Nursing homes fight isolation in lockdown with furry robots
MARDI LINK, Traverse City Record-Eagle
April 3, 2021
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EAST JORDAN, Mich. (AP) Mary Ecker is one of about 100 elders who live at Grandvue Medical Care Facility, a county-owned nursing home a few blocks from the south arm of Lake Charlevoix.
Outgoing and naturally optimistic, Ecker has lived at Grandvue for 16 years. She’s happy there, yet said she feels nostalgic for the small farm in Burt, a four-corners near Saginaw, where she grew up.
She especially misses the family’s dogs.
“I’ve had dogs all my life,” Ecker told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. “If you would come in my room right now, you would see nothing but pictures of dogs. I like any kind of dog, but I favor the smaller ones.”
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Midland County adds 17 COVID cases Friday
One new death recorded in local region
March 5, 2021
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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (Photo provided/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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I love Steph Curry, but Jason Richardson s Warriors tenure was everything I miss about the Bay Area
Alan Chazaro
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Two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion Jason Richardson, who played for the Warriors from 2001-2007.Antonio Losada/Special to SFGATE
Jason Richardson isn’t the greatest Golden State Warrior of all time. That honor goes to Steph Curry. Jason Richardson isn’t even the greatest dunker of his day. His peer, Vince Carter, was.
But Golden State’s former No. 23 forever known as J-Rich in the Yay
is the best tomahawker to roam our home court and an indisputable legend. Because for a brief period, Dubs fans could say that one of our own kin, a Warrior, was the Slam Dunk King.