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A wave of color sweeps into local offices Top, left to right, Tim McGowan, Yasmeen Bankole, Curtis Bradley, Tayyaba Syed, Steve Wang, Erin Chan Ding. Bottom, left to right, Dan Choi, Syed Hussaini, Sol Cabechuela, Paul Leong, Shweta Baid, Ian Holzhauer. These are just some of the minority candidates who ran successfully for municipal and school board offices in the April 6 election.
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A wave of minority candidates from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds swept over the suburbs during the spring elections, as dozens of contenders stepped up to seek positions on municipal, school, township, library and park boards.
Indian Americans host mass vaccination clinic in Aurora Marco Barajas, Pharm. D, VNA clinical pharmacist and vaccination clinic lead, prepares a dose of the Pfizer vaccine during the Indian Vax Aurora event April 14. Courtesy of VNA Health Care
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As the largest community health center in suburban Chicago, VNA Health Care was happy to respond to the call for assistance from Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple leaders who were seeking to bring COVID-19 vaccination services to the Aurora community s South Asian and Southeast Asian residents and neighbors.
Since the onset of the distribution of vaccines, VNA has provided all immunization services in a series of vaccine equity events held in Aurora, the second largest city in Illinois, and Indian Vax Aurora proved to be a timely way to honor the Hindu New Year and provide this essential service.
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th Ward Alderman seat in Aurora, Illinois.
Baid led Nair by 35 points as polls closed April 6, with a firm lead to take over the seat left by Judd Lofchie.
According to results, Baid earned 1,247 votes to Nairâs 596.
Baid, 45, is a small business owner. She is involved with the community as a community volunteer; Indian American Community Outreach Advisory Board member; and volunteer at several Indian Prairie schools for art awareness, cultural programs and STEM projects.
Additionally, Baid has been a math and computer science teacher, and also has worked as an information technology manager for various companies, including large banks, her bio notes.