January 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bolivia: Iowa City Press Citizen: From 1992 to 1994, Matthew Hayek worked in the Peace Corps on a health project that brought drinking water and sanitation to rural villages in Bolivia.
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January 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bolivia: Iowa City Press Citizen: From 1992 to 1994, Matthew Hayek worked in the Peace Corps on a health project that brought drinking water and sanitation to rural villages in Bolivia.
From 1992 to 1994, Matthew Hayek worked in the Peace Corps on a health project that brought drinking water and sanitation to rural villages in Bolivia.
From 1992 to 1994, Matthew Hayek worked in the Peace Corps on a health project that brought drinking water and sanitation to rural villages in Bolivia.
Make sure to watch these 10 locals in 2005
By Mike McWilliams and Adam Pracht
Iowa City Press-Citizen
They are somewhat prominent, with potential. They hold the promise to help shape their community, to capture headlines, imaginations and hearts.
They are the Press-Citizen's 10 to Watch in 2005.
[Excerpt]
Matthew Hayek
From rural villages of Bolivia to the hustle and bustle of big city life in Chicago and Atlanta, there's no place like home for Matthew Hayek.
The 35-year-old lawyer grew up here, graduated from City High in 1988 and moved on to the University Michigan, where he graduated in 1992.
From 1992 to 1994, Hayek worked in the Peace Corps on a health project that brought drinking water and sanitation to rural villages in Bolivia.
After that, he returned to Michigan and earned a law degree in 1997.
That took him to law firms in Chicago and Atlanta.
But Hayek's roots run deep in Iowa City and he returned nearly four years ago.
Since his return, Hayek has become a partner with the Hayek, Hayek Brown, Moreland and Hayek law firm, 120 ½ E. Washington St., and ventured into politics. He is an active member of the Democratic Party, works on two city housing commissions and is on the Englert Theatre's board of directors.
"I would say a sixth sense called me back here," Hayek said. "My family has been here for five or six generations and those roots spoke to me. I ultimately decided it was the place I wanted to live my life."
When this story was posted in December 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| The World's Broken Promise to our Children Former Director Carol Bellamy, now head of Unicef, says that the appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. Read her op-ed and Unicef's report on the State of the World's Children 2005. |
| Our debt to Bill Moyers Former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers leaves PBS next week to begin writing his memoir of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Read what Moyers says about journalism under fire, the value of a free press, and the yearning for democracy. "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country," he warns, "or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia." |
| Is Gaddi Leaving? Rumors are swirling that Peace Corps Director Vasquez may be leaving the administration. We think Director Vasquez has been doing a good job and if he decides to stay to the end of the administration, he could possibly have the same sort of impact as a Loret Ruppe Miller. If Vasquez has decided to leave, then Bob Taft, Peter McPherson, Chris Shays, or Jody Olsen would be good candidates to run the agency. Latest: For the record, Peace Corps has no comment on the rumors. |
| The Birth of the Peace Corps UMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn. |
| Charges possible in 1976 PCV slaying Congressman Norm Dicks has asked the U.S. attorney in Seattle to consider pursuing charges against Dennis Priven, the man accused of killing Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner on the South Pacific island of Tonga 28 years ago. Background on this story here and here. |
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