Amanda Rowley RCN presented a Mental Health Employee Award to Dr. Magdelena (Nina) Marcelo (right).
Diane Grondin (right) of Fisher s Drug Store received a Community Champion award from Cathy Watson.
The other Community Champion award went to Innovation Credit Union. Kayla Metlewsky of Innovation Credit Union accepted the award from Marion Palidwor.
Marion Palidwor received a special Champions of Mental Health award from executive director Bob Allen of the Registered Psychiatric Nursing Association.
The entertainment at the event was provided by comedian Big Daddy Tazz, also known as the Bipolar Buddha , who brought some humor to the whole heavy topic of mental health. Photos by John Cairns
Library News: Week of Feb. 7, 2021
The Nobles County Library, 407 12th St., Worthington, is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. The Adrian Branch Library, 214 Maine Ave., Adrian, is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 5 p.m. Friday. 7:00 am, Feb. 7, 2021 ×
The Nobles County Library, 407 12th St., Worthington, is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. The Adrian Branch Library, 214 Maine Ave., Adrian, is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 5 p.m. Friday.
It is time for a little History of Selma Lesson.  Thanks to Randy McFarland, we have access to a wonderful resource book: Centennial Selma, Biography of a California Communityâs First 100 Years.  He wrote and published this book in 1980. Randy continues to be loyal Selma Supporter and Historian.
Did you know?  When the City of Selma started, it was a school system and then quickly acquired a post office for communications.  It had a constable and beyond that, other utilities were missing. During the Wheat Boom, an enterprising businessperson brought water, gas, electricity and telephone services to the community and got a fire department started.Â
CENTRAL VALLEY â With stay-at-home orders lifted statewide last week, local business owners are eager to get one step closer to normalcy.
âOver the last week, people downtown seem really excited that things are opening up again,â said Jeff Dodd, executive director of the Kingsburg Chamber of Commerce. âItâs more of an upbeat feeling among the people Iâve talked to.â
Dodd said that the stay-at-home order had affected local business to the point where the Chamber of Commerce had essentially even shut down, with Dodd and Kingsburg office administrator Barbara Little needing to go to the office just a few times a week.
Fudge, muddle, clarity
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists provides a rough guide to the issues and arguments that will dominate the January 30 Zoom conference
Another Labour Left Alliance conference; another massively overloaded agenda. Over the course of four hours (plus half an hour for lunch) we are going to debate the crisis in the Labour Party and decide what to do next. Doable, if the conference had been organised with a view to achieving clarity. Unfortunately that is not the case. The methods of the labour and trade union bureaucracy have been thoroughly internalised.
There is a mixed bag of eight motions - surely in a calculated attempt to dumb down, all limited to a maximum of 350 words, then nudged up to 400, by the LLA’s conference arrangements committee. This was strongly opposed by Labour Party Marxists. There is also the certainty of various amendments (with no word limit).