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Daily Record
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Record
New community exhibition at Irvine's Scottish Maritime Museum calls out fast fashion for World Ocean Day
Museum is bringing together charities, community organisations and small businesses that are already working locally to help protect the environment and reduce the impact on the planet A thought-provoking intergenerational community exhibition challenging everyone to help look after our planet opens at the Scottish Maritime Museum on Irvine Harbourside on Saturday, June 7. The 'Trashion' exhibition, which also celebrates World Ocean Day on Sunday, June 8, has been curated by a group from Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre with the support of the museum team. The exhibition, which centres on 'fashion art' pieces created using rubbish, explores the marine pollution emergency caused by industry, fast fashion and our own personal choices and invites everyone to think about the small changes we can all make in response. 'Trashion' has been made possible by the additional support of environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful and their Our Heritage, Our Future programme. The exhibition opening also takes place as part of the Museum's 'Dive In Day', a wider day of free activities promoting World Ocean Day, and alongside the opening of the Museum's new Summer exhibition, 'Beneath the Waves'. Jennifer Pless, Community Engagement and Development Officer at the Scottish Maritime Museum, said: "It has been hugely rewarding to work with members of Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre on our latest community-led exhibition. "The group has made a hard-hitting but encouraging and personal statement with 'Trashion'. "Together, they took ideas and themes from the museum's maritime heritage and arts collections and added their own thoughts on climate change to create outfits that tell a story about our impact on the environment and their hope to make a difference in everyone's daily actions." Katie O'Donnell, Communities Manager at Keep Scotland Beautiful, added: "We know that clothing is the most environmentally damaging type of household waste and our Upstream Battle campaign has highlighted the damage caused to our precious blue spaces by our consumption habits. "We were delighted to bring our knowledge together through Our Heritage, Our Future to support the members of Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre to realise their vision of creating an exhibition to draw attention to the urgency of climate change, particularly in this vulnerable coastal area." Our Heritage, Our Future is working with communities across Scotland to explore, record and protect their heritage, and to take action locally on the impacts of climate change. Keep Scotland Beautiful worked alongside the Scottish Maritime Museum during the project to support skills development by delivering an accredited qualification in building exhibitions. The 'Dive In Day' takes place on Saturday, June 7 from 11am until 4pm. Highlights include a sustainability fair, a pop-up repair shop and short, guided cycle tours led by Active Travel as well as free entry to the museum and the two new exhibitions, 'Beneath the Waves' and 'Trashion'. The free Dive-in Sustainability Fair will showcase local and regional organisations, charities and small businesses advocating for the environment or using business practices that actively reduce their impact on the planet. Participants include Keep Scotland Beautiful, RSPB, Ayrshire Coastal Path and Irvine Clean Up Crew. The Active Travel Hub will also be on hand offering short, guided cycle tours and balance bike sessions. Visitors will also be able to bring along clothing and small electrical items to a pop-up repair shop. The Scottish Maritime Museum has also joined the global 'Agency for World Change' initiative, a global museums initiative which invites everyone to think about the small actions they can take to protect our oceans and the planet. During the day, and over the Summer months, visitors will be able to add their personal sustainability pledges to an 'Agency for World Change Agreement', describing how they aim to make small changes in their everyday life to live more ecologically. 'Beneath the Waves' explores the extraordinary world beneath the ocean's surface with award-winning underwater photography, exquisite marine sketches and rare Glasgow Pottery recovered from a shipwreck off Arran last year. The exhibition has been curated in collaboration with renowned underwater photographer, marine conservationist and writer Lawson Wood; diver and maritime explorer Graeme Bruce; and Ayrshire underwater artist and writer Christina Riley. Entry to 'Trashion', which runs until August 3, is included in museum admission.
Daily Record
3 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Record
Union boss right to slam 'epidemic' of violence in classrooms as he steps down
The retiring boss of Scotland's main teaching union is right to describe the rising tide of violence in our classrooms as an 'epidemic'. In his final speech as EIS president, Allan Crosbie calls for urgent action to tackle the growing number of attacks, especially on female teachers. As the Daily Record has highlighted in the Our Future campaign, some schools have become a warzone for kids and staff. Violent incidents are often filmed and posted on social media platform for 'likes' by kids addicted to the buzz of online attention. But there is growing concern over attacks on female teachers in particular. Online creeps like Andrew Tate make millions by promoting hatred of women in sick online posts. Most people have the good sense to ignore these imbeciles. But for thousands of vulnerable and troubled boys, men like Tate are heroes. This online culture of disrespect has clearly led some boys to think it is ok to lash out at female teachers. There is no easy solution to this problem, which permeates our whole culture. But there must be zero tolerance shown when teachers are violently assaulted. The mantra of inclusion has resulted in there being very little that teachers can do to punish wrong-doers. And this has led to a breakdown in discipline in many schools. There needs to be a reset on that issue. Schools need to be enabled to carry out proper and lasting punishments on the tiny minority of kids who think violence is acceptable. Any attack on a teacher should be met with a swift expulsion. And our political leaders need to show some urgency in dealing with this crisis in school behaviour. Crime crackdown John Swinney is right when he says gangsters in Scotland should face 'relentless' investigation. Now the First Minister needs to put his words into action and make sure Police Scotland has all the tools it needs to do the job. Violent crooks running multi-million-pound criminal empires are running amok and that can't go on. As the shocking double assassination in Spain proves, such gangs won't hesitate in using firearms in front of innocent bystanders. Organised crime reaches across our country and seeps into even the quietest communities. Crooks use multiple front businesses to launder their cash, and rely on white collar professionals looking the other way to legitimise their outgoings. It weakens our institutions and hurts those who play by the rules. Scotland must take a tough stance against violent gangsters. Organised crime is a threat to us all.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Texas-wide water cleanup initiative tackles Lake Austin, Colorado River
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Several environmental groups are teaming up this weekend to clean trash out of Lake Austin and the Colorado River, as part of a statewide initiative to keep Texas waterways clean and litter-free. The Colorado River Alliance is hosting its third annual Lake Austin Cleanup on Saturday. It's part of a statewide cleanup initiative called 'Trash Free Gulf,' aimed at removing trash from waterways before it can float downstream and into the Gulf. All Water Guides is also hosting a cleanup event at the Colorado River in east Austin as part of the initiative. The Colorado River Alliance's young professionals' group, the River Society, is partnering with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation's Stewards of the Wild to take part in the initiative, which is being led by Gulf Trust and presented by H-E-B's 'Our Texas, Our Future.' Volunteers will work to remove trash from the water and shoreline that feed into the Texas Colorado River and downstream towards Matagorda Bay. There are 160 volunteers registered to clean up Lake Austin by paddleboard and on land, from 10 a.m. to noon, according to a spokesperson for the event. They'll launch from Mozart's Coffee Roasters, which is providing volunteers with access to paddleboards through its paddleboard rental company. The Lake Austin Cleanup has reached capacity and is no longer accepting volunteers, but those interested in getting involved in cleanup efforts can head to east Austin to help out with the Colorado River cleanup. Cleanup the Colorado is happening from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. All Water Guides and Trash Free Gulf are still seeking volunteers to help clean up the river. The meetup location is 6213 Levander Loop. Organizers are asking that volunteers bring canoes, kayaks, paddleboards, and rafts, if they have them. If you don't have one of those, you can still show up and borrow a boat from the Texas River School, according to Trash Free Gulf. Gulf Trust is initiating cleanup efforts across Texas throughout the month of May in an effort to protect the Gulf. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Yahoo
Inver Grove Heights man cited for damaging Easter display outside Capitol
The Minnesota State Patrol says an Inver Grove Heights man damaged an Easter display outside the Capitol this week, according to a citation filed against him Thursday. Capitol Security dispatchers could see a man on camera 'destroying' a display on the building's front lawn on Monday afternoon, the citation said. The display, which had a permit, included a wooden cross and the Ten Commandments, according to a State Patrol spokesman. A trooper arrived as the man was walking away from the display. He told the trooper the display 'was hate speech and didn't know damaging it was against the law.' He also said he didn't know it 'belonged to anyone and thought it was just left outside,' the trooper wrote in the citation. The wooden cross was broken and part of the display was missing. The trooper cited the man, 36, for misdemeanor criminal damage to property. Woodbury attorney disbarred after being convicted of swindling client Charges: Woodbury HS student had replica gun in backpack, ran from school 3rd person pleads guilty in $120k attempt to bribe Feeding Our Future juror 19-year-old St. Paul man ID'd as victim of fatal stabbing in Dayton's Bluff Identical twin sister spared prison for trying to swap identity in fatal Amish buggy crash
CairoScene
01-03-2025
- Health
- CairoScene
Free Vision Screening to Be Provided for 7 Million Primary School Kids
The nationwide initiative will help detect visual impairments in six to 13 year-olds, offering exams, glasses and surgeries. Mar 01, 2025 The Ministries of Health, Education, Local Development, and Social Solidarity signed a protocol to provide free vision screenings for 7 million primary school pupils across 9,400 institutions. The scheme, part of the presidential 'A New Beginning for Human Development' initiative, aims to identify an estimated 325,000 children at risk of visual disabilities and deliver treatment, corrective glasses or surgeries. The programme expands on existing presidential health campaigns, including '100 Million Health' and 'Our Children's Eyes, Our Future' ('Kids for Sight'). The latter has already screened pupils in Monufia and Gharbia governorates, with plans to extend coverage nationally. Authorities emphasised collaboration between sectors to ensure accessible services, citing early detection as critical to children's academic performance and long-term development.
