Ken Oerter still remembers the day he fell ill with the mysterious sickness that was rampaging across the country, killing children and forcing families to isolate in their homes.
He grew dizzy and weak just before he passed out on the playground of his country school near Reynolds in September 1945. Eight-year-old Ken was eventually loaded into the family car and driven over bumpy back roads to a hospital in Omaha where his parents received the grim news: he had polio, an incurable disease known to cause paralysis or even death.
For Oerter, now 83, and others of his generation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought back memories of the fear and heartbreak caused by polio.Â
Luzerne County must hire a new Convention and Visitors Bureau head because current director Ted Wampole will be retiring Aug. 1 after two years and eight months…
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I don t know what s better, the vintage commercials or the newscast itself!
This is what going down an internet rabbit hole will find you! Vintage broadcasts from Birmingham Alabama in 1990!
But also. look how YOUNG Scott Richards and Janet Hall are here!
The story about the horse being blown from one field to the other is what gets me!
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Ex-nursing home owner gets 2 1/2 years for stealing benefits
April 21, 2021 GMT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A former Connecticut nursing home operator has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for stealing millions of dollars of employees’ benefits.
Chaim Stern, 72, who owned nursing homes in Bridgeport and Waterbury, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in New Haven after pleading guilty to embezzlement and tax offenses last year.
Stern, of the New York City borough of Queens, has already paid $4.9 million in restitution for stealing employees’ pension funds, but he still has to make $2.5 million in restitution for stealing their health care funding and owes $2.2 million to the IRS.
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