Latest news with #JulieGreen
CBC
27-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Julie Green on YWCA NWT's new downtown daycare proposal
A Yellowknife women's organization has applied to the City of Yellowknife to build a new daycare, after abandoning a previous proposal after it was initially rejected by the city. YWCA NWT wants to open a new space for 56 children in the three empty lots next to Boston Pizza on 48th Street downtown. Julie Green is the president of the NWT YWCA. She spoke to Trailbreaker host Hilary Bird about the plans for the daycare. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Can you tell us more about your latest daycare proposal? We put in an expression of interest document to [the Department of Education, Culture and Employment] around Christmas, and they were giving away five portables that were used at William McDonald School as classrooms for children. During the rebuild, the school, they acquired these portables... and then the school opened and then they didn't need the portables anymore. So we put in an expression of interest and we were granted them provisionally. Then we needed to find somewhere to put the portables, which are four classroom modulars and one bathroom modular. So we made an offer that was accepted on those three lots on 48th Street. What is your plan going forward now? What special permission would you need from the city to move this project forward? We need a variance and a development — a variance of the bylaw and a development permit. So what we're working on right now is the variance. The city bylaw for that area of Yellowknife has a minimum height requirement for buildings of two stories, and the modulars are one storey and they're not stackable. So we have applied for a variance and our architect has designed a facade for the modulars that make them look very attractive. They don't look just like boxes and it also raises the height of the streetscape to just about two storeys. In the fall, CBC spoke with the YWCA and the city about a different YWCA proposal to build a daycare. It would have been located in Niven Lake neighbourhood. The city surprised the YWCA by rejecting that application, citing traffic concerns. What made you decide to just walk away from that project and not perhaps put pressure on the city to try and resolve it? We met with the city to try and resolve that issue, and ultimately, they provided us with a letter that said this wasn't going to happen. There was no point doing a traffic study. The traffic situation with the way that corner of Haener and Moyle Drive is designed makes it unsuitable for the kind of pick up and drop off that would be required at a daycare. Why is this project so important to the NWT YWCA? Our mission is to uplift women and help them realize their full potential. And so a woman who can't find daycare in order to pursue whatever else she wants to do in her life — education, work, painting, whatever it is, is really limited in doing that if she's unable to find daycare. So we're very interested in making daycare available for families, women in particular, to thrive. Everybody gets what they need out of the situation. The children get licensed professional daycare. The parents have time to go and do what they need to do without worrying about how their children are being cared for. Do you have a sense of when, if everything goes as planned, as when you could open this facility? I wish I had an exact date for you. The agreement we have with ECE about acquiring those modulars is that we would have a daycare open by the end of March. And so that's our goal, that's what we're working towards. So at some point in the future, we'll be able to tell the public how they can apply for the daycare and the cost and and all of those other details. The YWCA NWT is hosting an open house tonight at 6 p.m. at Gotı̨li Kǫ̀ [5011 54th Street], where architectural drawings of the new daycare will be available to the public to view.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$1.5M awarded to expand Trumbull County internet services
(WKBN) — Internet services in Trumbull County will be expanding thanks to newly awarded grants. Brightspeed announced that it has been awarded $1,500,000 to expand its Fiber Internet network to nearly 2,400 more locations in Trumbull County. This award is in addition to the more than $12.3 million in local, state and federal funding already awarded to Brightspeed to connect nearly 5,900 homes and businesses in Allen, Ashtabula, Columbiana, Knox, Mahoning, Shelby and Trumbull counties. 'We are excited to see years of hard work pay off with this partnership and to have Trumbull County residents who have traditionally been unserved or underserved receive a broadband connection directly to their front door,' said Director of Trumbull County Planning Commission Julie Green in a news release. Brightspeed has been awarded $13.8 million in funding from the Ohio Residential Broadband Expansion Grant (ORBEG) program funded through the American Rescue Plan Act, the Broadband Expansion Authority and BroadbandOhio to extend its planned fiber network build by more than 8,300 locations across the state. 'We have an unwavering commitment to bridging the digital divide and thanks to this additional funding, we can further expand our planned network build to give more Ohioans the connectivity they need at home to learn and work and for their businesses to thrive,' Brightspeed state and local government affairs director in Ohio Tom Simone said. It is unclear when and where exactly these services will be installed. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
McDowell County opens a flood helpline call center to help those affected
WELCH, WV (WVNS) – When Delegate David Green saw how many calls were being made to 911 centers in McDowell County, he knew he had to act. Welch community begins first steps back to normalcy after devastating floods With coordination from local volunteers, he set up a Flood Helpline Call Center at The Armory in Welch. 'We got the McDowell County school systems to come in and donate computers. We found a web based virtual IP phone number system to come in to get our call center set up.' Delegate David Green, McDowell County Officials with the call center tell 59News that if is still a life-threatening situation, they urge you to contact 9-11. Mercer County recovery efforts after flooding However, if is not a life-threatening situation, they urge you to contact the call center instead. This can be for transportation, water, food, and so much more. 'We're trying to be as efficient as possible and getting the information out there. Making sure our volunteers are aware and we need to get as much correct information as possible. That way when others review this information, we can get out to these people.' Julie Green, Call Center Volunteer The hours for the call center go from 8 in the morning to 8 at night. Volunteers said they will keep the call center going for as long as it takes. 'I would hope it would be natural for most people to help as much as they can and be that support. If we had to trade places with any of these people that has been calling, we would want to help. To know the support is there and that someone is looking at the need and going to do something about it.' Julie Green, Call Center Volunteer The call center also gives you the ability to donate supplies. Supplies go pretty quickly at The Armory so if you are able to donate, please donate! The number for the call center is (888) 929-4966. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
