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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Sport
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Girard comes up just short in regional semifinals
CANTON, Ohio (WKBN) – Mentor Lake Catholic edged Girard 1-0 in the OHSAA Division IV Baseball Regional Semifinals on Tuesday afternoon at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton. The Indians were competing in the regional semifinals for the first time since 1986. The Cougars plated the lone run of the game, scoring on a Girard fielding error, allowing Joe Nagy to score. Lake Catholic's Patrick Radigan pitched a complete game shutout with 10 strikeouts. He allowed just one hit and one walk. Girard's Dom Tolone was equally as sharp, tossing a complete game, allowing one unearned run with seven strikeouts. He allowed four hits and three walks. Girard's season comes to an end with a record of 16-13. Mentor Lake Catholic improves to 23-4 overall. The Cougars advance to face the winner of Canfield/Hubbard in the Division IV Regional Final on Thursday at 2 p.m. at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Former Wisconsin 'Farmer Wants a Wife' star Grace Girard is engaged to Racine city official Trevor Jung
Grace Girard's love story came after her time on "Farmer Wants a Wife." And, it's reached its best chapter yet. The Wisconsin sweetheart recently got engaged to Trevor Jung, the transit and mobility director for the City of Racine. In celebration of their one-year anniversary, the couple traveled to Europe. Jung popped the question on "the cutest little street" in Strasbourg, France, on the night of May 31, Girard shared with the Journal Sentinel over text from overseas. Girard made the exciting announcement on Instagram June 3 with an adorable photo of her and Jung cheesing as she held his face with her newly blinged-out hand, plus another shot of the stunning rock. Their dog, Beau, got a ring of his own. On her Instagram Story, Girard shared a photo of the Cavapoo — who the couple adopted earlier this year — playing with a big plush engagement ring toy. "Beau is pumped 💍," Girard captioned the pic with a smaller image overlayed of her hand with the actual ring and her fiancé behind it. In 2023, Girard — who lived in Caledonia at the time — applied for and got cast on Season 2 of "FWAW." It filmed that fall and aired last year. There were four farmers, each with a crop of daters attempting to wrangle their hearts. On the season finale, Colorado farmer Brandon Rogers chose Girard. The two split shortly after filming concluded, but remained friends. It wasn't long before Girard found love in her own backyard with Jung. They're both extroverted, have a "deep commitment" to their families, enjoy being on the go, making friends and entertaining. Here's a look back at the newly engaged couple's relationship, including how they met, and how Girard's fellow "FWAW" alums are reacting to the big news: In 2024, Jung — a former alderman and Wisconsin Democratic National Convention delegate — spoke at a leadership forum that Girard — a communications associate — attended, the couple said in an interview last June. "He did a great job and he was very endearing and I just thought he looked great in a suit," Girard said at that time. "I was very attracted to his ambition and the way he worked the crowd that was there. That just made me really start to fall for him." Girard followed Jung on Instagram and he immediately followed her back. When her season of "FWAW" was nearing the end of airing, Girard expressed her interest in Jung to two of their mutual friends and they put in a good word for her, she said. Their first date was at Milwaukee's Boone & Crockett. It was a double date with Jung's buddy, who's dating one of Girard's college friends. Girard graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2019. Just like viewers were drawn to Girard's bubbly, sweet and genuine personality, so was Jung. "It's like, when you know, you know, right?" Jung said in that previous interview. "When I saw the way that she talked not only to me, but the people around her, I thought, 'Here's someone who's so sweet that I want to spend more time with.'" For Girard, Jung checks "all the boxes." "He's the best," Girard said in March. "We're just coasting along." The couple was already having a big year, with adopting Beau and Girard moving into Jung's Racine abode. Girard's dear friend, Joy Mayfield, who was also on Rogers' farm, commented on the Instagram announcement not once, but twice. "Eeepp!!!" Mayfield said. "My two favorite people in the world!! Congrats! Love you guys!! 👰🏼♀️🤵🏻♂️💍🍰🩵✨". Fellow Wisconsinite Karina Sabol — who was a finalist on "FWAW" Season 3, the season after Girard's — said: "Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉". Several castmates Girard has remained friends with since filming offered their well wishes, too. "AHHHHHH OMG CONGRATS!!!🥂🥹" Taylor BeDell said. "CONGRATS 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍" commented Kait Smith. "Congratulations!!!" Megan Lay wrote. "Oh my goshhhh" Sydney Errera said. "I had a dream about this happening the other night! Huge congratulations! The best news ever!🤍💍" wrote Emerson Sears, who was a latecomer on Rogers' farm. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Racine 'Farmer Wants a Wife' star Grace Girard engaged to Trevor Jung
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Independent review ordered into Community Living B.C. after starvation death
The B.C. Crown corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled people will have its home-share program independently reviewed after an inquest into a starvation death earlier this year. Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC). After the week-long inquest into Girard's death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home. CLBC, the corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled people, was created in 2005. It is in charge of caring for 29,000 British Columbians with disabilities such as autism, fetal alcohol syndrome and Down syndrome. Now, the province says it is commissioning an independent review of the organization's home-sharing program, to be conducted by contractor Tamar Consultancy. "Although CLBC has made a lot of changes since 2018, we still hear about concerns," Poverty Reduction Minister Sheila Malcolmson told CBC News. "And today we've launched a review of ClBC's home-sharing program to make sure that the changes [made] since 2018 are getting people the highest quality of service possible." The province's statement says that it would create an advisory body made up of individuals, families and service providers to inform the review and give recommendations to the ministry. The review is expected to be finished in late September. Malcolmson told CBC News that the independent review would cost the government $75,000, and said the government needed to know the home-sharing model was as strong as possible. "We are really counting on home sharing. Four thousand families across B.C. open their homes to adults with developmental disabilities," she said. "The demand is growing. "It's a model that holds so much promise for people that, at another time, would have been living in institutions." In a news release, the CEO of CLBC's board welcomed the independent review. "We want to do everything we can to make sure this model is as strong as it can be, because this is about keeping people safe, and we believe the number of people supported through the home-sharing model will grow considerably," Shane Simpson said. In its statement, the province says that CLBC made a number of changes after Girard's death in 2018, including mandating home visits every three months and annual doctor visits. WATCH | Down syndome advocate and Girard's sister call for changes: Advocates and unions had called for a shakeup of CLBC after the inquest into Girard's death, including demands its board resign. Tamara Taggart, the president of advocacy organization Down Syndrome B.C., said the province didn't need to hire a consultancy firm to make changes at CLBC, given the inquest's recommendations in January. "I have no idea how much money this is costing, but whatever it is, it's too much because we know what the answers are," she told CBC News. "To continue to consult and research and have some public consultations and interviews and all that sort of stuff ... I feel like I am in the movie Groundhog Day," Taggart added. Taggart said that she was interested to see what happens with the review, but was critical of the government for hiring an external consultancy firm for the job. In a statement sent to CBC News at the time, CLBC said that none of its current board members were on the board in 2018 and that by law, the board must include representation from people with developmental disabilities, family members of those who receive services funded by CLBC, and Indigenous people. Following the Girard inquest, CLBC's CEO provided an "unreserved apology" to Girard's family, friends and loved ones and said the organization had failed the B.C. woman's family. In astatement at the time, CLBC said it welcomed the inquest's recommendations and said it was committed to taking concrete actions to strengthen the delivery of home sharing services.
Montreal Gazette
03-06-2025
- General
- Montreal Gazette
Hanes: Bill 40 appeal shows the Legault government has learned nothing
By Whenever a new fracas erupts between the government of Premier François Legault and the anglophone community, Eric Girard, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, is dispatched to try to patch things up. Recently, he admitted that new directives issued last summer that suggested eligibility certificates for education in English could be used to access health care in English were ' not our finest moment' and that he was 'disappointed' at how the whole saga played out. Previously, Girard acknowledged that tuition hikes for out-of-province students that disproportionately harmed Quebec's English universities had ruffled feathers, and he vowed to smooth things over. When he was appointed to the portfolio in 2022 after the angst surrounding the adoption of Bill 96, Quebec's update of protections for the French language, Girard promised to allay fears and 'do better.' 'When I say we need to do better, I mean we need to improve relations,' he told The Gazette back in the early days of his tenure. But time and again, these prove to be empty promises. Because actions speak louder than words. And even though it was less than a month ago that Girard called for the latest reset, the Legault government has demonstrated the depth of its contempt for the rights of English-speaking Quebecers anew by announcing its intention to appeal the latest ruling on Bill 40 all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada (if the top court agrees to hear it, that is). The attempt to abolish English school boards and replace them with service centres was one of the first bones of contention between the anglophone community and the Legault government after it was first elected in 2018. The Quebec English School Boards Association launched a constitutional challenge of the law immediately after its passage and has since won two resounding victories. Both Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeals have agreed that Bill 40 is a violation of Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and affirmed the rights of the English-speaking minority to manage and control its own schools. Both courts have categorically said that transforming school boards into service centres like their francophone counterparts, centralizing many of their decision-making powers in the ministry of education, and axing the elected councils of commissioners run counter to those constitutional guarantees. But the Legault government is forging ahead trying to defend the discredited law. At this point, there is no principled reason to drag this out — and no pragmatic imperative, either. Quebec's English school boards obtained an injunction in 2020, keeping them intact for the duration of the legal proceedings. For five years they have continued to operate as they always have, overseen by elected representatives from the community, alongside French service centres. At this point the government's argument that it can't have two different systems for running French and English schools doesn't really hold water. In fact, there is growing concern that francophone service centres, administered by parents drawn from local school governing boards, lack transparency and accountability. And since Bill 40 was adopted five years ago, Education Minister Bernard Drainville has grabbed even more authority from service centres, like the power to appoint their directors general and overturn their decisions. The English school boards have already proven their management and control rights — twice. But the Legault government just won't let it go. Are they gluttons for punishment? Or is this merely a continuation of the pattern of antagonizing the English-speaking community? So often over two mandates in office, the premier or his ministers say one thing and do another. Legault claimed nothing would change for anglophones under Bill 96, yet there has been major upheaval. English colleges now have quotas for francophone and allophone students and new French course requirements, which has left them destabilized. English versions of government and public websites now have warnings about who is allowed to consult the content, which is an insult to intelligence. English court documents and decisions must be accompanied by French translations, which are costly and time-consuming, impeding access to justice. And these are just a few examples. The rights of anglophones are either complete afterthought or collateral damage. A year ago, when new rules on simultaneous translation of court judgments came into effect, a Quebec Court judge on the verge of presiding over an English criminal trial had to convene representatives of the prosecution service and attorney general's office to get basic information on how this was supposed to work. He was essentially told there was no plan and things were still being figured out. For his efforts, he was the subject of a complaint to the judicial council for overstepping his authority. He was later totally exonerated. His decision declaring the new regulations inoperable for English criminal trials is being appealed, however. The list of slights goes on and on. Yet concerns are frequently dismissed as the rantings of 'angryphones' acting like the world's most spoiled minority — until the government gets egg on its face over something truly ludicrous. Whether it's having to intervene on the Go Habs Go fiasco, override a library's decision not to allow an English book club to meet without simultaneous translation or rewriting the confusing health directives, each incident erodes trust. If Girard was at all serious about wanting to rebuild confidence with English-speaking Quebecers, there was one, simple, concrete gesture the government could have made that would have gone a long way and meant a lot in laying the groundwork for a truce: not appealing the Bill 40 ruling to the Supreme Court. Instead, the Legault government couldn't resist fighting a losing battle to the bitter end.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Independent review ordered into Community Living B.C. after starvation death
The B.C. Crown corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled people will have its home-share program independently reviewed after an inquest into a starvation death earlier this year. Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC). After the week-long inquest into Girard's death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home. CLBC, the corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled people, was created in 2005. It is in charge of caring for 29,000 British Columbians with disabilities such as autism, fetal alcohol syndrome and Down syndrome. Now, the province says it is commissioning an independent review of the organization's home-sharing program, to be conducted by contractor Tamar Consultancy. "We are reviewing CLBC's home-sharing program to ensure that changes made since 2018 are getting people the highest quality of service possible," read a statement from Poverty Reduction Minister Sheila Malcolmson. The province's statement says that it would create an advisory body made up of individuals, families and service providers to inform the review and give recommendations to the ministry. The review is expected to be finished in the fall. In a news release, the CEO of CLBC's board welcomed the independent review. "We want to do everything we can to make sure this model is as strong as it can be, because this is about keeping people safe, and we believe the number of people supported through the home-sharing model will grow considerably," Shane Simpson said. In its statement, the province says that CLBC made a number of changes after Girard's death in 2018, including mandating home visits every three months and annual doctor visits. WATCH | Down syndome advocate and Girard's sister call for changes: Advocates and unions had called for a shakeup of CLBC after the inquest into Girard's death, including demands its board resign. In a statement sent to CBC News at the time, CLBC said that none of its current board members were on the board in 2018 and that by law, the board must include representation from people with developmental disabilities, family members of those who receive services funded by CLBC, and Indigenous people. Following the Girard inquest, CLBC's CEO provided an "unreserved apology" to Girard's family, friends and loved ones and said the organization had failed the B.C. woman's family. In astatement at the time, CLBC said it welcomed the inquest's recommendations and said it was committed to taking concrete actions to strengthen the delivery of home sharing services.
