BHS grad, opera singer debuts at Carnegie Hall:
BHS grad, opera singer debuts at Carnegie Hall:
Jenni Bank will perform with New England Symphonic Ensemble at famed New York City venue and play role in “Brokeback Mountain” opera. Binghamton High grad, opera singer Jenni Bank to debut at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Jenni Bank will perform with New England Symphonic Ensemble at famed New York City venue and play role in “Brokeback Mountain” opera.
Basic Education and Unilever SA unite to give back the right to education:
Johannesburg – This week the Gauteng deputy director-general of Education, Vuyani Mpofu and Unilever South Africa CEO Luc-Olivier Marquet, together with key stakeholders, visited Mikateka Primary School in Midrand to conduct a classroom tour where they joined children taking part in lessons for the newly Last year Unilever and the Department of Basic Education announced a five-year partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to provide hygiene education to every grade one learner in the government school system. This initiative was in response to the need for improved hygiene and sanitation habits in schools to prevent children from falling ill and missing out on valuable school days.
South African Court Overturns Seizure of Gupta Properties, Cars:
South Africa's High Court ruled that the National Prosecuting Authority failed to justify seizing assets linked to the politically connected Gupta family because it hadn't proved they received funds illicitly diverted from a state-funded dairy project. The state must pay legal fees incurred by the Guptas and their allies, Judge Phillip Loubser said in the central city of Bloemfontein on Monday.
FEATURE-South Africa aims for ‘zero carbon’ buildings in green push:
Four years ago, after signing up for “My Green Home” – an effort by the Green Building Council of South Africa to make buildings more energy efficient – her family saw their house in the middle-class suburb of Pinelands retrofitted with energy saving LED lights, low-flow showerheads and roof-top solar panels, as well as winter insulation. As part of the green makeover, the family also learned to cut their energy use by hanging laundry out to dry rather than using a tumble dryer, switching off appliances that aren't being used, and switching to washing laundry with cold water.
Steel magnolia: A weathered beam commemorating lives lost in lynchings waits for Denton:
LEFT: A column memorializing two unknown Denton County lynching victims sits at the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The memorial, which opened in April, features 800 permanently hanging corten steel columns memorializing more than 4,000 known African-American victims of racial terror.
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