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Axios
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- Axios
Charlotte aviation museum named for famed Captain Sully opens new gallery
Sullenberger Aviation Museum's new gallery opens inside a 1930s hangar on Saturday, May 31. Why it matters: This latest section of the museum to open will showcase a range of commercial and military planes. Catch up quick: Sullenberger Aviation Museum reopened last June with a new name and a new home. The museum's name honors Captain C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed the Charlotte-bound U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. You may know the 2009 flight as "Miracle on the Hudson." The aircraft from Flight 1549 can be seen in the museum's adjacent main gallery. The latest: The Navy/Marine Corps Gallery is housed inside the W.P.A. Douglas hangar, which was the original home of the museum. Now the hangar will tell Charlotte Douglas International Airport's story and its influence on the city, museum president Stephen Saucier says. What to expect: The hangar was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration, making it an artifact in and of itself, Saucier says. The gallery includes seven aircraft, with everything from commercial aircraft like a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 to military aircraft like the F-84 Thunderjet. One plane has been converted into a two-person flight simulator. By the numbers: $34 million was raised to build the current iteration of the museum, including $5 million from Charlotte Douglas International Airport's Cannon Fund. The airport renovated the hangar shell, Saucier says. It cost roughly $1.5 million for the museum to bring the gallery to life, per Saucier. If you go: Saturday's grand opening starts at 9am for museum members and 10am for nonmembers. There will be food trucks. Sullenberger Aviation Museum is at 4108 Minuteman Way near CLT. Tickets are $24 for those over age 18, $20 for seniors (65+), $18 for ages 5-17, free for children younger than 5 years old, $20 for military members (active or veterans), $20 for aviation professionals and $20 for educators. What's next: The museum will launch summer camps for 4th-8th grade students this year with a focus on STEM education and aviation. Take a look around the "Aviation City" exhibit.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Worcester releases body cam footage of woman's arrest by ICE agents
The city of Worcester released police body camera footage and audio files recorded by officers during the arrest of a Brazilian woman by federal agents, with the city manager issuing an executive order on how the Worcester Police Department (WPD) responds to federal arrests in the city. The footage and audio were uploaded online into a playlist on the city's YouTube channel on Friday. The first video plays five 911 calls made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents requesting police assistance and calls from people at the scene. The agents were in the process of detaining Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira, 40, of Brazil, at Eureka Street on May 8. In the first video with the 911 call, an ICE agent told a dispatcher that 'we have a crowd surrounding an officer, and he's requesting immediate assistance... Can you send units, please?' The agent said around 25 people were surrounding the other agent. Another recording pleads for police to intervene in the ICE arrest, with the dispatcher telling the person that police were on their way. Among the calls was one from a person 'on behalf of' City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj of District 5. 'We need [Worcester Police Chief Paul] Saucier here now,' the person said. '...We need Chief Saucier. Get Chief Saucier, please... I need him here right now.' The other three videos show body camera footage taken by Worcester police officers Shauna McGuirk, Paul Hanlon and Juan Vallejo after they arrived at the scene. Each video is between 10 to over 25 minutes long, while the five recorded calls are almost six minutes altogether. Along with releasing the footage and 911 call from that day, City Manager Eric Batista issued an executive order to establish 'guidelines for local response and involvement in federal enforcement of immigration laws and operations including investigations and civil detainments performed by ICE officers,' according to a statement from Batista's office. 'Enforcement of immigration laws is within the jurisdiction of the federal government, not the municipality and as such, municipal resources shall not be used toward that end,' the city statement continued. 'The municipality and the WPD are committed to promoting safety in the community regardless of immigration status.' Worcester police are also requesting that the court dismiss the case against Ferreira-De Oliveira's 17-year-old daughter, who was arrested by officers on May 8, Saucier said in the same statement. To this request, Saucier said in the statement that 'it is important to emphasize that assaulting or interfering with law enforcement officers as they carry out their duties is never acceptable.' 'No person will be arrested or held by the WPD solely on the basis of a federal civil immigration detainer, including extending the length of detention by any amount of time once an individual is released from local custody, or before being transferred to court or admitted to bail,' Batista's office said. In his statement, Batista said he recognizes 'the significant impact this incident has had on our community,' that it 'has created division and caused trauma to the individuals directly involved and to the greater community at large.' 'It is my hope that releasing all of the body-worn camera footage and establishing a clear policy on how municipal employees are to engage with ICE agents is the first step in repairing any unintentional harm and can help determine how, as a community and a municipality, we respond in these situations,' Batista said. 'I want to be undeniably clear that our police department will never target individuals based on their immigration status. The body-worn camera footage from the first responding officer will show that the target of ICE's operation was already detained by federal agents prior to WPD's arrival and that WPD did not assist ICE with the civil arrest.' He called the footage 'of a family being torn apart is disturbing to watch,' but the city cannot step in to prevent federal officials from detaining a suspect. Batista called on the community to come together and support each other, 'and not allow external forces to divide us. Worcester has always and will always be a welcoming and inclusive city.' Releasing the footage and audio is intended to ensure 'transparency and provide a clearer perspective of the incident,' Saucier said in the statement. Doing so is meant to 'illustrate the chaotic nature of the situation as experienced by the officers who had to make rapid, critical decisions in the moment to ensure the safety of everyone on the scene.' The day before Ferreira-De Oliveira was detained, ICE agents stopped her 21-year-old daughter's partner after he honked at a car, which 'turned out to be an undercover ICE car, and agents decided to arrest him,' according to the daughter, Augusta Clara Moura, 21, in the description of a GoFundMe campaign. ICE agents came to Clara Moura's home and told her to sign immigration papers and 'demanding I return my partner's car,' she wrote. Clara Moura, her baby and her 17-year-old sister left the house in a car and ICE agents stopped them and told her she was under arrest. Clara Moura called Ferreira-De Oliveira to pick up her baby when ICE agents turned to the mother and arrested her, Clara Moura wrote. Her 17-year-old sister, carrying the baby, stood in front of the car to stop it before she handed off the baby and tried to kick the passenger side door, Worcester police previously said. Officers pushed her to the ground and arrested her for reckless endangerment of a child, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, police said. Police also arrested Ashley Spring, who was charged with assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and interfering with police officers. Spring was released on her own personal recognizance and is scheduled to return to court for a pre-trial hearing on June 23. Clara Moura's sister has since been released from custody and is now with family friends, along with Clara Moura, Clara Moura's baby and another sister who is also a child. Ferreira-De Oliveira, who comes from Brazil, is currently being detained at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, R.I., according to ICE's Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS). Worcester to release body camera footage of police response to ICE arrest ICE must show more integrity in deportation arrests (The Republican Editorials) Boston Puerto Rican restaurant opens second location in Worcester Read the original article on MassLive.
Toronto Star
10-05-2025
- Business
- Toronto Star
Lessons in leadership after tragedy thrust her to the helm of a family logging business
I could have done the interview by phone, but I've always found that in-person meetings mean you learn a lot more, not just about the topic, but also about the individual. So when I asked Guylaine Saucier for an interview and she invited me to her apartment on Montreal's Sherbrooke Street West, I jumped at the chance. Saucier, as chair of the joint committee on corporate governance sponsored by the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Venture Exchange, and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, in 2001 had just produced a report called 'Beyond Compliance: Building a Corporate Culture.' ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW As a result, she was not only the most important woman in business, but also the most important person in business. For our interview, Saucier chose her favourite room, the library. Shelves were lined with books, a table groaned under documents, and all the technological elements of the modern home office were close at hand. But the colour! The room was painted tomato, a hue that bespoke not only a great deal about Saucier's taste in decor but also her passionate attitude to life. Business Opinion Rod McQueen: How a girl named Bobbie became Ford of Canada's first female president and CEO As a result of her leadership, writes Rod McQueen, Bobbie Gaunt became the first Ford of Canada Saucier was petite with brown hair, wore a checked jacket, and had a smile that was unforced, one of those executives whose warmth was as all-pervasive as her power. When it came to her approach to governance, Saucier told me she was a gradualist. 'I want to get people to change. What is the best way to convince them to change their behaviour? Is it in being totally radical? Or is it saying we'll adopt reasonable positions where people will have a quicker buy-in?' ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Everyone on the governance committee agreed that new rules were difficult to devise that applied fairly to companies of every size and circumstance. 'People who know me will tell you that I like everything to move more quickly. That's my personal bias,' said Saucier. 'But when you want to change a culture, it's going to take time. There's what I would call a digestion process. You have to allow time for that, like it or not.' Out of curiosity, I later looked up the meaning of her name. The saucier makes sauces in the kitchen of a great chef. Just as such a role requires a deft touch, so does guiding corporate governance. In Saucier's mind, the prime work of any board is selecting the company's chief executive officer. 'If you are successful in choosing the right CEO for the right time, everything else will fall into place. If this first building block is not there, no board can replace the work of the CEO. In the end, it's a question of judgment. How would you regulate that?' Business Opinion Rod McQueen: The man who could have been PM — before an infamous fumble zapped his chances Fumbling photo of Stanfield became a metaphor for his beleaguered campaign, writes Rod McQueen, Saucier's family business background helped form and frame her views. In 1975 her father was killed in a plane crash. Her five brothers and sisters picked Guylaine, at twenty-nine the eldest sibling, to run the family sawmill business, Saucier Forest Products in Abitibi, in northwest Quebec. Saucier, a chartered accountant, had been the company comptroller for four years. Suddenly she was chairman, president, and chief executive, not to mention the only female boss in an all-male industry. Her tenure turned out to be a notable success. By the time the family business was sold in 1988, employment had tripled to 1,200 and sales had reached $85-million. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Corporate governance was not yet in vogue, but Saucier put into practice at the family firm some of the elements that have since gained wide acceptance. For example, she expanded the board beyond family to include outside directors. It also seemed elementary to me that a woman was better suited than most men for a leadership role. Women's egos don't need as much feeding. And, as an entrepreneur, Saucier knew the last thing a company required was more regulation. As a result, when she accepted the role as chair of the joint committee, she already had a thesis in mind. 'I wanted to deal with behaviour, not structure. If a shareholder isn't pleased, he can sell. If enough of them sell, somebody will get the message. This is how we try to change behaviour. I don't think you change behaviour through regulations.' Business Opinion Rod McQueen: Cadillacs, corporate jets and war stories: Flying high with Canadian banking's former king of all he surveys The U.S.-born, former BMO CEO Bill Mulholland, writes Rod McQueen, tried several times to Over time, her views have mostly come to pass. Better to have boards do the right thing, not just follow rules. The stature Saucier gained meant that she served on a wide range of boards from Bank of Montreal to CBC. Not that she would pat herself on the back. 'I don't have a huge ego for these kinds of things,' Saucier said. 'I have some principles that are very important. When you are managing other people's money, you are accountable to them. I believe that better governance will result in better performance.' And better leaders to show the way. Lessons for life learned long ago while logging.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Clay County veterans non-profit to hold open house
LINEVILLE — Kathleen Saucier and Dave Flounders are spreading the word about a special event. The couple, a married team who founded and who direct their nonprofit, Samson's Strength Sustainable Veterans Project Inc., are planning an open house Friday and Saturday, April 25–26. A free chili lunch will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, welcomes the public to tour transitional housing under construction for veterans healing from trauma, PTSD or other issues related to military service. The tour will also include visits to the equine barn and aquaponics facility. When guests arrive, they will begin their tour at the five veterans houses located at 56253 Alabama 49, four miles south of Lineville. 'We are pretty excited about the open house,' said Saucier. 'A lot of people have been hearing our story. We have shared our mission with many organizations over the last few months, including Auburn University, Jacksonville State University, the Central Alabama Veterans Collaborative and the House Standing Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.' The couple has invited members of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, local legislators, Clay County commissioners and members of several Anniston-area civic and veterans organizations. During the tour, Saucier hopes to highlight the benefits of horse-and-human bonding through Equine Empowered Therapy. Flounders will be on-site to lead tours of the homes. Flounders and Saucier said they still need help before veterans can begin living on the property. 'We are still doing everything we can to get volunteers to complete this phase,' Flounders said. The couple is hopeful the public will see the progress that has been made over the six years since they purchased the land. Visitors will also see the aquaponics project, which includes specialized tanks for fish that provide nutrients to support plant growth. A grant from the Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council made the project possible. The greenhouse will grow various green and red vegetables once the system is fully operational. Potatoes and onions have already been planted in the greenhouse soil. The couple encourages the public to visit to learn more about SSSVP's mission and upcoming events during May, which is Mental Health Month. As part of the month's activities, the equine project will participate in 'Horses for Mental Health: As Seen Through Horses.' The program includes the premiere of the film Rescued Hearts. Locations for the May 10 screening will be announced. The couple's work is personal. Flounders, who served in both the Navy and Army from 1983 to 2014 and was deployed in four military operations, suffers from PTSD. He found peace through an equine therapy program after retirement. For Saucier, the mission honors her father, Edward James Halbach, a World War II Navy veteran who passed away as the couple began envisioning a transitional village for veterans. An inheritance from Halbach allowed them to purchase 16 acres for the six homes and a communal kitchen. 'I believe my father is looking down on us with great pride in how Dave and I have incorporated these values into our mission at SSSVP,' Saucier said. For more information or to schedule a visit, contact Dave at 860-861-6747 or email dave@
CBC
28-03-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Vancouver Island University president resigns under pressure from students and faculty
Social Sharing The president of Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo is stepping down after weeks of students and faculty demanding her resignation. Deborah Saucier's departure was announced Thursday afternoon, effective April 4. She has been in the position for six years. In a statement, the university credited her with "several significant institutional milestones, including the implementation of VIU's first Strategic Plan and guiding the institution through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic" and commended her for "continued growth and innovation." But behind the scenes, both students and faculty had become increasingly critical of her decision-making. On March 6, the VIU Faculty Association said 86 per cent of its members had voted non-confidence in Saucier, and on March 5, the students' union issued an open letter calling for her resignation. In its statement, the students' union accused Saucier of financial mismanagement, draining cuts to student services and a lack of transparency and accountability. Among the decisions cited by Saucier's critics were the complete elimination of the school's music program, the cancellation of a new child-care centre on campus and reductions to hours at the campus library. A university spokesperson said Saucier would not be available to respond to the concerns. Leah Vaisanen, the Indigenous student representative for the VIU Students' Union, said the concerns surrounding Saucier and the university's executive team had been piling up until it seemed like there was no way to move forward. "It wasn't just one issue; it was a pattern of top-down decisions and a lack of accountability," she told CBC's On the Island guest host, Kathryn Marlow. "There was a clear disconnect between leadership and the VIU community." A mixed legacy When she first arrived at the university, Saucier was touted as the university's first female president and first president to identify as Métis. An accomplished neuroscientist, she came to the school after a two-year term as president of Edmonton's MacEwan University and, prior to that, was provost and vice-president, academic, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, Ont. Gara Pruesse, the president of the VIU Faculty Association, said she had been a "good ambassador" for the school and she had contributed to a "positive legacy," but she didn't see a way forward for her anymore. She said everyone who voted for Vaisanen's resignation had their own reasons, but a common theme was "decisions being made that are not supported by evidence." "That has been going on for three years, and that's been contributing to why we no longer believe the president has been making decisions that align with our mission," she said. She said a major issue among faculty was layoffs that have been ramped up since the reduction in the number of international students coming to the province due to legislation from the B.C. and federal governments. She said that while enrolment numbers are down, the numbers provided by the administration to justify cuts did not match what her members were seeing. Vaisanen also cited concerns about increases in security spending following pro-Palestine demonstrations on the university campus, which came at the same time other programs were being cut. She said she hoped the resignation would be a "turning point" in relations between the university and its member groups, with an opportunity to reset and move things forward. The university said it is appointing VIU's chief financial officer , Emily Huner, as acting president and that the search is underway for a permanent successor.
