Oskaloosa News Recap For February 24th, 2021
Dogs in Russia are changing colors.
The bizarre phenomenon is occurring in and around the town of Dzerzhinsk near an abandoned chemical plant that once manufactured highly toxic hydrocyanic acid a core ingredient in a once commonly used “Prussian blue” dye.
Veterinarians are blaming the blue hue on “some kind of chemical,” which doesn’t appear to have harmed the pups physically.
The blue dogs will remain under close investigation for about 20 days.
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Coca-Cola’s new diversity training urges employees to be “less white.”
The “Confronting Racism” course, offered to the company by LinkedIn Education, contained a slide that read: “In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white.”
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After years of planning, SOSNAâs school safety project could come to fruition this summer
The Safe Pathways to Our Schools Project is a continuation of previous efforts to alter the intersections, including a 2018 effort to apply for a city âslow zone,â which was the cityâs Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainabilityâs attempt to install traffic-calming measures in various neighborhoods around the city.
The intersection at 17th and Christian near E.M. Stanton School. | Photo by Google Maps.
Several of the intersections near Chester A. Arthur and Edward M. Stanton schools in Graduate Hospital have left residents paranoid for school children. With cars and delivery trucks routinely parking in or near crosswalks and blocking driversâ view of schoolchildren trying to cross the street, neighbors have thought it’s only a matter of time before someone, possibly a child, is hurt. As a result, the South of South Neigh