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Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Mental Health Awareness Month Finds Sysco Employee Programs
Originally published on May 14, 2025 on LinkedIn May was Mental Health Awareness Month!At Sysco, we recognize that supporting mental health is essential to building a strong, inclusive workplace. We're proud to introduce Food for Thought, our Mental Health Colleague Resource Group, created to champion mental well-being across our recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month—and in alignment with this year's theme, Turning Awareness into Action—the CRG is hosting a series of internal events and sharing tools to reduce stigma, foster education, and encourage meaningful investing in mental health, we strengthen our teams, our culture, and our impact. About Sysco Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 340 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended June 29, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78 billion. Information about our Sustainability program, including Sysco's 2023 Sustainability Report and 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report, can be found at For more information, visit or connect with Sysco on Facebook at For important news and information regarding Sysco, visit the Investor Relations section of the company's Internet home page at which Sysco plans to use as a primary channel for publishing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information. In addition, investors should continue to review our news releases and filings with the SEC. It is possible that the information we disclose through any of these channels of distribution could be deemed to be material information. View original content here. Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Sysco Corporation
Scotsman
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Excitement builds as The Farmers Son prepares for The Royal Highland Show
Next Wednesday, The Farmers Son team are packing up the van and setting off to Edinburgh for another year at The Royal Highland Show! Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Royal Highland Show is Scotland's largest annual agricultural show, held at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, and attracts a large number of exhibitors and visitors. The show is an annual event, showcasing the best of food, farming and rural life at Ingliston in Edinburgh from Thursday 19 - Sunday 22 June, 2025. The show has something for everyone, from competitions to shopping, live music and tasty food and drinks - It's the one place you can meet, touch, smell, taste and take home the best in the country. This year, The Farmers Son will have a stand (number SL B48) in Scotlands Larder. located in the Lowland Hall (accessed via East Gate). It's a must-see destination for all Foodies and a great place to meet local producers, taste the best of Scottish produce and discover artisan offerings from across the UK! The Farmers Son team will be cooking up their produce throughout the course of the show for passers-by to enjoy and they'll also have some exciting promotions and competitions happening! If you aren't heading to the show, then make sure to sign up to The Farmers Son's newsletter as not to miss out. However, the tasty samples go way beyond the stand.. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The Farmers Son Black Pudding fry up Their products will also be featured throughout the weekend at the Food For Thought theatre where chefs such as Paul Terris will be cooking up delicious canapés and much more. They will also be paired with produce from companies such as Innis and Gunn and Lactalis and we are so excited to see what the team create! You can find the Food For Thought theatre in the centre of Scotland's Larder food hall and it's free to attend.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meet the Rockford artist beautifying neighborhoods with murals
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jesse Leach is a Rockford artist looking to beautify neighborhoods with new murals. You can find him at the corner of Charles Street and Center Terrace in Rockford, working on a mural he calls 'Food For Thought.' It was commissioned by the owners of Da Catch, which is a restaurant on that same corner. Leach used his phone as a guide as he painted faces on the wall. He says he wasn't initially drawn to painting when he began his journey as an artist. He used a colored pencil. It took a suggestion from another area artist to get him into the other art form. 'Roni Golan, he told me, after he saw all my art, color pencil, he was just like, 'why don't you just paint it all?' So, that's what started my journey six years ago, painting,' Leach said. He's been able to work quickly on the mural. 'I did that side over there within a week,' he said while working around the corner. He explained his process. 'From start to finish, we primed the wall, we scraped everything down. I do the sketch out. After sketching it out, it's going back over the lines, just kind of bringing the picture together more and more,' Leach explained while painting. 'After this, it's the color fill. That's when I just start throwing colors all over the place just to fill in the gaps to minimize all the white, or minimize the background so I know where I'm going and I can use everything once it's all put together.' 'And then going back over three or four times,' he said. 'Like I did over on that wall over there, I went back and forth up and down the wall probably like three-four times before I was satisfied by how everything looked, and I still feel like I can go back over the lines even more.' 'Then it's the shading and the highlights,' he said. 'That's just going back and getting the picture to have some depth, so it's now starting to pop out at you a little bit, so it gives you that 3D effect almost.' He says the most important part of the entire process is trying to inspire others through his art. 'I hope I inspire people to wake up and want to do any form of creativity that they know, even if it's singing, dancing, anything,' he said. 'Just wake up one morning, go downtown or something, or be out and just have a ball… express yourself that way.' 'It's therapeutic,' he said. 'While you focus on the painting, you don't have time to worry about other things. You're too busy tapped out of the world and tapped into this, into the art. For the soul, it's freedom.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Otago Daily Times
06-06-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Security status block to prison programmes
A man who committed a violent armed robbery of a Clinton dairy is yet to access any programmes behind bars because of his maximum-security status. Caleb Neil Fleming, 24, is serving a term of more than five years' imprisonment, imposed in 2023 — his third stint in jail. At a hearing last month, the Parole Board heard the Auckland Prison inmate had been waitlisted for drug treatment and a medium-intensity group programme but because of Corrections rules he was unable to start that treatment until his security status dropped. Fleming had been responsible for "unrelenting misconducts" the board previously heard, and in his most recent report panel convener Judge Geoffrey Ellis pointed to 20 recent incidents logged by prison staff. Fleming came to Dunedin seeking a fresh start in 2021 and a chance meeting at the library led to him being offered a bed at a family home. But after just five days of hospitality, he stole the car of the Good Samaritans and drove to Food For Thought in Clinton. The court at sentencing heard Fleming covered his face and armed himself with a tyre iron before entering the store. When staff refused to hand over cash and cigarettes, he smashed the till, a pie warmer and damaged a microwave. On his way out, Fleming robbed a shopper of $30. Police quickly tailed him on the way to Balclutha and, after the chase was abandoned for safety reasons, they found the driver had smashed into a sign outside a hotel. Fleming was arrested after a short foot pursuit. He was later convicted in relation to an unrelated burglary in which he damaged a property, and there had been another violent incident while he was at the Otago Corrections Facility. Fleming was found with two shanks made from shards of glass and engaged in a 20-minute struggle with Corrections staff as they attempted to restrain him. The Parole Board heard the prisoner had worked with a psychologist for a couple of months last year but the sessions had ended when he failed to show up. Fleming, though, said he was getting a lot out of the appointments and was keen to continue them. Given his apparent enthusiasm, Judge Ellis directed a follow-up by psychological services to determine whether they could resume treatment. While Fleming got a positive report from a kaupapa Maori practitioner with whom he was working, and his behaviour in prison had improved in the last month, the board said he remained an undue risk of release. "Mr Fleming still has some serious work to do to reduce his risk of re-offending," Judge Ellis said. Fleming's next parole hearing was set for February and though the board said he would have unlikely completed the necessary rehabilitative work it would be an opportunity to review his progress. His sentence expires in July next year.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
UB40 headline Poole Harbour Festival
Bringing the sunshine whatever the weather, British reggae superstars UB40 are set to make it a summer to remember when they headline Poole Harbour Festival – their first local show for more than five years. The festival, which runs from 25th to 27th July in Baiter Park, boasts a stellar line up with co-headliners including pop punk heroes Feeder, indie dance survivors Happy Mondays, influential American art rockers We Are Scientists, British dance originals Dub Pistols, and Europe's number one party band The Vengaboys; as well as a very welcome return for chart toppers The Hoosiers and N-Trance. Feeder co-headline 2025 Poole Harbour Festival (Image: Steve Gulick) 'It's going to be a dream festival this year with UB40 regularly topping our polls of bands festival goers would most like to see in Poole, and the band have let us know how much they are looking forward to playing here – it'll be a real moment to remember,' says festival organiser Ben Dyas. 'Ever since Poole Harbour Festival started nine years ago we have listened to what the people who come here have told us. We love hearing what a great time people have, but perhaps even more importantly, we also take on board their suggestions and observations. 'People feel very attached to Poole Harbour Festival; it's their festival, they make it what it is. That fantastic family-friendly feeling and the good time atmosphere are what people bring with them – and that's really special.' Happy Mondays co-headline 2025 Poole Harbour Festival (Image: Paul Hudson) With more than 70 million record sales UB40 are one of the most commercially successful reggae acts of all time and it's now 45 years since their first hit, Food For Thought, paved the way for three chart topping cover versions – Red Red Wine, Can't Help Falling In Love and I Got You Babe. Up to 15,000 music fans are expect to visit Poole Harbour Festival this year with more than 60 acts across five stages, including the new Smugglers Inn venue. Rising Star Woody Cook DJ's at 2025 Poole Harbour Festival (Image: Poole Harbour Festival) And it's not just live music – the dance tent hosts a DJ bill featuring household names like Judge Jules and Dave Pearce, as well as rising star Woody Cook, son of Fatboy Slim and Zoe Ball, the multi-million selling DJ Sash!, pioneering trance act Thrillseekers and hard house duo Tidy Boys. For more information and to book tickets visit Tickets are selling extremely fast, with 70 per cent now sold! However, second release tickets are available until 26th April, when prices go up, so save yourself some pennies today, with tickets from - Adult Day £28 | Family Day £67 | Weekend Adult £87.
