President's Volunteer Service Award

President's Volunteer Service Award

The President's Volunteer Service Award recognizes United States citizens who have achieved the required number of hours of service over a 12-month time period or cumulative hours over the course of a lifetime. To qualify, youth volunteers simply submit a record of their service hours to YSA, and we will verify the service and award the PVSA.

 

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Everyday Young Hero Award

Everyday Young Hero Award

Each week, YSA honors a young person who has found their voice, taken action, and made an impact on an issue important to them and to their community. Winners receive a certificate and letter, and are featured on YSA.org, on social media, and in the weekly Youth Service Briefing.

 

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UL Safer Roads, Safer India Youth Service Grants

UL Safer Roads, Safer India Youth Service Grants

Early Application Deadline: February 15

YSA and UL are looking for creative ideas from young people in India about how they can help create safer roads and a safer India. Two YSA Grants programs will help youth find their voice, take action, and make an impact on the issue of road safety in India. Youth and educators can apply at www.YSA.org/SaferIndia

Disney Friends for Change Grants - U.S.

Disney Friends for Change Grants - U.S.

Deadline: February 18

Disney Friends for Change Grants offer young change-makers $500 to gather their friends and turn their creative ideas to help their communities into projects taking place on or around Global Youth Service Day - April 17-19, 2015. Whether protecting the planet, providing food to hungry people, helping other kids learn, or promoting healthy behaviors, Friends for Change help make their communities greener, safer, smarter, healthier, cleaner, and fairer. Youth ages 5-18 located in all 50 states and DC are eligible. Apply and turn your idea from a dream into reality: www.YSA.org/disney_friends_for_change_us_grants

SAVE THE DATE

SAVE THE DATE

Join Chatham Avalon Park

Community Council

and

360 Degrees Jazz Band

in Celebrating our Rich Legacy during

Black History Month.

Honoring

Ms. Emoleanor Jones

Dr. Webb Evans

Mr. Joseph E. Moore, Jr. &

Justice William Cousins

The Woodshop Art Gallery

441 East. 75th St.

Chicago, IL 60619

Sunday, February 22, 2015

3:00—6:00 pm

B.Y.O.B.

Donation: $20.00

New Ordinance to shame bad landlords & proposal to rein in the RedLight Camera Program

Dear friend, This Tuesday, in a City Council committee, I was able to do something that will have direct, positive effects on the day-to-day lives of my constituents. I'm sure you remember the terrible - and completely preventable - tragedy of Eri'ana Patton Smith's death in a fire last year on South Vernon. After the fire, we found out that the building didn't have working smoke detectors, and that the landlord had been cited for serious violations multiple times, including just last June for the very lack of smoke detectors that would kill four precious children. Well, on Tuesday, I, along with Buildings Commissioner Felicia Davis and Eri'ana's father, Eric, successfully pushed the Budget and Zoning Committee to pass an ordinance that will create a public list of bad landlords. If you're a good landlord and you keep your building safe and secure, you've got nothing to worry about. But if you're a scofflaw, if you put your tenants at risk while collecting their hard-earned money - we're going to name you and shame you. And not only that: under the ordinance, these bad landlords won't be able to get any licenses, permits, or other help from the City. (More details are in the Sun-Times article below.) The next day, with my colleague from the 44th Ward, Tom Tunney, I introduced a proposal to rein in the Red Light Camera Program. You know that I think the program is broken, so Alderman Tunney and I proposed some commonsense reforms: countdown clocks at each intersection with a camera, a citywide minimum yellow light time of 3.2 seconds, and a public process-including comprehensive traffic studies, a public hearing, and a City Council vote-before the installation of any more cameras. You can read more details below. I'm hopeful that the Mayor and my colleagues will agree that these are practical solutions to a problematic program, as the Sun-Times says in yesterday's editorial. As an Alderman, it's not every day that I get the chance to push my colleagues to do something that will have such a direct impact on the everyday lives of Chicagoans, and that will potentially save lives. But this week, we did just that. Sincerely, Alderman Beale P.S. If you currently are a tenant of a bad landlord, please do not hesitate to reach out to my office. Office Hours* Monday 9 am - 7pm Resident's night 4 pm - 7 pm Tuesday-Thursday 9 am - 5 pm Friday 9 am - 3 pm Saturday 9 am - 1 pm Community meetings every 4th Tuesday *Closed on Sundays and holidays. Times may change due to special events Quick Links 9th Ward Website Find Important Meeting Dates Community Updates 9th Ward Resources 9th Ward Service Requests Contact Us Paid for by the City of Chicago. City to create 'bad landlords' list with new penalties Posted: 01/20/2015, 05:51pm | Fran Spielman Ald. Anthony Beale, shown last year at a City Council meeting. | Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Media Chicago would create a "bad landlords" list to inform tenants - and both shame and punish building owners who fail to provide the most basic services - under a crackdown advanced Tuesday after testimony from a grieving father. Eric Patton Smith's daughter, Eri'ana, was one of four children who died last year in a Roseland fire in a building without working smoke detectors. The 18-unit building that burned in the 11200 block of South Vernon had been cited for serious violations six times over the past nine years, according to Buildings Commissioner Felicia Davis. The most recent inspection - on June 9, 2014 - cited the building owner for failing to install and maintain working smoke detectors. Read more on the Sun-Times website. Countdown signals demanded at red-light camera intersections Posted: 01/21/2015, 04:20pm | Fran Spielman Chicago motorists routinely slam on the brakes to avoid getting nailed by red-light cameras. Some have caused rear-end collisions while avoiding the dreaded $100 ticket. That panicky and dangerous behavior could come to a crashing halt, if a pair of aldermen have their way. Transportation Committee Chairman Anthony Beale (9th) and Economic, Capital and Technology Development Chairman Tom Tunney (44th) want to mandate countdown signals at all 174 Chicago intersections where 352 red-light cameras are installed. Twice in the last six years, Beale has proposed countdown signals at red-light intersections, only to hit a dead end because of the cost. It's a minimum of $15,000 per corner and upward of $45,000 at the oldest signals. That means the overall price tag could top $7.8 million. Read more on the Sun-Times website. Let's green-light red light camera reforms Posted: 01/22/2015, 04:15pm | Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board Nobody has done a poll, far as we know, but it's probably fair to say Chicagoans by and large do not trust the city's red-light camera program. EDITORIAL Drivers suspect the city is more interested in their wallets than in their safety, and there is evidence compiled by the Chicago Tribune that while the cameras have reduced the number of right-angle crashes, they have increased the number of rear-end crashes. Now two Chicago aldermen have come forward with several smart reforms to the red-light camera program. The changes they propose could make the program more effective, reducing the number of crashes of all kinds, and give skeptical Chicagoans reason to believe the whole thing isn't just a moneymaker. We urge Mayor Rahm Emanuel to go for it. Read more on the Sun-Times website. MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER Alderman Anthony Beale | 9th Ward | 773-785-1100 | ward09.com

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0016724 01/23/2015 08:00 AM EDT In this photo, Cambodian children are seen showing off their purple-marked pinkies, indicating that they were now protected against measles and rubella, having received a vaccination during a 2013 immunization campaign.

0018785 01/22/2015 08:00 AM EDT This photograph was captured by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) team member, and EIS Officer, Dr. Heidi Soeters during Guinea's 2014 Ebola outbreak, and depicted a Guinean public healthcare worker participating in a mock Ebola treatment protocol training session, whereupon, he'd crouched down on a blue plastic tarpaulin, and was in the process of handling what would have been an Ebola-contaminated cloth towel.

0000610 01/21/2015 08:00 AM EDT Magnified 500X, this 1971 photomicrograph depicted some of the histopathologic changes associated with an infection found in a brain tissue specimen due to the presence of free-living amoebae of the genus, Naegleria.

0018788 01/20/15 08:00AM EDT This photograph was captured by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) team member, and EIS Officer, Dr. Heidi Soeters during Guinea's 2014 Ebola outbreak, and depicts a World Health Organization (WHO) staff member who was also deployed to the West African region, as he was conducting a class in how to properly don personal protective equipment (PPE).

0018613 01/19/15 08:00AM EDT This photograph depicts a young Asian-American schoolboy who was in the process of creating a drawing, and was choosing from a box of crayons. It is important to know that these objects are known as fomites, which can act as transmitters of illnesses, for viruses and bacteria are able to remain alive on their surfaces after being handled by an ill child, who can then inadvertently transfer these "germs" to another child who subsequently handles these schoolroom objects.

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