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Yahoo
22-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The world's largest bowl of pasta, near the French Quarter!
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — March 21 may have been a lenten 'Fish Fry Friday,' but the Italian-American St. Joseph Society had an extra-large pasta for lunch. Every year, they say it's the world's largest bowl of pasta. Delicious, but hard work for the chefs! Crawfish Mania! 13 different crawfish dishes during Lent 'You have 80 to 100 gallons of the sauce, gravy, sugo. A thousand pounds of the pasta. There's many other ingredients that goes into this dish. It's a very ornate chore, and a labor of passion and love,' said Peter Gilberti, president of the Italian-American St. Joseph Society. The chefs worked on the meal for nearly eight hours, and the line to devour it stretched out the door. The Italian-American St. Joseph's parade is Saturday night, March 22, through downtown New Orleans, and starting at 6 world's largest bowl of pasta, near the French Quarter! Crawfish Mania! 13 different crawfish dishes during Lent Meteorologist Carrigan Chauvin visits Bourg Elementary LSU's Aneesah Morrow and Flau'Jae Johnson foreshadow strong returns in their March Madness opener 18 Surviving Rosie the Riveters Visit the National WWII Museum Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
18 Surviving Rosie the Riveters Visit the National WWII Museum
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In 1942, Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb wrote the song titled 'Rosie the Riveter.' The song's name would be the identity of an estimated six million women who took wartime jobs in factories across the United States of America. Recently, 18 surviving women were honored at the National World War Two Museum. The Gary Sinise Foundation, an organization that honors first defenders, veterans and the like, organized the honor. The day started with members of several local New Orleans High Schools, Gary Sinise Foundation Members and World War II museum staff welcoming the women with applause. The women watched a film about their contributions to the war effort and were then led on personalized tours through the museum, along with a luncheon and reception. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office job fair offering law enforcement opportunities, more Cristin Kampsnider is with the Gary Sinise Foundation, and says 'They are quite the wild bunch. We have a woman here who raised her hand to serve when she was 15 years old. She was so small that they put her inside the wings of the aircraft. These women paved the way. We are pleased to honor them.' One of the Rosie the Riveters that visited was originally a nursing student, who would go on to work a factory that produced B26 airplanes. Her name is Roberta Jane Tidmore and she is 103 years of age. She worked the factory for six months before she became one of the first women to join the Marine Corps, Jan. 4, 1944. By Sept. 2, 1945, World War II was over and Tidmore was in San Diego when the news broke. 'So I went to the pie shop and I brought it back to the barracks and we had banana cream pie for dessert. It was our slice of celebratory American pie.' Dog's life claimed in damaging 9th Ward housefire, other pets, couple safe Over the years, Tidmore has lived in Baja California, has taken up an interest in dancing and was a flight attendant for United Airlines. She hopes to continue living the good life and driving around the country to see museums. 'I've had a really good life. The history of this country is more interesting to me now that it was when I was in school.'LSU's Aneesah Morrow and Flau'Jae Johnson foreshadow strong returns in their March Madness opener 18 Surviving Rosie the Riveters Visit the National WWII Museum Columbia agrees to Trump administration's demands after funding cut Major changes could be on the way for the Social Security Administration Lawmakers speak out about dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
It's a dirty job, but Ukraine's women are doing it for the war effort
PAVLOHRAD, Ukraine — They are Ukraine's 'Rosie the Riveters,' rolling up their sleeves and doing a dirty job once considered suitable only for men. But unlike their American equivalents in World War II, they're not working in defense-industry factories. Instead they're going 900 feet underground, helping to dig coal and keep the power on, replacing the men who left to fight Russia. Now they're hopeful that President Donald Trump can secure a ceasefire deal and bring an end to the war, which entered its fourth year in February. 'We really wanted to help and to replace those men who went to fight and to protect Ukraine,' Nadiya Moskalenko told NBC News on Thursday. The 48-year-old grandmother said two of her sons had volunteered to fight Russia, and a few months after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February 2022, she signed up to go down the 50-year-old mine on the outskirts of the city of Pavlohrad in eastern Ukraine. Before the war started, the government barred women from doing jobs underground because it considered the work too physically demanding. But after many male miners joined the military early in the war and others were later conscripted, the Soviet-era policy was scrapped. Moskalenko, who wears lipstick and eyeliner to work, operates the cable cars that move workers and supplies across the mine's vast 75-mile tunnel network. It was not 'hard physically, but it's a very responsible job,' she said, adding that she has to 'react quickly' if anything goes wrong. 'You can't miss anything and [have] to be very attentive and responsible.' At her mine alone, 700 of the 3,000 male workers went off to fight, according to Alyona Lapina, a communications manager at DTEK, the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy firm. She added that 71 had been killed and 200 were wounded. The mine is near the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. Since then, the Donbas, which is made up of the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, has been used as a staging post for Russian attacks into Ukraine. Putin illegally annexed them in September 2022 along with the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Ukrainian forces are still fighting to regain control of all four territories. Elevator operator Iryna Basanets, 38, said she also joined up after the war began. Since then, she said, the women and men had learned to work together. 'The boys help us,' she said. 'We are sweeping here, cleaning, keeping our working space clean and tidy.' But war is always close, with an air raid siren sounding shortly after miners returned to the surface for lunch on Thursday. The coal they mine is used primarily to power Ukrainian electricity and heating stations, key energy infrastructure that has come under frequent Russian attacks and is now the subject of a proposed temporary ceasefire accepted by Ukraine and partially agreed to by Putin. Previous Russian attacks on energy infrastructure like power stations and substations had led to blackouts, Basanets said, leaving miners underground with no electricity or cellphone signal, though they were eventually brought back to the surface. 'We always store water in advance,' she said, adding that some blackouts are scheduled. Both Basanets and Moskalenko said they were hopeful that Trump's recent talks with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could lead to a peace agreement. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz said that in a phone call with Trump on Wednesday, Zelenskyy agreed to move forward with 'a partial ceasefire against energy,' according to a joint White House statement. Zelenskyy later confirmed in a lengthy post on X that Ukraine was ready to implement this deal. Their call came a day after Trump spoke with Putin, who declined to endorse a 30-day ceasefire that was accepted by Zelenskyy. But, according to a Kremlin readout of their conversation Tuesday, the Russian leader did agree 'to mutually refrain from strikes on energy infrastructure for 30 days.' 'We want this to happen,' Moskalenko said of the peace agreement. 'And when you really want something, then you hope and you believe that it will happen.' This article was originally published on
CBS News
01-03-2025
- General
- CBS News
Critically acclaimed documentary highlights "Rosie the Riveters" and the Black women who helped win World War II
Many of you know the story of World War II and the sacrifice of millions of men who went overseas to keep us safe, but few know the significant role millions of women played during the war efforts. Those women were called Rosie the Riveters — a term to describe women who took on industrial and government jobs during the war. Millions of women stepped up to help, including African American women. In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting our very own Rosie, Ruth Wilson, 102, who worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in the early 1940s. Wilson died last year in October, but was recognized for her work during the war four years ago. "She was a real hero," said Esther Brown, Wilson's daughter. The honor was decades in the making for Wilson. The 102-year-old was celebrated for her work as a sheet metal specialist on the USS Valley Forge. But before the recognition, her job as a Rosie was only a part of her life story; neither Wilson nor her daughter knew it was also a part of history. "She didn't realize it. And we certainly didn't. To us, she was just going to work like everybody else," Brown said. "She would say when I used to work at the navy yard…she had friends who worked at Frankford arsenal and different places, but it still didn't dawn on us how it important it was to the war efforts." Wilson was one of 600,000 black women who contributed to the war efforts by building planes, tanks and other machinery while men fought overseas. Black women took on dangerous roles but also administrative work for the government. For Black women, it was the first time they had joined the modern workforce. Wilson's daughter, Esther Brown, called her mom a trailblazer and inspiration. When asked if she learned to be strong from her mother, Brown replied: "Yes, and to realize that you are not better than anybody else, but nobody is better than you either." Wilson is one of several women highlighted in a critically acclaimed documentary called "Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II." It chronicles the role women played during the war. The man behind the film, Gregory Cooke, also pointed out how these women were fighting a war on fascism abroad while also dealing with racism and discrimination at home. "We were fighting two wars," he said. Cooke said the women, which includes his own mother who was also a Rosie, helped create job opportunities for future generations of Black women. He argues that the Black Rosies are the most significant group of Black women in the 20th century. "They did remarkable, incredible things under very difficult circumstances to improve their life, the lives of their families and the lives of future generations of African American people….we should not forget that," Cooke said.
