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Most city of Pensacola and Santa Rosa County senior dining sites operated under the Council on Aging congregate meal program and will reopen to ages 60 and older on Monday, May 17. The sites closed March 16, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, meals have been available at these sites via a Monday through Friday grab-and-go platform, but now the locations will reopen to 100% occupancy so older adults can resume the daytime activities they depend on.
For those who can and enjoy getting out for lunch, the Senior Dining Program is a neighborhood-based program which offers older citizens the opportunity to share their lunch with others their age. Hot meals are served to active adults 60 years of age and older at numerous locations throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
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Following an extensive national search, Kimberly D. McCorkle has been named as the new Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at East Tennessee State University. She will assume this role in July, succeeding Dr. Wilsie S. Bishop, who is retiring at the end of June following 43 years of distinguished service to the university.
McCorkle comes to ETSU from the University of West Florida, where she has spent the past 19 years and currently serves as Vice Provost and Professor. She was named Interim Vice Provost in 2017 and assumed the role on a permanent basis the following year.
âI am honored to join ETSU as Provost at such an important time in the universityâs history,â McCorkle said. âAs we move forward with our strategic visioning process, I am dedicated to supporting our outstanding faculty as we continue to focus on the mission of supporting student success while providing high quality academic programs and advancing our research contributions.
It is a phenomenon with its roots in the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Many businesses were forced to shut down and send employees home, and the federal government began providing funds to supplement state unemployment checks.
Florida was one of the first states to reopen, and business owners eager to turn a profit and recoup losses rushed to beef up their work force and return to normalcy.
But with other states slower to open, stimulus dollars continued to flow from the U.S. Treasury. Even though federal unemployment insurance payments have been cut from $600 to $300, a Floridian who qualifies for maximum state benefits of $275 still can make $575 a week.