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Rose tourney starts Friday

February 3rd, 2011

The top player at this weekends Timmy Rose senior boys basketball tournament at St. David Catholic Secondary School will be the first to receive the Scott Weiler MVP Award.

The award is in memory ofthe former special education teacher at St. David who died in August after falling ill during a hiking trip to Nepal. Weiler, who had been involved with the Timmy Rose tournament for the past five years, was only 38 at the time of his death.

A sum of money will be donated each yearfrom the tournament to the Scott Weiler Legacy Fund in the MVPs name.

The host Celtics open the eight-team tournament with a noon tipoff on Friday against the Waterloo-Oxford Crusaders. Christ the King of Georgetown faces Governor Simcoe of St. Catharines at 1:30, followed by Huron Heights against Corpus Christi of Burlington at 3 p.m., and East Elgin of Aylmer against Guelphs Our Lady of Lourdes at 4 p.m.

Games continue Saturday with the consolation final set for 4 p.m., followed by the championship game at 7 p.m.

Rose was a popularstudent at St. David from 1997-2002.

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Private Colleges and the FAFSA

February 3rd, 2011

Thought I’d share my response to a message that I received from a mom, who was interested in finding private colleges that just use the Free Application for Federal Student or FAFSA.

Here is Patrice’s question:

You might be wondering why someone would only be interested in private colleges that just use the FAFSA. Here’s why: the FAFSA isn’t nearly as nosy about a family’s financial circumstances as the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE, which is the other major financial aid application.  About 270 private colleges and universities use the PROFILE, which might seem like a lot, but more private schools don’t use the financial aid form.

The FAFSA could be a lot more friendlier financial aid application for families who enjoy a lot of home equity. That’s because the FAFSA doesn’t even ask families if they own a house. So FAFSA filers

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Emerson Gallery Lends to Guggenheim in Venice

February 2nd, 2011

Works from Hamilton’s art collection are currently on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, as part of the exhibition, The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918. The Emerson Gallery lent four paintings by English artist Dorothy Shakespear (1886-1973), wife of Ezra Pound, Class of 1905, to the exhibition, the first attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions mounted during World War I in London and New York. The loaned pieces are from a collection donated to the College by Shakespear’s son Omar Pound ’51.   As described in the Guggenheim exhibition announcement, Vorticism takes its name from “Vortex,” a term coined by the American expatriate poet Ezra Pound at end of 1913 when describing the “maximum energy” he and his colleagues wished to instill in London’s literary and artistic avant-garde. It was an abstracted figurative style, combining machine-age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, that emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism. Vortic Read more…

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Success Academy helps the toughest kids from Sacramento city schools

January 29th, 2011

These are the kids no one else wants to teach.

They’ve used drugs, carried weapons or otherwise wreaked havoc at schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

As a last resort, they are sent to Success Academy, an alternative education program recently relocated next to the district offices on 47th Avenue in south Sacramento.

Teaching at Success Academy has proved to be tough and sometimes dangerous work despite the clientele of fourth- through eighth-graders.

While the students are small, pound for pound, Success Academy is the most dangerous school in the city. Police have logged roughly 270 crimes at the school’s three locations since 2005. These include 86 assaults; 17 drug offenses; 15 weapons charges; 10 reports of gang activity; three instances of witness intimidation; even a report of pimping.

Students at the tiny school assaulted staff members 31 times during the last six years, police records show.

Those may be the facts, but they don’t get at the truth of the school, said Principal Kathy Whiteside.

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Grants for single mothers help working mothers return to the university

January 28th, 2011

Although the government works hard to help working mothers return to the university many people still doubt about what the federal

1. grants for single mother

are really about. This article will help you know more about existing government benefits that you can be eligible for. For moms who want to return to college grants are the first stage of advancement.

Federal grants are the most popular type of financial assistance given to the college students and now there is a special program designed to support single mothers. Unlike a loan, getting a grant you don’t need to repay it, what makes this option very attractive to single mothers seeking help. Federal grants are generally awarded to members of the minority groups who have not already obtained a bachelor’s or professional degree. With such advantages it is not surprising that the scholarship program for moms is given much attention to unwed, working mothers. The president is encouraging mothers to attend college through the available grants.

If you are looking for a way to pay for expensive medical training, there may be many options available to you. Read more…

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Akron fifth-graders waltz to top of competition

January 27th, 2011

The fifth-grade ballroom dance team from Akron’s Crouse elementary advanced Saturday to the Grand Finals competition in May at the Ohio Theatre at PlayhouseSquare.

Crouse and Leggett elementary schools both sent teams of a dozen students each to the Cleveland competition, which was sponsored by Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio.

The nonprofit organization teaches social development to fifth- and eighth-graders through ballroom dance.

Crouse and the team from Elm Street Elementary School in Painesville were selected from five teams that competed in the semifinal match to advance to the Grand Finals on May 14.

At least 20 schools in Summit, Cuyahoga and Lake counties are expected to participate this school year.

Akron is the only district in Summit County to host the program so far.

This winter, eighth-graders at the Akron Opportunity Center and fifth-graders at Seiberling and McEbright elementary schools are in the program.

Fifth-graders at Schumacher and Rimer elementary schools will participate this spring.

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