Family loses everything in Christmas Day fire, new stores coming to Jackson mall: Jackson top headlines Dec 26-31
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
A fire broke out Christmas evening, 2020, in a home on Hutchison Road in Concord Township, destroying the home and leaving Kara Brown and her four children with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Images courtesy Karissa Siegrist.
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Here are some headlines you might have missed this week.
Christmas Day started with presents and sweets, but the festivities would not last.
Five new businesses are coming to the Jackson Crossing Mall.
The former Sears will be converted into five new storefronts, said Patrick Vassar Director of Underwriting for Ignite Funding. Ignite Funding is based in Las Vegas and has developments in 28 states, Vassar said. They chose Jackson because there was a lot of potential for the site.
But Jackson County Health Officer Dr. Jim Shames says a ‘new normal’ will take time.
“We both don’t have enough vaccine nor do we have enough infrastructure to vaccinate everyone at once,” said Dr. Shames.
He says health officials still don’t know if ‘herd immunity’ is possible or how long it will take.
That means the virus can no longer being transmitted anymore either because so many people are vaccinated or already had the disease.
“When you talk about measles, you’ve got to have about 95 percent of the population immunized cause it’s so darn contagious. Covid is less so, but it’s still pretty contagious. We’re expecting that number to be about 70 percent,” said Dr. Shames.