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The Herald
30-07-2025
- Sport
- The Herald
Mfunzi targets better time in Choose to Challenge 10km at Baywest Mall
Sport Elite Bay runner wants to inspire other women to overcome personal battles Premium 30 July 2025 Top Nelson Mandela Bay female road runner Ntombesintu Mfunzi, who is battling diabetes, will be fighting for a sub-39-minute finish time at this year's Choose to Challenge 10km race on Saturday. The ninth edition of the popular Gqeberha race, which is organised by EP Athletics and the Legacy Project, starts and finishes at the Baywest Mall...
Business Journals
05-06-2025
- Health
- Business Journals
Executive Insights: Andrew Over of Cambia Health Foundation and Todd Crooks of Chad's Legacy Project on improving mental health access (video)
Andrew Over, director of strategy and operations for Cambia Health Foundation, speaks with Todd Crooks, executive director and co-founder of Chad's Legacy Project, about the effort led by Chad's Legacy to improve mental health access and reduce the mental health stigma in Washington. Crooks and his wife founded the organization to honor their son Chad, who took his life in 2016. Over and Crooks explore takeaways from the recent 2025 Washington State Mental Health Summit and how business leaders can work to improve the state of mental health in Washington.
Hamilton Spectator
27-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Murray Brook Minerals, Puma's Subsidiary, Closes $220,000 Private Placement
RIMOUSKI, Quebec, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Puma Exploration Inc. (TSXV: PUMA) ('Puma'), announces that its subsidiary, Murray Brook Minerals Inc. ('MBM' or 'Murray Brooks Minerals') has closed a non-brokered offering consisting of 4,400,000 flow-through common shares (the 'FT Shares') of MBM at a price of C$0.05 per FT Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $220,000 (the 'FT Offering'). Following the FT Offering, Murray Brook Minerals has now 28,044,165 common shares issued and outstanding, with no warrants or options. Puma holds 23,644,165 common shares of MBM, representing approximately 84.3% of its issued and outstanding shares. The proceeds of the FT Offering will be used to advance the Legacy Project, a copper and silver asset, previously held by Puma and contiguous to Puma's McKenzie Gold Project in Northern New Brunswick. As part of Puma's successful DEAR strategy, the Murray Brook Minerals business model is to acquire prospective strategic and critical metals mineral properties with excellent discovery potential that a stand-alone public company can explore and develop. This business model provides Puma's investors with equity interests in another explorer and developer and exposure to other commodities while Puma continues to focus on its gold assets. As a reminder, Puma spun out in 2021 its copper assets to Canadian Copper (CSE: CCI) under an option transaction and subsequently, the Puma shareholders received common shares of CCI upon its listing on the CSE in 2022. Puma currently owns a 9.5% stake in CCI. Over the past three years, CCI has developed and grown its assets and has recently announced the results of a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) ( see Canadian Copper's News Release dated May 22, 2025 ). 'We are thrilled to have a brownfield project close to our New Brunswick exploration offices with a copper/silver deposit outcropping at surface. Our effective low-cost exploration technique will help generate new drill-ready targets and potentially expand the existing Legacy Deposit. As Canadian Copper in 2022, Murray Brook Minerals will develop this asset and other potential projects. With this transaction, Puma enhances shareholder valuation while minimizing dilution, ' mentioned Marcel Robillard, President and CEO of Puma Exploration. The Legacy Project The Legacy Project is contiguous to the McKenzie Gold Project in Northern New Brunswick and consists of two (2) claim blocks covering 10,100 ha (Figure 1). The property is easily accessible, located less than 15 km from St-Quentin, where Puma has its field exploration office. Figure 1. Location of the Legacy Project The underexplored Legacy Project has a high potential for discoveries. The property hosts high-grade copper-silver skarns similar to Osisko Metals' Gaspé Copper in Québec. The Legacy and Gaspé Copper projects exhibit many similarities—they are part of the same Appalachian orogenic system, are of the same age, and exhibit the same mineralization and metal associations. Legacy hosts a copper and silver deposit, the Legacy Deposit, with a historical resource estimate reported in 2015 (Independent Technical Report for the Legacy Project, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada, Marek Nowak, Peng, Chris Barrett, CGeol, Tessa Scott, B.A., Effective Date: June 22, 2015 ). A Qualified Person on behalf of Puma has not reviewed or verified the mineral resource estimate, therefore it is considered historical in nature and is reported solely to provide an indication of the magnitude of mineralization that could be present on the property. Figure 2. 3D model of the Legacy Deposit from historic resource estimate* The true thickness of the copper/silver deposit varies from 30 metres to 50 metres, with mineralization occurring over large intervals. The mineralized zone has been delineated at surface over a distance of about 200 metres and drilled to a depth of 400 metres, and it remains untested below that depth. Puma plans to complete follow-up work on the historic drill-hole intersections showing significant copper/silver mineralization over long intervals. It will also use the same proven low-cost exploration strategy, used at the Williams Brook Project, to identify new prospective targets on the property. Highlights from Historical Drilling* In 1970, drill hole No. 17 returned a continuous section of 59.34 metres @ 1.22% Cu with three (3) important copper-bearing skarn zones: 1) 3.16 % Cu over 11.28 metres from 152.40 to 163.68 metres; 2) 1.84 % Cu over 10.42 metres from 167.64 to 178.06 metres; 3) 1.22% Cu over 13.47 metres from 188.98 to 202.45 metres. The gold potential at Legacy was never assessed, although Hole MC-92-20 returned 4.00 m of 0.26% Cu, 6.08 g/t Ag, and 3.07 g/t Au from 43.00 m to 47.00 m downhole. Puma's detailed data compilation will study the metals zonation at Legacy and assess its copper/silver/gold potential. *Independent Technical Report for the Legacy Project, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada, Marek Nowak, Peng, Chris Barrett, CGeol, Tessa Scott, B.A., Effective Date: June 22, 2015 . Use of Proceeds and Details The gross proceeds of the FT Shares sold under the FT Offering will be used for Canadian Exploration Expenses (within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) which qualify as a 'flow-through mining expenditure' for purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada) related to the exploration program to be conducted on properties located in the Province of New Brunswick. MBM will renounce such Canadian Exploration Expenses with an effective date of no later than December 31, 2025. The proceeds of the FT Offering will be used for data compilation, issuing a new 43-101 compliant technical report, targeting, and excavation operations to locate drilling targets at Legacy. The fieldwork program will cost at least $150,000. Murray Brook Minerals paid $12,250 finders fee to arms-length finders. The FT Offering constitutes an 'Exempt Transaction' under the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. All securities issued under the FT Offering will be subject to an indefinite hold period in accordance with applicable securities laws. About Puma's Assets in New Brunswick Puma has accumulated an impressive portfolio of prospective gold landholdings strategically located close to roads and infrastructure in Northern New Brunswick - the Williams Brook Project and the McKenzie Gold Project. Both are located near the Rocky Brook Millstream Fault ('RBMF'), a major regional structure formed during the Appalachian Orogeny and a significant control for gold deposition in the region. Puma's work to date has focused on the Williams Brook property, but prospecting and surface exploration work on its other properties have confirmed their potential for significant gold mineralization. Qualified Person The scientific and technical content of this press release has been prepared, reviewed, and approved by Mr. Dominique Gagné, P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration, who is a 'Qualified Person' as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ('NI 43-101'). About Puma Exploration Puma Exploration is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company focused on finding and growing a pipeline of precious metals projects in New Brunswick, near Canada's Famous Bathurst Mining Camp. Puma has a long history in Northern New Brunswick, having worked on regional projects for over 20 years. Puma's successful exploration methodology, which combines old prospecting methods with detailed trenching and up-to-date technology such as Artificial Intelligence, has facilitated an understanding of the region's geology and associated mineralized systems. Armed with geophysical surveys, geochemical data and consultants' expertise, Puma has developed a perfect low-cost exploration tool to discover gold at shallow depths and maximize drilling results. Murray Brook Minerals (MBM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Puma. The private company is focused on identifying prospective projects in Northern New Brunswick that could be monetized to the benefit of Puma shareholders. Puma is committed to its DEAR business model of Discovery, Exploration, Acquisition and Royalties to generate maximum value for shareholders with low share dilution. Connect with us on Facebook / X / LinkedIn . Visit for more information or contact: Marcel Robillard, President and CEO. (418) 750-8510; president@ Mia Boiridy, Head of Investor Relations. (250) 575-3305; mboiridy@ Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Forward-Looking Statements: This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve several known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of Puma to be materially different from actual future results and achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statements were made, except as required by law. Puma undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements publicly. The quarterly and annual reports and the documents submitted to the securities administration describe these risks and uncertainties. Figures accompanying this announcement are available at
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Why Everton are moving the women's team into Goodison Park
First, the feeling was shock. Then, overwhelming relief. The spectre of Goodison Park being bulldozed had long gnawed at the hearts of Everton staff and players, a tension alongside the buzz of moving into the new stadium. Even plans for a long-mooted Legacy Project came with melancholy, the knowledge that 133 years of history would come to an end. Advertisement So when rumours began to rumble throughout the club in January that Goodison Park may instead become the home of the women's team, maintaining its identity as a home for future Everton teams, the sense of salvation was hard to ignore, according to sources who did not wish to be named to protect relationships. Following a month-long feasibility study conducted by an external agency on behalf of Everton's new owners, The Friedkin Group (TFG), Everton Women will be moving out of Walton Hall Park and into Goodison Park for the 2025-26 Women's Super League (WSL) season. The study focused not only on the financial implications of a move, but also on the cultural and community impact. It assessed whether a move to Goodison for Everton Women would be feasible and sustainable, and whether scope was there to improve the existing facilities at the historic stadium. Conversations with various stakeholders, including WSL officials, staff, fan groups and local authorities, were part of the process. Advertisement Everton acknowledge they will lose money on this, though the loss is not expected to be significant. An external funding partner is considered unlikely. TFG is prepared to underwrite the next steps for the women's team as well as the men, having provided resources to improve one of its other sides, Roma Femminile. Crucially, expenditure on women's football is not included in profit and sustainability calculations. Last season, Everton received two separate points deductions for breaching financial rules. Everton in the Community are expected to move their headquarters into the stadium, from nearby Spellow Lane, in an expansion of their existing footprint. Advertisement Maintaining a presence in the area has long been considered a priority, with the Kirkdale and County wards situated around Goodison in the top one per cent of the most deprived neighbourhoods nationally. In a statement on Tuesday, Everton said the relocation would 'generate economic opportunities for local businesses through matchday football'. It is anticipated that women's and girls' sports and health programmes will be held at the ground, while tours are also expected to continue. The comparatively shorter domestic season in women's football (compared to the men's) means the club will open the pitch and stadium to hire, as well as host select academy matches. However, Goodison Park will, first and foremost, be the home of Everton Women. Advertisement Everton's pedigree in the women's game is rich, but persistent challenges and recent mid-table finishes have belied it. In 1920, Goodison played host to a landmark game between Dick, Kerr Ladies and St Helens Ladies. The 45,000 crowd that day remains one of the largest attendances for a women's club match in England. Founded as Everton Ladies FC in 1995, the club were one of the eight founding teams in the inaugural WSL season in 2011 and regularly competed for silverware, including winning the 2010 FA Cup. Their most recent silverware is the 2017 WSL Spring Series (an interim edition of the WSL between the sixth and seventh full seasons, to allow the league's change from a summer competition to a winter one). Advertisement Restoring Everton to the top of the women's game to compete with Chelsea and Arsenal is the ambition, and a move to Goodison is viewed as a crucial stepping stone. Publicly and behind the scenes, TFG made improving the fortunes of manager Brian Sorensen's side an early priority. It quickly came to the conclusion that facilities for the women's team were not of the required standard at Walton Hall Park. TFG has pointed to its track record at Roma, where the women's team won successive league titles between 2022 and 2024, before being dethroned by rivals Juventus this season, as proof of its commitment. 'We are proud to say our women will have an unrivalled permanent home in the WSL — another statement of intent as we look to build the foundations that will help us challenge for trophies,' Everton CEO Angus Kinnear, a recent arrival from Leeds United, said. Advertisement 'The women's game has grown significantly in recent years and we believe that growth will continue and accelerate. We're under no illusions; there are obstacles we need to overcome to make this a success both practically and economically, but we're confident that we will overcome those challenges.' Women's first-team staff and players at Everton had been aware that the move was likely since the start of the year, but a formal presentation outlining timescales and details was not provided to the team until the week before the official announcement. The prospective move was flagged in a late March address to staff by executive-chair Marc Watts. While no stands will be knocked down and the structure of Goodison Park is expected to remain intact for at least the next five years, major upgrades to player and fan facilities will take place, including to the dressing rooms and the addition of women's toilets. At this stage, there is no need for Everton to submit a planning application. After consultation with league officials, the club have stressed that the stadium meets 'many, if not all, of the WSL requirements'. Advertisement It is unlikely a pre-season match will be held at the ground given the quick turnaround. The 2025-26 WSL season will commence across the weekend of September 6 and Goodison Park is expected to be ready. The idea is not to move women into a vacated men's space, but to turn the men's space into one appropriate for the women's team. This will mean configuring the dressing rooms to suit women's players. On a very basic level, there will be a need for more women's facilities across the whole stadium. The women's team — which has generated an average season attendance of just over 2,000 for the past three years, due largely to the limit of Walton Hall Park — is not expected to fill Goodison's near 40,000-capacity. That the team only plays 13 to 16 home matches in the season (with a five-week winter break in the middle) poses a financial hurdle. A reconfiguration of the stadium is a means of offsetting some of the financial loss caused by a drop in gate receipts, as well as addressing the atmosphere from emptier stands. Advertisement The plan is to close off the upper tiers of Goodison Park, creating an intimate dome around the pitch. The club say that the capacity will be flexible. Banners, flags and other branding could be used to cover the empty upper tiers, while seats will be sold as close to the pitch as possible first, then moving backwards to meet demand. That Everton were in a position first to pursue, and then commit, to this move surprised many at the club. While making Goodison Park the home for the women's team had always been a possibility, the past few years of financial squeezing weighed heavy and few believed they were in a place to consider a move that will cost the club money. TFG's arrival in December, though, opened doors that had been closed. Everton had been far down the line on the Legacy Project during Farhad Moshiri's tenure, going as far as to unveil plans and designs. Little progress was made beyond that point. After taking over from Moshiri at the end of last year, the new owners pushed for speedy resolutions on the Legacy Project and Goodison's future. Advertisement Now, the two elements will in effect be part of one catch-all solution, even if it means, as sources have suggested, that certain pieces have needed to be 'untangled' and plans have had to change. What was once a community legacy will now incorporate a significant footballing element. There will be no affordable housing development, as was originally anticipated. Mental health initiatives, meanwhile, will continue to take place across EITC sites. When new owners The Friedkin Group travelled to Liverpool in January and paid a visit to Walton Hall Park (TFG had wanted to attend a competitive match, but the WSL's winter break, which runs for five weeks between December and January, did not permit), they are said to have been disappointed by the facilities for players and fans. With Walton Hall Park belonging to Liverpool council and rented by Everton, any adjustments and improvements to facilities were seen as not benefiting Everton in the long term. Further, all refreshment sales did not go to Everton, but to Walton Hall Park. Advertisement A capacity of 2,200 (only a portion of which is sheltered) posed issues amid standard-raising by Women's Professional Leagues Limited, who took over the running of the WSL and Women's Championship. Everton's contract with Liverpool City Council over their continued use of Walton Hall Park was set to expire at the end of March. During their January visit, TFG gathered the women's team and staff in the middle of the pitch at the Finch Farm training ground and spoke about their vision for the future. The speech, according to those who were there, was rousing, but importantly confirmed that time was of the essence, too. New contracts for manager Sorensen and assistant manager Stephen Neligan, along with defenders Kenzie Weir and Clare Wheeler and January signings Hayley Ladd and Kelly Gago from Manchester United and Nantes respectively, are viewed as anchoring points for the future. The departure of the popular women's CEO Alan McTavish was described by one source as an example of the ownership 'not taking any prisoners' in its pursuit of raising standards across the board. A replacement is expected to be appointed in the coming weeks. Advertisement 'When they were talking about their vision, you could feel they really wanted to invest in us,' Everton midfielder Karen Holmgaard told . 'We've got money in the women's team now and we can see the future as better.' Few, if any, clubs have access to a fully functional, freshly vacated (albeit ageing) stadium ready for a women's team, so TFG has been smart, too, but it will cost them. Those within the club believe that if convenience and hard economics were the main driving forces, a move to nearby Widnes or St Helens rugby league clubs would have saved money. Goodison Park, it is estimated, could have been sold to developers for anywhere between £2m-£5million. The driver behind the move is to give the women's team a 'forever home', but there is no doubting the recruitment and commercial opportunities this move provides. Advertisement A new broadcast deal for the WSL next season means nearly all of Everton's home matches will be televised on Sky Sports or BBC2. Turning England's first purpose-built football stadium into the country's first standalone women's football stadium is viewed as a bold and attractive statement for prospective investors and sponsors. In that sense, it is hoped Goodison can be a catalyst for future growth. Under TFG, sources within the women's football team say they feel 'more seen and included' in the club's ecosystem, including at Finch Farm, where they have been sharing facilities and training pitches with the men's first team and academy teams. Staff and players rarely interacted with the previous owners and many of the women's staff say they felt siloed from club decisions. Advertisement Instilling that same sensation among fans is the next step, sources say. It is hoped that nostalgia and force of habit will help catalyse larger, long-term attendances for the women's team, though the ability to attract new fans who might not have felt comfortable attending a men's game is a factor. Remaining in the city of Liverpool is likely to be a big draw. Everton's research showed that just under 60 per cent of WSL matchgoers live within 20 kilometers of a stadium. Next season, Everton are hopeful of putting on more pre-match events and engaging local women's and girls' community groups. The club are aware of the perception of the ground not being 'fit for purpose' for the men's team and do not want the conclusion to be drawn that what is not OK for the men's team is for the women's team. Advertisement Goodison Park will not be stripped of its history and all statues will remain in place. New women's team-specific branding will be added inside and eventually outside the ground. Success for the women's team will be determined by results on the pitch and the club are not expecting attendances to quadruple in one season. The move is viewed as part of a long-term investment in the women's team under TFG. How successful the club's American ownership is in achieving its lofty goals remains to be seen, but after a turbulent couple of years, a bold new vision may be just what Everton Women need. This article originally appeared in The Athletic. Everton, Sports Business, UK Women's Football, Goodbye Goodison Park 2025 The Athletic Media Company
BBC News
09-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Legacy project passes on Occupation stories in Jersey
A project which aims to keep the memory of Occupation survivors alive has launched in Legacy it has combined the words of islanders who lived through that period of history, with photos depicting different are now on display in Jersey's Royal Square, where crowds celebrated Liberation Day 80 years leader Rod Bryans said his aim was to capture memories, while eye-witnesses were still alive. "I'd taken a photograph of my grand-daughter holding a picture of my grandfather, her great-great grandfather and explaining that if he hadn't existed, I wouldn't be here. That's where the idea came from," he said. One of Mr Bryans' subjects is Eileen Lerche-Thomsen, who was a child in St Ouen, at the remembered German troops training in her family's garden, and the impact their presence had on daily life."There were soldiers everywhere," she said."All the cars had been requisitioned, and they'd also ordered us to give up cameras and radios. All those things had disappeared."However, as a child, she had found new toys by picking up the tiny parachutes used to drop British propaganda leaflets. Maurice Dubras, whose family owned a shop and barbers in St Helier, told Mr Bryans they had toasted to peace on Liberation day."I remember hearing Winston Churchill saying the Dear Channel Islands were to be freed, and I still feel emotional. "I want my own children and grandchildren to understand what we went through."Mr Bryans described memories as "a golden thread" which ran through the generations."There's a saying that your ancestors live through you and I think that's really important," he said.
