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By Editor | December 30, 2020
By ERIC X. VICCARO
EVICCARO@STEGENHERALD.COM
Activities associations from across America shutdown spring sports at the onset of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in mid-March.
In Dumas, Texas, a small city located in that state’s panhandle region, the #BeTheLight campaign started with stadium lights on for an hour every night to let students know they weren’t forgotten.
Ste. Genevieve joined what turned into a national phenomenon as light reached everyone during one of our country’s percevied “darkest times.”
Ste. Genevieve R-II district athletic director Dr. Jeff Nix reported Leon’s and Yanks Fields were lit up “every Friday for four weeks.”
By Editor | December 30, 2020
By Mark Evans
mevans@stegenherald.com
Blindsiding America and the world, the novel coronavirus called COVID-19 became a focus of local attention at the beginning of March.
Sandra Bell, executive director of the Ste. Genevieve County Health Department, began updating the County Commission twice a week on the situation and addressed the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meetings regularly.
She first met with them on March 2 and reported that Missouri had just reported its first case. There were 164 cases nationally, although that figure had doubled in one day. Bell noted that figures “change almost hourly.”
COVID-19 test kits were ordered and the battle against the virus began.
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Jennifer Mueller is confident she is up to the huge challenge of taking over the Ste. Genevieve County Health Department.
Like Chester W Nimitz, who took over command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor, Mueller is taking over the health department at a trying time, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and just as the logistics of distributing vaccines for the caronavirus are being worked out.
In addition, since long-time administrator Sandra Bell left in early July, the department has fallen behind in billing and other paperwork critical to maintaining incoming revenue.
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