Florence Nightingale docudrama to be distributed by ZED
Indie producer-distributor ZED announced a new docudrama that will showcase the crucial role nurses play on the frontlines of a pandemic, a topic that has been on the minds of much of the world for the past year.
Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer (pictured) is a two-hour docudrama produced by Tohubohu for ARTE France, directed by Aurine Crémieu. The biopic looks back at Nightingale’s story and follow her footsteps as a pioneer in modern nursing, establishing the first secular nursing school in the 1800s.
The film will use archived material, testimonies and reenactments to examine Nightingale’s legacy including revolutionary views she developers on hygiene and sanitation during the Crimean War, to the school she founded and changes she made in health care.
South Buffalo has hired a second full-time police officer and plans to add a third.
Aaron S. Fuesting, 24, was hired as the department’s newest officer on Jan. 4. After completing training, Fuesting’s first day on duty was Wednesday.
He will make $17.50 an hour.
“It was kind of a no-brainer that I was going to go into police work,” said Fuesting of Harrison. “From a young age, I always wanted to do it.”
Fuesting joined the military when he was 19. He now serves in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 171st Air Refueling Wing.
He said he had family members in law enforcement, inspiring him to follow in their footsteps.
South Buffalo Township Police Department has installed secure boxes for dropping off unwanted medication.
There are two boxes one located at the South Buffalo Township Municipal Building and the other at the Cadogan Township building, where the police department has a substation.
“It’s a no-questions-asked means for people to dispose of unwanted, outdated or expired over-the-counter medication or prescription medication,” South Buffalo Police Chief Jeff Kuntz said. “This is to keep it from being flushed and enter our waterways or being left in the house where children can get it.”
The boxes are not meant for needles, liquids or illegal narcotics, Kuntz said. Police have other means of disposing of those substances.