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Brave Heart Volunteers: Sitkans helping Sitkans face devastating loss

...organization a start-up and development grant; within a year, volunteer visiting began...funded in part by a Community Impact Grant from United Way of Southeast Alaska, not...achievements of its 2012 Community Impact Grant recipients. To learn more about "living...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-05-19/brave-heart-volunteers-sitkans-help
Neighbors
Meals on Wheels provides more than just food

...area. And she'd love to do more."I think we could probably do double that," she said.The program is supported through grant money from the state, as well as donations from friends of the center and Meals on Wheels clients. Although many people who...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-20/meals-wheels-provides-more-just-food
State
Falcons' freshman phenom flies for first in Fairbanks

...Simmers, ACS 19-11.50 (7. Chevy Fowler, HNS, 16-09.50 / 8. Samson Stengl, SIT 16-05.25); Discus ? 1. Grant George, GCS, 144-08 ( 6. Alan Jensen, PSG 103-03 / 7. Chatham Conner, SIT 97-01).Small school team results...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-05-19/falcons-freshman-phenom-flies-first-fa
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The Company You Keep

Now Playing Synopsis: Working from a script by Lem Dobbs, Robert Redford directs and stars in The Company You Keep as Jim Grant, a former member of the Weather Underground who has been hiding out under an assumed identity ever since members of the group participated in a bank heist that ended in a guard's death. When a young reporter figures out the truth, Grant must stay one step ahead of the FBI, who want to bring charges against him for the decades-old murder. The Company You Keep screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi Cast: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Fruitvale Station

Opens Friday, Jul 12, 2013 Synopsis: Filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature directorial debut with this drama centered on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a vibrant 22-year-old Bay Area father who was senselessly gunned down by BART officers on New Year's Day in 2009, and whose murder sent shockwaves through the nation after being captured on camera by his fellow passengers. Octavia L. Spencer, Melonie Diaz, and Kevin Durand co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia L. Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Kevin Durand, Ahna O'Reilly Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Six local artists honored with Individual Artist Awards

...000) was given, as well as 25 Project Grants ($7,500) and 10 Fellowships ($18...Kendra Nichols-Takak, of Nome. Project Grants and Fellowships, launched in 2003, are...Rasmuson Foundation has awarded 303 grants over the past ten years, totaling more...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-05-16/six-local-artists-honored-individual-arti
Art
Sealaska Lands bills head to full House committee

...R. 740.H.R. 740 is titled "Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act" and would grant 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest to the to the regional Native corporation."We believe the Department of Agriculture...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-16/sealaska-lands-bills-head-full-house-co
Local
Juneau-Douglas' Vandor, Thunder Mountain's Johnson in pitchers' duel

...walk), C. Gould 1-3 (single), Klein 0-2 (sacrifice bunt), Vandor 0-3, Petrie 1-2 (single, run scored), Grant Ainsworth 0-2, Baseden 0-3 (sacrifice bunt), Pusich 1-1 (single) and Dale a run scored.For the Falcons, Swanton...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-05-15/juneau-douglas-vandor-thunder-mountain
Sports | JDHS | TMHS
City sales tax: By the numbers

...the other three percent goes toward a variety of things including general government, capital projects and youth activities grants."It goes into a blended pot of the operating budget, so everything that the city does is primarily funded by property or...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-14/city-sales-tax-numbers
Local
Boston chief: Wasn't told FBI got Tsarnaev warning

...for more counterterrorism money. Both Davis and Kurt Schwartz, the Massachusetts homeland security chief, praised federal grants that for years have kept cities flush with money for equipment and manpower."People are alive today" because of money for...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2013-05-10/boston-chief-wasnt-told-fbi-got-tsarn
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