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“Everyone down to the basement,” Emily King, principal of Oak Grove Elementary School, said over the intercom. Class by class, the 100 or so students took their cue. Quickly and calmly, they walked past the library to the below-ground area near the boiler. Children were encouraged to take as little space as possible. The principal told everyone to be silent as the final members of her staff squeezed in the front of the children, sat down, and waited. Nancy Goldsmith,
Next Stage Arts Project presents The Akwaaba Ensemble, featuring traditional African drumming and dance, at Next Stage on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Opening will be award-winning performance artist, singer, musician, and author U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo. The Akwaaba Ensemble's energetic and interactive performances are a reflection of their name, which means “welcome” in the Twi language of the Ashanti tribe of Ghana, according to a news release. The Ensemble “brings Highlife music, West African drumming and dance to vivid life.”
In the summers of 2009 and 2010, Strolling of the Heifers conducted successful summer programs that placed young people in six-week full-time internships on southeast Vermont farms. These programs benefited farmers and youth alike: they provided much-needed summertime help for farmers, and they provided the participating youth with an introduction to farming as a career, a paying summer position in a difficult jobs market, and coaching on employment skills, money management, and personal responsibility. We're very pleased that this program...
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