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stanley cup choir director Pamela Dawson is referred to as Mama Dawson. But she s getting a new title to add to her collection: Grammy Award winner. Dawson has been named the recipient of the 2023 Grammy Music Educator Award.Dawson has been the choir teacher at DeSoto High School since 2007, after leaving her office job to go into teaching. Got in front of those kids tha
stanley cup t first day and said, Oh my God, I missed my calling. This is it, Dawson said. Dawson comes from a musical family in Detroit, Michigan. She was one of eight kids and the only girl, which she said made her parents overprotective. Her mother didn t let her do much, she said, So, the only thing I did was practice. She became good at playing multiple musical instruments, including the harp.Despite her talent, Dawson never pursued music professionally. But her teaching has inspired some students, like actor, singer a
stanley cup nd 2012 graduate Davian Jackson, to pursue careers in music. Her students said they value what she has taught them beyond the musical scale. It s a dog-eat-dog world, especially in the art space, Jackson said. And if you are not on your Ps and Qs, you can be eaten by the world. But she instilled discipline into us, to where we re there on time, before time. If you re on time, you re late. Student Arieana Williams credits Dawson for bringing her out of a dark place and helping build her confidence. She s always been Kzih Hundreds honor Ohio police dog killed protecting human partner
SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. --A California official says a stretch of major highway near the California-Oregon border hit by a roaring wildfire will remain closed through the weekend. The wil
jordan dfire that shut down Interstate 5 on Wednesday was still burning out of control along the highway, Denise Yergenson, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation, said Friday.The blaze has destr
adidas samba oyed thousands of trees that could fall onto the roadway, she said.Officials on Sunday will reevaluate whether to reopen the highway that traverses the entire West Coast from Mexico to Canada. The wildfire flared just weeks after one in the nearby Redding area killed eight people and burned about 1,100 homes. Scorched VW Beetle rests in clearing after tDelta Fire burned through Lamoine community in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Sept. 6, 2018 Noah Berger / AP Truck driver Amit Sekhri said he saw flames and slowing vehicles along the freeway Wednesday but his big-rig was too large t
yeezy o turn around and he decided against parking and fleeing on foot. He kept driving, with fire lapping at both sides of the highway and burning ash falling all around him. He felt the heat in his cab, despite the air conditioning. It was picking up so fast. It was behind me, in front of me, left, right. It was all fire. I was surrounded by