Hope for Haiti and the United Way, the benefit concert scheduled Saturday, April 24, at Allegany College of Maryland, has announced an impressive 16-artist line-up in a wide range of musical styles on two stages.

This major music event, to raise funds for humanitarian relief in earthquake-ravaged Haiti and for County United Way, features bluegrass and country, blues, acoustic and electric rock as well as traditional Irish and barbershop quartet music.

Sponsored by ACM's Peace Studies Club and the Allegany Arts Council, Hope for Haiti is a day-long, family-friendly, Cumberland-campus happening also features fun activities for kids and food and non-alcoholic refreshments from vendors.

It will give tristate residents an opportunity to respond to the devastation and desperation ...

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Tomiyo and I are in Kathmandu for another 5 days before heading back to India until the end of May.  This trip has been rough, after catching colds in India in January and shuttling them back and forth to each other ever since then like shuttlecocks in a badminton tournament.  We love ceiling fans and hate AC - let's put it that way.  Most of the hotels have AC with windows which can't be opened, so we suffer in silence (sometimes!)

Reaching behind her for something, Tomiyo somehow twisted her left arm in cold New Delhi in January and it has been causing her pain in her shoulder and arm ever since.  Our weaver friend Carol Cassidy, had her therapist in Laos work on Tomiyo for a couple of days, with instant relief, ...

Frostburg State University sent 14 students to Louisiana January 11 - 17 to participate in a variety of service-learning projects, including working with Habitat for Humanity, planting well over 1,000 trees for reforestation efforts, and recycling around 2,500 pounds of Mardi Gras beads to raise money for an adult day care center.  The FSU students who served were part of FSU's Student Center for Volunteerism, NAACP, and Black Student Alliance.

Kendall Bradford, a member of the NAACP, said that the trip was very gratifying.  “Besides volunteering, perhaps the most rewarding experience from being in the New Orleans area was listening to the stories of Hurricane Katrina survivors and victims,” he said.  This trip gave the students a chance to see the strong bond and ...

The Introduction -

Every person is a being with the capacity to feel, to think, to act.  We live through experiences that shape how we feel, think, and act.  Life hands us challenges that we encounter and it is up to us what we become on the other side of those challenges.  The thing is we are not alone.  Every person you meet has a challenge and together as a group of people, we have challenges.  It’s easy to point fingers and direct the blame at organizations and especially our government.  It’s even easier to just ignore it and let someone else point the finger.  Nothing’s going to change anyway, right?  What are you supposed to do about it?  It’s not like one person can change the system.  It’s not like we can change the world and make it a better ...