City/Region Digest.Byline: The Register-Guard LOCAL Adoption advocate Bertha Holt honored Bertha ``Grandma'' Holt, who died two years ago at the age of 96, will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame The National Women's Hall of Fame was created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention. The mission of the National Women's Hall of Fame is "to honor in perpetuity those women, citizens of the United States of in Seneca Falls Seneca Falls A village of west-central New York on the Seneca River east-southeast of Rochester. The first women's rights convention was held here in 1848. Population: 6,870. , N.Y., this fall. The Creswell woman was a pioneer in international adoptions and instrumental in bringing more than 100,000 children to families in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . She will be honored on Oct. 5 along with five other women, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933, Brooklyn, New York) is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Having spent 13 years as a federal judge, but not being a career jurist, she is unique as a Supreme Court justice, having spent the majority of her career as an and former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of , who died last year. Holt was known internationally as "Grandma Holt" by hundreds of children around the world because of the efforts she took to find them a home. In 1955, she and her husband, Harry, adopted eight Korean-American children. A year later they created the organization known today as Holt International Children's Services  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . The hall of fame recognizes and celebrates the achievements of individual American women. It was founded in 1969 and has honored nearly 180 women. Suspect arrested in U-Lane-O robbery Eugene police arrested a 33-year-old man a short time after a robbery at a U-Lane-O Federal Credit Union branch Thursday evening, Eugene police said. Jeffrey Ronald Banker of Eugene was taken into custody in an alley about 10 blocks from the credit union office at 1165 W. 18th Ave., where the robbery occurred about 5:30 p.m. Eugene police spokeswoman Pam Alejandre said a man carrying a brown paper sack handed a note demanding money to a teller and told her to hurry, but did not show a weapon. The woman gathered up the money in her drawer and handed it to the robber. He walked out, leaving the paper sack behind, Alejandre said. Police searched the neighborhood and found Banker in an alley behind an apartment complex in the 500 block of West 12th Avenue, Alejandre said. Inside a backpack that had been thrown onto the second-story balcony of one of the apartments, investigators found money, a note and a hooded sweatshirt that fit the description of what the suspect had been wearing, Alejandre said. Banker remained in Lane County Jail on Friday on a federal hold for bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. . No bail was set. African-American students event set A public reception and performance for the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts The Hult Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts facility in Eugene, Oregon, opened in 1982. 27 architectural firms competed for the opportunity to design the Center, but in the end the Eugene City Council awarded the contract to the New York firm of Hardy . The event will follow the daylong competition in the Soreng Theatre, which starts at 9:30 a.m. The competition draws more than two dozen African-American students from eight Lane County high schools. Competition categories include biology, architecture, mathematics, physics, oratory, essay, photography, poetry, dance, drama, music and visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → . Winners will be eligible to attend the national competition this summer in Houston. |
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