You and a friend are deciding what to do some free evening. A movie? A play? A concert? Or, your friend says, how about we go hear some intellectuals discuss topics that affect our lives and times? Given the boom in ideas-driven programming coming to Chicago, such a conversation is hardly far-fetched.
Carolinas Medical Center offers year-round volunteer opportunities for students 14-18. Volunteer Services looks for mature, self-driven, dependable teens seeking to serve patients, families and staff members on a weekly basis. To obtain an application, students and one parent must attend a 45-minute pre-application meeting. This will outline the various positions offered, program requirements and what [...]
Creative ideas for Easter By Nicole Villalpando | Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 09:07 AM Here are some ideas for mixing it up this Easter: Turn the Easter egg hunt into a scavenger hunt. Label the plastic eggs with numbers and stuff them with the clues to finding the next number. At the end of the [...]
Matt Gurney has written elsewhere on Full Comment that it’s smart politics for NDP leader Andrea Horwath to propose Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty jack up taxes on the wealthy in return for her support. It won’t cost them any votes. It may gain them a few. And it complicates the Premier’s life and helps define [...]
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – The biggest roadblocks to organizational breakthroughs are a shortage of fresh thinking and too much red tape, according to executives interviewed for a recent Robert Half survey. More than one-third (35 percent) of chief financial officers (CFOs) said a lack of new ideas is the [...]
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For more than two months, task forces developed by Superintendent Pat Cooper have been researching data and coming up with radical ideas in an effort to help fulfill the vision of 100 percent in and 100 percent out. At tonights 5:30 pm board meeting, parents, principals, teachers, students and other members of the community will [...]
Harvard, MA — (SBWIRE) — 04/04/2012 — Want to make Mom’s Day special this year? Try the great gift ideas for Mothers Day from the Harvard Sweet Boutique. Remember the feeling one had when one came home from school and Mom had fresh baked cookies waiting for? How about thanking Mom back by giving her [...]
Creative ideas for Passover By Nicole Villalpando | Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 09:02 AM Here are some ideas to add fun to your Seders Friday and Saturday nights. Throw things. Yes, I said it. At our Seder, when we get to the part of the plagues, we throw plastic frogs and bugs at one another. [...]
We recently volunteered to cohost a baby shower, only to realize that we lacked smart, cute affordable and, most of all, doable tricks for making the fiesta fun and unique. So we turned to Plan to Party (Yorkshire Publishing, $19.99) co-authors Elizabeth Mascali and Dawn Sandomeno, who also run the popular PartyBluprints Blog (http://www.partybluprintsblog.com). They [...]