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style="font-size:24.0pt"><small><small>Reminder that the
Humor from my Pen show continues through to Sat.
Mar. 23rd. Information about the schedule is <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.july26.org/home/">July 26th
Coalitions Website</a>.<br>
Stop by the Farmers Market today or next Saturday
and catch the show as well.<br>
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needs school in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>
that was devastated by Hurricane <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Sandy</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nelson Da Costa is an Angolan Artist and
war refuge who lived and studied in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region></st1:place> for 18
years.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A good part of
that time was spent at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Anton</span></st1:placename><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN"> <st1:placename
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<p class="MsoNormal">He emigrated to the <st1:placename
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in 2002 and received a Master of Fine Arts in 2008 at <st1:placename
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and the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>at School of
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of <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><st1:placename
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w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Boston</st1:city> <st1:state
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<p class="MsoNormal">To help his former school, Nelson is doing
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expenses will go to the school.</p>
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2<sup>nd</sup> fl</span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the Orpheum Theater around the corner from the Park St. T
stop)<br>
<b>Trouble seeing the Artwork <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/294">Click here</a></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN"
lang="EN">(Rough
translation of an article from a Cuban Newpaper by Google
Translate)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Students and workers
from May Day Polytechnic and <st1:placename w:st="on">Computer</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> helped in
the recovery of educational centers affected by hurricanes
in the town of <st1:city w:st="on">Pinar</st1:city> <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">del Rio</st1:city></st1:place>.</span><span
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For example in a special school Anton Makarenko a brigade of
50 builders helped with unit maintenance and repair of
schools of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Havana</st1:place></st1:city>
have the support of 27 majors power the polytechnic
vueltabajero May Day.<br
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lang="EN">Winds blew off the roof of <st1:placename
w:st="on">Anton</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Makarenko</st1:placename><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><st1:placetype
w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, and carpentry was
severely damaged, but between <st1:city w:st="on">Havana</st1:city>
and Pinar del <st1:place w:st="on">Rio</st1:place> the
center, which had been scheduled for <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>repair in 2009, will be
like new, even with inside bathrooms bedrooms.<br>
Dyan Valdés García, professor of Mayday Polytechnic, said
that students work in what we have to do from scratch walls
with spatula until load blocks, fibers and debris.<br
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN"
lang="EN">Angel Lopez Mirabal, provincial director of
education, marked the decisive support recuperative tasks of
students, workers and community, enabled by parent councils
in the affected areas.<br
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN"
lang="EN">In Vueltabajo 627 schools, 937 were damaged, and
are already recuparadas 135. Numerous alternatives are
applied to the development of the school year and despite
the scale of the damage only six still not working, but
working to do so as quickly as possible, one of which is the
secondary field Barroso Oto in Marbajita, La Palma whose
roofs were torn and has an enrollment of over 500 students
from the municipality and Bahia Honda.<br
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN"
lang="EN">The province received 17,700 fibers of asbestos
cement, 45 cubic meters and about four thousand gutters,
media resources transferred to the FAR, the transport sector
and the industry Vueltabajo country level.<br>
<br>
Photo: James Calero<br>
Students of Mayday Polytechnic support builders in <st1:city
w:st="on">Havana</st1:city> rebuilding Anton Makarenko
special school, in the town of <st1:city w:st="on">Pinar</st1:city>
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