Legislative panel discusses steps to fix organizational lapses at Soldiers’ Home
An ambulance arrives at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke on March 31, 2020. COVID-19 killed 77 veteran residents at the facility. STAFF FILE PHOTO
Modified: 1/24/2021 3:42:59 PM
HOLYOKE Infection control policies, set staffing schedules and protocols for staff training are among measures aimed at improving conditions at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, hard hit by a COVID-19 outbreak last spring.
In a meeting of a special joint oversight committee of the Legislature on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders told lawmakers that interim Soldiers’ Home Superintendent Val Liptak and the team on site are taking a series of steps to make sure that conditions that contributed to the deaths of 77 veteran residents never recur again.
Off The Menu: French fries the stuff of fast-food legend
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
They’re the stuff of fast-food legend.
The “they” is McDonald’s original-formulation French fries. Made from fresh Russet potatoes and fried in beef tallow, the French fries served at McDonald’s restaurants in the 1960s and ’70s supposedly earned the praise of late 20th century food luminaries like James Beard and Julia Child.
Certainly today’s restaurant French fries aren’t often memorable. Industrially processed, flash frozen, and sometimes “coated” to give the product better “plate life,” the modern French fry is nothing like the “pommes frites” from which they are originally descended.
Legislative panel discusses steps to fix organizational lapses at Soldiers’ Home
An ambulance arrives at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke on March 31. COVID killed 77 residents at the home. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 1/21/2021 9:57:01 PM
Infection control policies, set staffing schedules and protocols for staff training are among measures aimed at improving conditions at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, hard hit by a COVID-19 outbreak last spring.
In a special joint oversight committee of the Legislature on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders told lawmakers that interim Soldiers’ Home superintendent Val Liptak and the team on site are taking a series of steps to make sure that conditions that contributed to the deaths of 77 veteran residents never recur.
Clark University in Worcester has secured a $10-million federal grant for workforce training in industries including information technology, advanced manufacturing, and transportation.
Clark, which announced the funding Thursday, was one of 19 recipients nationwide and the only one in Massachusetts. Its share of $145 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Labor will establish a partnership called the TechBoost Program to include the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, the City of Worcester and the MassHire workforce development office in Worcester.
The grant will help partners far beyond the Worcester area. CareerSource Tampa Bay, a workforce development office in Florida and Florida Career College, as well as Partner4Work, a similar agency in Pittsburgh, are part of the TechBoost Program. Two Florida information technology firms are also a part: OwnForce and Lucravalde.
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