Trump and recess appointments: A procedural and legal quagmireweek, Bill Belichick and a handful of his former assistants with the New England Patriots. Matt Patricia, Michael Lombardi, Josh McDaniels, to name a few, men with whom he had won Super Bowls, all of them out of work. They'd chat over Zoom, and go through each NFL game, as they once did in Foxboro, as only they could. Teams. Trends. Salaries. Schematic shifts. Stuff only they knew to look for, questions only they knew to ask, a common language and way of thinking, once the envy of the NFL and beyond, from other sports to business schools, now valued less around the league. The subtext was unspoken, but understood: Which NFL teams might make a coaching change this year? And of those teams, which of them might be interested in a 72-year-old, eight-time Super Bowl champion? And of those teams, which would Belichick want most? According to sources with direct knowledge, the group deemed that the Chicago Bears were probably the most attractive job, but that team brass was unlikely to consider Belichick. The group expects the same thing that most around the league do: that the Bears will go offense, hoping to give quarterback a chance at a career, probably targeting Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. The New York Jets were a nonstarter; Belichick had issues with owner Woody Johnson back in 2000, before Johnson officially bought the team, and he had been critical this past season in his media roles with Johnson's horrific stewardship. Maybe the Giants, where he had spent the '80s, could work, but Belichick knew that it would be a rebuild, with the New York press at his heels. Plus, he believes the team would do best to retain its current coach, Brian Daboll. Dallas was a potential spot -- nobody can take a collection of talent and turn it into a team like Belichick -- but nobody knew if owner Jerry Jones would move on from Mike McCarthy, and if he did, if he'd want to hand over the team to Belichick. Jacksonville was another potential landing spot, but was it the right one? On his podcast, Lombardi took a shot at Tony Khan, son of owner Shad Khan who for years has run an analytics department emblematic of the problems with the current NFL. Additionally, there wasn't a lot of back-channel communication between anyone close to Belichick and owners; the league and three teams are almost two years into battling a discrimination lawsuit by Brian Flores. Belichick's feelings toward the NFL have shifted he has told confidants. Look at the past year. Robert Kraft, whose life and legacy was forever altered by Belichick, fired him in January. Only one out of seven teams with openings showed interested in hiring him. The Falcons interviewed him twice, but when it came time for the team's brass to rank choices, Belichick failed to land in anyone's top three candidates -- in part, , because Kraft helped torpedo his chances. Weeks later in February, "The Dynasty," the Kraft-owned Patriots , launched on Apple and minimized Belichick's role in the team's historic run so roundly that former Patriots players spoke out against it. Belichick was entertaining in his myriad media roles, but the league seemed to move on without him. Owners spoke of him respectfully, but not desirably. A few months ago, Belichick started to bring up college programs on the Zooms. He was spending a lot of time at Washington, where his son Stephen is in his first year as the Huskies' defensive coordinator. His former offensive coordinator in New England, Bill O'Brien, and longtime assistant, Berj Najarian, are at Boston College. Another former assistant, Joe Judge, served as a senior analyst at Ole Miss. It reinforced and reaffirmed that there was another option out there. At first, the image of Belichick as a college coach made no sense. It was hard to picture Belichick sitting in a teenager's living room, in a hoodie with jagged sleeves, delivering his recruiting pitch. Nick Saban, one of Belichick's longest and closest friends, had retired from college football in large part because of the transfer portal and NIL. Tom Brady did an impression on television of Belichick last weekend: "Listen, you really wanna come here? We don't really want you anyway. I guess you could come. We'll figure out if you can play." But something about ending his career by not chasing Don Shula's NFL wins record, but instead on campus, appealed to Belichick. When he agreed to terms with North Carolina, it was not only because of a new challenge after coaching only in the NFL since 1975, at a school where his father, Steve, had worked when Bill was a boy, and not only because his future in the pros was unclear. It was because, in the words of a confidant, Belichick is "disgusted" in what he believes the NFL had become. "This is a big f--- you to the NFL," another Belichick confidant says. cared about football's history, and his place in it. And he has always cared about leading a true football program. Unlike Bill Walsh's philosophy, it was not primarily based on a playbook; indeed, Belichick's schematic ideology is his lack of ideology, tailored and adapted to situation and circumstance. He has always wanted to build a team -- a true team -- despite the cultural and financial forces conspiring against that idea and ideal. What became known as the Patriot Way was rooted in more than mutual sacrifice and mastery of situational football, ruthless decision-making and Brady's greatness. It was about teaching and education. Only Belichick's Patriots had full-team meetings in which players were quizzed not only on the opponent's statistics and playmakers, but the résumés of all of the assistant coaches. It was a football laboratory, augmented by some of the greatest players in NFL history. Belichick was raised on campuses and has loved helping shape young minds. In April 2006, I watched him deliver the annual Fusco Distinguished Lecture at Southern Connecticut State University, on a stage that had also featured Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Christopher Reeve, among others. Like many, I worried that it would be a two-hour version of his news conferences. But he was in his element, relaxed and energized, speaking to students as they prepared to enter the real world. He told them to chase not money, but a job that was a continuation of a passion. One of the proudest moments of his life was when he passed on a career in finance and moved to Baltimore to do whatever the Colts asked of him. When Belichick was fired by Kraft, despite it initially being presented as a mutual parting -- Kraft later cited trust and an eagerness to reclaim organizational power as factors -- he knew that his next job was not going to resemble the one he'd held for more than two decades. The NFL had moved away from the coach-centric model that Belichick learned under Bill Parcells. There are more layers now. Belichick insisted to the Falcons and made clear to other teams with openings last year that he wasn't seeking the total control of football operations he enjoyed for most of his head coaching career, both in Cleveland and in New England. He was willing to work with existing staff, whether it was Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot or Commanders general manager Adam Peters or Jerry Jones or Howie Roseman, if the Cowboys or Eagles, respectively, had decided to change coaches. But something about it was always hard to buy -- and owners didn't. It wasn't that Belichick was disingenuous or too set in his ways; it was that if you hire Belichick, you hire him to do it his way. Belichick's system is him, from his player procurement program to contract incentives to the types of players he drafts. Because so much flowed out of his mind and because he almost always was the ultimate decision-maker, the Patriots were able to withstand the losses of key players and coaches -- everyone except Brady. How would Belichick, who ran a thin operation in New England, without many layers, handle running a team with a huge infrastructure? Was Belichick, who has had his share of player-evaluation whiffs but has also drafted the greatest quarterback and tight end ever, along with Hall of Fame defensive tackle and several others who will join him in Canton, really going to abide by the philosophies of someone like Fontenot or Bears general manager Ryan Poles, if Chicago had hired Belichick after this year? "Listening to Fontenot discuss drafting systems last January, as if he knew it all, bothered him," a Belichick confidant says. All of those things were on his mind this fall. He told confidants that Shula's record mattered to him, but it wasn't the essential thing. It wasn't why he has worked hours that have come with a steep personal price. He has always competed as if his self-worth was tied to the result. Losses took on a life of their own. Imagine the throttled rage inside him all spring after a group of men who routinely botch their most important hire not only mostly ignored him but gloated about it, telling ESPN that he was "voted off the island." He never forgets. Belichick knew that he'd have to compromise if he got another NFL job, maybe even more than the year before, and also knew that he faced a league that was skeptical of him. If he didn't fix his new team right away, he'd be dealing with a media narrative for the third straight year in coaching that he'd lost his fastball. College coaches have many headaches -- they essentially re-recruit their players daily -- but Belichick came to believe that he'd have the space to run his program, winning or losing on his terms, all he has ever asked for. He'll have what he had in New England: He'll be the football czar. He knows there are politics, the way there are politics in the NFL, and challenges to building a team, but they feel manageable and worth the risk. Says a source with knowledge of his thinking: "I'll go be the highest draw in college football, and will have the greatest coach in the ACC, instead of you guys who don't want [him] anymore because there are people who don't deserve to be empowered. ... Everyone is running away from college football. I think Bill thinks this landscape is better for him. ... More transactional and less relational. In his mind, this is better for me." Maybe the signs were there a month ago, when Belichick told "The Pat McAfee Show" of the horror stories of answering asinine questions from owners. He told a confidant within the past week that he's "tired of the stupidness" of the NFL. Unlike Brady, Belichick has always embraced his darker side, with actions more often than words, and made no secret of his grievances. He turned the postgame handshake into a spectator sport. He seethed at the piousness around the league after Spygate. After Deflategate, he walked out of a league meeting when commissioner Roger Goodell spoke. And then, after his unquestioned greatness was suddenly questioned and became talk-show fodder for two years -- How good is he without Brady? -- he watched owners display abject indifference to his services. "He's disgusted," a confidant says. If we've learned anything about Belichick over the years, it's that he'll often do the unconventional thing -- and that when at a crossroads, he will take control of his career. legendary journalist David Halberstam wanted to write a book about Belichick. They knew each other casually. Belichick respected Halberstam but initially was cool to the idea; it would go against every fiber of his being if he turned the spotlight on himself. Halberstam rethought the pitch and gave it another shot: "I suggested that there might be a book in the education of a coach, especially since the most important teacher in his life was his father, Steve -- a coach's coach," Halberstam later wrote. "It was an idea that interested him, and eventually he agreed to cooperate." After Belichick had become the first coach to win three Super Bowls in four years, Halberstam spent more time with him than any reporter to that point, working on what would be an authorized biography. Later in 2005, "The Education of a Coach" was published. Halberstam hit the media circuit, promoting the book, and on a Boston radio show, he was asked, "Will [Belichick] ever get sick of this?" At the time, Belichick was 53 years old. He had yet to be busted for Spygate. He had yet to coach a team to within a minute of an undefeated season. Had yet to tell a documentarian that he'd never coach into his 70s, then blow past it, knowing deep inside that he needed the game more than it needed him. He had yet to draft , , , and had yet to win 11 games with Matt Cassel, had yet to deploy the "Baltimore" and "Raven" formations, had yet to pass Deflategate into Brady's lap, had yet to send into the final seconds of Super Bowl XLIX, had yet to look up at a Super Bowl LI scoreboard that read 28-3, had yet to curtail access for Alex Guerrero, had yet to be called the "biggest f---ing in my life" by Kraft, and had yet to win a sixth Super Bowl. He had yet to watch his daughter, Amanda, coach lacrosse at Holy Cross, had yet to watch Stephen coach at Washington. "He's really a coach and a teacher," Halberstam told the hosts. "I mean, you could almost see him, when this is done, saying, OK, I've ... you know, if he's done it and won X rings, saying OK, I'm going to go and teach at an Ivy League school or something like that. I'm going to do something smaller, without as much pressure." And without the NFL, which he left before it could leave him. Again.
Marvell Technology, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend PaymentWheel of Fortune’s most prized tradition is the bonus round, where each episode’s winner is faced with one last puzzle and a mere 10 seconds to come away with an even bigger bundle of cash (or not). But fans want a word with host Ryan Seacrest about how he’s presenting the prizes after giving a puzzling amount of build-up to a player’s $40,000 win. On Friday, November 22’s episode, Brittany Brock, a kindergarten teacher from Chicago, Illinois, was the player to proceed to the coveted bonus round. By then she had won $17,300 in cash, a trip to Kauai, and selected “Living Thing” as her category. With the savvy additional letters of “DPBI” the two-word puzzle read as, “‘_ _ DDL_’ ‘P_PP_'”. Near-instantly, she correctly solved it as “Cuddly Puppy.” The broadcast cut to Seacrest and an excited Brock, and it was time to reveal how much she won from the prize wedge she picked. Seacrest opened the gold prize card and glanced at the figure. “And...” he told her with a surprised grin (below). After a few seconds he added, “Ready?” Broke clasped her hands over her mouth in anticipation as Seacrest then revealed she won an extra $40,000, the least one can win in the bonus round. “$40,000!” he exclaimed. This brought her to a grand total of $57,381 and she was overjoyed nonetheless, embraced her husband. On Social media, many fans celebrated the big win while left wondering why Seacrest presented the prize with such a prolonged rollout that it seemed like a bigger value and as if the confetti was about to overflow onto the Sony Pictures Studios parking lot. “Ryan acting like it’s $75,000 or $100,000 with the slow way he shows the amount,” one fan wrote when the game show shared the clip to YouTube. Over on the WoF Reddit, a fan dedicated a discussion thread to the moment titling it, “Bonus Reveal... lolz.” They continued, “I like Seacrest, but gotta admit, I’m not a fan of the dramatic 40K reveals lol.” “Agreed...” a second user wrote, arguing that a contestant in the future could be “disappointed” it’s not more. “The Mrs. and I commented on that last night. He presents it like it’s something more than the minimum prize amount! One of these days, the contestant is going to react disappointedly.” A third wrote, “He also contorts his body awkwardly and bounces around to just flip the card open. Then says ‘it was this much’ as if he can’t say the amount. Kind of weird. But the lack of higher amounts lately is noticed. I’m glad it’s been all cash so far. A lot of the cars prior were 30k, which is nice, but they were lowest prize.” “I agree, feels like he’s forcing it,” wrote a fourth. A fifth was even more critical, “I’m sorry I know a lot of people are going to get mad at me but I just don’t like him. There’s something about him, that I just don’t enjoy watching him in anything at all.” Meanwhile , Seacrest, of course, had huge shoes to fill replacing the legendary Pat Sajak alongside the iconic Vanna White after four decades for Season 42. His debut month was the strongest ratings month for WoF in the past three years, and viewers were already treated to a viral moment (via a round of sausage) . That said, there have been some other questionable moments according to fans. In September, Seacrest suffered what fans dubbed his “first blooper” , involving a prolonged reaction to rewarding a bonus round. Fans also called out the host for ruling against another player before the timer was up. There have also been a few on-screen “glitches,” and a minor spelling error in a Thanksgiving puzzle . Many fans also blamed a lack of experience on Seacrest’s mishandling of a contestant’s $1million wedge, which she instantly forfeited. Wheel of Fortune , Weeknights, Check your local listings More Headlines: ‘Outlander’: Richard Rankin Teases ‘Shock After Shock’ for Roger & Buck’s Season 7 Adventure ‘Countdown’: Jensen Ackles Shares Look at Filming New Prime Video Show (PHOTOS) Courtney B. Vance Is ‘Percy Jackson’s New Zeus: See His Tribute to Lance Reddick ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Fans Beg Ryan Seacrest to Change His ‘Forced’ Bonus Round Move ‘The Boys’ Season 5 Begins Filming & Everything Else We Know About the Final Chapter
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South Korean puts on 20 kg in a bid to avoid draftQNA DOHA: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has met with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who is currently visiting Qatar. The two sides discussed the strategic relationship between the two countries, ways to strengthen and support it, as well as the latest developments in Gaza and occupied Palestinian territories and the situation in Syria. They also addressed other topics of joint interest. Both parties stressed the importance of ensuring Syria's unity and pursuing a peaceful transition of power through an inclusive political process based on UN Security Council Resolution 2254, while enhancing efforts to protect civilians and combat terrorism. Copy 13/12/2024 10Marvell Technology, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend Payment
An Idaho beauty salon owner and mother of three, Tiffney Prickett, recently went viral on TikTok for calling Trump supporters racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. As a result, her salon Voire in Coeur d'Alene is facing a boycott from disgruntled Republicans and even long-term clients. In her video , Prickett, 40, said, 'Trump basically gave small men the ability and the courage to be misogynistic and hateful.' As a prime example of this behaviour, Prickett mentioned 'your body, my choice', a viral slogan coined by Nick Fuentes after Trump's re-election. Prickett emphasised her concern for women, questioning why more men do not speak out against disrespectful and sexist behaviour. She explained that in her experience as a woman, only two men have ever stood up for her when she told them that another man was making her uncomfortable. Most of the time, according to Prickett, men shrug off these incidents. 'I don't know why men witness aggressions towards women, and they just stand idly by and so nothing,' Prickett said. 'I don't understand it.' In a follow-up video , Prickett shared that some long-term clients no longer felt comfortable visiting her salon due to her views, recounting how a client sent her husband to demand a refund for pre-purchased gift cards. Prickett offered the refund despite not normally doing so, just to be able to cut ties with the family, which Prickett knew to be entirely Republican. 'I don't have a problem with you being a Republican,' she added. 'I have a problem with you stripping Human Rights away.' In the video, she explains how important interracial marriage, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, and reproductive rights are to her. She argues that supporting a person with racist, homophobic, and misogynistic views implies that one condones those attitudes, effectively aligning oneself with them. The video's caption read, 'It's not politics, it's Human Rights.' In another video , Prickett doubled down on her stance even further. 'I do not support racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, SA (sexual assault) of women and children... I don't support any of that,' she said. 'And so, if you need me to quiet down so that you feel better about your decision to vote for someone who has done all those things, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to silence myself for your comfort. I said what I said; I stand by what I said.' Prickett observed Trump supporters have been 'dropping like flies' as a result of the boycotts. She has also received an influx of online backlash and harassment. In particular, users on X (formerly Twitter) voiced their discontent at the salon owner's statements. Amidst the backlash, Prickett has removed her salon's website. Some of her liberal followers have suggested she move her business to a blue state, as Idaho is 45.19% Republican as of this year's election. A Memphis florist, Kristin Wolter, 49, announced on her now-private Instagram that she would not do business with Donald Trump supporters following his re-election. Wolter, the owner of Everbloom Designs, explained that this decision stems from her desire to create a 'safe place' for herself, her staff, and her family. Wolter's statements sparked controversy, leading to threats against her and her business, which forced her to close the shop for a week. Among these threatening messages were legal threats, but there are no protections against discrimination due to political affiliation under Tennessee law. As a result of the backlash, all social media accounts for Everbloom Designs are now private. Similar to Prickett, Wolter's business decision incited criticism on X.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a red-state constitutional challenge to California's special authority to fight air pollution. Over a dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas, the justices turned away an appeal from Ohio and 16 other conservative states, which asked the court to rule "the Golden State is not a golden child." While Monday's brief order closes the door on a constitutional challenge to California's anti-pollution standards, the court on Friday cleared the way for a different, more targeted legal challenge. The oil and gas industry is suing over the state's "zero emissions" goals for new vehicles, arguing California's special authority to fight air pollution does not extend to greenhouse gases and global warming. A lower court had dismissed that suit on the grounds the oil producers had no standing to sue. Their complaint was they would sell less fuel in the future. On Friday, the justices agreed to reconsider that ruling early next year. They could clear the way for the suit to proceed. Monday's related order narrows the legal grounds that the industry can use to challenge California's rule, assuming it eventually wins standing. The incoming Trump administration is likely to intervene on the side of the challengers. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar had urged the court to turn down both appeals. They said California's strict emissions standards are designed to fight smog and other air pollution as well as greenhouse gases. They argued that Congress had ample authority under the Constitution to set special rules for problems in different states. Since early in American history, they said Congress approved special customs duties for some states or rules involving tribes relations. In challenging California's authority, Ohio's Atty. Gen. David Yost pointed to the court's 2013 decision that struck down part of the Voting Rights Act on the grounds it violated the principle of equal state sovereignty. When Congress adopted national air pollution standards in 1967, it said California could go further because it was already enforcing strict standards to combat the state's worst-in-the-nation problem with smog. Ohio and red states say this special authority violates "core constitutional principles because no state is more equal than the others. And Congress does not have the general power to elevate one state above the others....Yet in the Clean Air Act, Congress elevated California above all the other states by giving to the Golden State alone the power to pass certain environmental laws." Without commenting, the justices said they would not hear the constitutional claim. The Environmental Defense Fund hailed the court's announcement. "California's clean car standards have successfully helped reduce the dangerous soot, smog, and climate pollution that put all people at risk, while also turbocharging clean technologies and job creation," said Alice Henderson, lead counsel for its clean-air policy group. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
ST. PAUL — A planned lottery to give some would-be cannabis business owners a licensing head start won’t go forward early this week after a judge halted the process Monday. Ramsey County District Court Judge Stephen Smith sided with a group of applicants who had been denied access to the social equity pre-approval lottery. They sued over a process they argued had lacked clear criteria and that left no room for appeals. ADVERTISEMENT “There’s no lottery tomorrow,” Smith ruled toward the end of an hourlong online hearing. He said the state was free to file an appeal. Ahead of the hearing, officials with the Office of Cannabis Management warned that the lottery might not happen at all if it was postponed given the cost and logistics of putting it on. Attorney David Asp, who represented some of the applicants, told Smith that the lottery was rushed and that people who were denied entry deserved a chance to contest their disqualification. “The state doesn’t dispute that our client will suffer irreparable harm if this order isn’t entered. That’s usually one of the main issues in an injunction, but it’s not a dispute here. Our clients will be harmed. As I said, more than $1,000,” Asp said. “The harm on the OCM side is entirely of their own making.” The Office of Cannabis Management had defended its process, saying they were attempting to root out applicants who were looking for a quick profit instead of actually moving to set up legitimate businesses. Officials with the regulatory agency said that some applications appeared to have been put in on behalf of other entrepreneurs trying to get a foothold in Minnesota’s nascent market. “The Legislature chose for this pre-approval process to be an efficient and expedient one, and part of that is evidenced by the fact that there is no appeals provided for for the pre-approval process, whereas in the final license approval process, there is an availability for reconsideration,” said the agency’s attorney, Ryan Petty. “So a major factor of this is the Legislature’s decision to make this process efficient and expedient so that the social equity applicants can get that head start.” There were more than 1,500 applicants for this stage of the licensing process, the agency said. The lottery was to narrow that down to 282. ADVERTISEMENT When the judge asked Petty about the timeline, including the lottery being scheduled shortly after denial letters went out, Petty said the selection process involved several moving parts. “There wasn’t any hiding the ball here. There wasn’t any attempt to restrict the ability of applicants to challenge their denials,” he said. State lawmakers legalized cannabis for adult recreational use in 2023, but the setup of a retail marketplace has been slow. No licenses have been issued for commercial growers or sellers ahead of what is expected to be an early 2025 launch. People can grow their own marijuana and give away small quantities. American Indian tribes have also opened their own stores, but those sales are limited to reservation land. The social equity lottery is intended to give a leg up to people who live in high-poverty areas, those harmed by the war on drugs, and military veterans. This story was originally published on MPRNews.org ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .Change This, Not That: 2024 Audi SQ8 Review
Customs orders sale of smuggled PMS to Yola residents at cheaper pricesOLEAN — The annual Cattaraugus Gives drive is just a week away. Scheduled for Dec. 3, the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation’s annual 24-hour drive on Giving Tuesday will coordinate fundraising for 91 area nonprofits. Groups small and large will solicit donations from the public online, at www.cattaraugusgives.org . “Cattaraugus Gives is a shining example of what can happen when a community comes together to support its own,” said CRCF Executive Director Kirk Windus. “We are excited to see what this year will bring and how these funds will help nonprofits make a difference in the lives of so many.” Giving will begin on the cattaraugusgives.org website at midnight Dec. 3 and wrap up at 11:59 p.m. Donors can help the 91 participating organizations win prizes from a pool of $21,200 in prizes sponsored by CRCF and a number of area businesses. This year, donors will have the chance to win themselves, as there will be six gift card drawings throughout the day as well as raffles for a signed Gregory Rousseau mini helmet and a signed Rasmus Dahlin photo. The full prize list can be found at cattaraugusgives.org/prizes . A number of participating nonprofits have matches and challenges available, which will increase the impact of donors’ gifts. Last year, the campaign raised an impressive $306,567, shattering the marks set in previous years. Cattaraugus Gives has now helped nonprofits raise around $1.5 million since its inception. This year’s participating nonprofits include African American Center for Cultural Development, Allegany Area Historical Association, Allegany Little League, Allegany Public Library, Allegheny Highlands Council Boy Scouts of America, Big 30 Athletic Fund, Cats Knead TNVR, Cattaraugus Co. Dept. of the Aging/Meals on Wheels, Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation – Community Fund, CBA Vision Rehabilitation Services, CCA - Connecting Communities in Action, Challenger Learning Center of the Twin Tier Region, Chautauqua Cattaraugus Board of Realtors Scholarship, Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Christine Conner Memorial Scholarship, Citizens Advocating Memorial Preservation, Community Scholarship Fund; Directions in Independent Living, Dr. Lyle F. Renodin Foundation, Dream it. Do it. Cattaraugus County, Ellicottville Memorial Library, Ellicottville Playground, Ellicottville Rotary Club, Empire Animal Rescue Society, Enchanted Mountain Garden Club of Allegany, Enchanted Mountains Village, FeedMore WNY, Friends of the Library of Olean,Genesis House Shelter, George and Marcia Pancio Scholarship Fund, Greater Olean Association of Churches, Greater Olean Hospitality Scholarship, Gregory D. Spring Perseverance Scholarship and Awards Fund; Hamilton Court #2 Order of the Amaranth, HomeCare & Hospice Foundation, Immanuel Lutheran Church and Childcare, Intandem, Interfaith Caregivers, J&E Awareness Non-Profit, Jack Reading Memorial Fund, James and Valerie Brundage Scholarship Fund, JF20 Scholarship, Joyful Rescues, Leadership Cattaraugus Scholarship, Legal Assistance of Western New York, Literacy of Love, Little Valley Fund, Marjorie and Robert Schaumleffel Rotary Scholarship, Mercy Flight Inc., Nannen Arboretum Society, OHS Class of 1983 Scholarship, Olean Business Development, Olean Community Theatre, Olean First Baptist Church, Olean Food Pantry Inc., Olean General Hospital Foundation, Olean Meditation Center, Olean Parks Beautification Fund, Olean Rotary Club, Olean Schools Foundation, Olean Sports Boosters, Olean Theatre Workshop, Operation Warm Hearts; Pay-it-Forward, Pfeiffer Nature Center & Foundation Inc, Phoenix Humane Society of Greater Cattaraugus, Portville Community Association, Portville Community Food Pantry, Positive Ripples, RAM Fund of Cattaraugus County, Rescue Pups, Salamanca Rail Museum Association, Santa Claus Lane, Shadows Veterinarian Relief Trust, Southern Tier Catholic School and Archbishop Walsh Academy, Southern Tier Health Care System, Southern Tier Symphony, SPCA in Cattaraugus County, St. Elizabeth Mission Society, The Bob McCarthy Foundation; The Pink Pumpkin Project, The Salvation Army - Olean, Tim Bushnell Memorial Scholarship, Tina Zerbian Resilient Community Scholarship, Total Senior Care, Tracy Veno Memorial/Olean Professional Firefighters Local 1796 Scholarship Fund, Tri-County Arts Council, Twin Tiers Disc Golf Association, Veggie Wheels, and the YMCA of the Twin Tiers To learn more, call (716) 301-CRCF (2723), email foundation@cattfoundation.org , or visit online at www.cattfoundation.org . CRCF is also on Facebook (facebook.com/cattfoundation) and Twitter (@CattFoundation).
