Copy shortlink: Love blooms and families find root in the most unexpected places.
So it goes that Reggie and Valerie Hayes and their three youngest children this week visited oldest child Jacori, 30 years after Mom and Dad met so far from home on orientation day of a 3M internship in Maplewood.
She was Mississippi-raised and Memphis State-educated, an electrical engineering student soon to be 21. She spotted an ad in a technical magazine seeking applicants for a summer work program in Minnesota, of all places.
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Rescue service urges people to avoid Wicklow mountains
Updated / Monday, 11 Jan 2021
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A garda checkpoint in the Wicklow mountains
A spokesperson for Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue team has said it was seeing large numbers of people visiting local uplands.
There were more people in the Wicklow mountains than expected for the population in those areas, Valerie Hayes told RTÉ s Morning Ireland.
Covid-19 means the rescue teams need to respond to call-outs in their private vehicles and large volumes of traffic are making it more difficult for them to attend emergencies.
Ms Hayes said a colleague reported that it took them 45 minutes for a journey that usually takes just 15 minutes.
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No one has told the cats and dogs of Northwest Georgia about the coronavirus or sheltering in. They continue to multiply and often find themselves homeless, hungry and sick, says North Georgia Animal Alliance president Valerie Hayes.
âAt the height of kitten season this year,â says Hayes, âwe had over 170 cats and kittens in foster care-adoption system, as well as a number of dogs. We still have well over 100.â
Hayes says the need to provide vet care, medicines and spay or neuter for so many animals did not change this year, but the ability to raise funds did.
âWe have incredible regular supporters and we benefited from some good grants this year,â Hayes says, âbut some of our fundraising events had to be cancelled, including our annual yard sale and all our fundraisers at local restaurants like Chick-fil-A and others.â