Belated ceremony especially meaningful to 2020 MSU graduate
Andy Newberry
Graduation is a milestone. And it’s always a reason to celebrate.
For Kayla Khan, it was even more meaningful after her graduation ceremony was delayed one year. Khan was honored as one of the Midwestern State University Spring 2020 graduating class that walked the stage June 5 at Kay Yeager Coliseum.
Khan earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology (minor in medical sociology). “I see this graduation as a celebration; it means just as much to me now as it would have last year,” Khan said.
Khan’s challenges for her senior year were large-scale, even just taking into account her academic goals. She registered for six classes in Spring 2020 so she could graduate in May.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Wikimedia Commons April 03, 2021 - 7:30 AM If you re a regular motorist on the Coquihalla Highway, you probably love it for the high quality engineering of the road that allows you to cruise at modern highway speeds, unencumbered by traffic, to and from the Lower Mainland to the Okanagan or Kamloops. But you probably have other thoughts during the winter, when metres of snow and ice pile up on the Coquihalla summit, making the roadway below a dangerous and difficult drive. Actually that can and often does happen virtually any month of the year on the Coquihalla. British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway has been a blessing and a curse since the first phase opened in May, 1986, just in time for Expo 86 in Vancouver.
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Image Credit: Submitted/City of Kelowna January 17, 2021 - 3:32 PM One of Kelowna’s favourite wedding locations is on route to becoming protected in perpetuity. The Central Okanagan Heritage Society is asking city council to have the entire 1.26-acre Benvoulin Heritage Park and all its buildings formally designated as a heritage site. Right now, only the church carries that classification. “We are just doing everything we can to make sure that building carries on forever, ideally,” society president Don Knox told iNFOnews.ca. There are about 200 buildings on Kelowna’s Heritage Registry but that does little to protect them from being modified or even demolished.
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Don Knox, executive director of the Home Care & Hospice Association of Colorado, wrote a letter to Gov. Jared Polis on Dec. 7 supporting top priority status in COVID-19 vaccine access for home health care and hospice providers.
These providers âare on the frontlines of the pandemic caring for over 12 million of the nationâs most at-risk individuals annually through over 3.5 million dedicated caregivers,â Knox wrote.
In Colorado, they include physicians, nurses, therapists, home health aides, hospice aides, personal care aides, home care workers and direct support professionals â and more than 60 percent of them report having cared for COVID-infected patients.