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“It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the government has never given us anything that we didn’t fight for. She gave everything for this community. She’s the reason me and my family are so firm.”
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) Opening a business during a pandemic can be a challenge and it has been for Tisha and Brian Mack. Fortunately, they ve overcome those challenges, but not every business owner is as lucky. Hiring during a pandemic where it s so up and down. Someone may have the will and want to be available, but we re dealing with COVID-19, said Tisha Mack, owner of The Cave
A host of challenges hit Tisha and Brian Mack before they could even open their doors. The Fayetteville State University graduates say planning to open the full-service spa took two years. Then COVID-19 hit which delayed the opening date to January.
This year, dozens of mothers who wouldn’t otherwise have had access to a doula will receive personalized, hands-on help from doulas and other community health workers before, during, and after their babies are born.
That’s thanks to NHRMC’s Community Health Worker-Doula Program, which officially began in January. The program, funded by a two-year grant, connects pregnant mothers to a community health worker and doulas who will help educate and serve as a support system for the moms during their pregnancies and for up to a year after they give birth.
The program will primarily serve Black mothers in New Hanover, Pender, and Columbus counties, whose babies die more often than do babies born to white or Hispanic mothers. If a Black baby is born underweight which is more likely to happen to Black infants than it is to white infants that baby is almost four times more likely to die.
Recent blockbuster snowstorms may be tied to climate change
Hazleton City firefighter Gregg Steeber clears snow away from fire hydrant on Broad Street, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Hazleton, Pa. Firefighters split up in residential neighborhoods to uncover hydrants buried in snow banks. (Warren Ruda/Standard-Speaker via AP)
Russell, left, and Michelle Hoyer try to find their driveway under the snow in Mount Arlington, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. This week s winter storm appears to have broken a 122-year-old record for the most snow in a New Jersey community from one storm. The National Weather Service made a preliminary report Tuesday that Mount Arlington in the northern part of the state got 35.5 inches of snow in the three-day storm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)