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Inclusive playground at James Brown Park in Dalton, Georgia - named a National Demonstration Site for Inclusive Play by PlayCore.
By Steven Hoover
Steve.hoover@us.army.mil
CAMP HUMPHREYS – A children’s play area, which has been dubbed “Super Park,” and features equipment that allows children of all abilities to use the play place, was officially opened here Nov. 30.
Due to inclement weather, the ceremony was moved into the Super Gym, where about 40 children from the Child Development Center’s Strong Beginnings classes recited the Pledge of Allegiance and then sang “God Bless America,” before participating in the ribbon cutting.
The “inclusive design” of the equipment makes it easier for all children to use the equipment and, according to officials, was the primary reason the contract was awarded to Playworld Systems. This company has built similar playgrounds at Fort Gordon, Ga., Fort Sill, Okla., Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, and Yokota Air Base, Japan.
The park, which was built here, essentially, with money the garrison was awarded during the 2009 Army Communities of Excellence program, is located adjacent to the Super Gym parking garage and cost roughly $493,000. ACOE is a program for the total Army which focuses on improvements in the environment, in services and facilities, improving working and living conditions, renewing pride and developing a sense of accomplishment in every member of the community.
The U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys Directorate of Public Works’ Master Planning Division created the Super Park concept in conjunction with the Directorate of Family, Morale, and Welfare.
“It was extremely challenging to find a location not affected by the ongoing transformation,” said Dennis Polaski, director of DPW. “This opportunity became available when it was determined that a future satellite post office, originally sited in the location, would not fit and had to be relocated. With more than 85 percent of the garrison families residing off-post, this new park is a significant quality of life improvement at Camp Humphreys.”
Polaski credits Suzanne James, director of the Camp Humphrey Army Community Services, with “being responsible for bringing this vision and concept to reality.”
Jayme Stelker, a Camp Humphreys Family member and the mother of three, said “The new park is awesome. Thanks.”
The playground equipment is divided into play areas for ages 2-5 and then ages 5-12. Among other things, it provides accessible routes into, around and within the play space, makes all ground-level activities accessible and is intended to create an identical or equivalent play experience for every child.
Also included are two pavilions, playground equipment, picnic tables and benches. In the spring, grills will be added. The pavilions can be reserved and rented through FMWR’s Outdoor Recreation, located in Bldg. S-1044, which is behind the Super Gym parking garage. The number to call is 753-3013.
U.S. Army photos by Steven Hoover
Toronto-Gore Township, now Castlemore inclusive.
Really Brampton.
But back then, in 1970, this was known as Toronto-Gore.
AND THIS is where Air Canada Flight 621 crashed.
Archeological dig.
195 holes, just like this one, throughout the crash arena in 2006 yielded 90 human bone fragments.
So on one hand, we have developers that want to build right here. On the other hand we have a field that has crash victim's bones STILL in it.
What is Solomon, or anyone, to do?
Enter, into the fray, the illustrious City of Brampton.
"Guys if you want to build there…you gotta clean up the field, put a cemetery at the crash point and build a monument."
And that is exactly what they are going to do—
So what the Office of the Coroner could not do, what Air Canada could not do…the City of Brampton will make happen. The right thing will now be done!
Everyone connected with the this amazing reversal, those staff and those elected members from the City of Brampton…we, the Friends of Flight 621, salute your noble efforts to finally, finally, bring closure to this tragedy, and more recently the on-going travesty of the unburied flight victim's human remains.
Although 109 people died here on July 5, 1970…in an area that is home to almost 8 million Canadians…indeed, one quarter the population of our entire country, that beloved Canada…yet, so few actually know about the horrific crash and the location of the nearby, but mysterious, former crash site.
How is that?
Fast forward to 2010…everyone will know where it is, and all will be able to visit.
But why is the 621 crash site off our present radar, folks?
Air Canada…and…their corporate damage control team.
Remember, the Flight 621 relatives were promised a memorial on site by Air Canada. Back in 1970.
Air Canada later gave them one instead at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in midtown Toronto. Sure, a lot of famous Canadians have been laid to rest there. A prime minister or two. Notable musicians. War heroes. Why even the victims of the SS Noronic were buried there. But that's Toronto's other disaster. And yet this setting just wasn't right for the 621 families.
Too far from the actual site of the air disaster.
Much, too far.
However, there was something about the closeness of the crash site to Air Canada's Toronto hub that bothered the uppers (upper management of Air Canada). Remember the "uppers" made incredible decisions back then. Like in Cincinnati when that Air Canada DC-9 burned to the ground, right there on the runway. And additional Air Canada passengers died way back in the mid-80s.
The all-consuming fire had only just been contained by the Cincinnati Fire Department, on what was left of the DC-9, when the Fire Department regulars were suddenly bewildered by events that began unfolding right before their eyes. An unidentified vehicle, that obviously received airport clearance (the power of those AC uppers extends far) drove right up, alongside the just extinguished DC-9 tail. Now, before the firefighting team could voice disapproval, out poured mystery folk who immediately and with much fervor started painting white over the famous Air Canada logo, so prominent on the tail, in the airline's livery back then.
Damage control. Protect the brand. Mobilize the peons. Send the order down!
"Get that logo off the tail! At all costs." Sound of a phone slamming.
There may even be a "protect the brand" chant, that only the "uppers" know.
So the placement of the Flight 621 memorial in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where 55 passengers and crew were laid to rest, while generous back in 1970, was…remiss.
Not satisfactory.
Except to those AC uppers.
And through the years…the "621" families were ALWAYS ANGRY about that betrayal.
That failed Air Canada promise. The 621 families I met, inevitably, referred to it.
But in 2010…that will all change.
By the executive order of the City of Brampton.
Uppers vs. One-Uppers.
And those families will be able to go the 621 crash site themselves. And Air Canada can't stop the process, or the new memorial this time. Or the Flight 621 cemetery containing the remaining bone fragments that will also be ushered into existence.
The City of Brampton has decided.
So in 2010, at the 40th anniversary of the crash…there will be a new memorial right alongside a new cemetery. Since thousands of small bone fragments of their loved ones are still there and will be entombed in the new cemetery.
Then family members will be able to visit.
And so too, others moved by the disaster, now so long ago.
Family members then, won't need me to show them where the worst event in their lives happened. Although I was always ready to do that when asked.
Awkwardly.
And they will go there, next year. Some even for the first time.
In droves the families will go. Officially.
For closure. For solidarity.
To join prayerfully, and mystically with their departed ones. To say by their visit, by their presence, by the anguish in their souls…that we had to come here…because here…is where you left us ~
And we never got over it. Know this.
Never.
REST IN PEACE passengers and crew of Flight 621:
Adams, Celine Fradette
Adams, Pierre J
Beaudin, Gaetan
Belanger, Mrs.
Belanger, Jacques
Belanger, Jean
Belanger, Roland
Belanger, Rosanne
Benson, Helen
Benson, Leonard
Benson, Mary
Benson, Richard
Bertrand, Ginette
Boosamra, Lynn
Boulanger, Guy
Bradshaw, Dollie
Cedilot, Robert J
Chapdeleine, Jeannine
Chapdeleine, Joanne
Chapdeleine, Mario
Charent, Jean Maurice
Clarke, Devona Olivia
Cote, Francine
Daoust, Yolande
Desmarais, Brigitte
Desmarais, G
Dicaire, Alice (Marie)
Dicaire, Gilles
Dicaire, Linda
Dicaire, Luke
Dicaire, Mark
Dion, Suzanne
Dore, Jacqueline
Earle, Lewella
Earle, Linda
Filippone, Francesco
Filippone, Linda
Filippone, Marie
Gee, Bernard
Goulet, Denise M
Grenier, Madeleine
Growse, Diana Cicely
Growse, Jane
Growse, Roger
Hamilton, Karen E
Hamilton, Peter Cameron
Herrmann, Ronald Alvin
Hill, Harry Gordon
Holiday, Claude
Houston, Irene Margaret
Houston, Wesley
Jakobsen, Vagn Aage
Labonte, Gilles
Leclaire, Marie Rose
Leclaire, Oscar
Leduc, Henri W
Lepage, Claudette
Mailhiot, Claire Gagnon
Mailhiot, Gerald Bernard
Maitz, Gustave
Maitz, Karoline
McKettrick, Winnifred
McTague, John
Medizza, Carla
Mohammed, Dolly
Molino, Antonio
Molino, Michael (Michel)
Moore, Frederick T
Partridge, Andrea
Partridge, Carnie (Carnis) Ann
Partridge, Cyril Wayne
Phillips, Kenneth William
Poirier, Rita
Raymond, Gilles
Raymond, Martial
Robert, Aline
Robert, Georges E
Robidoux, Lionel
Rowland, Donald
Silverberg, Marci
Silverberg, Merle
Silverberg, Steven
Simon, Istvan
Simon, Mark
Smith, Dwight Lee
St. Laurent, Blanche
Stepping, Glenn Thomas
Sultan, Celia
Sultan, Jerald. M
Sultan, Robert. L
Szpakowicz, Borys
Szpakowicz, Serge
Tielens, Carmen
Tielens, Frederick
Tournovits, George
Tournovits, Soula (Athanasia)
Weinberg, Carla
Weinberg, Rita
Weinberg, Wendy
Whittingham, Jennifer
Whittingham, John
Whittingham, Reginald
Whybro, Mary Baker
Wieczorek, Hildegund
Witmer, Edgar
Wong, Ngar-Quon
Wong, Suzie
Wong, Wong (Mansing)
Woodward, Dallas J
© Paul Cardin - Friends of Flight 621
By Steven Hoover
Steve.hoover@us.army.mil
CAMP HUMPHREYS – A children’s play area, which has been dubbed “Super Park,” and features equipment that allows children of all abilities to use the play place, was officially opened here Nov. 30.
Due to inclement weather, the ceremony was moved into the Super Gym, where about 40 children from the Child Development Center’s Strong Beginnings classes recited the Pledge of Allegiance and then sang “God Bless America,” before participating in the ribbon cutting.
The “inclusive design” of the equipment makes it easier for all children to use the equipment and, according to officials, was the primary reason the contract was awarded to Playworld Systems. This company has built similar playgrounds at Fort Gordon, Ga., Fort Sill, Okla., Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, and Yokota Air Base, Japan.
The park, which was built here, essentially, with money the garrison was awarded during the 2009 Army Communities of Excellence program, is located adjacent to the Super Gym parking garage and cost roughly $493,000. ACOE is a program for the total Army which focuses on improvements in the environment, in services and facilities, improving working and living conditions, renewing pride and developing a sense of accomplishment in every member of the community.
The U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys Directorate of Public Works’ Master Planning Division created the Super Park concept in conjunction with the Directorate of Family, Morale, and Welfare.
“It was extremely challenging to find a location not affected by the ongoing transformation,” said Dennis Polaski, director of DPW. “This opportunity became available when it was determined that a future satellite post office, originally sited in the location, would not fit and had to be relocated. With more than 85 percent of the garrison families residing off-post, this new park is a significant quality of life improvement at Camp Humphreys.”
Polaski credits Suzanne James, director of the Camp Humphrey Army Community Services, with “being responsible for bringing this vision and concept to reality.”
Jayme Stelker, a Camp Humphreys Family member and the mother of three, said “The new park is awesome. Thanks.”
The playground equipment is divided into play areas for ages 2-5 and then ages 5-12. Among other things, it provides accessible routes into, around and within the play space, makes all ground-level activities accessible and is intended to create an identical or equivalent play experience for every child.
Also included are two pavilions, playground equipment, picnic tables and benches. In the spring, grills will be added. The pavilions can be reserved and rented through FMWR’s Outdoor Recreation, located in Bldg. S-1044, which is behind the Super Gym parking garage. The number to call is 753-3013.
U.S. Army photos by Steven Hoover
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Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, Claver Gatete, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning of Rwanda, William Francis Morneau, Minister of Finance of Canada, Richard Samans, Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum. speaking during the session: Inclusive Growth at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle
Moderator Lubna Bouza, Acting Chief Editor, Business News, Sky News Arabia and speakers Taoufik Rajhi, Minister of Major Reforms, Tunisia, Manar Al Moneef, CEO, GE Renewable Energy, Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey, Hiba Zahoui, Bank Al Maghrib and Ahmed Kouchouk, Vice Minister of Finance, Egypt participate in Plenary 3 - Government as Enabler for Inclusive Growth during the IMF conference Opportunity for All: Promoting Growth, Jobs, and Inclusiveness in the Arab World on Tuesday, January 30 in Marrakesh, Morocco. Youssef Boudlal/IMF Photo
Ulrich Spiesshofer, President and Chief Executive Officer, ABB, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 in Durban, South Africa, 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, opposition's leader Morgan Tsvangirai and South African Thabo Mbeki pose after signing the power-sharing accord on September 15, 2008 in Harare. Mbeki said the region and Africa had to extend a helping hand to Zimbabwe and that getting seeds, fertilizer and fuel to the country was a matter of urgency with rains approaching.
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris speaking during the session: Inclusive Growth at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle
During Pride month in June and throughout the year, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQI+ community and honor their efforts to advance equality for all people in this country. As a part of the 2022 Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City, we participated in the parade with the USDA Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National Park Service.
The Bureau of Land Management is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for its employees, as well as visitors on public lands. Every person deserves the freedom to live with dignity, safety and opportunity, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify. Together, we can build an inclusive outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
Photos by Javonne Goodman, BLM Utah - Public Affairs Specialist
Teachers and students from UK schools joined together with over 200 primary and secondary schools across the Commonwealth for a Virtual assembly organised by the British Council
Building on the ‘Ecosystem Landscaping to advance the Accountability to implement the Women’s Empowerment Principles in ASEAN’, the WeEmpowerAsia programme, UN women jointly develops and will disseminate the Building Pathways to Gender Equality and Sustainability through the Women's Empowerment Principles: Thailand Policy Brief (hereafter referred as ‘Thailand Policy Brief’) with key partners, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of SMEs Promotion (OSMEP).
Gender Responsive Procurement (GRP) is one of the initiatives recommended in the Thailand Policy Brief. GRP can identify, incorporate and support women business owners seeking to access government/corporate procurement contracts. In support of the initiative, UN Women and Kenan Foundation Asia will host the “IDEA to I do”, a business presentation competition for selected women entrepreneurs, to showcase the capacity of WOB and WLB developed under WeEmpowerAsia Programme as means to promote women’s participation in supply chain. Winners will receive the WeRise Awards and the prizes are comprised of one winner, one first runner-up and one second runner-up.
Photo: UN Women/Daydream Organizer Co., Ltd.
Advancing Inclusive Trade
Kitrhona Cerri, Executive Director, Thinking Ahead on Societal Change (TASC) Platform, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland ; Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Global Compact, New York; Alex Campbell, Director, Washington Office, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium; Amol Mehra, Director, Industry Transformation, Laudes Foundation, Switzerland; Daan Wensing, Chief Executive Officer, Chair of the Executive Board, IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Netherlands; Mirek Dušek, Managing Director; Global Programming Group, World Economic Forum; Pham Binh Minh, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022
Mst Sufiannesa, 58, owns Projonmo Ekattur Shatranji Shambhar, which she founded in 2003. A native of Rangpur's Pirganj upazila, her store earns Tk 20,000 per month, which is used to pay her staff, as well as help her improve all their livelihoods. She is a beneficiary of Inclusive and Equitable Local Development (IELD) pilot program, a joint global initiative of UNCDF, UNDP and UN Women that addresses structural impediments through public and private investments, with particular emphasis on unlocking domestic capital for women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship.
Photo: UN Women/Fahad Kaizer
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex (LGBTI) equality in schools is to be reviewed.
A working group is being established to examine how the education experience for LGBTI young people in Scotland can be improved.
It will be chaired by the Association of Directors of Education (ADES) and will include education leaders, equalities experts and young people, as well as representatives of the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Minister for Higher and Further Education Shirley-Anne Somerville met representatives of LGBT Youth Scotland and Time for Inclusive Education at the Scottish Parliament on the day of the announcement.
The Deputy First Minister is pictured with Dean Jay Coyle from TIE.
Richard Samans, Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum speaking during the session: Inclusive Growth at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle
Inclusive Q-mmunity LGBTQ+ Awareness and Advocacy Training for the Herbert School’s Faculty, Administrators and Staff on November 22, 2019
6 June 2017 - OECD Forum 2017. Inclusive Growth & Globalisation
Moderator:
Thomas Bernt Henriksen, Economics Editor and Commentator, Borsen
Scene Setting:
Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff, G20 Sherpa & Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General, OECD
Speakers:
Tim Costello, Chief Advocate, World Vision Australia
Hans Dahlgren, State Secretary to the Prime Minister, Sweden
Colin Hay, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI); Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Lizette Risgaard, President, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO)
Rodrigo Valdés, Minister of Finance, Chile
Alfredo Thorne Vetter, Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo: Hervé Cortinat/OECD
13 October 2022, 13WS22225 - Inclusive cities by reshaping urban mobility
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Fred Guerdin
Select from photos in this album to create a slide show to convince local businesses that serving people with disabilities is profitable.
For the latest research on what works in Inclusive Tourism point them to, "Best Practice in Accessible Tourism: Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population and Tourism"
buhalis.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-book-best-practice-in-ac...
One of the most frequent questions asked by advocates and industry alike is “what is the value of the inclusive tourism market?”. There are surprisingly few studies that have examined this question. Below is an updated extract from an article that presents a summary economic estimate studies (Darcy & Dickson, 2009).
accessibletourismresearch.blogspot.com/2010/01/economic-c...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex (LGBTI) equality in schools is to be reviewed.
A working group is being established to examine how the education experience for LGBTI young people in Scotland can be improved.
It will be chaired by the Association of Directors of Education (ADES) and will include education leaders, equalities experts and young people, as well as representatives of the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Minister for Higher and Further Education Shirley-Anne Somerville met representatives of LGBT Youth Scotland and Time for Inclusive Education at the Scottish Parliament on the day of the announcement.
Disability inclusive wash SBC consultative workshop at inter Laxury Hotel Addis AbabaUNICEF Ethiopi/2022/NahomTesfaye
Advancing Inclusive Trade
Kitrhona Cerri, Executive Director, Thinking Ahead on Societal Change (TASC) Platform, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland ; Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Global Compact, New York; Alex Campbell, Director, Washington Office, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium; Amol Mehra, Director, Industry Transformation, Laudes Foundation, Switzerland; Daan Wensing, Chief Executive Officer, Chair of the Executive Board, IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Netherlands; Mirek Dušek, Managing Director; Global Programming Group, World Economic Forum; Pham Binh Minh, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022