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Small business owners calling on customers for support as Small Business Saturday arrives
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Small business owners calling on customers for support as Small Business Saturday arrives

Leading up to holiday season in past years, Andover native Mike Lamagna ran up and down Newbury Street in Boston, begging everyone he knew who owned a storefront on the busy city avenue to allow him to host a small pop-up event for his business, Long Wharf Supply Co. Not this year, however. Lamagna will live out his dream Saturday when he officially opens his company’s first brick-and-mortar space at 119 Newbury St. It also falls on Small Business Saturday, which business owners and officials say is essential for the long-term survival of local shops. “It’s the one day of…
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A Teaching Strategy – PHE America
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A Teaching Strategy – PHE America

Do you remember Show and Tell events when you were in elementary school? More than likely you brought a special object to school and showed your classmates how it worked or what was unique about it. Maybe you explained a bit of history about your particular item or why it was important to you. From an educational standpoint, the purpose of Show and Tell was to help children developed their public speaking skills. The concept of Show and Tell can be also be applied to teaching and coaching when using demonstrations during a lesson or practice. There has been a…
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Ottawa could lose more than -billion in CEBA pandemic loans to small businesses
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Ottawa could lose more than $5-billion in CEBA pandemic loans to small businesses

Export Development Canada’s head office in Ottawa on Feb. 14, 2019.Justin Tang/The Globe and Mail Ottawa may be unable to recoup $5-billion or more of the $49-billion in emergency loans it extended to small businesses during the pandemic lockdowns, according to a government projection. The task of chasing down business owners to collect on the mountain of debt issued during the most acute phase of the pandemic, when many struggled to survive widespread shutdowns, was recently handed by the federal government to the Canada Revenue Agency. Ottawa announced the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loan program on April 9, 2020,…
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A Classroom Journey through the Yoga Experience – PHE America
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A Classroom Journey through the Yoga Experience – PHE America

“Take your passion and make it happen” are lyrics from the song Flashdance. As corny as it sounds, it’s those lyrics that continue to drive my PE curriculum forward. Fourteen years ago I introduced yoga into a cross-training class. The students embraced the activity so much they asked me to develop a class. The following year it became a semester-long elective course and a few years later became a year long elective course. My students have been involved in the development and direction of this course from the beginning, embracing the content fully. So, let me take you on a…
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