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Stone Park After School Gang

Stone Park After School Gang – Care.com Rocky Mount, NC Child Care Center

 

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Stone Park After School Gang is a childcare provider that serves the community of Rocky Mount NC. It provides age-appropriate programs that foster holistic development among children. This facility encourages the academic, social, and physical development of students in a warm, loving, and nurturing environment.

In business since: 1996

Total Employees: 2-10

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6:00AM – 6:00PM

Tuesday :

6:00AM – 6:00PM

Wednesday :

6:00AM – 6:00PM

Thursday :

6:00AM – 6:00PM

Friday :

6:00AM – 6:00PM

Saturday :

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Sunday :

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STONEPARK AFTERSCHOOL GANG, INC., Child Care Center

STONEPARK AFTERSCHOOL GANG, INC.

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STONEPARK AFTERSCHOOL GANG, INC. is a child care center in Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina that welcomes your child and family. Sensitive, loving interactions with teachers are the active ingredients of high quality early care and learning programs. Children benefit socially, intellectually and physically from participation in quality group care experiences, with proven results that last into their school years. Quality child care/day care programs also involve parents—regularly telling you about your child’s daily activities, and sharing information about child development topics and activity ideas to enjoy at home.

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Monday

7AM – 7PM

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7AM – 7PM

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7AM – 7PM

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7AM – 7PM

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7AM – 7PM

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Women’s gang from Divnoye, operating in the Stavropol Territory, is tried again

Hearings of the second criminal case of the Amazon gang continue in the Rostov Regional Court

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Anastasia Sinelnik, Inessa and Victoria Tarverdiev

The group, which consisted of three women, including a former kindergarten teacher, is considered the most violent in recent years. The “interlocutor” remembered the details of a high-profile criminal story and found out what happened to those involved in it.

Why the Amazon gang?

Near one of the crime scenes of a family gang, law enforcement officers found a knife wrapped in a rag. On it was engraved: “To my beloved Amazon.” The knife had nothing to do with the crime, it ended up there by accident, some young man ordered it for his girlfriend. But this word “Amazons” stuck to the gang.

The house stands empty and cold

If somewhere they forgot about the “gang of Amazons”, it is not in their native Stavropol village with the poetic name Divnoye, where their base was. The criminals have been operating in the Stavropol Territory and the Rostov Region for more than 15 years, killing security officials and ordinary homeowners. The stone fence around the house of the gang leaders, husband and wife Roman Podkopaev and Inessa Tarverdiyeva, reminds of the past. The “Great Wall of China” as it is called. The bandits put up a wall to protect themselves from prying eyes. The house is empty, the locals consider it a bad place, they don’t come close and won’t even buy it for a ruble.

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The same house of bandits

In 2017, the court gave four members of the gang – Inessa Tarverdieva, her daughter Victoria, the sister of Inessa Anastasia Sinelnik’s common-law husband and Anastasia’s husband Sergey – 76 years for all. The family gang has 10 proven murders, and now they are being tried for another series of atrocities – all thefts, robberies and murders did not fit into one criminal case.

The first beauty and the godmother

Today, looking at the haggard face of the main “Amazon” Inessa Tarverdiyeva, her stooped thin figure, it is hard to believe that this tired, early aged woman in her youth, let’s say delicately, was incredibly popular with local men and was considered the first beauty in the village.

“She was very beautiful, then she neglected herself, she had no time to take care of herself,” says Tatyana Pogorelova, a resident of Divnoye. – In my youth, I slept with those who are richer, was always dressed in fashion, looked down on others.

Inessa was married to Azerbaijani Arzu Tarverdiev, a watchman, when she began to have an affair first with Vladimir Podkopaev, a narcologist, and then with his son Roman, who studied in Rostov as a dentist. The younger Podkopaev was 11 years younger than Inessa, but, having fallen in love with her, did not want to share with others. At 19In 98, he killed Arzu with her consent, the crime was not solved in those years. This was not his first murder, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, before that Podkopaev had killed and robbed his teacher. After getting rid of Arzu, Inessa began to live with Roman.

Five years later, the husband and wife decided to ransack the house of their godfather, the husband of their best friend Inessa – there were a lot of hunting weapons. They got into the house when there were no adults, but the 13-year-old daughter of the godfather, goddaughter of Tarverdiyeva, unexpectedly came with a friend. The girls were killed for the sake of two guns, so as not to leave witnesses. And again, Inessa and her civil husband came out dry from the water, they were not suspected.

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The main “Amazon” on the investigative experiment

Since then they have killed and robbed a lot and brutally, mostly policemen. The most resonant was the murder of special forces soldier Dmitry Chudakov on the Don highway. He was shot with his wife and two children, who were finished off with knives. But there were ordinary people among the victims of the gang. Inessa and her husband took three bottles of champagne and chicken fillet from the pensioners Goncharovs, the last to die at their hands.

Playing the victim

Inessa’s daughter from her first marriage, Victoria, took part in the “family business” – murders and robberies, when she grew up; Married to Roman, Tarverdiyeva had a second daughter, Nastya.

– She broke her elder daughter’s life, a good mother would tear her teeth, but she wouldn’t let that happen. She had a car with a boyfriend, she could leave Podkopaev at any moment, – says a local resident Tatyana Pogorelova.

The version of domestic violence and coercion comes primarily from Inessa herself, who had no choice but to cooperate with the investigation. Roman Podkopaev died during a shootout while being detained by traffic inspectors, you can’t ask him how it was arranged in their clan. Inessa claims that she acted on the orders of her husband, he was the initiator. Domestic violence is a trending topic, but in Divnoye there is no unequivocal opinion on this matter: they say that Roman Podkopaev was quiet, inconspicuous, isolated, not like a leader at school; who certainly looked like a leader in his youth was the cunning and prudent Inessa. And how can domestic violence justify participation in a gang and murders?

Roman’s mother, Galina Podkopayeva, at the first trial, of course, defended her son and said that Inessa was slandering both him and her daughter Anastasia and her husband Sergei Sinelnik. In the 90s, Galina Podkopayeva, who worked as the head of the archive department of the local administration, arranged for her daughter-in-law to be an archivist, and after a quarrel, she herself made sure that she was fired. In general, Inessa worked as an educator and archivist for a very short time, although later she was proud of her “work biography”: they say, she gave the kids a start in life.

Anastasia Sinelnik was aware of all the criminal cases of brother Roman and Inessa, accepted gifts from them – looted and taken from the dead, covers, but she herself did not participate in sorties. Her husband Sergei, a traffic police officer, rendered the Amazons an invaluable service: he supplied them with service radios and leaked operational information. This is partly why the gang could not be contacted for so long. The village considers it unfair that the first court gave Anastasia Sinelnik 19 years old, and the main “Amazon” Inessa – 21 years old. One was silent, and the other acted.

Five years later

After the trial in 2017, the mother of Roman Podkopaev and Anastasia Sinelnik went out in Rostov with pickets, demanded justice, said that her daughter was accused of other people’s crimes, that the case was beneficial to Moscow generals, that Inessa was slandering everyone.

The judgment was not reviewed. Podkopayeva took Anastasia and Inessa’s daughter Nastya to raise the children. In June of this year, Galina died, locals say that she drank herself. Her husband, narcologist Vladimir Georgievich Podkopaev, helped her for a long time, put droppers, pumped out, but alcoholism and years took their toll. He himself, according to locals, also abuses alcohol, and it is a pity for him, since he is a “normal” person and doctor.

Inessa’s daughter Nastya, who was a teenager when the gang was operating, finished school, supposedly entered a university and left the village, where her mother will never be forgotten. The mother of a 13-year-old girl who died at the hands of bandits, Inessa’s best friend, drank herself and died a long time ago.

Another person in this drama – Valentina Chudakova, the mother of the murdered special forces soldier Dmitry Chudakov – still does not believe that her son was killed by Tarverdiev and Podkopaev, and believes that the investigators are covering up for real killers who are connected with her son’s official activities. “Amazons” Inessa, Victoria and Anastasia are serving their sentences in a general regime prison; there are no high security prisons for women in Russia.

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Gift book: 20 novelties for toddlers and younger students

A good book is still a wonderful gift for a child. But how to understand which book is the most wonderful one that your child will like? How to navigate the news? We chose those that have both an interesting story and cool illustrations.

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Alf Preussen “The Mitten”

This fairy tale has a familiar plot: a hunter once dropped a thick fur mitten in a winter forest. I ran past the little mice and decided to settle in such a warm house. A frog jumped past and also asked for a sheepskin house… What happened next? But you won’t guess: the story doesn’t end quite the way one might expect. But the main charm of this book is still in the drawings: they are absolutely magical, New Year’s, with fluffy falling snow, dark fir paws, fairy-tale characters with amazingly expressive muzzles. During the long winter holidays, the book will most likely be re-read more than once, and the drawings will be considered in every detail, to the last snowflake.

Zulya Stadnik “Kindergarten on Wheels and the New Year”

In an ordinary kindergarten, Father Frost congratulates kids at a matinee, but Grandfather Snow-cart comes to the kindergarten for cars! Like all children, the excavator Klusha, the fire truck Gasya, the engine Shpunchik and others are looking forward to meeting, they get excited, decorate the Christmas tree, learn poems and dances. Not everything in the preparations goes smoothly – someone is too worried, confuses complex steps, but the support of caring adults will help to cope with difficulties. The holiday will surely please both Grandpa and cars.

Jacques Goldstein “Scarf”

A picture book that makes you feel very warm and cozy. But how could it be otherwise, if the grandmother in it knits and knits everything from multi-colored fluffy wool – hats, sweaters, socks and, of course, scarves too. Measuredly tapping his knitting needles and telling his granddaughter Madeleine interesting stories about life, slowly, with all the details. One day, her grandmother gives her her very first scarf, Madeleine puts it on, and then the unexpected happens …

Marina Taranenko “Naughty Tree”

It turns out that there is an amazing profession in the world – a teacher of Christmas trees. This is a very important person who teaches young trees good manners: how to dress up, how to hide gifts under the branches. The work is creative and very responsible, because not every Christmas tree is ready to stand still and listen – some giggle, interrupt, sing songs and play with cats. Right during the lesson! You will meet such an inventor in this very funny New Year’s fairy tale.

Sebastian Perez “The best mother in the world”

What is the best mother? Maybe a kangaroo that can carry in a pocket on its stomach not even one baby, but two or three? Or a swan mother who resolutely drives away the most dangerous predators from her children? Or an elephant who has been carrying a baby elephant for more than a year and a half? Probably, after all, a penguin who hunts without rest in icy water to feed the ever-hungry baby! An entertaining book will tell about different mothers (and a little about dads). And the most tender illustrations by Benjamin Lacombe will make you want to immediately hug your mother, your most beloved, and re-read the book together.

Ulf Stark “Christmas in the Forest”

Once upon a time there was a very lonely dwarf. He, of course, was sad and bored, there was no one to even talk to properly. And then bad luck rained down – a cold wind came up and took away mittens, a warm red cap and even a sign from home! Although how to look – maybe it was, on the contrary, a great success? The wind threw things into the forest, where they fell into the clutches of rabbits, great inventors, cheerful, cheerful and fussy. The whole large family – mom, dad, children, uncles, aunts and grandfather – immediately understands that the mysterious find is not at all accidental. Something very good must happen. Maybe a holiday?

Alexander Volkov “The Wizard of the Emerald City”

Ellie and her friends set off on a journey along the yellow brick road and… come to life on the pages of this book. Because it is also magical: the pictures here are voluminous! You can touch them, twist the movable elements, stroke the glorious Totoshka and shake hands with the Wise Scarecrow. Drawings especially for this edition were made by the famous children’s artist Vadim Chelak.

Elena Khrabrova “Luka, it’s time to go home!”

Little Luka loves to walk very much, and he does not care about the cold. While mom is shivering and cold, the stalwart Luka comes up with incredible games and amazing stories about penguins. Very tender drawings by Elena Khrabrova help his fantasies come to life: here they are fishing together with penguins and building houses, eating ice cream and… Luka, it’s even cold to read! When will you and your mother go home?

Brian and Cynthia Paterson Wonderland in the Winter Forest

Winter tales about three friends – Roo the Rabbit, Harvey the Mouse and Willy the Hedgehog. It is never boring in the magical Fox Forest, adventures seem to find cute main characters themselves: either you urgently need to save your beloved uncle from the tenacious paws of a rat gang, or help a mysterious stranger. And one day the animals find amazing sleds in the forest that can fly. I wonder where they will take their friends? You can read the stories from the collection right away, but it’s better to stretch them out over several evenings, looking at very cozy illustrations with pleasure.

For children aged 6 and over

Björn Rörvik “Christmas Sweater”, “Grandfather Surveillance”

Christmas stories about the adventures of two friends, Fox and Piglet Tail Carrot, and other amazing characters. Do you know who a dunduk is? Have you heard anything about ohlamons? In this series, you will still meet many amazing characters and quickly understand them – just don’t try to read these stories with a serious face, okay? From the book “Christmas Sweater” you will learn how the very solemn International meeting of nisse (Christmas spirits) takes place in a clearing near a large Christmas tree. And, while reading about the mysterious Grandfather-Surveillance, together with the heroes you will unravel an almost detective story and learn some interesting new recipes (but not everything is worth repeating).

Alex T. Smith How Winston Came Home for Christmas

Winston the mouse lived in a cozy attic right above the toy store and was absolutely happy. Soon the holidays that he will meet with his friends! One day, when there were a few days left before Christmas, he heard the ringing of bells and … everything changed. A vague memory that once he had already heard this melody and that there was someone very important and beloved next to him, now does not allow him to calm down. And the brave long-tailed hero goes in search of a close creature. Will he be back by Christmas? After each chapter, you will find an interesting task, a recipe, a craft idea – the whole family will have something to do during the long winter holidays!

“Miracles on Christmas night: fairy tales and stories of Russian writers”

The collection contains Christmas stories, fairy tale stories of Russian classics: Vladimir Odoevsky, Lydia Charskaya, Alexei Tolstoy, Sasha Cherny. They will not only help create a festive mood and feel the approach of magic, but also tell a lot of interesting things about how Christmas was celebrated before, what toys were made from, what sweets were made, what gifts they bought for children, what they experienced and dreamed about on a holiday. There are very unusual illustrations in this book – these are old postcards, just such ones were once sent to friends and relatives by our great-great-grandmothers and great-great-grandfathers.

Snow Story Time, Polar Night Wonders

These collections contain very cute winter stories by contemporary children’s writers: Holly Webb, Michael Broad, Penny Dolan. Can a white bear turn into a penguin? Is it true that snow leopards can become invisible? What songs do seals sing? And what kind of gifts do the foxes dream of? Short touching stories will answer many questions of little dreamers. Great for evening reading (and rereading).

Timothy Le Veel “The Hare and the Rabbits”

On a warm summer morning, when the sun warms up so well, a large family of rabbits crawls out of a hole onto the ground. There are a lot of them, and they are all similar. Here’s just one – not like that. This is a hare who was once adopted and raised as his own. He loves his brothers and sisters, but does not always understand. And one day he decides to leave them, not knowing what trials lie ahead… Anyone who picks up this book with amazing drawings will see a real miracle – how a fairy tale is born from ordinary pencil strokes.

Aiya Ovezova “Incredible New Year, or Forest Spirits in Vekshino”

When an ordinary city family arrives for winter holidays in a village on the edge of a dense forest, all the charms of a country holiday are, of course, waiting for them. Real snowfall, fragrant pancakes, delicious sour cream, the warmth of a Russian stove, steep hills, cheerful chirping of birds and a real resinous Christmas tree from the forest. But there will be surprises too. And even so: not surprises, but a Great Adventure! Incredible fairy-tale creatures live in a pretty village and its surroundings. You will have to believe in them and make friends with them in order to all together cope with the danger that threatens the heroes of this New Year’s fairy tale.

Bozena Nemcova “Pearl Tales”, “Sapphire Tales”

The same film “Three Nuts for Cinderella” was once shot based on the fairy tales of this Czech writer (you love it too, right?). In one of the collections – “Pearl Tales” – there is also a story about Cinderella, but some plot twists will surprise you very much. You pay attention to the same effect when reading other fairy tales – it seems that you know exactly what will happen next, but then suddenly everything changes as if by magic. Each of the books has its own character, mood: probably because they were designed by different artists – Darima Erdyneeva and Anna Khopta.

Winter Tales: a collection

The book includes various fairy tales, folk and author’s, those that your children have already heard (stories about Emelya, Snegurochka) and those with which they are probably not yet familiar (“Two Brothers” by Evgeny Schwartz). Good fairy tales, as we know, can be re-read and retold countless times: this only makes them more interesting and deeper. The illustrations for these magical and wise stories will surely seem familiar to moms and dads, because once upon a time many of them had a favorite thick book with just such drawings by wonderful artists – Nikolai Kochergin, Marina Uspenskaya, Nina Noskovich.

Asya Vanyakina “Miracles in a pocket, or the search for Santa Claus”,

Have you ever heard of a little freckled boy Willy, who travels all over the world in a paper airplane, looking for Santa Claus? So Valerka didn’t know anything about him until his mother began to tell him an amazing story about him. And then a real miracle happened – Valerka began to receive letters from Willy! The magic boy tells about his adventures in different countries, meetings with unusual heroes, curious holiday traditions and delicious sweets.

Olga Lukas “Pug and Karakul. New Year’s Fairy Tale

Before the New Year, children in all kindergartens, schools, apartments diligently draw holiday masterpieces: round dances by the Christmas tree, feasts, carnivals, incredible goodies, smart people and animals.