Hundreds of thousands Trump supporters turned out at the nationâs capital on Jan. 6 on the day of a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes and certify former Vice President Joe Biden as President Elect.
As a working journalist with 25 years experience, and having covered local and state events and politics, I was more than curious to attend the Washington, D.C. rallies held in response to what is perceived to be a âstolen election.â
I joined with my brother, attending from Ohio, along with 55 others in the Women for Trump â Ohio group who had engaged a bus to go to D.C. This bus was one of 60 buses full of Trump supporters from Ohio who wanted a fair vote count and investigation into the alleged election fraud.
Disability advocates call for easier access to life-changing technology
Tammy Martin has spent more than a decade helping young students with special needs learn to read a skill that she, too, would struggle with if not for a state-of-the-art device that allows her to clearly see the words on the page. The educational assistant from Truro, N.S., is one of the many Canadians with a disability requiring the use of life-changing, but often prohibitively priced, assistive technology that advocates say needs to be more accessible.
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Assistive devices can improve quality of life, but their high cost keeps them out of reach for many
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
DANBURY On the highway just north of LifeBrite Hospital there’s a billboard with an image of a person emerging from a tunnel into the light. The message, of course, is that these two new vaccines arriving this week will help bring COVID to an end … eventually.
That can’t happen soon enough for the staff at LifeBrite.
After interviewing Stokes County Health Director Tammy Martin and Director of Nuring Candice Fulcher about the pandemic, last week I spoke to LifeBrite Administrator Pam Tillman about the state of the hospital in the current COVID climate.
GO NZ: 10 of the best places to learn to surf in New Zealand
16 Dec, 2020 05:13 PM
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Surfing can be fun for any one - you don t have to be as experienced as these Southland locals. Photo / Jeremy Pierce
Surfing can be fun for any one - you don t have to be as experienced as these Southland locals. Photo / Jeremy Pierce
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By: Jessica Wynne Lockhart
Snotty saltwater streaming out of my nose, I blink back the tears; my natural reaction to fear. Behind me, my instructor s hand is on my board, guiding me through water that can t be more than chest-deep. Around us, families frolic in waves that gently crest and crash towards the shore.