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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Hunger doesn't take a break': Summer food programs for families in need now available
PORTLAND, Ore. () — Oregon families who receive free student meals during the school year have resources available to ensure food security throughout the summer. According to , 94% of the state's public schools currently offer free meals to all students. The nonprofit helped secure new state funding to expand the free school meal program. Despite this, the nonprofit said there are still tens of thousands of children who don't have access to these programs. As the school year comes to a close, families who already get free school lunches may be wondering how they'll keep their children fed. 'Every student deserves to know where their next meal comes from,' said Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon Policy Advocate David Wieland. 'Hunger doesn't take a break during the summer.' Fortunately, there are options for families. Esquire names Portland bar among best in the US in 2025 The Oregon Department of Education has about its Summer Food Service Program, where families can locate hundreds of free meal sites across the state. In addition, for the second summer in a row, the Oregon Department of Human Services is offering its . The grocery benefit program helps families buy food for their school-aged children when school is out. The single yearly payment provides $120 for each eligible child to buy groceries. According to the , over 340,000 eligible children already automatically received the Summer EBT back in May, though some families still need to apply. The state said they expect up to 370,000 school-aged children will be provided with the Summer EBT benefits this year. The program costs the state about $2.5 million in administrative costs. In return, Oregon receives $40 million in federal funding that goes directly to students. Despite this, Wieland said the work to combat hunger is not over. Lyft pushes back against ride fee hikes in Portland Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon are hoping state legislators pass a bill to extend free breakfast and lunch to all students in Oregon. The Oregon House of Representatives unanimously passed HB 3435 back in March. It is now in the Joint Ways and Means Committee. 'If you want to call your legislator and urge them to make this a priority, we'd love that,' Wieland said. People who are already signed up to receive SNAP, TANFF or OHP benefits should already see those summer grocery benefits on their account. If not, the State of Oregon has on how to apply. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Sonic Automotive Schedules Release of First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 08, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sonic Automotive, Inc. ("Sonic Automotive" or "Sonic" or the "Company") (NYSE:SAH), one of the nation's largest automotive retailers, today announced it will release fiscal 2025 first quarter financial results on Thursday, April 24, 2025 by 7:00 A.M. (Eastern). Senior management will hold a conference call later that morning at 11:00 A.M. (Eastern). Investor presentation and earnings press release materials will be accessible beginning the morning of the conference call on the Company's website at To access the live webcast of the conference call, please go to and select the webcast link at the top of the page. To dial in to the conference call via telephone, please dial (877) 407-8289 (domestic) or +1 (201) 689-8341 (international) and ask to be connected to the Sonic Automotive First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Dial-in access remains available throughout the live call, however, to ensure you are connected for the full call we suggest dialing in at least 10 minutes before the start of the call. A webcast replay will be available following the call for 14 days at About Sonic Automotive Sonic Automotive, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is on a quest to become the most valuable diversified automotive retail and service brand in America. Our Company culture thrives on creating, innovating, and providing industry-leading guest experiences, driven by strategic investments in technology, teammates, and ideas that ultimately fulfill ownership dreams, enrich lives, and deliver happiness to our guests and teammates. As one of the largest automotive and powersports retailers in America, we are committed to delivering on this goal while pursuing expansive growth and taking progressive measures to be the leader in these categories. Our new platforms, programs, and people are set to drive the next generation of automotive and powersports experiences. More information about Sonic Automotive can be found at and View source version on Contacts Company ContactsHeath Byrd, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerDanny Wieland, Vice President, Investor Relations & Financial Reportingir@ Sign in to access your portfolio
CBC
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Flashback: Smart sipping
The eternal Joyce Wieland Artist Joyce Wieland in retrospective in 1987 38 years ago Duration 7:35 The painter, quilter and writer gets a major show at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Aired on CBC's The Journal on April 24, 1987. In its exhibition Joyce Wieland: Heart On, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has put together an artist retrospective that "feels like an uncanny take on today's breaking news," wrote Eve Thomas for CBC Arts in February. Wieland spoke about her life and work with arts journalist Daniel Richler in a 1987 profile on CBC's The Journal. (The piece is also loaded with glimpses of the artist's many films, paintings and quilts.) Richler asked Wieland, who died in 1998, if she was concerned about her place in the history of Canadian art. "As I get older, I think of [B.C. painter] Emily Carr … and her retrospective coming after her death," Wieland said. "These are the things I've thought about — that I could be completely passed by and I wouldn't be remembered. I know that's extreme, but it's a possibility." Smart serving Why consume so-called "smart" drinks? 7 days ago Duration 1:55 What's in the fridge? According to CBC News, the Coca-Cola Company is making its own prebiotic soda with fibre and less sugar than regular sodas, similar to brands like Olipop and Poppi, which call their drinks "functional" and sell them as wellness products. Beverages with purported benefits were making the news in 1997 too. The CBC show Future World reported on the trend for non-alcoholic "smart" drinks and learned how they got their name. "They're really called smart drinks because they're supposed to be good for you," said Fernando Mateos of The Smart Bar in Toronto, before he blended one for a customer. "And in fact they are good for you in terms of ingesting natural vitamins as opposed to synthetic vitamins, and you get real minerals as opposed to synthetic minerals." Tracks to the future A monorail for Toronto? 13 days ago Duration 1:42 In February, the federal government announced the first phase of a plan to build a high-speed rail network from Toronto to Quebec City. But a CBC News story notes that a future government could modify or cancel the project. Still, it's more certain than another transit project in 1958 in Toronto. At the very least, scenes of a monorail in action made for captivating images on the CBC current affairs show Close-Up. Host Rex Loring, seen above, said Close-Up producer Douglas Leiterman had asked the most intriguing question about the monorail: "if it's as good as it claims, why has nobody bought it?" The Rocket revisited Hockey Hall of Fame opens a permanent home in 1961 64 years ago Duration 1:04 The new documentary Maurice is as much a cultural history of Quebec as it is about hockey star Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, according to CBC Arts contributor Justine Smith. But does it mention that time he officially opened the Hockey Hall of Fame with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Snow mobility Storm dumps heavy snow on Montreal in 1971 12 days ago Duration 1:50 Montrealers are digging out after a huge single-day snowfall. In a recent look at how Montreal has removed snow in years past, CBC News said it once involved horse-drawn plows and, often, solely "people and their shovels." After a big March storm in 1971, at least one Montrealer preferred snowmobiling to shovelling. Not their first rodeo Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, a new documentary on CBC Gem, looks at the friendship between the band's founders, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor. In 1988, the pair caught the notice of CBC's Midday, where they spoke about finding their niche playing country-inflected music. Wayne's world
Associated Press
22-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Chattanooga defeats Citadel 76-75
The AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Bash Wieland's 17 points helped Chattanooga defeat Citadel 76-75 on Saturday. Wieland finished 8 of 11 from the field for the Mocs (21-8, 13-3 Southern Conference). Trey Bonham shot 5 for 13, including 4 for 10 from beyond the arc to add 15 points. Honor Huff had 14 points and shot 3 for 13 (2 for 11 from 3-point range) and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line. The Mocs extended their winning streak to nine games. The Bulldogs (5-22, 0-16) were led in scoring by Brody Fox, who finished with 21 points and seven rebounds. Christian Moore added 13 points for Citadel. Colby McAllister finished with 12 points. The Bulldogs prolonged their losing streak to 19 in a row. NEXT UP Chattanooga next plays Thursday against UNC Greensboro on the road, and Citadel will visit Furman on Wednesday. ___
CBC
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
In a sprawling retrospective, artist Joyce Wieland's true patriot love suddenly feels like prophecy
Powerful art can feel prophetic. Works created decades or even centuries ago can shed light on contemporary issues with frightening clarity. So while the retrospective Heart On, which opened last week at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is a worthy tribute to late Canadian artist Joyce Wieland, it also feels like an uncanny take on today's breaking news — with the Toronto-born Wieland serving as a kind of oracle. Feminism, environmentalism, nationalism — the themes that most marked Wieland's career — are front and centre throughout the 100 works, spanning four decades. Then, there are more specific, strangely prescient anxieties on display: Arctic sovereignty, American imperialism, even plane crashes and plastic waste show up, between flags and phallic symbols, in her signature mix of materials, which includes quilts, embroidery, found objects and film strips. On one wall, stuffed plastic letters spell out "Man has reached out and touched the tranquil moon," a particularly poetic quote from Pierre Trudeau that might have visitors considering the men currently trying to colonize Mars. In a work from 1973, a page of lipstick prints declares "The Arctic belongs to itself," a message as pressing as today's calls for "Land Back." Nearby, a pair of chain-linked quilts read "I Love Canada" and "J'aime Canada." They were made in 1969, the same year the country was officially declared bilingual. Today, however, the work strikes a new chord as the nation faces threats of being made the 51st state. The relevance only intensifies for visitors who lean in closer to read the tiny embroidered message at the centre, written in English and French, that says: "Death to U.S. Technological Imperialism." It's enough to spark a diplomatic incident — or would be, if it didn't have so much competition these days. "It's great for the show that it's all still so relevant," muses Georgiana Uhlyarik, the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario and co-curator of the exhibit alongside Anne Grace, curator of modern art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "But it's also kind of sad.… She envisioned a better future." This woman's work Heart On is the culmination of four years of research by Uhlyarik and Grace, who not only curated key pieces of Wieland's work, but travelled to Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, consulting with communities that studied her, supported her work and some that knew her personally. "We wanted to tap into the knowledge of her living collaborators," says Grace, especially since Wieland didn't have children. Born and raised in Toronto, Wieland was orphaned at a young age and raised by her siblings. She would study graphic design in school, an unconventional field for women at the time and an influence that became apparent in her more vibrant pop art works. She was employed in package design, then animation, where she met her future husband, acclaimed Canadian avant-garde filmmaker Michael Snow. The couple moved to New York in the 1960s, and, as is so often the case, it took leaving the country for Wieland to reflect on her Canadian identity, which contrasted with American attitudes (her aforementioned Warhol-esque plane crash paintings spoke to a media obsessed with disaster long before the 24-hour news cycle). It was in the U.S. that she developed her experimental film practice — what she called her "filmic paintings" — which continues to enjoy a following worldwide. Several are dropped into the exhibit, mixing with her other media rather than sequestered in a viewing room. She also commissioned friends to help craft what is perhaps her most famous work: a pair of quilts from 1968 that read "Reason over passion" and "La raison avant la passion," taking aim at another Trudeau quote. The piece would go on to play a starring role in Margaret Trudeau's autobiography, in which she describes, during one particularly "frosty argument" with her husband, ripping the letters off the French-language quilt that hung in their residence and throwing them back at the PM. After moving back to Canada in 1971, Wieland continued a studio practice, and made a somewhat mainstream feature film, The Far Shore, inspired by artist Tom Thomson. Her life and career were cut short by Alzheimer's, and she passed away in 1998 at the age of 67. Soft power So where does that leave her legacy? Is she Canada's answer to, say, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo or Tracey Emin? "It's a bit like a secret club," says Uhlyarik, of Wieland's fandom, which includes a new wave of young artists who describe themselves as "obsessed" with her. It's a strange, particularly Canadian position: Wieland is unquestionably an icon of the 20th-century art world, yet she's far from a household name. But then, who is (Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven aside)? Perhaps this is the perfect time to add a few more names to the Canadian art canon, now that we're all trying to shop local? It should be noted: Although she struggled to navigate an art world dominated by men, especially with her blatantly femme brand of feminism, Wieland did get her flowers in her day. She was named to the Order of Canada in 1982 (a year after then ex-husband Snow). She was the first living woman to get a retrospective at the National Gallery in Ottawa with the 1971 exhibition True Patriot Love. The show — which held space for deep thoughts, domestic arts and dirty jokes — drew protests for its government funding, as well as the ire of critics, who called it a "cheap patriotic claptrap" and "a burlesque of national symbols." "She had a complete disregard for hierarchies and was fearless in her approach to materials," says Grace. "Her strongest political works were made with a sewing machine or embroidery needle. And remember, this was decades before craftivism." Today's museum visitors may need this reminder, time and time again. If much of Wieland's work seems familiar to people who don't know her name, it is because she was a pioneer. Long before Subversive Cross Stitch kits, yarn bombing and the current reappraisal of fibre arts, she was playing with the tension between craft and credibility, subverting stereotypes and demanding nuance. And doing it with authenticity and care. "She seduces us with shiny plastics and soft materials, things that seem simple on the surface and reveal something more subversive," says Grace. "They encourage us to look closely and think deeply." It may also be the exact approach needed at this time. Heart On leads a crash course in the most pressing issues of the present moment. Couched in soft, seductive textures and Instagrammable pastel walls, the exhibition calls us to confront patriotism and our complicated past. The cost of not doing so may be too high. In Wieland's own words from 1971: "Canada can either now lose complete control — which it almost has, economically, spiritually and a few other things — or it can get itself together."
