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Event: Making enquiries on providing great personal home care for the seniors in the community by Senior Homecare by Angels

Event: Making enquiries on providing great personal home care for the seniors in the community by Senior Homecare by Angels


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Stonewall Riots activist brings personal stories of gay fightback to Edmonton

Stonewall Riots activist brings personal stories of gay fightback to Edmonton


A man who pushed back against “bullying” while participating in the Stonewall Riots in the United States spoke about his experiences at Edmonton City Hall Wednesday.


“I did fight,” Martin Boyce told a crowd of a few dozen people.


The riots began on June 28, 1969 after police raided a New York City gay bar, an event that is considered a major catalyst for the LGBTQ2S+ liberation movement.


The raid sparked demonstrations and violence, but Boyce said many of the participants had simply had enough.


“Young people know the pain of bullying, a lot of victims, still,” he explained.


“This was codified. This was institutionalized. Bullying was the order of the day when you were a gay person, and you expected it from the day you were born until the day you die.”


Boyce said gay-rights effort are now more organzised and well-funded than ever before, and people like him will continue to fight back against descrimination.


The event was free and organized by the Pride Centre of Edmonton. Boyce is speaking in six Canadian cities, including three appearances in Edmonton.

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Syracuse fails to win any events at Penn Relays, some runners earn personal bests

Syracuse fails to win any events at Penn Relays, some runners earn personal bests

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The Syracuse track and field team traveled to the University of Pennsylvania for the Penn Relays this weekend. The events began for SU on Thursday with the men’s and women’s 400m hurdles.

Shaleah Colaire placed 10th on the women’s side, finishing at 1:00.26, and also placing 19th (14.04) in the 100m hurdles. Meanwhile, on the men’s side, Xayvion Perkins placed seventh overall with a time of 52.71 seconds.

On Friday, Kahniya James raced in the women’s 100m dash, but she placed 12th in her heats and did not qualify for the final heat. Despite failing to make the last heat, James finished with a new personal best time of 11.60.

The men’s 4x100m team — comprised of James Nmah, Jaheem Hayles, Isaiah Lewis and Trei Thorogood — placed 10th, which was one spot out of qualifying for the final round. The quad completed the race in 41.99 seconds, .33 seconds slower than LIU-Brooklyn.



The final event for Syracuse on Friday was the men’s 4x200m relay. This quad of Naseem Smith, Nmah, Lewis, and Thorogood placed ninth overall in at 1:27.38.

The following day, Hayles competed in the men’s 110m hurdles where he placed 2nd in the finals finishing under a tenth of a second behind the winner of the race, Phillip Lemonious from Arkansas. Anthony Vazquez also competed in this event. Though he did not make it to the finals, Vazquez set a personal best, crossing the line in 14.20 seconds.

In the women’s 4×100 women’s relay, the Orange took sixth overall. Kaleia Arrington, Janelle Pottinger, James and Colaire raced for Syracuse in that order; they finished in 45.67 seconds, shortly after Hampton.

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Demons win three events, set 30 personal records at TCU – Northwestern State University Athletics

Demons win three events, set 30 personal records at TCU - Northwestern State University Athletics


By: Matt Vines, Assistant Sports Information Director

FORT WORTH, Texas – Northwestern State track and field stretched its outdoor legs for the first time this season with a multitude of personal bests and event wins at the TCU Invitational on Saturday.

The Demons won three events in the meet with 30 personal records set.

“We had a good day today, and we’re getting used to being back outside for a full day since we were out here for about seven hours with temperatures up in the 80s,” said NSU coach Mike Heimerman. “We had a great start to the outdoor season.

“We’re banged up in a couple of areas, but that’s to be expected a little bit with the high volume in training. We’ll get healed up a little bit and be ready for Texas Relays this coming week.”

After Djimon Gumbs set NSU’s discus record and twin Diamante posted NSU’s third best throw Friday, the Gumbs twins weren’t through rewriting their own records.

Djimon Gumbs took home a shot put win with a personal best of 61-11, which ranks third all-time at NSU. Diamante chucked a personal best 54-10 to place sixth in a loaded field with throwers from Oklahoma, Baylor and TCU.

Two other Demons broke personal marks in the shot as Tarajh Hudson (50-8.75) and Landon Blubaugh (50-4.50)

Diamante Gumbs flung 168-3 in the hammer, another third-best mark all-time at NSU to finish sixth. Add  his discus from Friday, and he set personal bests in three events.

Pole vaulter Hayden Barrios captured an event win with a 16-1 mark amid a swirling wind that changed directions.

Female counterpart Madison Brown smashed her best with a 12-5.5, placing sixth. Three other NSU vaulters tied for seventh by clearing 11-9.75 (Annemarie Broussard, Parish Kitto and Karlyn Trahan).

An event win and personal best is particularly impressive in pole vault without associate head coach Adam Pennington, who was present for the birth of his son.

“A big congratulations to Adam on that,” Heimerman said. “I’m especially proud of the pole vault group today because it’s the most coach dependent event.

“The conditions were tough out there today. But Hayden got a win and cleared some bars. It was a big women’s field, and Madison set a personal record while everyone had to battle it out today.”

Pennington is in charge of sprints, hurdles and vault.

The sprinters weren’t going to be left out of the personal record chase Saturday either.

Destine Scott and Simon Wulff both ran sub-21 in the 200 meters.

Scott clocked a personal best 20.95 to finish third, and Wulff was just two-hundreths off his personal best with a 20.97 to take fifth. Others posting personal bests include Joshua Moore (22.02)

The 4×400 quartet of Junior Charles, Scott, Galen Loyd and Ebenezer Aggrey finished second with a 3:13.34.

“Scott had a phenomenal day,” Heimerman said. “He made up a huge amount of ground on his 4×400 leg on top of his great 200 meters.

“Simon has never run the 200 outdoors, which a little different from indoors because there’s just one curve instead of two. He’s just that good.”

The relay success was also evident in the 4×100, but it wasn’t from NSU’s top team. The ‘A’ team dropped the baton, but the quartet of Kavacion Webster, Dylan Swain, Evan Nafe and Loyd finished in third with a time of 40.39, besting Oklahoma’s ‘B’ team and UT Arlington’s ‘A’ squad.

“That’s an impressive time, and we know we have a wave of sprinters even behind our top guys,” Heimernan said.

The Lady Demons relays finished fifth (46.23 in the 4×100 from Lynell Washington, Janiel Moore, Taylor Shaw and Maygan Shaw).

One of the most impressive showings of the day came from a guy that hasn’t traditionally been a sprinter.

Usual jumper Nikaoli Williams clocked a 10.60 in the 100 meters to pair with a long jump win with a personal best of 24-7.25.

Evan Nafe joined Williams with a 10.60 in the 100, which smashed his personal best and tied him and Williams for second in the field. William Glover (10.81), Austin Simoneaux (10.86), Joshua Moore (10.88), Galen Loyd (10.98), Reggie Williford (10.98) and Dylan Swain (11.27) set personal records.

“We planned for Williams to be both a jumper and a sprinter, but he was beset with surgeries when he got here in the fall of 2020,” Heimerman said. “What a great day for both Nikaoli and Evan Nafe.

“We had some decent long jump marks from Andrew Gilreath (PR 23-2) and Keegan Broussard (22-8), who finished third and fourth.”

Javeliners launched their first spears of the season and some of their NSU careers.

Ashley Duffus led a trio of NSU javeliners with a personal best 129-11 to place fifth. First-time Abby McCain chucked 122-0 for eighth and Akira Phillip finished 10th with a 116-10.

Payten Vidourek chalked up a personal best in middle distance as his 1:56.45 came in seventh.

Sprinters Maygan Shaw and Aliyah Carswell each clocked personal bests in the 100, finishing 12.16 and 12.29, respectively.

Shaw followed that with a PR in the 200 (24.49), which finished 16th.

Hurdler Orsciana Beard’s 14.76 in the 100 hurdles is also a personal mark.

Jumper Jaslyn Smith posted two personal bests with a 17-3.25 (18th) in the long jump and a 37-9.25 (8th) in the triple jump.

Thrower Olivia Valliere crushed her best with a 42-7.50 in the shot put (9th) and a 124-7 in the hammer.

 

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All have “personal responsibility” to confront systemic racism, Power of One event speakers agree

All have “personal responsibility” to confront systemic racism, Power of One event speakers agree

“What we’re dancing around today is that Red Deer is not as beautiful as everybody says it is, especially for people who are racialized. I was downtown when the confrontation happened in September 2020, just having coffee with a friend, and we watched it happen,” says Vanidour, who is of Mohawk ancestry, referring to a well-publicized confrontation between anti-racism organizers and counter-protesters.

“She, a Filipino, said she was scared and was going to leave. I said that I wasn’t going to let anyone run me off my land. We must be well aware of the fact that there are places not safe to walk or go as an Indigenous woman, for example. When you have that in your city, events like this are really important to be able to say ‘You know what, we’re not going to stand for it,’ not in this day and age when we all put our pants on the same way.”

An immigration and settlement counsellor at Catholic Social Services, it’s an honour for Vanidour to help newcomers comprehend colonialism and what Indigenous people have been through.

“If you’ve been here the last 30-40 years, you’re a newcomer and you have nothing to do with what happened before. Those folks are very sympathetic. One of the first things they say to me is, ‘We have land to go back to, but yours was taken from you, so why are you welcoming us?’ So we make sure people know how to live here and respect the land,” she says. “If a newcomer, or a regular Canadian, can understand why we do land acknowledgments, and why the land is so important, they’ll begin to understand our connection to North America, and then they can understand their personal responsibility in reconciliation because they’ve started to learn our stories.”

Vanidour surmises that the biggest thing holding people back from engaging in reconciliation is fear.

“Our pain is our own, but we can actually have you understand why we have that pain,” she says. “Many say ‘What do you want, why are you doing this,’ and all we want is for you to sit with us, help us through that pain, and figure out what our relationship is going to be.”

Darnel Forro, a six-year social work instructor at Red Deer Polytechnic, presented about Critical Race Theory (CRT), a concept he acknowledges is highly controversial, particularly in the United States. However, he says it’s only that way because people aren’t fully understanding of what it means.

Forro says CRT does not pertain to blaming one particular group, as it’s often accused of doing, but rather it allows for an explanation of how structural or systemic racism works.

While CRT is not embedded in the social work curriculum, Forro says the program does teach anti-oppressive methods in hopes that graduates will one day have the courage and capacity to better serve marginalized clients.

“Let’s look around us, right here in Red Deer. It is very common to see highly educated and qualified individuals doing menial jobs. We look at people immigrating from the developing world — people who are racialized, or who are considered to be people of colour, and they’re doing difficult jobs here like cleaning and serving coffee. These are people who have law degrees. That is inherently racist, and people like you and I benefit from that because we have our offices cleaned by them, and we buy that coffee every morning,” Forro explains.

“I wouldn’t say the hiring manager is racist because it’s not about them or their values; it’s actually the system that oppresses and exploits, and doesn’t acknowledge or recognize the amount of education and experience individuals have.”

On the flip side, adds Forro, the rest of society is negatively impacted because it is being deprived of those newcomers’ potential contributions in filling service gaps, such as in health care.

Barriers include not only the thought that Canadian education is superior, but the cost and time commitment it takes to prove one’s education is worthy.

“This system works against all of us. So what can we do to look at people’s credentials differently? What can we do to deconstruct and be critical of the unconscious bias we have that Canadian education is superior? On a personal level, we can critically reflect on why we have these biases, and why we think a person educated elsewhere is less qualified to do jobs we consider more important.”

Partnering organizations for CommUnity: The Power of One included Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Urban Aboriginal Voices Society, Red Deer Native Friendship Centre, Ubuntu-Mobilizing Central Alberta, The City of Red Deer, Red Deer Local Immigration Partnership, Hate to Hope, Red Deer Polytechnic, Royal Bank of Canada and Red Deer Public Library.

by Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)