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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Kevin Gorman: Make no mistake, Matt Murray and Jack Johnson push Penguins past Bruins - TribLIVE

Perhaps no Pittsburgh Penguins have served as lightning rods for the fan base more than goalie Matt Murray and defenseman Jack Johnson, and both were being blamed for a three-goal, first-period deficit against the Boston Bruins.

Murray and Johnson took their share of abuse in the first five minutes Sunday afternoon, first from the Bruins and then from the crowd of 18,655 at PPG Paints Arena. How they turned jeers to cheers for a 4-3 comeback victory over the Bruins — in what is being billed as their best win of the season — had Penguins coach Mike Sullivan praising both.

Where Murray (15-6-4) has endured his share of struggles and lost playing time to Tristan Jarry (16-7-1), Johnson has been elevated from healthy scratch in the playoffs last season to the top defense pairing because of injuries to Brian Dumoulin and Justin Schultz this season.

“I’m thrilled for them because I know how much these guys care, how hard they work and how good of teammates they are,” Sullivan said. “It’s a hard game out there. It doesn’t always go your way. This game is a game of mistakes. Everybody’s going to make them. It’s just about trying to react the right way to them, and those guys did.”

But it didn’t exactly turn frowns upside down.

When asked if he heard the Bronx cheers from the crowd and how he tuned that out, Murray bit his lip and averted his eyes.

“No comment,” Murray said.

Penguins goalie Matt Murray’s response says everything about what he thought of the crowd reaction at PPG Paints Arena after the Boston Bruins scored two goals in the first two minutes. pic.twitter.com/5dVhaTx27B

— Kevin Gorman (@KGorman_Trib) January 19, 2020

That spoke volumes. The Penguins beat the Bruins for the first time this season, not even three days after a 4-1 loss in Boston. The Penguins also closed the gap in the Eastern Conference standings, trailing the second-place Bruins (68 points) by a point going into Tuesday’s game at the Philadelphia Flyers before the All-Star break.

Murray had every right to be disgusted by how quickly the home crowd turned on him after allowing a Patrice Bergeron goal 11 seconds after the opening faceoff, then another by Anders Bjork at 2:02. Penguins fans can be unforgiving, even for Stanley Cup-champion goalies. (See: Fleury, Marc-Andre).

And they can be stupid, too.

“Unfortunately, he heard a bit from the crowd early on in the game, but he stuck with it,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. “That’s not easy for a goalie when you hear it at home from your own fans, so I’m happy for him. I’m glad we were able to get back into it and give them something to cheer about.”

To say Murray wouldn’t allow another goal isn’t entirely accurate, though the next one was no fault of his own.

That’s where Johnson comes in. The Bruins were skating circles around the Penguins, quite literally, when David Pastrnak spun and shot toward the net with Brad Marchand stationed at the right post. Johnson stuck his blade in the crease to intercept the puck, but it deflected off his stick and between Murray’s legs.

“I had a pretty good feeling like he was just going to try to throw it against the goal line to the guy on the back side there,” Johnson said. “You try and stop it, maybe lay it in the pads there. You don’t want it to go through, and you can’t deflect it out in the slot. That’s a tough bounce.”

And a tough mistake to swallow, as the Bruins took a 3-0 lead.

Where the fans were furious, Murray was more understanding.

“He’s trying to make the right play and gets a bad bounce, and it ends up going in,” Murray said, “so you just move past it.”

Crosby started the comeback with a behind-the-net pass to Dominik Simon, who found the net from a ridiculous angle from the right side of the goal line to make it 3-1 at 15:07 of the first. Crosby later dropped a beautiful between-the-legs pass to Teddy Blueger to cut it to 3-2 just 33 seconds into the second period.

It was only 20 seconds into the third period when defenseman Kris Letang was called for elbowing, putting the Penguins on the penalty kill. That set up Johnson’s heroics, as he scored a short-handed goal to tie the score at 1:41.

The Penguins got a three-on-two rush, with Brandon Tanev floating along the right boards as Blueger cleared a defenseman on a center drive until Johnson was open in the high slot. Tanev set Johnson up for a slap shot from the top of the left circle that he drilled past goalie Jaroslav Halak.

“It always feels great to help the team,” Johnson said, “no matter what you’re doing, whether it’s killing penalties, making a hit to get the team going or scoring a goal.”

His fiery fist pump told another story. It was one of redemption, as the shorty gave the Penguins the momentum. Not only had the Bruins blown a three-goal lead, but the NHL’s third-best penalty-killing unit had just allowed a short-hander to a stay-at-home defenseman for his third goal of the season.

“That was awesome, a huge goal for us,” Murray said. “He played great for us. Everybody else did, too.”

No one played better in the third period than Murray, even as the Penguins got the go-ahead goal when Evgeni Malkin set up Bryan Rust for a 4-3 lead at 12:35. Murray stopped 14 shots, including one in the slot by defenseman Matt Grzelcyk and a wrister by forward Jake DeBrusk.

“I was thrilled because Jack gets a great goal, a tying goal and Matt made some dynamite saves in the third period,” Sullivan said. “We don’t win the game if Matt doesn’t make those saves.”

Make no mistake, the two players who took blame for putting the Penguins in a three-goal hole also dug them out of it. That Murray and Johnson moved past the jeers to draw cheers made beating the Bruins that much better.

Keep up with the Pittsburgh Penguins all season long.

Kevin Gorman is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Kevin by email at [email protected] or via Twitter .

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Penguins’ goaltender Matt Murray prior to their game against the Boston Bruins at PPG Paints Arena on Jan. 19, 2020.

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Opinion: Harry and Meghan are out. Why couldn't the palace make this work? - Los Angeles Times

The message from Buckingham Palace to Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle, was clear: You’re in or you’re out. There is no part-time work for royals. Harry and Meghan chose out.

That’s kind of sad. And surprising. What — they couldn’t all work this out?

I get it that, barely two years into a marriage that was supposed to signal a breathtaking infusion of modernity into the British royal family, the couple was sick of the tabloid coverage. But not all the news coverage of them has been bad. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be the international celebrities that they are.

I would have advised Meghan to return to England after her and Harry’s extravagantly long Christmas break in Vancouver and give it another go, for a year. Then reassess. Instead, they came back, dropped the bombshell that they wanted to work part time as royals and spend half the year outside Britain. And Meghan immediately returned to Canada — which she obviously knew she was going to do, because she left their baby, Archie, there (with a nanny and a close friend).

But once they did announce they wanted to be royals on their own schedule (what my colleague, Patt Morrison, called having their “royal gateau” and eating it, too), why couldn’t the palace figure out a way to do that? It can’t be that they just don’t want someone doing the job of opening hospitals and visiting community centers part time. It’s not like the palace is going to hire someone else to replace them.

The queen’s statement was like a heartbreaking farewell:

“Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved members of my family,” she said. She concluded, “It is my whole family’s hope that today’s agreement allows them to start building a happy and peaceful new life.”

However, the palace has made it clear that they can’t represent the queen and keep their status and titles while they promote or advocate for whatever they choose.

So they are giving up the use of their titles as royal highnesses (something they, reportedly, did want to keep), but they still get to call themselves the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. And Harry will give up his honorary military appointments. His work in the military and on behalf of the military has meant a lot to him, so that’s got to feel like a big loss. They will no longer be supported by public funds. That makes sense. And the couple is paying back the $3 million in public funds they spent to refurbish Frogmore Cottage, the house on the grounds of Windsor Castle that the queen gave them. They get to keep the crib, by the way.

So how will they make a living? That’s been the multimillion-dollar question from the start of all this. They will continue to be supported by Harry’s father, Prince Charles, possibly through his Duchy of Cornwall hereditary estate. Considering however many millions they have on their own (from Meghan’s career or, perhaps, from whatever inheritance Harry got from his late mother, Diana) and the millions that Charles has given them, these kids are not going to live paycheck to paycheck. But if they do want to make money on their own — as they have said they do — they are going to have to find something more profitable than licensing their pictures on mugs (although I would certainly buy a bunch) or something classier than sitting on the board of some controversial drug company. Where on that spectrum Meghan returning to acting or doing voice-over work fits remains to be seen. According to a statement from Buckingham Palace, the Sussexes “have made clear that everything they do will continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty.”

They will still advocate for the charities and the nonprofit groups they have been involved in.

Believe it or not, all this would be easier if Harry and Meghan truly renounced all the privileges and royal connections and said to his folks, “We want to work for nonprofits in Canada and Africa and live in a townhouse in Toronto, and we’ll see you at Christmas.” But that’s not what they seem to want. Ideally, they want to leverage the royal family brand and prestige for only the causes they choose on their own schedule — and live really well while they’re doing it. Who could blame them? That sounds good to me too.

But doing that is inextricably tied to being a working member of a publicly financed high-profile organization that owes the public something in return — high-visibility public appearances, in particular.

It will be fascinating to see how Harry and Meghan chart this new course. And here is one thing that neither the royal family nor the couple can escape: Harry is still a member of the royal family, sixth in line to the throne. He’s not disowning his family.

No matter what they do, we are all still interested in them. My guess is they’re counting on that.

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Matches to Make for Winners and Losers from UFC 246 - Bleacher Report

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Conor McGregor is back, fight fans.

In the main event of UFC 246 on Saturday, the Irish superstar decimated Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone with a series of unconventional shoulder strikers, a head kick and volley of follow-up punches. And it took him just 40 seconds.

With the victory, McGregor silenced his throngs of doubters and, perhaps even more importantly, opened the door to a long list of blockbuster matchups.

So whom does he fight next? And where does the outgunned Cowboy go from here?

We’ll unpack that and more in this article. Keep scrolling for the matchups we need to see after UFC 246.

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Roxanne Modafferi def. Maycee Barber via unanimous decision (30-27x2, 30-26).

Modafferi vs. Jessica Eye
Barber vs. Paige VanZant

Sodiq Yusuff def. Andre Fili via unanimous decision (29-28x3).

Yusuff vs. Arnold Allen
Fili vs. Doo Ho Choi

Askar Askarov def. Tim Elliott via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27x2).

Askarov vs. Winner of Brandon Moreno vs. Jussier Formiga (UFC on ESPN+ 28)
Elliott vs. Kai Kara-France

Drew Dober def. Nasrat Haqparast via TKO (R1, 1:10)

Dober vs. Winner of Francisco Trinaldo vs. John Makdessi (UFC on ESPN+ 28).
Haqparast vs. Davi Ramos

Aleksa Camur def. Justin Ledet via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27x2).

Camur vs. Alonzo Menifield
Ledet vs. Vinicius Moreira

Sabina Mazo def. JJ Aldrich via split decision (29-28x2, 28-29).

Mazo vs. Ji Yeon Kim
Aldrich vs. Nadia Kassem

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Carlos Diego Ferreira def. Anthony Pettis via submission (rear-naked choke, R2, 1:46).

Having submitted former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in the UFC 246 pay-per-view opener, Carlos Diego Ferreira is now on a six-fight win-streak—that's tied for the third-longest active streak in the division.

His run should not go unrewarded.

Unfortunately for Ferreira, many of the UFC's top lightweights are scheduled for fights or recovering from recent bouts. There is one healthy, top-10 lightweight without a dance partner, though: Fighter turned real estate agent Al Iaquinta.

Iaquinta is on a two-fight losing streak, having recently come up short against Donald Cerrone and Dan Hooker. Normally, the UFC's matchmakers refrain from booking fighters on streaks against fighters on skids, but given the scarcity of available lightweight contenders, a booking between the surging Ferreira and the struggling Iaquinta makes some sense. It's a fantastic matchup on paper too.

Once Iaquinta gets his grappling match with "Platinum" Mike Perry out of the way, the UFC should send him a contract for a fist fight with Ferreira.

As for Pettis, well, he's in a tough spot. He's on a two-fight skid spanning two divisions and has already fought many of the UFC's top-ranked lightweights. That being said, a fight with Gregor Gillespie, who was recently knocked senseless by Kevin Lee, makes sense for both guys.

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Brian Kelleher def. Ode Osbourne via submission (guillotine, R1, 2:49).

Brian Kelleher and Ode Osbourne weren't originally supposed to fight on the UFC 246 main card, but after the last-minute cancelation of a fight between Alexa Grasso and Claudia Gadelha, their undercard scrap got promoted.

Kelleher, the more experienced man of the two, made the most of this opportunity, choking out his debuting foe with a guillotine in Round 1.

After losing consecutive fights to John Lineker and Montel Jackson, this win has got to feel pretty good for Kelleher. That said, he's unlikely to gain a ton of ground in victory given that Ode was competing in his first UFC bout.

From here, Kelleher should look to build a win streak against the victor of the newly announced UFC 247 fight between Andre Ewell and Jonathan Martinez. Osbourne, on the other hand, should go hunting for his first UFC win against somebody like China's Pingyuan Liu, who has lost his past two fights.

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Aleksei Oleynik def. Maurice Greene via submission (armbar, R2, 4:38).

Aleksei Oleynik is one of the best submission specialists in heavyweight history. He reaffirmed his status as such on the UFC 246 main card, when he tapped a game Maurice Greene with a second-round armbar.

It's hard to imagine the 42-year-old, 72-fight veteran working his way to a heavyweight title shot, but he's still capable of producing fun fights with suitable opposition.

Of all the possible contests available for Oleynik going forward, none are quite as compelling as a matchup with fellow grappling savant Fabricio Werdum.

Oleynik and Werdum were scheduled to fight in 2018, but the bout was nixed when Werdum failed a drug test. The Brazilian was then suspended for two years, but after providing "substantial assistance" to the United States Anti-Doping Agency, he received a reduced suspension and will be eligible to compete again come April 1.

In other words, the stars have aligned for a second attempt at an Oleynik vs. Werdum matchup. Throw it on the UFC 250 card, which goes down on May 9 in Werdum's native Brazil. We already know Werdum is up for it.

Greene, meanwhile, can probably look forward to a fight with an unranked heavyweight. While there are a number of interesting options out there for him, a bout with Canada's Tanner Boser makes sense. Boser, who recently came up short to top-15 heavyweight Ciryl Gane, will also be keen for a chance to get back on track.

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Holly Holm def. Raquel Pennington via unanimous decision (30-27x2, 29-28).

In the co-main event of UFC 246, former UFC women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm improved to 2-0 over former title challenger Raquel Pennington. It wasn't exactly pretty, but Holm's decision victory was sorely needed, as it got her back on track after a stoppage loss to bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes.

In victory, Holm should be matched up with Mexico's Irene Aldana, who recently burst into bantamweight title contention with a sizzling knockout of the formerly undefeated Ketlen Vieira. This bout would give Holm the chance to inch back in the direction of a title shot, while it would also give Aldana the opportunity to make a final push toward her first UFC title shot. The bout could serve as a co-main event of an upcoming Fight Night card, and assuming both women are healthy, it could happen soon.

Pennington, meanwhile, should be matched up with Vieira, who will no doubt be keen to get back on track after her recent nap.

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Conor McGregor def. Donald Cerrone via TKO (R1, 0:40).

Just do it.

Book a welterweight fight between Conor McGregor and Jorge Masvidal.

Ahead of UFC 246, UFC President Dana White said that, in victory, McGregor would earn a rematch with UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Masvidal, meanwhile, has irrefutably earned a shot at UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman.

But these title fights can wait.

McGregor and Masvidal are the biggest stars in MMA. As luck would have it, they are both riding massive wins in the same weight class. Let them fight for Masvidal's BMF belt and a Brink's truck full of Benjamins.

As for Cerrone, well, he says he wants to keep fighting. He's on a three-fight skid, so he's got some work to do if he wants to be viewed as a legitimate contender again, but it's doable. First things first, he should look to get back on track in a lightweight fight with the streaking Islam Makhachev, who is without an opponent after Kevin Lee snubbed him for Charles Oliveira.

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Who will it be next?

Who will be the unexpected player who ends up in a significant role for the 49ers on Sunday in the NFC Championship Game?

The 49ers play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium with a trip to Super Bowl LIV on the line. And on the eve of the big game before the big game, we have another edition of the 49ers Mailbag.

Here we go.

What kind of game do you expect from our WRS core? How has Dante Pettis demeanor been and will he get any real opportunities to have an impact in our superbowl run??
— 〰️DJ〰️ (@djjimenez0513) January 18, 2020

San Francisco receiver Dante Pettis sits at his locker every day during the time when the doors are open to the media around the lunch hour.

It had been a while since I wandered over to chat with Pettis. But on Friday, I wanted to check in with him to gauge how he was holding up during a stretch in which he has not gotten into a game since playing seven snaps against the Green Bay Packers in Week 12.

Pettis has suited up for the past four games, but he has not gotten off the sideline. He has not caught a pass since he had a 21-yard reception on Oct. 31 against the Arizona Cardinals.

“I’m ready whenever that time comes,” Pettis told me. “Just waiting for that time now.”

Pettis, a second-round draft pick in 2018, was expected to be a starter and the team's top receiver after last season. Other than a game-winning touchdown catch with 1:15 remaining in a Week 3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pettis has been quiet.

But Pettis knows at any moment he might be needed to go into a game for Emmanuel Sanders or Deebo Samuel. it has been one of the hallmarks of the 49ers this season. A seldom-used player is called up, and he takes advantage of the situation.

That’s the nature of this year’s team. Guys have stayed ready and routinely taken advantage of their opportunities.

“You know that’s the reality when you have one play or whatever, you just have that in your mind,” Pettis said. “This is the play I have, I have to make the most of it. A lot of people have done a good job of that.

“We have a lot of depth on our team, and everybody can see that. The guys are backing up, they feel like they are good enough to play. When I get my shot, I’m going to be ready because I know I’m good enough to be out there to compete with these guys.”

Pettis said he has worked a lot with assistant receivers coach Miles Austin, who has emphasized to him that he does not have to do “fancy stuff” on every route. Just take the leverage you have, Austin has told him, be quick and decisive.

After speaking with Pettis, I went over to see running back Jeff Wilson. He provided one of the big moments of the season on Nov. 17 against the Arizona Cardinals. Wilson played one snap in that game. In the final minute, he ran a great route of the backfield, caught a pass from quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and turned it into a game-winning 25-yard touchdown.

But with Tevin Coleman, Raheem Mostert and Matt Breida ahead of him on the depth chart, Wilson has been inactive for four of the past five games.

Still, he remains ready with a great attitude.

“I just go out there and play like my life and my career depends on it because it actually does,” Wilson said. “I have a lot of stuff I’m trying to do, and I want to play this game for as long as I possibly can. And I know to do that, you have to make those plays whenever you’re called upon. Whether it’s one play or two plays, or if you go in to block, you have to do whatever it takes.”

Pettis and Wilson both said they feel energy and get inspiration from their teammates. Pettis said it’s exciting for him to see his friends in the receivers room experience individual success. Wilson said the other running backs treat him as an equal and he, in turn, feels an obligation to work hard and support them, too.

Who is more important for 2020? Jimmy Ward or Emmanuel Sanders?
— brazil 49ers (@rmgaspar) January 18, 2020

Oh, man, what a good question.

Ward is such an important part of the defense, so he gets the nod. He probably will not cost as much to retain, either.

But the 49ers have to feel pretty good about their options at both spots. There will be a time when Tarvarius Moore is a starting safety in the NFL. And at wide receiver, the 49ers hope to get Trent Taylor and Jalen Hurd at full strength next season.

But let’s not for a second downplay Sanders’ importance to the 49ers. He has been so good in so many different ways since arriving in an October trade from the Denver Broncos. But Sanders will be 33 next season, and difficult decisions must be made.

Being close to the team do you feel any different attitude from the team this week? Most reports seem to be business as usual which feels like a very good wait to be.
— Rich Niner King (@niner_rich) January 18, 2020

From the beginning of the offseason program, the 49ers have thoroughly impressed me with their approach. They are focused on business while also maintaining balance, being loose and having a lot of fun. I saw absolutely nothing different in their approach this week. It starts at the top, and I feel as if coach Kyle Shanahan was built for this.

Will the team be watching the Chiefs/Titans before their game. Do you think that can have an impact on their focus and mindset knowing who they are playing the Packers for a shot at in the SB?
— Colan Lamont (@Colan13Lamont) January 18, 2020

My guess is that TVs in the locker room will have the AFC Championship Game on, but there will be nobody pulling up a stool to watch. Dee Ford will be interested, for sure. The former member of the Kansas City Chiefs will check the score from time to time, but all the focus will be on the game that kicks off at 3:40 p.m.

Will Witherspoon have an impact against the Packers?
— Bradley Lunsford (@BeRadorBeBad) January 18, 2020

Shanahan was not saying this week who will start at right cornerback. One would think Emmanuel Moseley will get the call, but Ahkello Witherspoon has to be ready to go. At the very least, he’ll play special teams, where he can make an impact in that area.

Programming note: NBC Sports Bay Area feeds your hunger for 49ers playoff coverage at 2:30 p.m. Sunday for “49ers Pregame Live,” with Laura Britt, Jeff Garcia, Donte Whitner, Ian Williams and Grant Liffmann previewing the NFC Championship Game against the Packers. That same crew will have all the postgame reaction on “49ers Postgame Live,” starting at approximately 6:30 p.m

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Conor McGregor is back, fight fans.

With the victory, McGregor silenced his throngs of doubters and, perhaps even more importantly, opened the door to a long list of blockbuster matchups.

So whom does he fight next? And where does the outgunned Cowboy go from here?

We’ll unpack that and more in this article. Keep scrolling for the matchups we need to see after UFC 246.

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Roxanne Modafferi def. Maycee Barber via unanimous decision (30-27x2, 30-26).

Modafferi vs. Jessica Eye
Barber vs. Paige VanZant

Sodiq Yusuff def. Andre Fili via unanimous decision (29-28x3).

Yusuff vs. Arnold Allen
Fili vs. Doo Ho Choi

Askar Askarov def. Tim Elliott via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27x2).

Askarov vs. Winner of Brandon Moreno vs. Jussier Formiga (UFC on ESPN+ 28)
Elliott vs. Kai Kara-France

Drew Dober def. Nasrat Haqparast via TKO (R1, 1:10)

Dober vs. Winner of Francisco Trinaldo vs. John Makdessi (UFC on ESPN+ 28).
Haqparast vs. Davi Ramos

Aleksa Camur def. Justin Ledet via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27x2).

Camur vs. Alonzo Menifield
Ledet vs. Vinicius Moreira

Sabina Mazo def. JJ Aldrich via split decision (29-28x2, 28-29).

Mazo vs. Ji Yeon Kim
Aldrich vs. Nadia Kassem

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Carlos Diego Ferreira def. Anthony Pettis via submission (rear-naked choke, R2, 1:46).

His run should not go unrewarded.

Once Iaquinta gets his grappling match with "Platinum" Mike Perry out of the way, the UFC should send him a contract for a fist fight with Ferreira.

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Brian Kelleher def. Ode Osbourne via submission (guillotine, R1, 2:49).

Kelleher, the more experienced man of the two, made the most of this opportunity, choking out his debuting foe with a guillotine in Round 1.

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Aleksei Oleynik def. Maurice Greene via submission (armbar, R2, 4:38).

It's hard to imagine the 42-year-old, 72-fight veteran working his way to a heavyweight title shot, but he's still capable of producing fun fights with suitable opposition.

Of all the possible contests available for Oleynik going forward, none are quite as compelling as a matchup with fellow grappling savant Fabricio Werdum.

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Holly Holm def. Raquel Pennington via unanimous decision (30-27x2, 29-28).

Pennington, meanwhile, should be matched up with Vieira, who will no doubt be keen to get back on track after her recent nap.

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Conor McGregor def. Donald Cerrone via TKO (R1, 0:40).

Just do it.

Book a welterweight fight between Conor McGregor and Jorge Masvidal.

But these title fights can wait.

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Tuesday: 8:30-11:30 a.m., Environmental Protection Agency, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth.
Tuesday: 1:30-4:30 p.m., Enbridge Energy, 119 N. 25th St. E., Superior.
Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Super One Foods, 2410 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids.
Wednesday: 3:30-6 p.m., Essentia Clinic-Deer River, 115 10th Ave. N.E.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Barnum High School, 3675 County Road 140.
Thursday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Itasca Community College, 1851 N. Highway 169, Grand Rapids.
Thursday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Greenway High School, 308 Roosevelt St., Coleraine.
Friday: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Arrowhead EMS Conference, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth.
Friday: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Aurora Community Center, 15 W. First St. N. Sponsored by White Community Hospital Foundation.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Arrowhead EMS Conference, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth.

Ruby's Pantry in far western Duluth is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Fond du Lac Community Church, 521 131st Ave. W. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.

American Red Cross blood drives: To make an appointment or for more information, download the Red Cross blood donor app, visit redcrossblood.org or call 800-733-2767.

Monday: Noon to 6 p.m., Kenwood Lutheran Church, 2720 Meyers Ave., Duluth.
Wednesday: Noon to 6 p.m., Eveleth Auditorium, 425 Jackson St.
Thursday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Heritage Manor Health Center, 321 Sixth St. N.E., Chisholm.
Friday: 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Washington Elementary School, 801 12th St., Cloquet.

The following volunteer opportunities are supported by Courage Kenny Northland. If interested, contact Beth Albrecht, coordinator of volunteer services, at 218-726-4834, ext. 3, or email Elizabeth.albrecht2@allina.com unless otherwise noted:

Yoga - Winter Session: Jan. 27 through March 5 - Help introduce adults living with a disability to the benefits of yoga by practicing mind-body concepts and practical exercises. Classes are led by certified adaptive yoga instructors. Volunteers help participants experience a variety of yoga poses by adapting the poses to the participant's abilities. Volunteers commit to one lesson per week. New volunteer training is 5-6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 23, at the College of St. Scholastica Health Science building, 1200 Kenwood Ave., Duluth.
2020 Great Lake Mono Ski and Race Camp at Spirit Mountain (Feb. 26-28): Volunteers are needed for both skier/snowboarder and non-skier “boots on the ground” roles each day of camp. You can volunteer one, two or all three days. Please inquire for details on volunteer shifts/roles.
Shoot for Fun (held the first weekend after Labor Day): Seeking volunteers to help with prize donations for this annual fundraising event. If you are interested in learning more, contact Eric Larson at eric.larson@allina.com or 218-726-4834.

Ecumen Lakeshore is seeking volunteers for the following. If interested, contact Jana Warner, Volunteer Coordinator, at 218-625-7822 or janawarner@ecumen.org:

Meal Packer for home delivered meals: A cold bag and a hot tray are prepared for each client. Meals are then packed into a hot bag and a cold bag for each delivery route. Meal packers must be able to volunteer for at least 1½ hours once a week, Monday through Friday, beginning at 8 a.m. or as your schedule allows; able to stand for 1½ hours at a time; and must complete the Ecumen Lakeshore volunteer application process.
Delivery Drivers for home delivered meals: Volunteers use their own vehicles to pick up meals from Ecumen Lakeshore, 4002 London Road. Meals are ready for pick up at 9:45 a.m., Monday through Friday. Each route takes approximately one hour. Empty route bags and the list of clients is then returned to Ecumen Lakeshore. Drivers must be available at 9:45 a.m. for an hour or two; possess a vehicle that is in good working order; have a current driver’s license and insurance coverage.

Safe Haven provides safety, space to heal, advocacy, and empowerment for women, children, and all survivors of domestic violence. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Safe Haven at sh@safehavenshelter.org or visit Safe Haven’s website safehavenshelter.org and complete an online volunteer application.

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Can you hear music playing? Either you have a stray tab open on your browser or you've been daydreaming about your retirement party again. If it's the latter, you're close to saying goodbye to the workforce forever. Congratulations -- that means you've worked hard, you've saved hard, and you're ready to live a life of leisure.

There might be one nagging worry that keeps you going to the office, however. In a survey of 631 CPA financial planners, 48% said their clients were worried about running out of money in retirement. Planners cited healthcare costs, market changes, and unexpected costs as risk factors for their retiree clients. If you're nervous about outliving your portfolio, make these five money moves now to get your financial house in order.

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1. Start budgeting

Your paycheck may be helping you out more than you realize. If you get an annual bonus or a nice raise every year, that influx of cash can seamlessly cover extra spending. Once you retire, you won't have that safety net. Sure, your income will increase in dollars, thanks to inflation and cost-of-living adjustments. But those amounts won't increase your buying power the way a big raise would. And that means it'll be harder to recover if you overspend.

This is why budgeting for retirees is so important. You're on a fixed income for the next 30 years, and it's tough to increase your income when you overspend. Developing your budget habit now gives you time to work out the kinks before you turn in your resignation.

Budgeting forces you to deep-dive into your spending, too. That exercise may reveal new insights that affect your expectations about living expenses in retirement. It's better to learn those insights now versus later.

2. Pay off debt

Debt is especially difficult for retirees to manage. The monthly interest expense takes a bite out of your budget, and you get nothing in return. Pay off that debt while you are working, and you'll have that much more cash to live on.

There's also another, less obvious advantage to paying off debt before retirement. If you are charging and rolling over balances, you may be overspending without knowing it. The overspend gets lumped into that credit card balance -- and you don't feel the sting if you make the same payment each month.

Paying off debt balances, on the other hand, forces you to live within your monthly income. And that's a necessary skill for all retirees.

3. Check your asset allocation

Your asset allocation is the composition of your retirement portfolio across different asset types, such as stocks and bonds. Stocks and equity funds provide the highest growth opportunity, but they can be volatile. Bonds and bonds funds, on the other hand, return stable income. Younger investors tend to target a more aggressive allocation that's heavily focused on stocks. Older investors want more protection in their portfolios from market swings, and so they prefer a more conservative allocation.

If you're not sure where your allocation should be, use the rule of 110. Using this approach, you'd subtract your age from 110, and the result is the percentage of your portfolio that should be in stocks and equity funds. At 30, for example, your portfolio should be 80% equities and 20% bonds. But at 50, this composition should be 60% equities and 40% bonds.

Check in on your 401(k) and IRA portfolios today. Your online account dashboard should display your asset allocation in a pie chart. Make sure you're not invested too aggressively. Note that if your money is invested entirely in target-date retirement funds, this reallocation to a more conservative portfolio happens automatically.

4. Decide on timing of your Social Security claim

Set up your account with the my Social Security website so you can review your claiming options. Once you log in, you'll have access to your estimated benefits and your Full Retirement Age or (FRA). FRA is the age you qualify for your standard benefit.

You can claim Social Security before FRA, as early as age 62. Or you can delay your claim until age 70. Early claims lower your monthly benefit and delayed claims increase your monthly benefit. The right timing is different for everyone. Key considerations include how much savings you have, how secure your job is, and how healthy you are. If you're in great shape, for example, you might want to keep working and delay your Social Security claim.

5. Have a back-up plan

You may have been planning your retirement for decades, but there's no guarantee it'll go the way you expect. You might decide at age 65 that you want to delay your retirement to help a child buy a home. Or, you might want to leave your job at age 60 because your boss is a nightmare. Think through scenarios that could prompt retirement earlier or later than you expected. A delay to your retirement might prompt you to evaluate your diet and exercise regimen so you can stay in tip-top shape and keep working. Your contingency plans for early retirement might include early filing for Social Security and downsizing your home.

Of course, you can always change your mind. People do retire and then return to the workforce, either because they're bored or they miss the paycheck. Use that strategy and you'll have two retirement parties to enjoy.

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Biden’s the Safe Choice. Does That Make Him Dangerous for Democrats? - POLITICO

Since the moment he declared he was once again running for president—in fact since well before then—Joe Biden has floated near or at the top of the public opinion polls. He’s the vice president of a very popular previous Democratic president. He’s an experienced hand at a time when America is being buffeted by the costs of inexperience—a theme he returned to repeatedly during the latest Democratic debate. And, as a backslapping son of a middle-class family, born in coal country in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, he’s seen as a candidate who can pull Trump voters back to the Democratic fold in November.

All of this makes Biden something more than a frontrunner. He’s the Democrats’ default candidate: the one who doesn’t inspire big rallies, isn’t the face of a movement, but is just, you know, expected to win.

And that means, if history shows anything, the Democrats have a problem.

There’s a TV ad slogan: “Just OK is not OK,” AT&T tells us, as its commercials portray incompetent surgeons, ethically challenged tax accountants and dangerous amusement park rides. There's good reason to think it applies to presidential races, too. What happens when a party nominates a candidate who triumphs because of familiarity, or because “it’s her turn,” or because he’s steadily ascended the party ranks despite no defining passion or cause? The track record of these “default” nominees, at least in modern political history, is bleak.

Hillary Clinton is the latest and, for the Democrats, still most painful example. The combination of her experience, her family ties and the sense that (in the words of a proposed campaign slogan) it was “her turn” drove every potentially serious rival out of the 2016 race. Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong primary challenge was a foreshadowing of her vulnerabilities, even if the signal was mostly dismissed until about 9 p.m. on election night in November.

Four years before Hillary Clinton was defeated, the Republicans trotted out the reliable, central-casting Mitt Romney to lose to President Barack Obama, a campaign that seemed to rhyme with the time the Dems unenthusiastically fell in line for John Kerry against President George W. Bush in 2004. Keep going back, and you see candidates like these over and over, marching under flags of pale pastel, all going down to defeat in November: Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale, Gerald Ford, Hubert Humphrey and even Richard Nixon, in his first run, in 1960.

Not every election has a default candidate: The race between Obama and John McCain, for example, pitted a “maverick” Republican against an inspirational Democratic newcomer. But most do, and they tend to lose to rivals who can claim novelty or outsiderhood: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Obama, Donald Trump. (During the 2016 campaign, Trump knocked his own party’s default candidate, Jeb Bush, out of the primaries.)

The seemingly obvious implication is that a candidate who wins without enthusiasm is doomed, that a candidate who inspires is a better electoral bet than one who has simply endured. Find a candidate who can trigger turnout among the most reliable Democratic voters, the argument goes, and the party will have a much better chance than trying to beckon back disaffected Democrats with a safe, familiar face who may not be magnetic but who will not repel. That’s what Sanders means when he talks of a political “revolution” that will sweep his ambitious economic program into law. That’s what Elizabeth Warren argues when she inveighs against cautious incrementalism. And didn’t the past two Democrats (as well as the current president) take the White House by challenging and defeating the safer, more familiar choices?

There is, however, another side to this argument—a category of underappreciated “defaults” who can win. And there’s a good chance Biden belongs in this second group.

Harry Truman came into 1948 so unpopular that many Democrats looked hard for an alternative (one appealing possibility: Dwight Eisenhower, who had not yet declared himself a Republican). Sure, Truman was an incumbent president, but he wasn’t elected to the office and had to prove he could win a presidential campaign. Few believed him when he declared, in a post-midnight acceptance speech, that “Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it—don’t you forget that!” But, as America and The Chicago Tribune learned, he did.

In 1988, George H.W. Bush had to battle “the wimp factor,” as a Newsweek cover put it, the impression that he was not only a trust-fund kid but also a politician without conviction. As one New York journalist put it, “He reminds every woman of her first husband.” As it turned out, most wives are still married to their first husbands—and the country voted to give Bush the equivalent of Reagan’s third term. If we have to change horses in midstream, Bush asked in his effective acceptance speech, “doesn't it make sense to choose the horse that’s going the same way?”

There’s a lesson here: If you're a former vice president, you’re a cut above the typical default candidate. First, the nomination is yours for the taking. George H.W. Bush’s vice president, Dan Quayle, is the only former veep to have sought and lost the party nomination in the primary era. Second, you’ve got a real shot in November. The general-election losers in this category were nearly winners: Nixon in 1960 effectively tied JFK in the popular vote; Humphrey in 1968 lost by less than a percentage point; Ford would have won in 1976 with the shift of a few thousand votes in Mississippi and Ohio; Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and lost by 537 votes out of 6 million in Florida. Hillary Clinton wasn’t a former vice president, but as the “her turn” nominee last time and the heir to the legacies of two different Democratic administrations, she won a 2.6 million popular-vote plurality.

Like Truman and the first Bush, Biden is the former VP of a president still hugely popular with his party, so he’s in the small group of defaults with a fighting chance to win (or, less hopeful for Democrats, to barely lose). Defaults aren’t usually winners, but there are moments when they're what America is looking for.

It’s fair to question the political appeal of a default nominee, but it is also reasonable to ask whether a candidate steeped in familiarity might be able to beckon voters who are unsettled by a clarion call to ideological battle, however mild the enthusiasm behind that vote—particularly if the familiar candidate offers a respite from the endless turmoil triggered almost daily by an emotionally unmoored incumbent. A vote accompanied by a shrug counts just as much as vote accompanied by a clenched fist.

Maybe there’s even a new slogan for Biden to play off that series of TV commercials: “Just OK is a hell of a lot better than what we’ve got right now.”

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Trump’s Defense Team Calls Impeachment Charges ‘Brazen’ as Democrats Make Legal Case - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s legal defense team strenuously denied on Saturday that he had committed impeachable acts, denouncing the charges against him as a “brazen and unlawful” attempt to cost him re-election as House Democrats laid out in meticulous detail their case that he should be removed from office.

In the first legal filings for the Senate impeachment trial that opens in earnest on Tuesday, the dueling arguments from the White House and the House impeachment managers previewed a politically charged fight over Mr. Trump’s fate, unfolding against the backdrop of the presidential election campaign.

They presented the legal strategies both sides are likely to employ during the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. They also vividly illustrated how the proceeding is almost certain to rekindle feuding over the 2016 election that has barely subsided during Mr. Trump’s tenure, and reverberate — whether he is convicted or acquitted — in an even more brutal electoral fight in November.

In a 46-page trial memorandum, and additional 60-page statement of facts, the House impeachment managers asserted that beginning in the spring, Mr. Trump undertook a corrupt campaign to enlist a foreign government to help him win the 2020 election. He did so, the Democrats argued, by pressuring Ukraine to publicly announce investigations of his political rivals, withholding as leverage vital military aid and a White House meeting for the country’s president.

The president then sought to conceal those actions from Congress, they said, posing “a serious danger to our constitutional checks and balances” by ordering administration officials not to testify or turn over documents requested by a House impeachment inquiry.

“President Trump’s conduct is the framers’ worst nightmare,” wrote the seven Democratic managers, led by Representative Adam B. Schiff of California.

In a six-page filing formally responding to the House impeachment charges submitted shortly after and filled with partisan barbs against House Democrats, Mr. Trump’s lawyers denounced the case as constitutionally and legally invalid, and driven purely by a desire to hurt Mr. Trump in the 2020 election.

“The articles of impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president,” they said in the response, which was Mr. Trump’s first legal submission in the impeachment proceeding, ahead of a fuller brief that is due on Monday. “This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election, now just months away.”

The president’s lawyers did not deny any of the core facts underlying Democrats’ charges, conceding what considerable evidence and testimony in the House has shown: that he withheld $391 million in aid and a White House meeting from Ukraine and asked the country’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son, Hunter Biden.

But they said Mr. Trump broke no laws and was acting entirely appropriately and within his powers when he did so, echoing his repeated protestations of his own innocence. They argued that he was not seeking political advantage, but working to root out corruption in Ukraine.

“President Trump categorically and unequivocally denies each and every allegation in both articles of impeachment,” wrote Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, and Jay Sekulow, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer.

The managers’ filing repeated many of the same arguments they laid out last fall in a report on the findings of their two-month impeachment inquiry. But it also indicated that they intended to make use of information that has come to light since the House’s impeachment vote in December.

They cited new documentary records handed over by Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, about the pressure campaign on Ukraine, and a Government Accountability Office report released this week that found that Mr. Trump violated the law when he withheld the military aid.

And though the House ultimately declined to bring charges based on the special counsel’s Russia investigation, Saturday’s filing indicates the managers are also poised to reprise its findings as they argue that Mr. Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine fits a pattern that poses a continuing threat to American elections. They argued that, just as Mr. Trump welcomed interference on his behalf from Russia in the 2016 election and then sought to thwart a federal investigation into the matter, he solicited Ukrainian assistance in the 2020 contest and then obstructed Congress’s ability to investigate.

The nation’s founders, the House Democrats said in their brief, “designed impeachment as the remedy for such misconduct because a president who manipulates U.S. elections to his advantage can avoid being held accountable by the voters through those same elections.”

They called Mr. Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to discredit his political adversaries “part of an ongoing pattern of misconduct for which the president is unrepentant.”

The president, who spent Saturday at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., has made no secret of his disdain for the House’s charges and its inquiry. He has repeatedly professed his total innocence in general terms, and specifically insisted that a July phone call in which he pressed President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden and other Democrats was “perfect.”

But when invited to take part in the proceedings or mount a defense before the House Judiciary Committee, he refused. The closest the president’s lawyers had come to weighing in on the case was an eight-page letter to House Democrats in October in which they unequivocally refused to furnish any documents or allow any witnesses to testify.

Like that letter, Mr. Trump’s answer to the Senate on Saturday was heavy with political messaging even as it asserted broad constitutional principles and general legal arguments to proclaim the president’s innocence.

In a statement later in the evening, the House managers criticized the claim by the president’s legal team that the pressure on Ukraine was just Mr. Trump’s way of fighting corruption.

“It is not,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote. “Rather it is corruption itself, naked, unapologetic and insidious.”

The defense filing was far shorter than the House managers’ memorandum, but White House lawyers have until noon on Monday to produce a more comprehensive legal brief laying out the case they will make on the floor of the Senate.

The House can then submit a written rebuttal by Tuesday. If all goes according to plan, the managers will begin live presentations in the Senate on Wednesday, and under an expedited schedule being contemplated by Senate Republicans, the president’s team could begin its presentation on Friday.

The defense filing on Saturday argued that Mr. Trump “has not in any way abused the powers of the presidency,” and that the July 25 call between Mr. Trump and the president of Ukraine was “perfectly legal, entirely appropriate, and taken in furtherance of our national interest.”

The arguments by Mr. Trump’s lawyers tracked closely with those presented throughout the House inquiry by Republicans in that chamber, like Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who did not dispute what had occurred so much as the idea that the president had been acting on some corrupt scheme.

The document appeared intended to appeal to Mr. Trump’s sensibilities. It accused Mr. Schiff of “creating a fraudulent version” of the July 25 call when he jokingly offered a hypothetical conversation during a congressional hearing, something that Mr. Trump has repeatedly mocked Mr. Schiff for doing.

As they have said for weeks, the president’s lawyers asserted that the articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump are “invalid on their face” because they do not accuse the president of breaking any law.

But the Democrats argued in their memorandum that impeachable actions “need not be indictable offenses,” a theory that has been espoused by many legal scholars. The framers of the Constitution, they argued, intended the remedy for “acts committed by public officials that inflict severe harm on the constitutional order.”

The president’s legal team also rejected the charge that Mr. Trump is guilty of obstruction of Congress. They argued that Mr. Trump’s attempts to prevent witnesses from testifying in what the president has called a “sham” impeachment inquiry is a legitimate exercise of executive privilege that is essential to guard the authority and prerogatives of the presidency.

The House concluded that Mr. Trump’s claims of “absolute immunity” or other privileges on behalf of 12 officials and his decision to block the delivery of documents amounted to flagrant obstruction. The president’s lawyers made clear that they disagreed, saying that “asserting valid constitutional privileges and immunities cannot be an impeachable offense.”

The president’s lawyers also accused Congress of denying Mr. Trump due process during the impeachment proceedings, including “the right to have counsel present, the right to cross-examine witnesses and the right to present evidence.”

While the president’s lawyers were not allowed to attend closed-door depositions of some witnesses, Republican allies of the president attended every interview and asked questions, according to transcripts of the sessions.

The president rejected Democratic offers to present evidence, question witnesses or otherwise mount a defense during hearings before the House Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Sekulow will lead the president’s defense at trial. The White House announced Friday that the team would also include Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation of President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment, Robert W. Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr, and Alan Dershowitz, a celebrity defense lawyer.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York.

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Pen pals make Spanish come alive for Hope Valley students - The Westerly Sun

HOPE VALLEY — Students in Grades 2 and 4 at Hope Valley Elementary School had a special treat waiting for them when they returned from their Christmas holiday: letters from their pen pals in Spain.

Dori Carpenter teaches Spanish at the school as part of Chariho’s world languages program. The letters from the Spanish children, who attend two schools, one in Seville and the other in El Puerto de Santa Maria, are written in English and the Hope Valley students are writing back in Spanish.

“They mailed them before Christmas and they arrived the day after we returned from Christmas break,” she said. “In my mailbox was this big envelope and they had all of the little envelopes inside of it, all addressed individually to them. They were already assigned a person, so as I passed them out, they all had their names on them, so they were really excited.”

Since the specialty of the school is performing and visual arts, the fourth-graders from both countries went a step further and made videos.

“The videos are fun, too, because you get to see the person in action. You get to hear them speaking. So the fourth-graders got to hear a true Spanish accent,” Carpenter said.

Hope Valley school received a national Champion Creatively Alive Children grant from the crayon maker Crayola LLC and the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2019, consisting of $2,500 and an additional $1,000 in Crayola products.

In addition to encouraging children’s creativity in schools, the objective of the grant is to raise cultural awareness.

Hope Valley Principal Giuseppe Gencarelli said the grant has also encouraged collaborations between different departments at the school.

“What this grant has done is allowed Dori to plan with the art teacher and with the classroom teachers,” he said. “So that’s been a nice tie-in where there’s been more plan time to incorporate different parts of the curriculum.”

Carpenter said she hoped to bring more art into the pen pal program.

“We’d like to integrate it more with what they’re doing in art as well and send our pen pals in Spain some of the things we’re working on in art class,” she said. “We’d love to be able to do a different video, or later, where we talk about something cultural here and they explain something cultural there, like the holidays, things like that.”

The Hope Valley children are writing their letters in Spanish now, and Carpenter said she hoped to be able to get in one more exchange before the end of school.

“We’d like to keep going,” she said. “The handwritten letters take time. It takes time to write it and the mailing process ends up taking a while, going from one country to the next. We’d like to be able to at least get in one more letter by the end of the year.”

Second-grade teacher Mary Ann Mello said her students were excited to be able to put the Spanish they are learning to practical use.

“Having the Spanish pen pals has allowed us to make real life use of the skills we are learning in second grade,” she said. “The students are excited not only to receive a letter from their pen pal but they are excited to write as well.”

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