Barbara Ann Mitchell, nee Butterworth, had been suffering with dementia and died on January 23, aged 85. She died in her sleep at a care home in Somerset, where she had been loved and looked after for three weeks. Mrs Mitchell was born and raised in Leytonstone, but evacuated to Ashton Keynes, near Swindon, during the Second World War. She married husband Bill in 1975, having met the previous year when they were both teaching at the General Nursing Council in London, and their son, David, was born in 1976. Two years later, the family moved from London to Frinton. Mrs Mitchell’s mum had bought a bungalow there and, when helping her move, they decided it would be a good place to bring up their family.
County council approves 2021 budget
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By Lethbridge Herald on December 23, 2020.
Lethbridge County Council approved both the 2021-2023 Operating and 2021-2025 Capital Budgets at last week’s council meeting. The operating budget expense totals $28,050,645 for 2021, while the capital budget amounts to $9,215,000. The total tax support increase for 2021 is projected at 0.973 per cent and 0.109 per cent after assessment growth. “This has certainly been a challenging budget to put together,” said chief administrative officer Ann Mitchell in a news release. “We saw a large reduction in grant funding for 2021, and paired with significant costs downloaded to us by the province, we had some tough decisions to make. Administration worked diligently to find as many efficiencies as possible while still maintaining a high level of service for our citizens and businesses.”
In the spring of 2020, praising front-line health-care workers was all the rage. Many of these too-often-underpaid heroes were putting in daunting hours, quarantining from their children and loved ones and, in some cases, dying from the very pandemic they were trying to stop; praising them was the least we could do. People rigged up homemade masks so that doctors and nurses could get the real thing. Little Caesars flooded hospitals with pizzas, Krispy Kreme plied them with free doughnuts, and artists celebrated the medical community on magazine covers and city walls.
The art was overwhelmingly positive, fueled by hope: Our country might be shutting down, but at least we were getting along.
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‘A sense of peace’
Before the pandemic, hospice volunteers could hold patients’ hands and talk with them face-to-face. They’re still finding ways to keep patients comfortable and that connection helps the volunteers, too. By Amy Halpern |
December 21, 2020
Musician Nina Falk from the nonprofit A Musical Heart performs outside Casey House in Rockville. Photo by Lisa Helfert
In February 2016, Tom Hall turned to his wife, Lisa, after dinner in Dupont Circle and told her he couldn’t figure out the 20% tip. They both knew
right away that something was terribly wrong. Tom, a high-ranking CIA executive, was “brilliant a Ph.D.-level mathematician,” Lisa says.