It's like looking from the top of a mountain after a really hard climb," former District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams said. "There's a real sense of accomplishment. "There ought to be two balls thrown -- by the president of the United States and the former mayor that got this done," said Mark Tuohey, the former chairman of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission who took part in many of the baseball negotiations. "This is Tony Williams' baby."
Society must work hard to solve the problems of unfit family life and irresponsible parenting. The shortcut: "Let the government do it" for our own good, or even "for babies' sake," is the proverbial pavement of good intentions. Although there's a monument in Winnipeg's new Sgt. Prince Veterans Park proclaiming Thomas George Prince as "Canada's most decorated aboriginal soldier," the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa both officially recognize Francis Pegahmagabow of Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. As a recently retired teacher, I have an interest in education issues. This recent issue regarding sick notes for the Jan. 25 blizzard is the last straw for me. What's next? Sick notes from mommy? Start treating us like adults. If we have better working conditions...
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Greater Sudbury Police Staff Sgt. Dave Linney said officers witnessed a man urinating on the stone monument after he was spotted walking through the park with a beer bottle in his hand. (It was) a slap in my face," he said. "This person has no respect for my friends who are dead. "We went to great effort to build this monument to honour veterans," he said. "Someone is, in a sense, urinating on our veterans. It's disgusting. It makes me wonder what people are thinking.
..., a byword for presenting the past in monuments, memorials, and museums. Or, put differently, how ..., the signs on buildings, the statues in parks. All reflect a people's self-understanding. . Germ...
It looked a bit like St. Patrick's Day as thousands of people, many decked out in green or carrying Irish flags, packed a Toronto park Thursday for the emotional unveiling of a tribute to Irish immigrants who fled a country ravaged by famine and disease for a better life in Canada. Officially unveiled by Irish President Mary McAleese, Toronto's Ireland Park joins the Irish National Monument in Grosse Ile, Que., in honouring tens of thousands of immigrants who sought a new start in Canada after fleeing a dark period in Ireland's history.
In a lush and beautiful park in the middle of Hong Kong's central business district, there's a monument to John Osborn, the Winnipeg Grenadier from St. Vital who won the Victoria Cross during fighting for the island in 1941. There's also an Osborn Barracks in Kowloon on the Chinese mainland, now occupied by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, as well as a plaque near the site where he died after jumping on a grenade to protect his young soldiers. Sprinkled across the island, there are numerous other plaques and memorials in honour of the Grenadiers and other Canadians involved in the conflict. Over in Europe, the honours for Canadians are even more ubiquitous. The monument will be unique in the country because it will be the only one to include the names of the living and the dead, a...
... first night from left field adjacent to Monument Park, the second night just 12 rows up from the Bo...
...- Alex Rodriguez added his own memento to Monument Park, even though retirement remains years off. Af...
In Galveston, in addition to sun and sand, you'll find shopping, museums, seafood restaurants, the Strand Historic District, Moody Gardens' Aquarium Pyramid and Discovery Pyramid, and theatre at the Grand 1894 Opera House. The new tours include a look at Albany Park, offered May 30 and Aug. 15, with stops at the Cambodian American Heritage Museum, the River Park Dam and Waterfall, North Park Village and the Superdawg Drive-In. Another new tour, "Land of Lincoln," offered April 4 and Aug. 1, travels to Civil War grave sites at Oak Woods Cemetery, the Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Monument, Grant and Lincoln Parks, and the Chicago History Museum's collection of Lincoln memorabilia. On the new Hyde Park & Kenwood tour (April 18, July 18, Sept. 19), there will be a drive past President Ba...
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