Educational Grants For Women Links

Diabetes-prevention grants have unexpected side effects

Diabetes prevention may have been the focus of multi-year Centers for Disease Control grants, but additional positive changes have flowed from the work done by the tribal funding recipients. The grantees innovative projects including gardens, farmers markets, gathering camps, storytelling sessions and traditional-food cooking classes have gone beyond improving health in the narrow sense of ...

New Zealand woman to be president of Zonta

Zonta International is a global organisation of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. It was founded in the United States in 1919. Dame Silvia Cartwright, a former member ...

News in brief

Here are a selection of brief news items from this weeks paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didnt make it in the paper.

Coming up in Harding, the Chesters, Mendhams and Washington Twp.

MONDAY, July 26 A program on end of life decisions is planned for noon at the Washington Township Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Road, Long Valley. Discussion topics will include, autonomy, informed consent, living wills, do not resuscitate orders and more. A complimentary luncheon will be served. Call (908) 876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org and sign up under Adult ...

Community Calendar

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