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Nacogdoches COVID-19 Call Center recognized as âDo-Gooderâ
Nacogdoches COVID-19 Call Center recognized as âDo-Gooderâ By Donna McCollum | January 25, 2021 at 2:46 PM CST - Updated January 26 at 12:59 AM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Collaborators of the Nacogdoches County COVID-19 Call Center gathered Monday at the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Nursing for an award presentation by the Texas Forest Country Partnership.
The reunion marks ten months to the day when the first COVID-19 question was answered. In two months, volunteers logged more than 2,700 calls.
âWe were trying to put together a response for testing for COVID-19,â explained Ian Gibson, the director of strategy at Nacogdoches Medical Center.
COVID changed everything
Phil and Gay Courter were quarantined on a Texas Air Force base after being flown by military cargo plane along with cruise ship passengers. This photo is taken from the plane. Photo courtesy of Phil Courter Get more from the Citrus County Chronicle
âThis is like a luxury prison.â â Philip Courter, Crystal River resident who, along with his wife, Gay, was among the passengers and crew of the Diamond Princess docked near Tokyo under quarantine in their cabins after a passenger tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. (February 2020)
âWhy? There is no reason why.â â Ernesto âTitoâ Rubio, Citrus County health department director, answering the question: âWhy has Citrus County avoided a confirmed case of COVID-19 so far?â (March 2020)
Residents told Newswatch 16 they ve never seen such a heavy snowfall in their area. Author: Elizabeth Worthington Updated: 8:14 PM EST December 17, 2020
BRADFORD COUNTY, Pa. Pictures from Ulster Township show cars and mailboxes completely buried by snow.
Some of the people we spoke to said they measured about three and a half feet of snow in their driveways Thursday morning.
Folks here are definitely used to heavy snow, but they say this is unusual even for Bradford County. Some said they ve never seen a storm like this in their lifetime. Not in my 20 years of being here and living in Towanda for another 20, not 4 feet in one time, Tammy Harris said.
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lovely lady known as Bev died on November 6, 2020. Bev was born
Beverly Ann Canfield to Charles and Mildridge Canfield in San Luis
Obispo 73 years ago. Bev grew up in Hoopa, where she attended
elementary school and graduated from Hoopa High. After high school
Bev and her friend Judy moved to Oregon to work at a company that
made mobile home vents. Bev had many fond memories with Judy. At one
point someone installed vents backwards and the work crew had to be
uninstalled and redo all the vents. They laugh now, but it wasn’t so
funny then. Sometimes at the end of the month when there wasn’t much