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This valley, also known as the Rein Valley, cuts through extreme southern Germany, just north of the Austrian border. It encompasses a particularly fascinating area known as the Partnach Gorge. Lush and green in summertime, the gorge turns into a wonderland in winter, complete with frozen waterfalls and gravity-defying...
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Centre County Women's Resource Center hopes to secure a federal grant that will help expand transitional housing services for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
The Centre County Board of Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding in support of the center applying for a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women. CCWRC is partnering on the application with the county's offices of adult services and criminal justice planning, C...
"One of the things we appreciate and I think makes Centre County a model is the level of collaboration we have," said Anne Ard, CCWRC executive director.
The grant would allow CCWRC to add five transitional housing units for victims -- usually two- or three-bedroom apartments -- bringing the total number to eight. The program supplements the county's Bridge Housing Program.
CCWRC provides a 30-day shelter and advocates work with victims daily, but Ard said the transitional units are important for victims who need more time to work toward being self-sufficient.
"The goal with transitional housing is to move beyond emergency services," she said. "If you are a victim of sexual or domestic violence, 30 days is a very short period of time to put together the skills and resources you need to move toward self-sufficiency. What we found is people really need a longer period of suppo...
Victims can be in the transitional housing program for six to 24 months and as one gets ready to move on another can move in. Two transitional advocates work with clients on a regular basis on a wide range of goals that are determined by the needs of the client. They can include, for example, working on career planning...
With the new units, three leases would be held by the client and they would work directly with the landlord. CCWRC would hold the leases on the other two to be able to provide more support and assistance for those clients who need it.
The grant would be a continuation of funding CCWRC first received in 2015. If approved, the new grant funding would begin on Oct. 1 and be distributed over a three-year period.
"It’s a continuation grant so I’m very hopeful that it will be funded because we’ve done some really good work in the past three years under the initial federal grant," Ard said.
Through the grant, CCWRC and its partners are targeting underserved populations.
One of those is international and immigrant victims of sexual and domestic violence. CCWRC has added advocates who have language skills and its civil legal representation project has developed a specialization in working with immigrant populations.
Another underserved population includes those who are returning to life in the community after incarceration. Ard said that in working with the county, CCWRC has found that nearly 70 percent of female inmates in the correctional facility have been victims of sexual or domestic violence.
"It’s a population we know needs assistance and it’s particularly difficult for those folks sometimes to access rental agreements," Ard said. "They don’t have credit. They don’t have work histories that might lend themselves to enter into a landlord-tenant relationship."
CCWRC also targets providing assistance to individuals with physical, mental, intellectual or emotional disabilities.
"It’s a population that is underserved but is at increased risk for victimization," Ard said.
Ard also noted that transitional housing is available to anyone regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
"It does not happen very often but we have provided services to men in transitional housing because it’s appropriate," Ard said.
Design plans are almost ready for approval, but work on the final round of renovations to Memorial Field is unlikely to begin this summer as initially planned.
Two days after it became official that the Somerset Patriots would miss the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time ever, the five-time Atlantic League champions secured another dubious feat.
By virtue of Sunday afternoon’s 2-0 loss to the York Revolution at Sovereign Bank Stadium, the Patriots, who were swept in the formerly pivotal four-game series, are assured of finishing with a losing record for just the third time in their 15-year history. On the flip side, the Revolution clinched a playoff berth.
Starting pitcher Justin Cassel came off the inactive list to hold the two-time defending league champion Revolution (39-25, 75-59) to two runs on five hits and two walks in six innings. He struck out five.
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Joseph, who likes to be called Joey, is a polite, sociable Cape Verdean boy who is able to connect with others. Easygoing and pleasant, Joey warms up quickly to new people. He is an animal lover and is good at taking care of the pets in his foster home. Joey is seeking a permanent family who will help him to reach his ...
Joey currently lives on a farm where he likes to ride horses. He is well-behaved and has good relationships with everyone in his foster home, including members of his extended foster family. Eager to please, Joey willingly pitches in with household chores. Everyone who knows Joey finds him to be a pleasure to be around...
Like most 12-year-old boys, Joey likes cars and sports. He enjoys being outdoors, playing with the neighborhood children and riding his bicycle. A New England Patriots fan, Joey knows all of the players� names and watches the games on television. This past summer, Joey attended day camp and liked all of the activities ...
Joey is in the fifth grade and receives special education services, but is in a regular class with his peers. He has struggled with significant speech and language delays, but he has improved dramatically in this area. Joey would benefit from continued educational attention in school. To address his emotional needs, Jo...
Legally free for adoption, Joey is ready to be placed in a family he can call his own. He would like to remain in contact with his older brother and sister. Joey�s social worker is seeking an adoptive family that will have realistic expectations for Joey and be a strong advocate for his needs.
To learn more about Joey, or about adoption in general, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange at (617) 54-ADOPT, (617) 542-3678) or (800) 880-1176. You can also read about other waiting children in the MARE Photolisting located at many public libraries in the state, or visit www.mareinc.org.
ALOHA, Ore. - Washington County sheriff’s deputies said candy given out during Halloween tested positive for methamphetamine.
Deputies began investigating when parents called them after eating Sour Patch Kids candy their family received during trick-or-treating Wednesday night and began to feel ill.
The parents told the deputies the candy appeared to be properly sealed before it was opened.
The parents were taken to a hospital to be checked out. The children didn’t eat any of the candy.
Deputies said the family had been trick-or-treating in the immediate area northwest and south of their Southwest Jay Street neighborhood.
Deputies seized the candy as evidence.
Neighbors said they are now on edge, worried about the candy their kids have collected.
"Now I'm questioning, is all of this candy, is this bad? " neighbor James Smith said.
Detectives are warning people in the area to take a good look at the candy their kids collected and if anything seems off, give them a call.
"Leave it be. Don't throw it away. We want you to leave it just as you have found it if you think it's been tampered with," Detective Mark Polovny with the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.
Polovny also said it's about more than just checking seals. Parents should be looking for any sort of puncture in candy wrappers.
The sheriff’s office said it had received no other reports of Halloween candy being tampered with, but it was warning the community out of an abundance of caution.
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BAMAKO (AFP) - Militants opened fire on two Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeepers in Mali's capital Bamako on Monday, killing one and wounding the other, security sources said.
"Armed men that we have not yet identified shot at two peacekeepers who were on board a UN vehicle on Monday night. One of them was killed and the other seriously wounded," a Malian security source told AFP.
A source from MINUSMA, the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali, told AFP the two UN soldiers were Bangladeshi.
The UK's Sun secretly recorded cleric Anjem Choudary as he urged Muslims to further their jihadist pursuits by claiming public benefits. "The normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar," he said, using a term for unbeliever. Ridiculing Britons with jobs, Choudary noted that some Muslims hardly ever work ...