Louise Bennett
Louise Bennett
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE, was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, she worked to preserve the practice of performing poetry and folk songs and stories in patois. She is located at the heart of the Jamaican poetic tradition, and has influenced other popular Caribbean poets, including Linton Kwesi Johnson and Paul Keens-Douglas...
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This is one of our best fundraisers. We usually have 40 to 80 people.
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Our donations are down by at least $10,000. We're hurting for money. I know there's a lot of donor burnout. We do appreciate all the food and personal items that people donate but we need money to stay open.
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Unfortunately, the winter has not been that bad until last weekend. There's not as much cabin fever as we expected. It has not been an old gloomy, ugly, cold winter.
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There was not enough ticket sales. We needed to sell at least 100 tickets to cover the cost of the food.
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Some of the people who bought tickets told us to keep the money.