Jessie Fullenkamp still remembers the day in 2004 when she walked out of a building in Cincinnati, US and found her car - and all the other cars in the parking lot - covered in cicadas. Then a college student, she made a resolution. I decided at that time: I don t know where I ll be living in the world, but I want to come back for this with a little bit more intention, said Fullenkamp, a social-work researcher. Now 36 and living in Detroit, she started talking to her friends in Cincinnati about a cicada-cation six months ago. They thought I was joking at first, she said.
Early Wednesday morning about 30 Loudoun County business leaders gathered at Belmont Country Club to knock the rust off some long unused skills an in-person breakfast meeting featuring networking and updates from community leaders.
The “stepping out” session, hosted by John Marshall Bank Regional President Paul Bice, served up one more example that Loudoun is regaining a sense of normal life. The main attraction at the event was an economic update offered by Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tony Howard, Visit Loudoun President and CEO Beth Erickson, and Loudoun’s Executive Director of Economic Development Buddy Rizer. With the panel fully vaccinated, the speakers were able to share a table maskless still an unfamiliar sight in most public meeting settings.
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Show Transcript I’M FREE IN TWO WEEKS. TODD: BETH AND TIM ERICKSON, FROM CHARLTON, GOT THEIR SECON VACCINE DOSE TODAY AT FENWAY PARK. THE FREEDOM THEY WILL SOON FEEL STANDS IN CONTRAST TO TH PARALYSIS THEY AND MANY OTHERS ENCOUNTERED WHILE TRYING TO BOOK THEIR FIRST APPOINTMENT ON THE STATE’S VAXFINDER WEBSITE. OUR SON HAD TO DO IT FOR US. WE COULDN’T. I TRIED AND TRIED, AND I WAS JUST SO FRUSTRATED, AND SO HE BOOKED BOTH OUR APPOINTMENTS TODD: ON FRIDAY, THE STATE LAUNCHED A NEW, PRE-REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR THE MASS VACCINATION SITES, LIKE GILLETTE STADIUM, WHERE, AS OF TODAY, MORE THAN 200,000 DOSES HAVE BEEN ADMINISTERED, WHICH IS A SIGN OF THE PROGRESS BEING MADE, BEING MADE IN THE VACCINATION EFFORT. I THINK WE’RE AT OVER 20% HAVE GOTTEN AT LEAST ONE VACCI IS MY UNDERSTANDING.