PUBLISHED: 18:02 13 November 2018 | UPDATED: 20:07 13 November 2018 Megan Aldous Goldie Sayers , Team GB Javelin Thrower and one of Suffolk's 100 Inspiring Women speaking at the event Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN Archant This is a list that Suffolk should be proud of - 100 women who are positive role models for future generations, women who have achieved success in a diverse range of fields from business, the arts, sport and education to the third sector.The list was put together by a panel of judges this summer after we asked readers for their nominations. From top left: Jenna Ackerley, Anne Beckett-Allen, Katie Bannister, Jane Basham, Dayle Bayliss, Shayra Begum, Nicola Beach, Adele Bellis and Professor Emma Bond Pictures: WENDY AIKEN PHOTOGRAPHY/EDF ENERGY/BARRY ELEY/PHILIP MYNOTT/SUFFOLK COUNTY COUCIL/UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLKJenna Ackerley, Events Under Canvas: A Felixstowe girl originally, 38-year-old Jenna now lives in East Bergholt with her husband and … [Read more...] about Meet 100 of Suffolk’s most inspirational women
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From Tuskegee Airman to Racing Godfather, Jim Barbour Is the Living Legend You Don’t Know About
Ninety-two year old James Barbour III is tough in an unusual kind of way. The stereotypical tough guy grimaces and fights and struggles. Instead, Jim has the remarkable ability to stay even, to keep things light. To make it seem like when the going gets rough, well, it’s not rough at all. According to him and wife, Patricia Barbour, he’s never even sworn. He says “Oh my,” when he’s most fired up. That’s the way he was as a young cadet Tuskegee Airman in a biplane getting hammered by a hurricane. It’s the way he was as a 42-year old race car driver getting flipped and tossed around in a tiny Austin-Healey. And it’s how he faced down the indignities of racial prejudice and segregation, in the Army and beyond. In early June, after hearing who he was from a mutual friend, I flew to Florida to spend some time with Jim and Pat to hear these stories. I sat in their comfortable, brightly lit home on a small pond in the town of Wesley Chapel near … [Read more...] about From Tuskegee Airman to Racing Godfather, Jim Barbour Is the Living Legend You Don’t Know About
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt May Be The Start Of The Everyday Electric Revolution
It’s 2017 and a car company ‘Murican enough to get its name shouted in a country music song finally sells an all-electric car. Well... again. This time they promise not to snatch it back and crush it. Which is nice, because the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is pretty decent to drive, and it could take electric vehicles mainstream in a way we haven’t seen before. (Full Disclosure: GM wanted me to drive the new Bolt EV so badly they flew me to San Francisco, put me up in a hotel and paid for my food while I cruised around Silicon Valley and the west edge of the Bay Area. I drove the $41,000 top-trim Premier spec car.) More than two years ago now, Chevrolet announced it was going to build the electric vehicle of the people. It was to have $30,000-ish, 200-miles-per-charge, viable seating for four adults. At last year’s CES they trotted out running prototypes, and last month the first few hundred Korean-designed, American-assembled Chevy Bolts were sold to … [Read more...] about The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt May Be The Start Of The Everyday Electric Revolution
How your money in the bank can make more money
Susan Tompor Detroit Free Press Personal Finance Columnist Published 10:00 p.m. UTC Jun 3, 2018 Making money by saving money at the bank or credit union is ridiculously tough when consumers are battling super-low rates on savings and sky-high banking fees. All anyone can do is shop for higher, promotional savings and CD rates — and keep a close eye on some tricky practices and fees. Here are some suggestions: Try to avoid rising overdraft fees If you're regularly pulling out a debit card, pay attention here as it can be amazingly easy to get smacked with a string of high overdraft fees. And we're not expecting any regulatory relief ahead. Early in May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau essentially kicked aside plans to overhaul rules relating to overdraft fees. Much to the frustration of consumer watchdogs, acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney is moving in a vastly different direction than his … [Read more...] about How your money in the bank can make more money
Glen Burnie-based Mission BBQ blends barbecue and patriotism in bid to become national brand
Bill Kraus is thankful for his country and for the people who've pledged to protect it. He's also thankful that about 10 years ago he agreed to play a round of golf with an acquaintance-turned-friend, Steve Newton.The friendship between Kraus, a former Under Armour marketing executive, and Newton, a restaurant industry veteran, blossomed into a partnership that launched Mission BBQ, a fast-growing chain of fast-casual restaurants.Now five years old with 41 locations in 11 states, the Baltimore-based chain is looking to double in size in two years, and Kraus and Newton say they plan to turn their concept of barbecue with a hefty helping of patriotism into a national brand. "There's nothing more American than barbecue and nobody more American than someone that will serve, protect and save it," said Kraus, 53.However, the partners believed, nobody had been able to successfully pull off a barbecue chain on a national level. And if they were going to try, they wanted to do it in a way that … [Read more...] about Glen Burnie-based Mission BBQ blends barbecue and patriotism in bid to become national brand