NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Monday, April 27, 2015

INCIDENTS

No reports received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):

Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island NMs - Actor LaVar Burton visited the Statue of Liberty National Monument to film a Reading Rainbow segment about immigration at Ellis Island. The episode, to be broadcast later this year, covers historical and contemporary immigration.

Pacific West Region - Sophia Walker, long-time budget analyst for Pacific West Region, passed away on April 19th. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area most of her life, she's worked in the Comptroller's Office since 1999.

Office of Communications - The National Park Service has announced the award of $26 million for more than 100 initiatives that will help parks prepare for centennial visitors.

Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the Service. This report covers activities in Congress for the week ending April 24th.

To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:

NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index

Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/

The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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