Boston-based Rendever will use a $2 million National Institute on Aging grant to study the effects of its virtual reality platform on senior living residents and their families.
COVID-19 pandemic has had a deadly toll at residential care facilities for the elderly, and cases and deaths dropped dramatically after mass vaccinations
West valley schools: PSUSD transitional kindergarten will be full day for 2021-22
Joan L. Boiko
Palm Springs Unified School District kindergarten classes have been full day for the past several years. Beginning with the 2021-22 school year, all transitional kindergarten classes will also be full day.
Children who turned five years old on or before Sept. 1, 2020 are eligible for kindergarten. Transitional kindergarten is for students who turned five between Sept. 2 and Dec. 15, 2020. Registration is currently underway for all incoming kindergarten and transitional kindergarten students as well as students of all ages that are new to the district.
“Transitional kindergarten can be a transformative experience and purposefully prepare students both socially and emotionally for the academic rigor of kindergarten,” said Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Simone Kovats. “When transitional kindergarten is implemented in a full-day setting, it also allows for addi
Cora Crawford gently laughed when she told the story of her first year in college in Texas studying to be a nurse. She was interested in nurturing. But she figured out pretty quickly she was afraid of dead people” and instead decided to change careers and go into education. The decision was a fortunate one for the children of Palm Springs.
Crawford came to the desert from Carthage, Texas, in 1951, when her husband, Samuel, came back to collect her and bring her West. He had heard that there were plenty of jobs in the desert that paid pretty well and set out for a better life, hoping to get established. He got a job with Earl Neel at the Palm Springs Nursery and soon returned to Carthage to bring Cora back with him to California. The couple landed on Section 14, in the middle of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, and rented a house from Samuel’s brother and his wife. With a place to live, Cora and Samuel started a family.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Deputies found a woman’s body dumped along a rural stretch of road south of Artesia last month, according to a release from Eddy County Crime Stoppers.
The release states that on Feb. 26 around 10:30 a.m. Eddy County Sheriff’s deputies found the body of 29-year-old Stevi Odom-Lynch along an oilfield lease road, near East Kincaid Ranch and North Lake.
“There were signs of foul play involved in her death,” the release states.
The release states that Odom-Lynch was in Albuquerque around Feb. 19 and 20 but was last seen in Santa Fe at the Allsup’s on Vista Del Monte on Feb. 25.