Oklahoma family mourns loss of truck driver killed on I-270
While Perry was checking on two women involved in a crash, a 17-year-old driving a third vehicle hit and killed him Author: Rhyan Henson Updated: 7:24 PM CDT July 7, 2021
ST. LOUIS An Oklahoma family is mourning the loss of a longtime truck driver who died on 270 early Wednesday morning.
Spencer Perry, 66, spent 45 years making a living behind the wheel of a truck. When I was younger, I got to (ride) with him before I started school,” Jason Perry, his son, said. “By the time I started school I had already been to Mexico Canada, Alaska, a lot of different places.
Perry receives scholarship
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ALTON Whitney Perry of Alton has received a $4,000 Resiliency Scholarship to Western Governors University.
The scholarship is designed to assist students with the unforeseen financial struggles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and allow them to continue their course of study.
Perry, a lead medical screener at Aerotek, is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration-Accounting from WGU. She was virtually presented with the scholarship on March 16 by WGU Strategic Partnerships Manager Patrick Devanney. Newsletter signup
Occupation:Â Real Estate
Education/experience:Â BA from University of Texas at Austin. I have been serving the City of Aledo as a commissioner then council member since we moved here in 2014
Family: Married to Whitney Perry with four children. Shepherd (10) - fourth grade at Coder Elementary. Marshal, Vee and Wales (7) - kindergarten at Coder Elementary.Â
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QUESTION: Why are you running for office?
ANSWER:Â I have been serving the city and feel my work is not done. I believe my experience in the real estate business and familiarity with municipal government functions is helpful. My background in the real estate development process.Â
SOMC nurses detail hospital’s 24/7 Covid battle
Those hospitalized for the coronavirus require a lot of medical attention and are hooked-up to many machines like these to battle its harmful effects. Photo courtesy of Amy Fraulini.
SCIOTO Working in any field for three decades typically gives an employee a wide range of experiences and increasingly slim chance for surprises. For one Southern Ohio Medical Center nurse, however that, unfortunately, has not been the case in 2020.
In her 30 years as a nurse, the last 24 as a nursing leader, Amy Fraulini shared in a Wednesday Facebook post how the coronavirus is unlike anything she has seen. It’s been frightening to see this transformation, she says in the post, from a point where the spread was relatively tame this summer to the spiking numbers as of late.