Yearly Archives: 2011

Upcoming Poetry Workshop

The Syracuse Poster Project, which aims to create a sense of place through a series of illustrated poetry posters displayed throughout downtown Syracuse, will join The Stand to lead the next public writing workshop, on haiku poetry, March 26. The workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 26, at the new South Side Communication Center, located …

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Higher Assistance

On Point for College helps students overcome barriers to gaining college education When Ginny Donohue responded to her daughter Shanley’s request to help a friend get into college, she could not have predicted that one good deed could affect thousands of young lives — and also cause her to change careers. Donohue, a chief financial officer for a local electronics …

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Are You A Match?

A local nonprofit strives to increase the number of bone marrow donors for African-Americans African-Americans face an increasing possibility of not finding a bone marrow tissue match — often the only cure for leukemia and other bloodrelated diseases — because of a low number of registered African-American donors.

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Upcoming: A Healthy Baby Begins With You

The documentary film, “Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nation’s Babies,” will be shown from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at Hendricks Chapel, on the Syracuse University campus. A reception with the film’s creator Tonya Lewis Lee will begin at 2:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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Girls Night

Girls Inc. held a girls-only ’80s-themed dance party to give females a space to let loose, exercise and have fun Cyndi Lauper blasted on the speakers, while a group of six teenage girls danced together in a small semi-circle in a strobe-lit auditorium at YWCA’s Girls Inc., located at 401 Douglas St., on Thursday night, March 10. Girls Inc., a …

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