Gene Smirnov
“I m just hoping to create those good memories, so she won t remember all this, so it won t be at the forefront for her,” Latrish Oseko told me. She was planning a fifth-birthday party for her daughter, Ka’laya, and some of her friends. They were going to Sky Zone, a trampoline-park franchise, near their home in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a birthday celebration, but also a moment to rejoice that they’d made it through a terrible year and that they had a home again.
Oseko knew she was in trouble as soon as the pandemic hit. “I was a contract worker, so I thought I would probably be one of the first people to be laid off,” she said of her job as an administrative assistant. Sure enough, her employer cut her hours in half at the beginning of April 2020. A month later, they dropped her entirely. Her boyfriend, Keith, was able to hold onto his job at a local university, though he was furloughed for a period. “But I was glad he was able to stay employed,”
Tatiyana Welch honored as Terra s Rotary Student of the Year
FREMONT - Terra State Community
College student Tatiyana Welch has been named the College’s Fremont Rotary Student of the Year. Welch credits Terra State for finding her and seeing her potential to succeed.
“I found myself stuck in between options. I didn’t know what to do,” said Welch, “It’s not like I had to fit their box but more like everything that made up Terra State Community College molded itself to fit my mindset and to set me up with the best possibilities I could have.”
Welch, from Fremont, graduated from Terra State this month with an associate of arts degree, focusing her classes in education. She was presented the perseverance award at commencement, in recognition of the strength she displayed as a student.
Updated: 4:15 AM EDT May 14, 2021
BACK MOUNTAIN, Pa. It s a way to go topless this weekend, with your jeep, that is!
Go Topless Day is an annual worldwide tradition for the Jeep community to celebrate the start of Spring by taking off their Jeep tops.
Blacktop Warriors Jeep Club is hosting a Go Topless Day event this Saturday, May 15, at Frances Slocum State Park in Kingston Township in Luzerne County. The event benefits the cancer resource and wellness center Candy s Place.
The event will start off at Candy s Place at 190 Welles Street in Forty Fort at 10:00 a.m.
Go Topless Convoy will depart from Candy s Place approximately at 11:15 a.m and start out on a breathtaking country ride through the Back Mountain area and along the Susquehanna River. Upon arrival at Frances Slocum State Park, the jeeps will take a slow tour of the park and then be parked for the judging contests.
We love our beaches. And we love our parks and preserves. But sometimes in sunny Florida you just gotta get indoors. Especially now when regardless of what the calendar says, the weather screams “summer!”
So, yeah, now that you’ve posted that vaccine selfie, go ahead and mask up and have some fun inside, where you also don’t have to worry about our infamous afternoon thunderstorms. We’ve included our picks for best air-conditioned family activities as well as adults-only date night recommendations.
You will also find some great restaurant, bar and ice cream shop suggestions mixed in among these 21 places to have fun indoors across Sarasota and Manatee counties.