May 11, 2021
MAYVILLE Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel and the COVID-19 Response Team recently announced the thirteenth week of COVID-19 Hero nominations for May 3-7.
“Our heroes this week have positively impacted our community in many ways throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,” said County Executive PJ Wendel. “I want to again personally thank our week thirteen nominees: Halie Mesch, Samantha Smith, Stacy Ode, Jerry Anderson, Christine Maloney, Bonnie Gula, Keeley McWilliams, Lisa Haglund, and all Chautauqua County nurses. These individuals have risen to the challenge of helping others during a global pandemic, and are truly our COVID-19 Heroes.”
Halie Mesch works at Aurora Dental Care and literally works “face to face” with the public every day. She risks this potential exposure to COVID-19 even with her own health conditions to ensure their patients are taken care of.
the special monthly lunch. i m greg cahill class of 1981. thank you for all being here as we celebrate the publication of fraternity with author diane brady. an exceptional and accomplished journalist, diane has done all of it and it s a great gift in telling the story of father brooks as well as an extraordinary group of black students and how their time together at holy cross during the late 1960s has helped shape their lives and change the changed the course of history. as one reviewer commented, fraternity brings to our attention for the first time an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. another called the book incredibly inspiring, noting that diane had captured the story not just of a group of amazing black men and their mentor, but of an era. a senior editor at bloomberg businessweek, diane first wrote about this time in holy cross history in the 2007 article for businessweek and his work since then to expand the story into a book. we are delighted she is he
ian american history tv explore the literary culture of shreveport bleeders the louisiana starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2 author gary joyner and the union army s fell year in louisiana from one dam blunder from beginning to end. then a look at the 200,000 books of the collection housed at the lsu shreveport archived. they walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson and on american history tv, at 5:00 eastern clippers the look at the base s role on 9/11 plus the history of a b-52 bomber and the founding fathers autographed collection at louisiana state executive museum and from the pioneer heritage center medical treatments and madison during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana next weekend on c-span 2, and 3. next on booktv diane brady recalled the efforts of reverend john brooks who traveled the east coast recruiting african-american students to the college of holy cross in the hope of realizing martin luther king jr. s goal of an integrated society following