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Ducey to use federal funds for second year of ‘summer camp’
Citing newly released test scores, Gov. Doug Ducey is setting aside $100 million in federal funds to conduct a second year of "summer camp'' to help youngsters catch up on what they missed in school due to Covid.
Phoenix YMCA
The YMCA was founded in Phoenix in 1892. Its mission was to provide a safe haven for the many young men drawn to the frontier. At the time Phoenix was wide open for gambling, drinking and other such pursuits. The Y was part of a growing evangelical Christian movement intended to save the souls of young men cut loose from home and family. It was different from other religious organizations in that [...]
From New York to Los Angeles: Kwasman gaffe gets national attention
Republican congressional candidate Adam Kwasman is garnering all the wrong kind of national headlines after telling a TV news reporter yesterday that he saw “fear in (the) faces” of children who he thought were being bused to an immigration holding facility in Oracle.
Birdman lands in Bisbee
In November 1911, R.L. “Birdman” Fowler made a stop at the Bisbee Country Club on a cross-country air trip and became the first man to fly into the copper mining camp (Didier Masson whose plane appears in this photo was the first to fly out of Bisbee in February 1911, but his biplane was shipped into Bisbee by railroad.)
New state rules promote physical activity, nutrition at child care centers
Provisions encouraging at least an hour of physical activity per day are part of a revamped set of state rules for child care centers that went into effect Sept. 30.
