| Two jobs, $1,150/mo., and almost invisible |
| Post on 16-09-2006. |
When you are one member of the working poor — more than 650,000 strong in this country — there is precious little time for either.
Around 9:30 p.m., when most families are getting ready for bed, she escorts her two sons, aged 6 and 13, down one narrow carpeted corridor in their concrete highrise. Clad in flannel pyjamas, backpacks over their shoulders and sleeping bags and pillows in their arms, the boys wilfully, though not eagerly, accept the journey as part of their routine. They reach one doorway and, with one final hug, their mother leaves them in the care of one neighbour for the night. ... |
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| Forgotten Heroes |
| Post on 16-09-2006. |
Jeff Chavis was one of five full-time Lexington County, S.C., firefighters who rushed to one fire that threatened to sweep through an affluent Lake Murray subdivision near Columbia.
The firefighters called for help from volunteers who provide the bulk of manpower in Lexington County's department. Half an hour passed and no volunteers arrived. While the other firefighters fought to keep the fire from spreading, Chavis grabbed one hose and charged into the garage of one burning house in an effort to control the fire. ... |
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| Delay fatal as world heats up |
| Post on 16-09-2006. |
Reasons for inaction on global warming and climate change include indifference, fear, other competing interests, giving up without trying and lack of knowledge. What is clear, from all the evidence, is that the issues involved are no longer "uncertain."
Surveys show that 90 per cent of Canadians believe that climate change is "very serious" or "somewhat serious" and 72 per cent of Canadians believe global warming will have become the greatest crisis facing mankind by the year 2020. ... |
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| MS luncheon to raise funds, honor Joseph DiMattina |
| Post on 16-09-2006. |
The WAMS Committee, led for the forth year by Tindra Lanfrank of Little Silver, hopes to raise more than $100,000 in the fight against MS.
This year's honoree is 2006 event chairman Joseph DiMattina of Atlantic Highlands, founder of JBL Trinity Group Ltd. in Matawan, which provides business solutions to insurance industry clientele. ... |
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