Staff Report
Ascension Parish Public Schools announced the school and district winners of its Support Personnel of the Year for 2020-21: Kim Harvey from Lakeside Primary is the Primary School Support Person of the Year, Marcus Jones from Dutchtown Middle is the Middle School Support Person of the Year, and Alison Clingfost from Dutchtown High is the High School Support Person of the Year.
All support personnel were selected by their respective school peers and were recognized at this week s Ascension Parish School Board Meeting. No matter where they are, our children deserve excellence at every touchpoint, and I am just so grateful to be a part of a group of people like this, Superintendent David Alexander said. You have all done such an amazing job in getting us all the way through this school year. It s just incredible. You, our support staff of the year, are models of teamwork and service. I know that every day you are learning new things and all of you are leaders.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Iowa health care professionals are still responding to the crisis.MercyOne s makeshift critical care units are no longer in use, but they re still there if cases rise again.Today, they re back to normal critical care capacity still treating COVID-19 patients, but not near the scale of Iowa s two infection peaks in the summer and fall.MercyOne doctors tell KCCI they admitted 2,000 patients with COVID-19 this past year. They said 500 needed critical care and 300 were put on ventilators.Dr. Neil Horning has been on the front lines of the pandemic since day one. He says MercyOne had some time to prepare, but no one had any idea what COVID-19 would become.In critical care for two decades, he says he s trained for events like this, but the need for isolation, separating patients from their families, added a layer of difficulty.That led to more stress, not only for patients and families, but for his team, too. This was unique in sort of the emotiona
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my own life. i m thankful for all of the civil servants who day in and day out work to provide the kind of basic goods that are the underpinning for other kinds of human flourishing. from those at the federal aviation administration who oversee commercial air travel that keeps 25,000 flights a day safe and hasn t had a fatality in three years to the tax processors of the internal revenue service who quite literally make the rest of governance possible, to the men and women who run our municipal water treatment facilities and the unionized workers of the new york subway system who somewhat miraculously got the system back up and running in astonishing short order after sandy flooded many of the subway s stations and tunnels. i am thankful for this job, which i love, and the opportunity to do this work. and i am inordinately grate to feel the crew here with up with chris as well as the staff. jonathan larson kim harvey todd cole sal genteel, allison koch tera metzer diane seamus
mcgee from the washington office and senior editor of the atlantic former new york governor eliot spitzer. if you re watching at home, you are one of the best stylists on the entire internet. you re doing it wrong if you re not reading him. i want to talk about the outrageous development that came out of oakland this week which stunned me. this happened on tuesday night. scott olson who is a 24-year-old veteran of the iraq war was in the plaza. he was one of about 1,000 occupy oakland protesters gathered in the square. he served two tours. received seven medals. he had a job. and he was active in veterans for peace and iraq veterans against the war which is an activist group. and police were cracking down on the occupation in oakland. and clearing the square. and they used tear gas to clear the crowd. in the course of the police action the images of the tear gas were shock. they did not look like something that happens in the united states of america. olson was critically w