From left to right: Jackie French, Housing Authority Birmingham District; Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson and Tiffany Osborne (at mic), UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center director of community engagement in the Smithfield community during a canvassing event to increase awareness about the COVID-19 vaccines. (Erica Wright, The Birmingham Times)
Times Staff Report
Door knockers about the COVID-19 vaccine hung on over 3,000 doors around the Smithfield community on Monday thanks to the work of some local entities.
Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson, the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) partnered in an effort to help decrease vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine awareness.
Door to door campaign on vaccine safety (Source: WAVE 3 News) By WBRC Staff | April 12, 2021 at 10:03 AM CDT - Updated April 12 at 10:03 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Commissioner Sheila Tyson, Housing Authority of Birmingham District, and UAB’s Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center are partnering to help decrease vaccine hesitancy.
The group will train canvassers to go door to door to hang door knockers informing people of vaccine safety. The canvassers will knock on 3,000 doors around the Smithfield area in hopes to see an increase in vaccinations.
Housing Authority of Birmingham is providing the workers through their Section Three program.
Mangaluru – Bengaluru special train to run daily from April 11
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April 9, 2021
Mangaluru, Apr 9: Railways have announced that the special train between Mangaluru and Bengaluru via Kunigal, which runs on four days a week now, will run on all days from April 11.
The special express train No. 06515/06516 between the city and Bengaluru leaves Bengaluru at 9.30 PM and reaches Mangaluru central at 7.55 AM.
In the return trip, the train leaves from here at 8.10 PM and reaches Bengaluru at 6.50 AM.
A special train between Yeshwantpur and Karwar (06513/14) will leave Yeshwantpur station at 11.45 AM on April 9 and reach Karwar at 3.40 PM the next day.
Cory Pettway, with the Jefferson County Millennial Democrats speaks during a press conference held at W.C. Patton Park in East Birmingham. Pettway is among those calling for justice in the shooting death of 32-year-old Areyelle M. Yarbrough that happened at the park on Sunday. (Erica Wright, The Birmingham Times)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Comedian and Birmingham native Rickey Smiley, the Birmingham Urban League and the Jefferson County Commission are among entities offering a total of more than $24,000 for information about a shooting at W.C. Patton Park on Easter Sunday that claimed the life of a 32-year-old bystander and hospitalized five others including a 5-year-old.
By Erica Wright
Help has arrived.Â
That was a message U.S. Rep. Terri A. Sewell delivered during several stops around the Birmingham metro area as she touted benefits of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for cities and local governments across Jefferson County.Â
âI am thrilled to announce Jefferson County will receive over $127 million and the City of Birmingham will receive over $148 million provided by the historic American Rescue Plan,â said Sewell Monday. âTodayâs visit reinforced the necessity for the critical funding provided by the American Rescue Plan. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, these cities and counties have been on the front lines working tirelessly with little to no resources to ensure that their communities survive this pandemic.â