Black Heritage Day February 25
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Campus Champions of Change
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Initiative is a unique and cutting edge sustainability program that transforms grass lawns on the campus into diverse, edible, low-maintenance, and easily replicable gardens.
Brown University
Provides weekly shares of local, sustainable, delicious produce, bread, and dairy to Brown University staff, faculty, and students. This program originated as a means of addressing the problem that students and staff at Brown have limited access to local food from the bountiful agricultural region of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Volunteer Action Center University of Arkansas
Launched a student food pantry in February 2010 to serve the needs of students on and off campus who are in personal crisis and do not have the financial resources to meet all of their nutritional needs.
University of Missouri
To expose the youth of the Columbia area to new and exciting career and extracurricular activities. Since that time Dream Outside the Box has provided innumerable areas of interaction for the children to engage in.
Grinnell College
Campus community could sustainably contribute to world development through micro financing small entrepreneurial loans.
Princeton University
Realizing that young people had never been seriously and systematically involved with education reform, Bellinger and Morin founded Students for Education Reform, a nonprofit organization that supports student groups on 60 college campuses across the country and provides students a voice in the policy making process.
Top 6 of 15 college campuses that are making a change. See what the White House is doing . . . . . .
Spokane Transit Part-Time Coach Operator Employment Opportunity APPLY BY FEB 29
PART-TIME COACH OPERATOR
A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) is not required at time of hire.
Medical/dental/vision benefits available, as well as pro-rated vacation, sick and holiday pay. These could lead to full time positions in the future.
We are hiring for a class to start April 9, 2012. Join us in providing this important service to our community. Responsible for providing excellent customer service; safe operation of a large vehicle under varying traffic conditions and assure passengers are transported to their proper destination in a safe, courteous and timely manner. Submit a completed STA employment application form and the “Aspects of the Position” to the H.R. Dept., Spokane Transit, 1229 or 1230 W. Boone Ave., Spokane, WA 99201 by February 29, 2012. Your driving record must be free of moving violations for the last 3 years. If selected for a final interview, you will be required to provide a copy of this record. (This record needs to be within the last 30 days.)
Minimum Requirements: Ability to multi-task; one year experience working with the general public and five years of motor vehicle operation. Starts $18.42/hr; tops $23.03/hr. (seven-week training wage paid at $11.52/hr.) Applications available Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., or at click on the link below to print a downloadable version. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. STA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Read more – Application, position description, etc – at Spokane Transit website.
Black Heritage Day February 24
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Black Heritage Day February 22
Black Heritage Day February 21
Barbara Jordan born this day
Barbara Jordan, born February 21 1936, was one of the most respected and influential American politicians of the 20th century. She captured the attention and admiration of the nation with her intelligence and integrity, eloquent oratory, ardent defense of the Constitution, and staunch advocacy of equal rights for all American citizens.
This stamp was released as the 34th in the Black Heritage stamp series in September 2011.
In 1976 Barbara Jordan, a congressional representative from Texas, was the first African American and the first woman to be chosen to deliver the keynote speech to the Democratic Party National Convention. The Democratic Party today would do well to listen to this speech and reaffirm the principles that are the foundation of the party.
Black Heritage Day February 20
Jerrelene Williamson: African Americans in Spokane
BOOK SIGNING
Hope you were able to get out to Barnes and Noble in the Valley last Saturday to have your copy of African Americans in Spokane signed by Jerrelene Williamson and benefit the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center with a percentage of your purchases. If you haven’t bought a copy yet, it is available for check out at the Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library, Spokane Community College Library, Eastern Washington University Library, Whitworth University Library and Washington State University Library.