Author of the article: Liane Faulder
Publishing date: Feb 16, 2021 • February 18, 2021 • 4 minute read • Gianna Vacirca holding a tray of her homemade pasta - credit to Oscar Derkx. jpg
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Life, from scratch. That’s what Gianna Vacirca is creating in her tiny apartment in downtown Edmonton.
Even as COVID-19 turned a fire hose on her career as a theatre performer, the resourceful actor and dancer has discovered another source of income, and artistry. It’s called bell’uovo (‘beautiful egg’ in Italian), a home-based pasta business that has also proven a satisfying path to her past.
Becky Bohrer February 12, 2021 - 5:32 PM
JUNEAU, Alaska - The head of the Alaska Department of Public Safety said Friday she was asked to resign by Gov. Mike Dunleavy s chief of staff.
Amanda Price, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Dunleavy chief of staff Ben Stevens told her Dunleavy wants âto go in a different direction with Public Safety. When I asked what direction that might be, he had no answer.â
She said she was told she could be removed, without an opportunity to communicate with her team, or tender her resignation and have an opportunity to inform her core team and department.
Print article Amanda Price, the commissioner in charge of Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers, said Friday that she resigned at the request of Gov. Mike Dunleavy. In an email Friday afternoon announcing Price’s resignation as head of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, the governor’s office offered no reason for her stepping down. But Price told the Daily News she spoke to the governor’s chief of staff, Ben Stevens, on Friday and was given a choice: Resign or be fired without a chance to say goodbye to her staff. “It was put to me as I will either be removed or I can submit my resignation,” she said. She said it was important to have a chance to say goodbye, which is why she resigned.
Alaska Public Safety head says she was asked to resign
by Becky Bohrer`, The Associated Press
Posted Feb 12, 2021 7:40 pm EDT
Last Updated Feb 12, 2021 at 7:44 pm EDT
JUNEAU, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office Friday said he had accepted the resignation of Amanda Price as state Public Safety commissioner.
A message seeking additional details was sent to a Dunleavy spokesperson. The brief release announcing the resignation said Dunleavy wished to “thank Price for moving the department forward during her tenure.”
Price was appointed commissioner in late 2018. In a Facebook post, she said her resignation was requested by Dunleavy’s chief of staff, Ben Stevens.
This story was jointly reported by the Seattle Times and the Anchorage Daily News. Alaska officials will allow seafood industry workers from other states equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, a policy shift made Wednesday in the aftermath of outbreaks that flared in plants and offshore processing ships. “While working in our state or fishing in our waters, we intend to protect your workers with the same standard of care we are extending to all Alaskans,” said a letter emailed Wednesday from the office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy to seafood and other industry officials. Alaska seafood workers are vital to producing the fish burgers and other staples of the nation’s seafood supply. They often are at risk for serious outbreaks of the novel coronavirus that in recent weeks has infected hundreds and stalled production at some major plants.