital serves almost 60,000 in a region including patients who live in Iowa.  In Rochester, MN, the Mayo Clinic is regarded by many as one of the premier medical facilities in the country.  Originally of humble origins, founder William Mayo opened a practice during the Civil War and later, passed it down to his sons; today, the Mayo Clinic flagship is located in Rochester, Minnesota and plans to become a renowned premier medical destination for the world. 

Corporations with such lofty ambitions tend to make “small” sacrifices along the way; often, on the back of a beloved rural town.  On June 12, Mayo clinic administrators announced they would transition all inpatient services to Austin, more than 20 miles away.  Mayo cited ongoing staff shortages, reduced inpatient censuses, and ongoing financial difficulties as their reasons for hospital closure.  Rural care was mentioned to be at a crisis point, which is an altogether callous assessment of the troubling situation facing communities across this country. 

The Albert Lea City and County Hospital Association formed in 1905 when concerned citizens raised funds to build a community hospital.  Renamed Naeve Hospital, after a prominent donor, it became the lifeblood of this rural community.  Physician groups collaborated to start the Albert Lea Clinic and Albert Lea Medical and Surgical Centers.  For financial reasons, on Jan. 1, 1997, Albert Lea’s Clinics and Naeve Hospital merged with the Mayo Medical Center in Rochester.  At that time, a now-retired local physician expressed concern about the challenges of recruiting physicians to the rural locale.  Mayo, however, scoffed at his assertion.  Recently, Dr. Bobbie Gostout, Vice President of Mayo Health Clinics, confirmed it was indeed difficult to recruit newly trained physicians to small areas with a heavy night call burden.

It is estimated the facility in Albert Lea sees 500 patients per day including office visits, dialysis, cancer care, and other outpatient services.  Approximately 7 patients per day will be affected by this move.   Freeborn County Attorney David Walker is evaluating if Mayo violated their bylaws by not holding a vote for the consolidation decision.  Mayo is denying a vote was necessary.  Walker has asked the state Attorney General to weigh in on the debate. 

Hospitals across the nation are focusing on efficiency while trying to improve care quality and maximize revenue.  Consolidation can help lower overhead expenses; however, over time, the heartland and the people being served suffer for a variety of reasons.  Mayo administrators blame $13 million in losses over the last two years at the Austin and Albert Lea campuses as the cause for hospital closure.   Prior to making this pivotal move, Mayo conducted an 18-month internal review; unfortunately, neither the City Council nor County Commissioners were consulted.  In July, Albert Lea City Council unanimously approved a resolution requesting Mayo halt the process until 2018, in order to solicit feedback from the community impacted by this decision.  The Freeborn County Board also called for a six-month moratorium from Mayo.  Both requests were denied by the behemoth that is Mayo. 

Not every community member in Albert Lea is opposed to hospital closure.  Some physicians working at Mayo feel they are stretched too thin and cannot survive with two rural facilities to staff.  Recruiting nurses and physicians has been extremely challenging, according to them.  The hospital in Austin is 20 minutes away, which they feel is adequate, alternatively, Owatonna is 25 minutes north, and Mankato is 35 minutes away and has a Mayo helicopter stationed there for medical evacuation needs.

Mariah Lynne, co-founder of Save Our Hospital, said “Our mission for Save Our Hospital is to maintain a full service, acute hospital in Albert Lea, Minn., for the benefit of our citizens and our surrounding citizens.”  This grassroots organization is asking Mayo to return the hospital facility to Albert Lea so they can find another company interested in providing hospital services for their residents.  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which covers healthcare workers, is also supporting this community effort. 

Mayo plans to move intensive care, labor and delivery, and surgery services to the Austin facility, which is more than 20 minutes away.  Reduced access to timely medical care can actually translate into higher mortality in rural areas overall.  Since 1990, maternal mortality in the United States has been increasing steadily.  Today, more American women are dying of pregnancy-related complications than in any other developed country throughout the world. Rural hospitals, which are financially struggling, are less prepared for maternal emergencies today than they were two decades ago.  Potentially fatal complications which are initially treatable may become lethal in the setting of fewer resources and longer travel distance when seeking care.     

Mayo appears to be sacrificing a rural hospital in Albert Lea to pursue ‘champagne wishes and caviar dreams.’  Mayo plans to invest in the Destination Medical Center Project, focused on drawing foreign visitors who will bring with them not only champagne and caviar, but also open wallets.  Two major projects in Rochester are currently under way – the expansion of the Mayo Civic Center to the tune of $84 million and $93 million in upgrades at Mayo’s St. Mary’s Hospital.   When asked about complaints regarding the loss of services in Albert Lea while making elaborate plans in Rochester, Dr. Gastout said investments are helping to shore up Mayo’s long term survival.   She denies allegations the exorbitant Destination project is related to the Albert Lea Hospital closure, stating “Growth should not be misinterpreted as easy sailing in one place, and difficulties in another.”   

Reflecting on the loss of rural hospitals across the nation, my thoughts circle back to residents in Lee County, Georgia and my hometown in Kitsap County, Washington.  All three groups are engaged in clashes of David and Goliath-esque proportion against conglomerate hospital corporations threatening to destroy their respective healthcare landscapes.   While they might make strange bedfellows, City and County leaders are finding common interests aligning with local unions supporting healthcare workers, such as the SEIU (Minnesota) and UFCW-21 (Washington State.)  Together, these innovative alliances are making significant progress which may turn the tide.   For some of the large hospital systems, “easy sailing” may soon look like nautical navigation during a tropical storm.  While corporate headquarters is distracted with their dwindling bottom lines, betting on the underdogs seems prudent; after all, they are the ones gambling with their lives.   

Niran Al-Agba, MD is a pediatrician based in Washington state.

Article source:The Health Care Blog

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The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) is pleased to announce the nominees for the fifth annual CMAOntario Awards. Presented by Slaight Music, with support from the Ontario Media Development Corporation, the awards recognize the talent and achievements of Ontario’s country music industry across 16 categories. Meghan Patrick leads the pack with seven nominations while James Barker Band, River Town Saints, Jessica Mitchell, Cold Creek County, Jason Blaine, Tim Hicks and The Abrams are among the multiple nominees being honoured at the ceremony on Sunday, June 11th at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario. See the full nominees listing for the 2017 CMAOntario Awards below.

Jason McCoy – press photo

Voting for the awards is restricted to CMAOntario members, with the exception of the Fans’ Choice award, which is open to both public and membership voting. Eligible members will have the opportunity to vote on the final ballot as of today up until Wednesday, April 26th at 11:59PM EST. Music fans can cast their votes for the Fans’ Choice award during the same period at www.cmaontario.ca/awards/voting.

This year’s awards, hosted by Jason McCoy, will feature newly added performances by Genevieve Fisher, Jessica Mitchell, River Town Saints, and Aaron Pritchett alongside previously announced performers Jason Blaine, Cold Creek County and The Western Swing Authority.

Blue Rodeo performs at Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston photo by Ron Pettitt

The CMAOntario Impact Award, will be presented to one of Canada’s most iconic bands, Blue Rodeo. The CMAOntario Impact Award recognizes an artist, group, industry personality or company/organization that has left an enduring and indelibly positive footprint on the landscape of country music in Ontario. Previous recipients include Prairie Oyster, Paula Chopik and Ed Leslie (producers of Havelock Country Jamboree) and the legendary Gordon Lightfoot.

The 2017 CMAOntario award nominees are:

SINGLE OF THE YEAR sponsored by KICX 106

“Beer Weather” – Cold Creek County “Cherry Bomb” – River Town Saints “Lawn Chair Crazy ” – James Barker Band “Still Loving You” – Meghan Patrick ft. Joe Nichols “Workin’ On Whiskey” – Jessica Mitchell

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Born to Love – The Lovelocks Country Side – Jason Blaine Grace and Grit – Meghan Patrick Shake These Walls – Tim Hicks Till The Wheels Come Off – Cold Creek County

SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR sponsored by SOCAN

Deric Ruttan, Craig Wiseman – “Came Here to Forget” performed by Blake Shelton

James Barker, Gavin Slate, Travis Wood – “Lawn Chair Lazy” performed by James Barker Band

Jessica Mitchell, Dave Thomson, Patricia Conroy – “Workin’ on Whiskey” performed by Jessica Mitchell

Meghan Patrick, Patricia Conroy, Philip Barton – “Grace and Grit” performed by Meghan Patrick

Tim Hicks, Todd Clark, Gavin Slate, Travis Wood – “Stompin’ Ground” performed by Tim Hicks

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by Spring Tree Farm

Genevieve Fisher Jessica Mitchell Leah Daniels Meghan Patrick Tianna Woods

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by Havelock Country Jamboree

Deric Ruttan Jason Blaine Marshall Dane Tebey Tim Hicks

GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR sponsored by Remington Group

Autumn Hill Cold Creek County James Barker Band River Town Saints The Abrams

ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR

Kelly Prescott Jessica Mitchell Lindi Ortega The Abrams The Western Swing Authority

RISING STAR AWARD sponsored by Slaight Music

Buck Twenty Dani Strong Meghan Patrick River Town Saints The Abrams

FANS’ CHOICE sponsored by OMDC

Autumn Hill Cold Creek County James Barker Band Jason Blaine Meghan Patrick River Town Saints Tebey Tim Hicks

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR sponsored by Long & McQuade

“Bow Chicka Wow Wow” – Meghan Patrick “Cherry Bomb” – River Town Saints “Dance With My Daughter” – Jason Blaine “Lawn Chair Crazy” – James Barker Band “What Love Is All About” – Johnny Reid

RECORD PRODUCER (S) OF THE YEAR

Dan Brodbeck (Dani Strong) Dave Thomson (Jessica Mitchell) Gavin Brown (The Abrams) Jason Barry (Dean Brody, Genevieve Fisher, The Western Swing Authority, Tianna Woods) The Agenda, Leah Daniels (Leah Daniels)

INDUSTRY PERSON OF THE YEAR sponsored by Seeds & Co.

Amanda Kingsland, Rogers Radio Catherine Faint, Catherine Faint Entertainment Dave Woods, In The Country Mike Denney, MDM Recordings Steve Coady, Warner Music Canada

RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR (LARGE MARKET)

CHKX-FM (KX 94.7), Hamilton CJBX-FM (BX 93), London CJKX-FM 95.9 (KX 96), Oshawa CKBY-FM (Country 101.1), Ottawa CKDK-FM 103.9 (Country 104), Woodstock CKKL-FM (New Country 94), Ottawa

RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR (MEDIUM MARKET) sponsored by Lucknow’s Music in the Fields

CFCO-FM 92.9 (Country 92.9), Chatham CHCQ-FM (Cool 100.1 FM), Belleville CICS-FM (KICX 91.7), Sudbury CJQM-FM (Country 104.3), Sault Ste Marie CKXC-FM (Country 93.5), Kingston

RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR (SMALL MARKET)

CHAW-FM (Country 103), Little Current CHVR-FM 96.7 (Star 96 FM), Pembroke CICX-FM (KICX 106), Orillia CJDL-FM (Country 107.3), Tillsonburg CKYC-FM 93.7 (Country 93), Owen Sound

Tickets for the CMAOntario Awards are available for purchase through the Centennial Hall box office – online at www.centennialhall.london.ca, by calling 1.888.999.8980, or in person at the venue (550 Wellington St.). Pricing ranges from $59.95 (plus taxes and service fees) for regular reserved seating to $250.00 (plus taxes and service fees) for fan VIP packages. Details for corporate and group rates are available on the venue’s website.

CMAOntario thanks all of their sponsors: City of London, Havelock County Jamboree, KICX 106, Long & McQuade, Lucknow’s Music in the Fields, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Remington Group, Seeds & Co., Slaight Music, SOCAN, and Spring Tree Farm.

About CMAOntario:

CMAOntario was formed in 2007 by Rob MacArthur, founding patron Linda Wright, and a number of interested and enthusiastic individuals who thought it was time to have a voice for country music in Ontario. The Association brings together the talent and the industry professionals. Its mandate is to foster and support the growth and development of Ontario’s country music and its industry, provincially, nationally and internationally. CMAOntario has now hosted four annual Awards Shows with the assistance of presenting sponsor Slaight Music. These sold-out events featured performances from Ontario’s top talent, including: Jason McCoy, Deric Ruttan, Jason Blaine, Tim Hicks, Tebey, Autumn Hill, Small Town Pistols, Michelle Wright, Marshall Dane and many more. CMAOntario is also proud to have presented three highly successful two-day Road to Independence educational conferences, with the financial contribution of the OMDC and presenting sponsor Slaight Music.

About Slaight Music

Slaight Music was started in 2011 with a mandate to support the Canadian music community through a variety of initiatives, and to develop Canadian talent via strategic partnerships with industry peers. We work with artists from across the country and across the musical spectrum, helping to further careers and get great music heard. We’re also invested in the technology sphere, helping Canadian music entrepreneurs develop the next generation of digital platforms and services. And, we support a variety of music-related events, causes and charities.

About OMDC

The Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport that facilitates economic development opportunities for Ontario’s cultural media industries including book and magazine publishing, film and television, music and interactive digital media industries.

La Société de développement de l’industrie des médias de l’Ontario (SODIMO) est un organisme du ministère du Tourisme, de la Culture et du Sport de l’Ontario qui facilite les possibilités de développement économique des industries des médias culturels de l’Ontario, dont l’industrie de l’édition de livres et de revues, du cinéma et de la télévision, de la musique et des produits multimédias interactifs numériques.

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Jason McCoy – press photo

Meghan Patrick performs at the Observatory at Algonquin College photo by Dave DiUbaldo

Cold Creek County @ #Country4FortMac at The Phoenix in Toronto – Photo: Mike Highfield

River Town Saints perform at their Ottawa homecoming show February 11 – photo by Worn Leather Media

James Barker Band – submitted photo

Jessica Mitchell

The Lovelocks perform during the CCMA Countdown Concert – Photo: Mike Highfield

Jason Blaine in Oshawa photo by Music Row Photos for Sound Check Entertainment

Tim Hicks performs at CFB Kingston photo by Sean Sisk for Sound Check Entertainment

Leah Daniels and Will Hebbes perform at the Coors Banquet Garth Brooks Pre-show Tailgate Party

Leah Daniels @ Peller Estate Wine Country Fare – Ray Williams

Tianna Woods performs at the CMAO Awards – photo by Mike Highfield

The Abrams rock the stage at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa photo by Dale Sinclair for Sound Check Entertainment

Kelly Prescott performs at the 2016 Rock for Public Services at TD Place – photo by Sean Sisk

CMAO 2017 Award Nominees – Meghan Patrick leads the way with 7 nominations The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) is pleased to announce the nominees for the fifth annual CMAOntario Awards.