My company is the same. I donate to my halfway house via payroll deduction but they won't match like they do with larger charities like the ASPCA. I can't think of the 3rd party administrative company but I also log service work time as we allow for that. Edit - we use https://benevity.com/
The mom of a missing girl and I are both on the board of a nonprofit; our quarterly meeting is tomorrow - obviously she will be absent, but I’m dreading that meeting. I just hope we can get through the agenda before everyone is crying.
Actually, it was the grand niece of a different friend, a lady named Debbie who is a lifelong teacher/principle and a close family friend. But my stepbrother and first cousin have children in her classes. The young man Heartfield is another, but that family is closer to my cousin’s family.
Yeah, lots of damned if you are, damned if you aren't going around, all magnified by social media. I feel like a ghoul, monitoring my friend’s Facebook for news that he and his wife found her daughter’s body. I just hope they get closure soon. Here is his wife (Ella’s mom). https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375339052112?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLZJXVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtP_IvCJunDm_DlsYvWBj0Vx0KFEP6hiz00rZ6RIUDoi3fyWCXKML6s-RBJS_aem_bD0IRi4J91y_8ipG1NcGGw A different Beaumont mom who was searching for her daughter was the one who found her remains. The mother posted “God told me to look here and that is where I found her.”
A psychologist is having free zoom calls tomorrow to help parents game plan how to discuss the loss of friends to flooding. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/166qdudWUi/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Southeast texas uses this. https://www.everbridge.com/?trk=ggls-mnbrand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=evbg_branded&campaign=96612624&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=96612624&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dm_ydS8QFgmjXuhLAME7QAczwz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29Wq3E1bdpqiEbi3jtUebBb-RqRyxZERtITGqJ33jjwY4FbyytcCeHMgaAh55EALw_wcB Everytime a warning hits I get a text, a phone call, an email. I also get a slack from my company’s weather alert system. There is almost no way I cannot be alerted when an event occurs, unless I am in a plane without wifi or - and I realize this is common in the hill country - cell service.
Shit. I remember the day Ella was born. Her mom and Dad are two close friends. https://kfdm.com/news/local/search-underway-for-kelly-hs-grads-missing-in-catastrophic-hill-country-flooding?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4HO9TMSU6vvH5zx7qyVSODdnoGk8I0CFl6M660C50BG3KfjnfNTfwLNWwLjg_aem_WRQL1u6kacGok7ZBH8_xsw
I'm reading a biography of John D Rockefeller and discovered he greatly endowed the Spelman Seminary for Black Women in the 1880s. That's where Martin Luther King’s mother and grandmother studied.
Skote Outdoors. Guy buys a decrepit shack on an island in Newfoundland and goes off the grid with his cute little wife. Oddly satisfying to see adventurous living.
Walked around the Manassas battlefield this afternoon. Twas but 103 degrees but I did take a while to imagine the short-range artillery battle in July ‘61 at first Bull Run where they wailed on each other from a mere 300 yards. One can imagine the blood soaked earth.
Small world. I too passed Cornerstone while taking my kids to the best early childhood program in San Antonio, at the JCC. Was so happy when they moved it to NW Military.
Honestly I don't give a shit about the weed as I gave it up almost 15 years ago. I'm just impressed that wheels vetoed something this insane clown posse of a lege passed.