Adele Hall and Marie Farrell Are selected for KC Chamber

This year's leadership for woman honorees will be Adele Hall and Marie Farrell by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. The annual Athena award for first time has been expanded to include a second award, given to a young professional.

Hall is active in education, youth, health and political cases topically and nationally both and she is known for countless civic and philanthropic endeavors. She is of Donald J.

Hall recently participation are The Local Investment Commission, Starlight Theatre, Wayside Waifs, Children's Mercy Hospital, the Salvation Army and the George Bush Presidential Library Center.

The awards will be given on Oct. 12.

Adele Sande's hoping to be the Top of the Pop Stars.

AN ALFORD-BORN singing sensation was today hoping to be top of the pops after being tipped to reach number one.

Adele Sande has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Cheryl Cole and British rapper Chipmunk.

Now the talented 23-year-old – who has just signed with Virgin Records – hopes her latest collaboration could take the top spot in the music charts when they are announced tomorrow.

The Alford-born singer/songwriter – who is appearing in her first music video – said: “It was a lot of fun making the video. We filmed it on a council estate in south London.”

For the last year Adele has penned songs and worked hard on her singing career while taking a break from her medical studies.

Adele said: “It would be the best feeling ever if the video got to the top of the charts.

“People in the industry get a copy of the current list of how sales for each song are doing – and Never Be Your Woman is in the top five.”

The talented singer wrote a song and recorded backing vocals on the popular track Boys, for Cheryl Cole last summer.

Adele has also worked with UK rapper Chipmunk on the hit Diamond Rings and has been pitched to write lyrics for US R&B star Alicia Keys.

Adele five songs into new album

Adele has revealed how work on her second album is going, explaining that she has written five tracks for the follow up to 2008's '19'.
The Brit singer spoke at Glamour magazine's Woman Of The Year ceremony in London, saying that, so far, the new songs were mostly about boys.
"I've still got the same problems…" she said. "They get worse because I'm away all the time. It gets a bit harder."
Adele revealed that she doesn't always have to write songs about love and relationships, however.
"The littlest things I can write about, it doesn't have to be some drama," she said. "The littlest things about not putting a cup in the dishwasher. I can write a song about that as well."
Adele was asked if she would like to pursue a career on the screen after an appearance on US show 'Ugly Betty', reports BBC News.
"Only if 'Sex And The City' ask," she replied. "That's it. Never anything else."

Adele, Leona Lewis and Kelly Clarkson for VH1 'Divas'

Adele, Leona Lewis and Kelly Clarkson have all been confirmed to perform at the revived VH1 ‘Divas’ event, set to take place live on September 17 in New York. The event will also feature a performance from Disney star Miley Cyrus, and will be filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House.

‘Divas’ has featured some of the world’s top music stars since its inception in 1998, including Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Cher, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Whitney Houston, Beyonce and Chaka Khan.The event benefits VH1’s Save The Music Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to restoring instrumental music education in American public schools

Moved to make a difference, Adele Ulrich

Lancaster resident Adele Taylor Ulrich is a dancer, choreographer, movement therapist and political activist. She is, in a word, busy."I've considered giving up eating and sleeping," she quipped in an interview, which was shoehorned into her jampacked schedule. She is a founding member of Lancaster's Grant Street Dance Company. She is also co director of the Fulton Theatre's Youtheatre, a program for teens who have faced challenging circumstances. Much of her time these days is spent volunteering for Organizing for America, President Barack Obama's grass roots political organization.As OFA's community organizer for Lancaster, Ulrich has been running phone banks, and canvassing for support on behalf of the president's push for health care reform. Since the U.S. House of Representatives passed its health care bill, the battle over reform has moved to the Senate."It's going to be quite a fight, so we're working very hard to educate people," Ulrich said.In Ulrich's view, health care is a human right, and health care reform is a moral issue. She struggled for a decade with chronic fatigue syndrome — and with the travails of dealing with an insurer quick to deny coverage because of that pre-existing condition. She has survived breast cancer and thyroid cancer. She said she has health insurance that is considered good. Nevertheless, she said she has "actually had to fight" to get her insurer to follow her cancer adequately.During the presidential primaries, Ulrich got a call from a friend, who was a local field organizer for the Obama campaign. Her friend asked Ulrich to open her home as a staging location for campaign staff and volunteers.Still in pain from her cancer treatments, Ulrich agreed. That very evening, a half dozen or so campaign staffers were at her dining room table, and Ulrich was all in. She said she has long used her art as a means of expressing her social justice views. Now, dance is helping to sustain her as she does political work. The weekly movement classes she teaches are "deeply restorative, which really helps me to handle all that I'm handling," she said.

Little Adele, at being best of the best adele has her shot

The Warren Twaddle trained chaser has taken out the Battle of the Sexes and Murray Oakley Discount Speedfest finals in her past two outings at Darwin Greyhound headquarters.
But Little Adele can categorically lay claim to being the best of the best, as long as she wins the Winnellie Hotel Best 8 Dash (383m). The $800 event has drawn a smart capacity field that cumulatively has won 79 races during their careers.
And in a clear indication that this field is in fine form, only Lonesome Black hasn't greeted the judge first during the past five runs.
Little Adele, who has shown class from her first appearance, possesses the best winning strike rate (12 wins from 33 outings), but is shaded in terms of career wins by veterans Iron Ruby (15) and Arnhem Virus (14).
Going on times, Little Adele also has the edge with a personal best of 22.27 seconds, slightly quicker (0.03) than the nearest rival Gunna Do It.
Last start winners Vader and Double Digits appear well placed to make it back-to-back in their respective races.
Vader takes on a slick field in the Spray Lawn Dash (312m), but with luck from box eight can figure strongly, particularlly if he replicates last week's 18.31 second run.
Double Digits also goes up in grade, but an inside draw helps his chances in the Water Dynamics Dash (312m).
Like Vader, Double Digits ran good time in winning last Friday night (18.35) and on that run looks a bold opportunity in a field containing smart types such as Money Frog and Day Seas Gilly.
Other solid bets on tonight's program appear Iron Atalanta (Race 4, No. 2) and Lonesome Mary (Race 5, No. 3).
Racing from 7.39pm.

Cancer mum: Adele makes desperate plea for donors

A DESPERATE mother has made a passionate plea for the public to come forward today to become potential bone marrow donors.
The Anthony Nolan Trust is hosting a recruitment clinic in Middlesbrough to find volunteers with tissue types that could match leukaemia sufferers.
Christine Stevens is urging people to head to Newlands School, in Saltersgill, from 4pm until 7pm.
Her daughter, Adele Wardingham, was seven months pregnant when she was diagnosed with non Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has spread to her breasts, stomach and bones.
The cancer was so advanced that the decision was taken in March to deliver Theo ten weeks early, to give his 22 year old mother the best chance of fighting the disease.
Her healthy baby, who was born weighing 4lb, is now eight months old, but Miss Wardingham is still very ill.
She has been admitted to the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle, for a course of chemotherapy and to receive new bone marrow.
“It is a match but not a perfect one. It is the best they could do. If it does not work, she can have another go,” said Mrs Stevens.
“We desperately need about 200 people to come to tonight’s event to make it a good night.
“I would urge people to come because eight months ago, I did not think I would be in this situation, and I don’t want anyone else to go though this.”