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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Breaking the cycle of poverty: 11 graduate from Decatur's ‘Pathway of Hope' program
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — It's graduation season, but not everyone is celebrating the end of their schooling. Some are crossing the finish line of their time with a unique, transformative program that aims to break the cycle of poverty. Pathway of Hope is personal for many as they earn recognition for completing a series of services through Decatur's Salvation Army. Of the 11 who graduated on Thursday afternoon, several didn't think they would ever reach this point. Patrick Hahn was once battling a drug addiction and alcoholism. He was in and out of prison several times, until he said he reached a point of knowing 'I can't do it on my own. I need somewhere to go.' That's when he found himself at the Salvation Army, working with Andrea Lewin, a case manager. She brought the Pathway of Hope program to Macon County in 2013, helping 426 people so far. 'I've had people with bachelor's degrees, people who have been homeless with children, people who need housing and jobs,' she described. Celebrating success: 11 adults graduate from UI's 'Odyssey Project' program She wants the community to know her door is open to talk, learn about resources and get in touch with emotions. Of all the moments and interactions with clients, Lewin said graduation day tops her list of 'rewarding moments.' 'I get to see the process of someone having hope, who didn't have hope,' she said. 90% of those who start the program without homes end with stable housing. 88% achieve employment goals by the last day. Hahn is a perfect example of that. He once never imagined being employed, but is now a professional custodian with Quality Plus Cleaners in Decatur. Chicken coop lamp sparks garage fire at Decatur home; residents displaced Following graduation, Lewin will check in with each client every three months. She and her team are also gearing up to help dozens of others reach their dreams in the future. 'It touches my heart. That I can develop a relationship,' she said. 'It's not just a client. It's a person, a human being. It's their feelings.' If you need help or want to get involved, you can contact the Decatur location at 217-429-8050. More details can be found on this website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Scotsman
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
RSNO & Patrick Hahn, Edinburgh review: 'vivid and dramatic'
This death-themed evening was a sold-out triumph for the RSNO and Patrick Hahn, writes David Kettle Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... RSNO & Patrick Hahn, Usher Hall, Edinburgh ★★★★ Death might seem an unlikely concert theme to draw a capacity crowd to Edinburgh's Usher Hall. When one of the evening's works is Mozart's lavish, legendary Requiem, however, that popularity is perhaps more understandable. The Requiem's notorious associations with shadowy strangers and Mozart's own mysterious demise – courtesy of the Milos Forman's movie Amadeus – are largely hokum, but the piece's uncanny power and granitic seriousness remain, and it received a brisk, vivid and deftly dramatic reading from RSNO Principal Guest Conductor Patrick Hahn. Patrick Hahn PIC: Kow Iida The slimmed-down orchestra was on incisive form, even if Hahn's four vocal soloists seemed oddly matched, from stentorian baritone Laurent Naouri to the exquisite soaring purity of soprano Mhairi Lawson, who made several silvery contributions. The RSNO Chorus – pushed firmly into the spotlight in Mozart's demanding writing – sounded occasionally underpowered, but delivered a crisp, energetic, resonant account, particularly in an urgent 'Confutatis'. They spun sumptuously velvety threads, too, through the concert's opener, Beethoven's rarely heard Elegischer Gesang, in Hahn's nicely restrained but richly conceived account. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Hahn took the unusual but very effective decision to segue directly from Beethoven's silky choral miniature into the far harder-edged, grittier world of Berg's Violin Concerto, which, famously written in memory of family friend Manon Gropius who died aged just 18, continued the concert's fateful theme. And it received a commanding but deeply human performance from violinist Carolin Widmann, who unravelled the piece's structural intricacies expertly, but played with such open-hearted, unadorned sincerity that she clearly won over listeners who were maybe less familiar with Berg's sometimes violently dissonant sound world. As in the Mozart, Hahn's tempos were on the speedy side, but that only re-emphasised the performance's absence of wallowing indulgence, and he drew inner lines and details from Berg's often dense scoring to telling and moving effect.
