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Welcome to Susan B Anthony Day!
Susan B. Anthony is known for her leadership in the long campaign for women's right to vote in the United States and also abroad. She indicated her interest as early as 1852, when she attended the National Women’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York. She was also a vigorous opponent of slavery.
In 1863, during the American Civil War, she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Women's Loyal National League, the first national women's political organization in the U.S.[19] It collected nearly 400,000 signatures on petitions to abolish slavery in the largest petition drive in the nation's history up to that time.[20]
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Gutsy win at Syracuse shows toughness that has N.C. State on track for NCAA tournament (newsobserver.com; Wiseman)
Two losses in a row are more than enough for this N.C. State basketball team to endure this season.
Two games mark the longest losing streaks for the Wolfpack in what’s become a special season under first-year coach Kevin Keatts.
In Wednesday night’s game at Syracuse, there were a handful of instances when it sure looked like N.C. State, after losses to Virginia Tech and North Carolina last week, was headed for a third loss in a row.
But the Wolfpack, after trailing by seven points in the first half, six points with 9:42 to play, refused to lose at the Carrier Dome.
Even after Syracuse erased N.C. State’s late eight-point lead to tie the game at 70 with 1:02 to play, the Wolfpack were determined to end their losing streak.
“We lost two so we try to get well after we lose,” N.C. State senior guard Sam Hunt said. “So it was a big win.”
In Keatts’ opinion, this 74-70 win at Syracuse stands out among all the big wins that have put N.C. State (17-9, 7-6 ACC) in solid position to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2015.
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NC State's Keatts: 'This was our best, complete team win' (newsobservwer.com)
VIDEO: NC State coach Kevin Keatts talks about the Wolfpack's win over the Syracuse Orange at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.
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Salt City DISHES and With Love team up for community dinner, crowd-funded grants (PS; Sabado)
The menu at the Salt City DISHES community dinner on Sunday, Feb. 18 will include more than just locally sourced food from With Love Restaurant.
The event will also select an innovative community project for city improvement to receive a crowd-funded micro-grant.
Five teams, each representing an idea for a civic project, will present their ideas during the dinner and vie for crowd support. The guests present will vote on their favorite, and the winning team will win a $2,000 micro-grant to get started on their initiative. The second-place team will receive $500.
Salt City DISHES - which stands for "Dine In. Support Happenings. Enliven Syracuse!" - has funded 13 projects to date, and all of the dinners have sold out.
This year's community projects include:
- Backyard Wild: A project aiming to highlight the secret lives of our local native wildlife through a series of short videos intended for the web, encouraging audiences to become better informed stewards of the land.
- Operation Dropbox: An initiative to equip the Rise Above Poverty Project -- which collects and distributes toiletries and apparel to Danforth Middle School students -- with collection boxes, office space, a laptop and software and volunteer shirts.
