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NPLD volunteers help the BLM Idaho Pocatello Field Office clean-up Goodenough Creek Campground.
Photo by BLM Idaho.
The BLM Wyoming Cody Field Office hosted volunteers to remove net-wire fence and replace it with barbed and smooth-wire fence in order to help pronghorn and mule deer migration.
“It was a great time with lots of smiles and enthusiasm,” said BLM Outdoor Recreation Planner Nancy Patterson. “About 47 folks removed 1.75 miles of network fence!”
The Cody Field Office thanks all the volunteers who spent the day with us. Partners included The Nature Conservancy, which brought a Montana Conservation Corps crew to help; Sunlight Sports, which provided snacks and water; and Marathon Oil, which hauled-off all the netwire and took it for recycling. Folks from Trout Creek Ranch, Winding Pathways of Cedar Rapids and the MCC crew volunteered to be small group leaders and help teach others to fence. In addition to interested community members, volunteers from Wyoming Migration Initiative, Absaroka Outdoor Fellowship, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Northwest Outdoor Club, Shoshone NF, Cody Next Generation, and Buffalo Bill Center of the West all volunteered to help.
Photo by Megan Baumeister, Sunlight Sports and NPLD partner.
Local cub scouts and their families plant new trees and maintain trails at Pompeys Pillar National Monument!
Photo by BLMer Alyse Backus.
32 of Scottsdale's Most Eligible Singles Sent 50 Kids with Muscular Dystrophies to MDA Summer Camp in Camp Shadow Pines in Phoenix Matchmaker Roseann Higgins’ First Annual SPIES Cupid's Cure Fundraiser! Over 300 Valley’s single professionals mingled and bought silent auction items at the SPIES Cupid’s Cure Fundraising Social at Devil’s Martini in Old Town Scottsdale. It costs $525 to send one child to young adult age 6-21 with muscular dystrophies to a week long camp with lots of fun group activities, including wheelchair basketball and a mock Amazing Race and barbecues. Each camper is assigned their own individual camp counselor to look after their every need and everything is paid for. The first annual event raised approximately $26,000 and sent 50 of the ~88 kids to 2005’s Camp Shadow Pines in the woods by Payson, Arizona.
The event was the collaboration of matchmaker Roseann Higgins of SPIES and Laura Czarzasty from MDA. Laura made the first move and had the idea of doing an event for Valentine’s Day! That girl makes things happen and has a heart of gold!
Roseann Higgins is President of Matchmaking A Difference Foundation. With the help of hundreds of volunteers and donors, over $250,000 in community service projects and donations have been completed.
She’d coordinated a homeless shelter project remodel and support with the help of hundreds of amazing volunteers for CASS Central Arizona Shelter Services in 2002 that was valued at $100,000.
In 2005, Roseann was already super-connected as an 11-year matchmaker - Founder and President of SPIES Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective. The 32 singles who reached out to their circles to raise money, sell tickets, obtain silent auction items did such a fabulous job.
Huge thanks to fundraisers former NHL player Jocelyn Lemieux for bringing out Jeremy Roenick to sign a golf back that night at the event and who donated a foursome with the two of them at Whisper Rock and Paola Embry from Paola’s Wine Bar at Christopher’s Restaurant at the Biltmore Fashion Park for raising money and coming down to the FOX 10 News Station to help promote the event and raise more money to send kids with muscular dystrophies to camp! Catch two of these most eligible singles who were helping raise money for Muscular Dystrophy with Chairwoman of Cupid's Cure Phoenix matchmaker Roseann Higgins on FOX News: youtu.be/KP2TUFGkFjE
You will laugh and enjoy the creativity and professional delivery by the Evening News Team outside of their full studio and without a production team! (PHOENIX, AZ 1998)
Watch the video: youtu.be/gZ4XDemwg8Y Sean McLaughlin hums the opening to the newscast.
Jineane Ford mimics flames of a fire.
In lieu of footage that aired on the 6 pm newscast, Mark Curtis and Sean do SNL-style sportscaster - impersonator ad libs for ASU Coach Pat Murphy, Arizona Diamondbacks Matt Williams, former Diamondback Randy Johnson, and Michael Jordan...
"Baseball/basketball is a funny sport. The ball bounces this way and that way. We're just going to take one game at a time."
If anyone is casting for a play or a Late Night Television Show, Sean McLaughlin is your guy! Spontaneous Tex Earnhardt and Debbie Gaby of Sleep America commercials even get a playful plug.
Thank you NBC News 12 and your cast: l-r Sean McLaughlin, Jineane Ford, Kent Dana and Mark Curtis!
Many thanks also:
* Gompers Habilitation Center
* Continental Catering - the 6 course meal was Michelin "Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey" delicious!
* the gracious Joe and Kathy LeRoy (Sacramento Container Corporation) who opened their stunning mountaintop home with the negative edge pool overlooking the Valley.
* Greg Voigt of Intercoastal Pictures, former Chief Photographer at Channel 12
* Auction winner at the Gompers 50th Celebration Gala at Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, Arizona:
Roseann Higgins and 7 special guests!
Gompers' loving representative (know her name? please let us know!) graciously introduces Roseann Higgins - President and Founder of SPIES Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective "No blatant plug intended. This is going to be a helluva memory for me and for all of us!"
It will be a rare enjoyable newscast for all who get to see it thanks to Gompers providing this video memory. Forgive any skips and color
RIP Phil Hartman - who's passing is noted in the newscast.
Note From Roseann:
We hope you enjoy this and the other videos and photos we are sharing as we celebrate 21 years meeting extraordinary people and introducing true loves. Our couples have traveled the world, begun families and even had grandchildren since we opened the doors to SPIES matchmaking service and began hunting for true loves at business, charity and social events in 1994.
Thanks for the memories! <3
The 2022 BBC Make A Difference Awards Presentation dinner at the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Brayford Pool Lincoln. A lovely evening, great to meet other nominees and some BBC editors and presenters.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 9, 2021) Chief Boatswain’s Mate Michael Standridge, from Norwalk, Iowa, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 1, directs the approach of a Landing Craft, Utility (LCU) attached to ACU 1 toward amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) for recovery during exercise Freedom Banner 2021. Freedom Banner is an annual exercise that involves strategic projection of the Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) and associated combat forces. This year’s iteration supports Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021, which is designed to refine how we synchronize maritime operation across multiple Fleets in support of the joint force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
Down a long narrow cement corridor, around the corner from where the sisters are washing and cooking, you'll find their children.
This girl has just cooked some rice that she eats off an aluminum lid. In a recycled tomato paste tin is a mixture of oil, tomato, and green leaf.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 4, 2006.
I figured I'd kick off my new project by having myself holding the first card. This was taken by my sister.
It makes me sick how many ugly people there are in the world. Seems to me that so many people have forgotten the Golden Rule. All we need to do is smile more, be nice, and treat others kindly. This is me, determined to make a difference... starting now.
Find me:
The cafeteria at Gisimba Memorial Center.
Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 15, 2006.
The BLM Wyoming Cody Field Office hosted volunteers to remove net-wire fence and replace it with barbed and smooth-wire fence in order to help pronghorn and mule deer migration.
“It was a great time with lots of smiles and enthusiasm,” said BLM Outdoor Recreation Planner Nancy Patterson. “About 47 folks removed 1.75 miles of network fence!”
The Cody Field Office thanks all the volunteers who spent the day with us. Partners included The Nature Conservancy, which brought a Montana Conservation Corps crew to help; Sunlight Sports, which provided snacks and water; and Marathon Oil, which hauled-off all the netwire and took it for recycling. Folks from Trout Creek Ranch, Winding Pathways of Cedar Rapids and the MCC crew volunteered to be small group leaders and help teach others to fence. In addition to interested community members, volunteers from Wyoming Migration Initiative, Absaroka Outdoor Fellowship, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Northwest Outdoor Club, Shoshone NF, Cody Next Generation, and Buffalo Bill Center of the West all volunteered to help.
Photo by Megan Baumeister, Sunlight Sports and NPLD partner.
The BLM salutes our partners and welcomes you to join them in helping take care of your public lands.
These photos are but a sample of the many stalwart volunteers and service organizations whose invaluable partnership with the BLM has enhanced public awareness and protected the natural splendor of our lands in the Pacific Northwest.
Thank you for all you did in 2010, and here's to a great 2011!
Under the shade of a plastic tarp in front of her house, a sister prepares the charcoal stove for lunch.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 3, 2006.
Dec. 31, 2015
#AmbPettit: As we conclude a challenging year, I want to say to each of you, that despite its problems, Moldova has immense potential. Your resources, your human capital, your spirit of creativity and hard work – subtract the problems (which are well-known by all), and Moldova could be a prosperous, democratic, European country in a stunningly short period of time. Don’t let a handful of individuals stand in the way of your success. Hold your leaders accountable to the highest standards – they are, after all, supposed to be serving the citizens of this country. Demand that they act #ForTheMoldovanPeople. The roadmap is clear: get back on track with the EU Association Agreement, stamp out corruption, and address economic vulnerabilities.
The United States will always remain a friend and partner of the Moldovan people, and I wish you, the Moldovan people, a happy, healthy, and prosperous year ahead. As we go into 2016, the year when you will mark 25 years of independence, let’s all focus on how we each can #MakeADifference #ForMoldova. I fully believe that we could see a successful Moldova in the foreseeable future, but this period may be the turning point for your country. Don’t lose the opportunity.
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Acum când încheiem un an dificil, vreau să spun fiecăruia dintre dumneavoastră, că, în ciuda problemelor cu care se confruntă, Republica Moldova are un potențial imens. Resursele dumneavoastră, capitalul uman, spiritul de creativitate și munca asiduă – scad din probleme (care sunt bine cunoscute de toți), iar Moldova ar putea deveni o țară prosperă, democratică și europeană într-o perioadă surprinzător de scurtă. Nu lăsați o mână de persoane să stea în calea succesului dumneavoastră. Țineți conducătorii voștri responsabili la cele mai înalte standarde - la urma urmei, ei ar trebui să fie în serviciul cetățenilor acestei țări. Cereți ca ei să acționeze în interesul poporului Moldovei. Foaia de parcurs este clară: revenirea la Acordul de Asociere cu UE, eradicarea corupției, și abordarea vulnerabilităților economice.
Statele Unite vor rămâne mereu un prieten și un partener al poporului Moldovei, și vă doresc dumneavoastră, poporului Moldovei, un an nou fericit, sănătos și prosper. Acum când intrăm în 2016, anul când veți marca 25 de ani de independență, să ne concentrăm toți asupra faptului cum putem fiecare aduce schimbarea pentru Moldova. Am deplina convingere că putem vedea o Moldovă prosperă în viitorul apropiat, dar această perioadă poate fi un punct de cotitură pentru țara dumneavoastră. Nu ratați oportunitatea.
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2021) Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) transport a simulated casualty as part of flight deck firefighting training, July 13. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
The boys feast on potatoes and beans. On school days, the older children come back to the orphanage for lunch, a break that splits their day into two. The younger children attand school only in the morning or afternoon.
Gisimba Memorial Center
June 29, 2006.
Kigali, Rwanda. Africa.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 20, 2021) Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) are given damage control training in auxiliary machinery room two during a routine underway. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine training operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Tate and Beth Mason with daughter Maybelle at Saturday's annual California condor release hosted on the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Tate Mason, Education Coordinator for the Peregrine Fund works at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho. The Mason family made the long, multi-day trip to northern Arizona to watch the condors fly free.
Photo by Rachel Carnahan, Public Affairs Officer for the BLM Arizona Strip District.
A cadre of dedicated volunteers celebrated National Public Lands Day with a day of service and outdoor fun on the Green River and at the Price Canyon Recreation Area. Approximately two dozen volunteers from Carbon County Recreation, Sheri Griffith Outfitting, and Fort Lewis College greeted a sunny morning at Swasey’s Boat Ramp. The group spent the day rafting and hiking as they gathered trash and groomed trails along the Green River river corridor. This scenic stretch of the Green River is well-known to locals and tourists as the final leg of the Desolation and Gray Canyons River adventure. The project wrapped up at the Nefertiti Recreation Area, where the volunteers relaxed and enjoyed an autumn picnic.
Photo by BLM Utah.
The sisters keep each other company as one of them prepares the charcoal stove for lunch.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 3, 2006.
INDIAN OCEAN (June 14, 2019) - San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), right, steams alongside Rajput-class destroyer INS Ranvijay (D55) during a photo exercise. John P. Murtha is currently on its first deployment and part of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) team and is deployed to the 7th Fleet area of operation to support regional stability, reassure partners and allies, and maintain a presence postured to respond to any crisis ranging from humanitarian assistance to contingency operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer) 190614-N-MT581-1178
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This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Official Statement on Name Change
"Sisters of Rwanda has been in operation in Rwanda for 2.5 years. Our original mission was to “ensure justice, equality and economic opportunities for Rwanda’s most vulnerable women”. Over the years we have learned better how to serve this amazing country and the people that dwell within it. We came here to listen and to learn, and as part of the natural maturation of our organization, we have grown into KEZA. Simply put, KEZA is the result of a 2.5 year pilot project called Sisters of Rwanda. “KEZA is a people-inspired luxury fashion house based in Rwanda. We buy top quality fashion goods from non-profit development organizations, generate income for the poor and help to establish Africa’s position in the luxury fashion industry.”
We still work with the very same 43 women that helped build Sisters of Rwanda. And our vision has only strengthened and become more strategic. Sisters of Rwanda has grown up, and we are proud to present KEZA to the world. Welcome to KEZA, “Where ‘they’ become ‘we’”. "
Jill Hockaday, Tara Stephens and Ashley Wruth of Alberta, Canada traveled to the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument for the September 26, 2015 annual condor release in which three California condors were released into the wild.
"It's super exciting to be here on the release day and see another species released into the wild," Ashley Wruth said. Wruth, Hockaday and Stephens were all part of a species reintroduction project for the black footed ferret in Canada so the trio changed their original trip plans and traveled to Arizona to witness the release.
Photo by Rachel Carnahan, Public Affairs Officer for the BLM Arizona Strip District.
Lunchtime. On school days, the older children come back to the orphanage for lunch, a break that splits their day into two. The younger children attand school only in the morning or afternoon.
Gisimba Memorial Center
June 29, 2006.
Kigali, Rwanda. Africa.
Ajdabiya, Libya. An ICRC delegate and a Libyan Red Crescent volunteer talk to stranded Bangladeshis who had been working for a road cleaning firm before fighting broke out in Libya.
© ICRC / J. Björgvinsson / v-p-ly-e-00046h / www.icrc.org
Sister Virgini prepares the charcoal stove. Earlier I gave her FR300 to buy the bag of charcoal you see here. 56 cents buys enough charcoal for two days.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 9, 2006.
SAN DIEGO (April 25, 2020) Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Vilma Rodriguez from San Diego, attached to USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), right, gives nebulizer training during a simulated mass casualty drill in the ship’s medical department. John P. Murtha is currently in its homeport at Naval Base San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 10, 2021) Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) repair a rubber pipe with banding, July 10. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
There are thousands of street children in Butare. Everyday they scavenge for food. Some make their home in trash heaps boardering the streets. At night, these children burrow beneath blankets of rotted refuse, heads at odd angles to the highway.
Some of these children are orphans, others come from broken or abusive homes, a sobering fact which can turn street life into near sanctuary.
Butare, Rwanda.
Afrika.
July 8, 2006.
My friend Egide, 16.
I'm looking for sponsors for the children of Gisimba Memorial Center. Please email me at camera_rwanda@yahoo.com if you are interested. You can also contact www.orphansofrwanda.org
Gisimba Memorial Center.
The water tank.
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali, in Nyamirambo.
Rwanda. Afrika.
July 31, 2006.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
Eleanor Siebers, Education Specialist at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, led this year’s NPLD. This year, BLM Oregon hosted 84 adults and 24 kids who participated in volunteer projects. The puppet show had 30 adults and 22 kids participate with an overall total of 130 participants.
Each volunteer and staff participated with much enthusiasm and energy, the day started pulling invasive ivy near communications hill, pulling European beach grass in the quarry cove area, wayside beautification along the lighthouse, Cobble beach cleanup, and harvesting vegetables in the Lighthouse historic garden. The vegetables will be contributed to Lincoln County Food Share.
Eleanor added that NPLD is all about giving back, a day for volunteering, providing volunteer opportunities for the young, old and people of any ages. Park staff was really happy; there were so many locals who turned out for the service projects. When asked why the locals loves volunteering, their answer is, “We come all the time and we just want to give back.”
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
Volunteers clean-up trash along 13 miles of the Salmon River from Shoup Bridge Campground to Morgan Bar Campground.
Photo by BLM Idaho.
Down a long narrow cement corridor, around the corner from where the sisters are washing and cooking, you'll find their children.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 4, 2006.
We spent most of the day playing on the floor with toys and dolls.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Kimironko, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
October 9, 2006.
Named to honour people from Gloucestershire who made a difference, including Martin Heath and Emma Hurrell. Gloucester station 2022-03-04
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 17, 2021) Capt. Gervy Alota, from San Diego, commanding officer aboard amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), left, and Cmdr. Jayson Larsen, from Las Vegas, the ship’s executive officer, observe well deck operations with Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, June 17. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. Third Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
She's holding a ball fashioned from plastic bags and string--
a homemade toy typical of Afrika.
Gisimba Memorial Center.
Nyamirambo, Kigali. Rwanda. Afrika.
June 27, 2006.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
Eleanor Siebers, Education Specialist at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, led this year’s NPLD. This year, BLM Oregon hosted 84 adults and 24 kids who participated in volunteer projects. The puppet show had 30 adults and 22 kids participate with an overall total of 130 participants.
Each volunteer and staff participated with much enthusiasm and energy, the day started pulling invasive ivy near communications hill, pulling European beach grass in the quarry cove area, wayside beautification along the lighthouse, Cobble beach cleanup, and harvesting vegetables in the Lighthouse historic garden. The vegetables will be contributed to Lincoln County Food Share.
Eleanor added that NPLD is all about giving back, a day for volunteering, providing volunteer opportunities for the young, old and people of any ages. Park staff was really happy; there were so many locals who turned out for the service projects. When asked why the locals loves volunteering, their answer is, “We come all the time and we just want to give back.”
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
Germany. Two young German Red Cross volunteers take a break after a day of training at the Medical Hazmat Unit.
© German Red Cross / www.icrc.org