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Sunday, January 10, 2021 – Memorial Hospital Foundation recently was named the recipient of the American’s Farmer Grow Communities donation from Bayer Fund.
This donation was made on behalf of Hancock County farm land owner, Leora Wilson. Mrs. Wilson’s nomination card was selected for Hancock County. She then selected Memorial Hospital Foundation Caring Back Club to receive the funds. Memorial Hospital Foundation Caring Back Club started in March of 2020 in order to support those in need as a result of COVID-19. Funds were secured and delivered through the Community Foundation Serving West Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri.
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ATC can be unmercifully dull when no one’s flying. It’s a little like non-combat guard duty in the Army; I pulled a lot of that. The public conjures images of steely eyed sentries at Fort Dix, squinting into the New Jersey mist, M-16s at the ready. Or at least that’s the image I had when reporting for duty there at age 18. In reality, guard duty will suck the
esprit from anyone’s corps.
During my inglorious military career, I spent many mind-numbing hours guarding empty buildings from invasion by no one. Similarly, my ATC fantasy poses me as a square-jawed controller intently gazing at a radar sweep, tracking minimally separated airliners. Except, when there’s no air traffic it searches in vain, and while that gets boring, it affords quality time for controllers to catch up on tower gossip.