(Press Staff Photo by Makayla Grijalva)
AmeriCorps volunteer Elise Kinzer, originally from Minnesota, paints a shed behind the Silver City Waterworks building, one of the several projects their team is working on during their time in Grant County.
As National AmeriCorps Week approaches March 7-13 11 AmeriCorps volunteers have returned to Grant County, and have been putting in the hard work to rehabilitate several buildings since they were deployed two weeks ago.
“It just works really well for our county to have one group, bring them in and then share them around,” said Bridgette Johns of Southwest New Mexico ACT, one of this group’s local sponsors. “So they get to experience different parts of the county, and different projects that are happening.”
Winn celebrates Army Nurse Corps’ legacy 2/11/21, 10:38 AM
Pat Young
Photos by Pat Young
Winn Army Community Hospital celebrated the 120th Anniversary of the Army Nurse Corps, Feb. 2 on Fort Stewart, highlighting the Corps as “Diverse in Talent, United in Mission.”
Winn celebrates Army Nurse Corps’ legacy
Winn Army Community Hospital celebrated the 120th Anniversary of the Army Nurse Corps, Feb. 2 on Fort Stewart, highlighting the Corps as “Diverse in Talent, United in Mission.”
The event was hosted by Lt. Col. James E. Ryals, Assistant Deputy Commander for Nursing and included a ceremonial cake cutting, photo displays, and a video showcasing the hospital’s Army Nurses. The video remains available for review on the Winn ACH Facebook site, Facebook. com/Winncares.
As we recognize Black History Month across our community and our nation, thanks to Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History week, a precursor to Black History Month, I would like to call your attention to two ladies and a few black men of the old West who are a bit obscure in U.S. history.
The first being Pvt. Cathay Williams, who joined the Army for a three year enlistment as a man, in 1867 as Pvt. William Cathay. It was a time when all women were prohibited from joining the military. While the records are unclear, apparently, the Army was such need or haste for soldiers to support the expanding west of the Mississippi River post civil war, a normal military physical was over looked. Pvt. Cathay Williams was a large woman, 5 feet, 8 inches and weighing about 160, short hair and very physically fit in appearance.
Historian looks at 1918 pandemic here - ‘The worst public health disaster in county history’
The 1918 influenza that infected an estimated one-third of the global population and killed approximately 50 million people worldwide was slow to hit Grant County. However, according to Stephen Fox, a Silver City historian, the impact on the county was much greater than any death records or newspaper articles at the time made it out to be, particularly among the Hispanic and Mexican populations.
Fox led an online presentation Saturday, hosted by the Silver City Museum in collaboration with the Western Institute for Lifelong Learning, on his research about the impact of the 1918 pandemic on Grant County, using 1918 and 1919 editions of the Silver City Enterprise and the Silver City Independent as sources.
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