Central Georgia doctors look back on one-year fight against COVID-19
The first COVID-19 case in Georgia was detected on March 2, 2020. Doctors and nurses reflect on the experience and what drives them to keep helping. Author: Katelyn Sabater (13WMAZ) Updated: 6:42 PM EST March 3, 2021
March 2 marked one year since the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Georgia.
Chief Medical Officer at Houston Healthcare Doctor Dan Stewart spent the past year studying the best treatments for COVID-19 patients.
He then shared that information with doctors.
“It was also scary, cause we really were shooting in the dark in those first few days,” said Stewart.
Cr Stewart part of crew that contained TCB fire Gympie councillor Dan Stewart was one of many rural firefighters who battled a blaze near Tin Can Bay yesterday.
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Subscriber only Up to eight rural fire crews took shifts to control the fire yesterday that was burning east, north east of Mt Marlin , a Queensland Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said. Backburning continued until 8pm, when the fire was largely contained except for some patches within the containment, she said. Cr Dan Stewart was fighting the fire until 11pm last night but still managed to attend a Gympie council workshop this morning, councillor Brice Devereaux said this morning on his official Facebook page.
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A complaint against an unnamed former Gympie councillor of giving false information to the public late last year has been thrown out by the State’s local government watchdog.
The anonymous complaint accused the former Gympie representative of providing “false information to the community on December 9 and 19, 2020, in relation to planning instruments”.
The Office of the Independent Assessor dismissed the allegation saying it failed to raise “reasonable suspicion of inappropriate conduct or misconduct by a councillor”. It is the fourth complaint about comments made on social media to be resolved in the past six months; one against Bruce Devereaux was dismissed last week. Picture: Shane Zahner
By: Anjelicia Bruton
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Course for Change is a new mentoring program designed to help Oklahoma City kids have positive experiences through physical fitness.
Many use running as a way to clear their mind, but Course for Change is using it as an avenue to make a difference.
“You can use that as an opportunity to interact with the kids. Just today, the young man I was running with today, we were just having a conversation just about random things, but I think that helps,” Oklahoma City Police Department Cpt. Dan Stewart said. “It makes an impression. I think it’s just something, as kids get older, they can look back on this time as a positive time.”
Accusations of unlawful processes, claims green groups were being held to ransom and a councillor voting against a motion she seconded dominated a heated debate as Gympie Region councillors tried to unravel the mess around their environmental funding grants yesterday. Only one of nine applications for funding drawn from the council s Environmental Levy was deemed valid by staff, and only 40 per cent of the $196,000 up for grabs was recommended to be awarded across four projects proposed by the Koala Action Group, Cooloola Coastcare, Mary River Catchment Co-ordinating Committee, and Gympie and District Landcare. The groups had already waited months for the grants to be awarded, a delay they criticised and called unprecedented .