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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wellington AFC awards night recognises players and volunteers
Wellington AFC celebrated a successful season with an awards night recently. The event on Saturday, May 10 saw more than 100 players, officials, and supporters attend. Chairman Mike Hall expressed his gratitude to everyone involved for their contributions over the past year. The three managers, Richard Cherry of the first team; Mark Owen of the reserves; and Matt Groves, who manages the A team jointly with Warren Troth, then reviewed the season before presenting the awards. The club award for Young Player of the Year went to Dylan Groves. In the first team, Jake Quick was the leading scorer, Glen Wright was chosen as players' player and supporters' player, and Mark Cornish was the manager's player. The reserves saw Jack Bryant as the top scorer and supporters' player, Alfie Barratt as players' player, and Sam Bryant as the manager's player. In the A team, Jordan Sellick was the top scorer, Mitch Hansen was the players' player, and Aiden Trott was the manager's player. Several club helpers were also recognised, including Lauren Watts, who is stepping down after three years as a sports therapist. The club's Wellington Ladies and Wildcats Ladies will hold their awards nights on Saturday, May 24 and Saturday, June 14, respectively. Presentations to the various boys' and girls' teams are planned throughout May and June.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Browns New Star Reveals Honest Feelings About Shedeur Sanders
As with any first-round draft pick, the Cleveland Browns' new defensive tackle Mason Graham is garnering a lot of attention at the team's rookie minicamp this weekend. After all, the Browns passed up the opportunity to get one of the prospects regarded as a generational talent in Travis Hunter by trading back from No. 2 to No. 5 to select Graham. Advertisement No pressure, right? For Graham, a lot of the spotlight has been shaded by fifth-round pick Shedeur Sanders, but he's ok with that. 'That doesn't really matter to me,' Graham said via Ashley Bastock of 'I come to play football. If the media's on me, then they're on me. If the media's not, then it's not. I'm just going to do my job at the end of the day. Graham said his first time meeting Sanders went well, which is good since they're now teammates. "He was cool,' Graham said. 'Seems like a good dude and it was all about ball. So I want to play with guys that are like-minded.' Sanders had a very famous slide in the NFL Draft earlier this month. While it was thought that the former Colorado quarterback would end up in Cleveland, no one predicted that it would happen in the fifth round. Advertisement Some additional pressure might be off Graham, too, as he may not need to be a Day 1 starter, even as the No. 5 overall pick. The Browns signed Maliek Collins this offseason and return Shelby Harris. Last year's second-round pick, Mike Hall, is returning from a knee injury and could start ahead of Graham. But the former Michigan Wolverine will almost certainly be part of the early-season defensive line rotation. General manager Andrew Berry has been public about his wishes for the defensive line rotation in Cleveland to be six or eight players deep. Berry was very high on Graham at the NFL Scouting Combine. "He is a DNA match for our defense, a disruptive interior penetrator ... we thought he was one of the more dominant trench prospects in this year's class," Berry said. Related: Browns Involved in International NFL Schedule Rumor Related: Browns Trade of 1 QB Updated as Controversy
CBC
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Joel Plaskett offers us 'a foggy window' into his mind
Character Witness isn't a music documentary so much as a companion piece to my record, One Real Reveal and the accompanying tour where I shared memories, images and songs while seated in a red swivel chair. Working on the video edit with Mike Hall felt a bit like using two mirrors to see the back of my head. Eventually I ended up seeing versions of myself into infinity while wondering, "Do I really look like that from behind?" While I'm happy to put the producer's feather in my hat, there was no director on this. I like to think that everyone involved helped direct it subconsciously — like hands on a Ouija board. I've been thinking a lot this past while on the writing of Marshall McLuhan, in part thanks to a reading course I've been taking from his grandson, Andrew. The overheated lighting in the interview with me is a not-so-subtle nod to the documentary, "This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage" from 1967. Riffing on the effects and limitations of different technologies — from language to analog tape to projected images — it felt fitting to push the lighting, the faders and the stories into the red. Poetic license for harmonic distortion? I'll admit to always feeling a little nervous about how much I want to share outside of the songs I write. I think out loud and I have to circle a point for a while before making it. While I'm less interested in stating things explicitly these days, my hope is Character Witness offers a foggy window into how my mind meanders, my music and methods and the places and people I care about. I sure love hearing Bill Stevenson's keyboard playing, seeing Rebecca Kraatz's beautiful artwork and I'm pleased Jim Carrey could unwittingly make a cameo.
The Independent
12-03-2025
- The Independent
A Luton reverend had his house sold without his knowledge - nearly four years later it's been returned
A reverend whose house was sold without his knowledge has had his property returned to him after he was forced to resort to the courts to reclaim it. Reverend Mike Hall had been in North Wales when he received a phone call from neighbours in August 2021 who told him someone had turned the lights on inside the property in Luton. He drove back early the following morning to find the locks had been changed at his terraced home, which had been completely stripped of all furnishings, and a builder working inside. 'I went to the front door, tried my key in the front door, it didn't work and a man opened the front door to me,' he told BBC Radio 4 's You and Yours programme in November 2021. 'I pushed him to one side and got in the property. I really didn't know what he was doing there. The shock of seeing the house completely stripped of furniture; all furnishings, carpet, curtains - everything - was out of the property.' Mr Hall called the police but the builder went to fetch the new owner's father, who told him he had bought the house in July. According to the BBC, the Land Registry at the time accepted fault and put his name back on the title, but when he returned again in 2023 he found a family living there. Mr Hall went to Luton County Court to take possession of the home again this year. A woman, following proceedings through a Romanian interpreter, and a child also attended. The public broadcaster reported that on Monday, Luton County Court judge Elaine Vignoli granted Mr Hall possession of the home. According to the BBC, the court was told the occupants did not oppose Mr Hall's application, and Judge Vignoli ordered "persons unknown" must pay his costs.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Georgetown food drive sends meals around the world
Food packaged at a Georgetown community event will travel around the world. The event packed over 80,000 meals that will be sent to an educational facility in South Sudan. Last year, they sent about 71,000 meals to Zambia. The Saturday, March 8, event at Sussex Central High School, was attended by around 360 volunteers. This is the event's third year, and the food donations are shipped abroad by Rise Against Hunger's Philadelphia chapter. It's an international organization that packages over 57 million meals in 2023. This annual day of giving back, "Feeding the 5,000 Multiplied," is done with the support of numerous local churches and organizations. It's 40 cents per meal and about $32,000 to put it all together. Money comes from local churches and nonprofits, and meals land in schools and in rural areas. Rise Against Hunger's overall goal is to send over 2.7 million meals this year. The Sussex County event is a "big contributor," according to RAH area manager Stone McDavid. According to data from the World Health Organization, 1 in 11 people experience hunger worldwide. "This is one small way that our Sussex County community can have an impact on that particular dynamic," said Mike Hall, co-facilitator of the event with Judy Hall. Being able to feed people is not the only benefit for Hall. Watching hundreds of people from different backgrounds working for the same cause gives him hope. Mike and Judy Hall are a part of the Grace United Methodist Church in Millsboro as a member of its mission and impact team. For six years, they packed around 20,000 meals within the church. In 2022, they figured it was time to open it up to the larger community. "Some of us come from the faith community. Some come from the business community; some from the civic community and clubs and organizations," Mike Hall said. "We're all here together around one purpose." Mike Hall said raising money is always difficult, and finding local balance between feeding global hunger and feeding people in Delaware is challenging. Half of the money raised through their church's mission goes to assisting the Food Bank of Delaware, he said. "People will say, 'Well, so, so what are you doing to meet people's needs locally?'" Hall said. "So that's where, at least at our church, we try to balance those things as much as we possibly can." The process is similar to an assembly line. They use foods and vitamins including dehydrated vegetables, rice and other nonperishables that are packed before they are weighed, sealed, labeled and boxed and sent to Philadelphia, where 280,000 meals will be enough to fill a shipping container. The container is then loaded onto a ship and delivered by sea. "This is an event where people will stand for most of three hours, but at the ceiling and the weighing stations, people can be seated and at those particular events, and then we need a few strong, strong bodies that can lift 50-pound bags of rice and soy," Hall said. Judy Hall said volunteers put in so much effort at these food packaging, they are worn out by the end of the day. 'We change each other's lives': How volunteering at Food Bank impacts Delaware woman "They get tapped out," she said. "So you find yourself asking the same people, but in the back of your mind, you're thinking, 'Gosh, they gave so much last year. I need to find someone else.'" The volunteers are the last people to touch the food before it is opened at their end destination. "Everyone at this event, their hands are the last hands to touch these meals before they get to these remote areas and these school feeding programs all over the world," McDavid said. This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Georgetown food drive packs over 80,000 meals
