Christmas celebrations are underway and the McComb-Bruchs Performing Arts Center, Wautoma, will have you singing along with all your favorite Christmas selections at 7 p.m. on Dec. 9.
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On a recent morning, Bill Williams, 87, awoke to learn of a terrible virus that had spread everywhere and was killing people. âWell, weâve got this virus,â an aide at his nursing home in Broken Bow, Neb., told him. A few minutes later, he had forgotten about the virus, and so the nursing aide told him again. And then again. She would have to tell him the next day, too.
âItâs pretty quiet in here,â Mr. Williams said, biting the inside of his lip a little.
âWell, weâve got this virus.â
On most days, after Mr. Williams forgets again about the virus, he gets out of his armchair and into his wheelchair and goes down the hallway at Brookestone View Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation. Like other residents with Alzheimerâs disease or dementia, he is ânoncompliantâ with mask-wearing protocols. He says the masks fog up his glasses. Or he thinks: What mask? He is also ânoncompliantâ with social-distancing measures.
Mardi Gras parade nixed by Baldwin County commissioners; Prichard lone holdout
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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The Baldwin County Commission denied on Tuesday a request from the Fort Morgan Parading Society to host their third annual Mardi Gras parade next month.
The move makes Prichard the sole remaining community that has yet to officially cancel its organized parades during this year’s Carnival season.
Prichard Mayor Jimmie Gardner said a determination on whether to host the parades will be made on Thursday. He added, “if it was left up to me, we won’t be having it.”
In Baldwin County, commissioners acknowledged that the denial was “based on the situation at hand with the COVID-19 virus.”
Fort Morgan’s little parade could be Mardi Gras season’s sole survivor in Baldwin County
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Three years ago, Gayle Pierce was driving around with a close friend when she asked, “What do you think of Fort Morgan having a Mardi Gras parade?”
The question led to the creation of a parade that rolled for the first time in 2019 along a street abutting the Gulf of Mexico within the unincorporated Fort Morgan peninsula.
There are no marching bands in this procession, and no glitzy, gliding street schooners like those in Mobile, Daphne, Fairhope and beyond. Mostly, it’s homegrown floats and neighbors having fun in decorated golf carts.