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Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children with the Kentucky nonprofit.Since 2020, it has hired someone to focus on recruiting volunteers, added in-person and virtual outreach events and options to complete the required 30-hour training, and printed information on fans to hand out in churches, Melynda Milburn Jamison, its executive director, said. She even visited a men’s-only barbecue to make a quick 10-minute pitch.The result? In 2022, CASA of Lexington had 62 new volunteers complete training, short of its target of 80. Only two came from the group’s recruitment events, with the rest mostly via word of mouth, Jamison said. “We’ve been able to retain keeping the number of children we serve fairly consistent,” she said, “but we should have been increasing because we’ve taken on new counties and we’ve added additional staff.”Jamison is not alone in her frustration. Her experience reflects th...

Timberwolves thrashed by Denver in Game 1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

DENVER — Chris Finch’s pregame comments Sunday proved to be prophetic. The Timberwolves coach liked that his team — which had to win its way into the playoffs via the play-in tournament after a stress-filled end-of-season run — entered the playoffs as a battle-tested squad.But he then noted the other side of the coin — perhaps Minnesota would realize its season was no longer on the line, and could take a breath. Regardless of of Sunday’s result, the Wolves would live another day.That ill-advised mindset would be about the best-case scenario for Minnesota as an explainer for its Game 1 debacle.The Timberwolves were run off the floor in every sense, falling 109-80 to the top-seeded Nuggets.Minnesota was non-competitive for the final three quarters. Denver was more physical and played with more thrust. The Nuggets ran up and down the floor, too often catching Minnesota in a jog.The Nuggets’ defensive game plan was pristine. Denver allowed Nikol...

Jamal Murray, Nuggets throttle T-Wolves in resounding Game 1 win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

Christian Braun’s smile was icier than a Minnesota lake in December.Denver’s rookie had a cold, calculated grin after he and Timberwolves veteran Kyle Anderson needed to be separated late in the third quarter. Anderson’s frustration came as a result of Braun’s tenacious defense, but also the relentless pounding Denver was hanging on Minnesota.The Nuggets looked and acted like the No. 1 seed late Sunday night, throttling the visiting Timberwolves, 109-80, in Game 1 of their best-of-7 first-round playoff series.“We’re not gonna celebrate,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said, intent on repeating the effort later in the series. Most pleased with the defense, Malone said he gave the Defensive Player of the Game chain to the entire team.Nuggets center Nikola Jokic toyed with Minnesota’s ballyhooed frontcourt, amassing 13 points and 14 rebounds before fouling out in the fourth quarter. After a slow start, Jamal Murray came alive in his first playoff game since the Bubble. ...

Nuggets 3-pointers: Why was NBA MVP Nikola Jokic playing so late in laughable Game 1?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

Initial thoughts from the Nuggets’ 109-80 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of their Western Conference playoff series:Related ArticlesDenver Nuggets | Jamal Murray, Nuggets throttle T-Wolves in resounding Game 1 win Denver Nuggets | Keeler: Nuggets fans’ playoff expectations for Nikola Jokic, coach Michael Malone? “You’ve got to get to a conference final.” Denver Nuggets | Nuggets vs. Timberwolves: Denver dominates Game 1 with 109-80 win Denver Nuggets | Wolves president Tim Connelly admits matchup vs. Nuggets is weird: “These people are like family.” Denver Nuggets | Nuggets can only prepare for revamped Timberwolves so much ahead of Game 1: “They’re a new team.” 1. Why was Nikola Jokic playing in a blowout? The MVP fouled out with 6:37 left in the game, at a time when the Nuggets were routing the Minnesota Timberwolves, 97-70. But wh...

Palo Alto: Person dies in Caltrain collision

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

PALO ALTO — A person died after being struck by a Caltrain Sunday night, authorities said.The collision happened at 8:43 p.m. on tracks at the Churchill Avenue grade crossing near Alma Street, about a half-mile south of the Stanford station and three-quarters of a mile north of the California Avenue station.None of the 46 passengers on southbound Train No. 678 were injured, Caltrain said.It was the railway’s second train fatality of the year, following a fatal strike in January in a San Francisco tunnel.Emergency personnel responded to the scene, but the person was pronounced dead at the scene.A San Francisco man who identified himself as a southbound train rider said Sunday evening he believed the victim may have been a cyclist.“I was seated in the front car behind the engine,” Tyson Wrensch said Sunday night.  “When we passed Palo Alto station just after 8:39 p.m., something metallic hit and flew by my window and the train came to a fast stop.”Wrensch...

Murray leads Nuggets past Wolves 109-80 in NBA playoffs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

Jamal Murray scored 24 points and dished out eight assists in his first playoff game since the 2020 NBA bubble and the top-seeded Denver Nuggets routed the Minnesota Timberwolves 109-80 Sunday night. Nikola Jokic added 13 points, 14 rebounds and a half dozen assists in 28 minutes and Michael Porter Jr. scored 18 points as Denver snapped a five-game skid in playoff openers.Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 18 points. Karl-Anthony Towns, who was rounding into form this month after missing 52 games with a bad calf, missed 10 of his first 12 shots and finished with 11 points.The Timberwolves hadn’t been held to so few points since Nov. 19, 2016.Jokic said during the Nuggets’ week off that he was eager to see how they’d do do with Murray and Porter back in the lineup with him after injuries and surgeries waylaid Denver’s Big Three each of the last two postseasons.The answer was emphatic: the trio combined for 55 points, 33 rebounds and 16 assists — with just two ...

Volunteering, ADVISORY

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

EDITORS:April 16th is the start of National Volunteer Week in the U.S.The AP is planning a number of text, video and photo stories to mark the occasion.For more details, go to our Coverage Plan.Here’s a look at what’s coming up.LOCALIZE IT:PHILANTHROPY-VOLUNTEERISM-LOCALIZE IT — Though volunteerism in America has been declining for decades, the rapid fall is further straining the nation’s social safety net, especially with demand for nonprofits’ services increasing. The changes in volunteerism rates vary from community to community as shown in this data about volunteer participation by state and some major cities from the U.S. Census and AmeriCorps. The data sets up an important line of local reporting. How has the volunteerism rate in your state changed in recent years? How are your local nonprofits coping with those shifts? Can they still meet your community’s needs? Here are some ways to localize reporting on volunteerism. With an audio guide. Moved April 10.MOVED APRIL 10 FOR US...

Última hora y noticias en vivo de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania: Polonia y Hungría prohíben los granos ucranianos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

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Silvio Berlusconi out of intensive care

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of intensive care, where he was being treated for chronic leukemia since April 5.His health is “constantly improving,” his doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri said in a medical update Sunday evening, according to Italian newswire ANSA.Berlusconi, 86, will remain in the hospital.The former PM, who is currently a senator and leader of the right-wing Forza Italia party — a partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition government — has been in and out of hospital in recent weeks.He was first admitted to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan on March 27 for routine medical checks and was discharged three days later.He was then taken into intensive care in the cardiac unit of the same hospital a few days later, on April 5, after suffering from “breathlessness.”

US tax breaks lure European clean tech companies as EU lags

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:57 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Norwegian startup Freyr will first build batteries to power electric vehicles and store clean energy in a remote town near the Arctic Circle. Up next? An Atlanta suburb.That’s because a new U.S. clean energy law offers generous tax credits — up to 40% of costs — in what is a “massive, massive incentive” for producing in America, CEO Tom Einar Jensen said.Across Europe, companies seeking to invest in the green energy boom — churning out everything from solar panels to windmills and EV batteries — are making similar calculations, weighing up the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s $375 billion in benefits for renewable industries against a fragmented response that European Union leaders have been scrambling to patch together for months. The law aims to kick-start the U.S. transition away from climate-changing fossil fuels with tax credits and rebates that favor clean technology made in North America. It blindsided the EU when it became law in August, putting the U...