Physical distancing and face masks didn’t stop the semi-normal commencement ceremony from being special.
During the ceremony, Western’s Outstanding Graduates Carly Putnam of Rock Springs and Reese Fullmer of Star Valley spoke to the students about where they have been and where they are going.
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The commencement address was given by former Western 2012 graduate Casey Terrell. He encouraged the graduates to be the person they want to be every day.
Terrell said he knows things may not always go smoothly and sometimes it may seem liked they’ve stopped moving, but don’t let that stop them from keep moving forward.
ALMOST half of people in Basildon and Southend have battled loneliness during the Covid pandemic, with one woman describing lockdown as “Groundhog Day”. An Office for National Statistics survey from October to February asked people if their well-being had been impacted by the pandemic in the past week. Of those in Basildon who said it had, 40.1 per cent attributed this to being lonely. In Southend, 43.2 per cent attributed this to being lonely. Across Britain, the average was 38.6 per cent. Stephanie Thompson, a 43-year-old of Clickett Hill, is one of many Basildon residents who say “lockdown loneliness” has impacted their well-being in the past year.
ALMOST half of people in Basildon and Southend have battled loneliness during the Covid pandemic, with one woman describing lockdown as “Groundhog Day”. An Office for National Statistics survey from October to February asked people if their well-being had been impacted by the pandemic in the past week. Of those in Basildon who said it had, 40.1 per cent attributed this to being lonely. In Southend, 43.2 per cent attributed this to being lonely. Across Britain, the average was 38.6 per cent. Stephanie Thompson, a 43-year-old of Clickett Hill, is one of many Basildon residents who say “lockdown loneliness” has impacted their well-being in the past year.
Shopper Blog: Comics characters and a rethinking of Easter
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WORDS OF FAITH
John Tirro, Shopper News
I’ve been watching WandaVision, in Connecticut, in the last days of my dad’s decline. It’s comforting to me.
Wanda and Vision are comic book characters from my childhood, so it pleases my inner 12-year-old. They’re also movie characters that I enjoyed with my sons when they were 12, and the whole comic book thing ties back to a box of Classics Comic Books from my dad’s childhood, that he gave me early on, which formed a lot of my love of reading (my go-to self-soothing activity) and probably relates to my love of scripture as well. So that’s a lot.
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