CARBONDALE â As the severity of COVID-19 became clearer and clearer this spring, so did something else: The value of service employees.
In March, early in the pandemicâs spread through the state, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a stay-at-home order that asked residents to limit all travel to essential trips only. The order also shut down nonessential businesses, putting places like grocery stores and other necessary service industry businesses on the front lines. Employees were dealing with throngs of frightened, confused customers trying to get what they needed to stay home and stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grocery store workers suddenly found themselves at the forefront of public health â keeping things clean and sanitized and even trying to enforce mask mandates from the state and their employers.
Got a houseplant as a holiday gift? Learn how to sustain it through winter
Tactical Navigation
by Jason Franchuk
CARBONDALE, Ill. – Houseplants are popular holiday gifts, but caring for them through winter with its shorter days, low humidity and lower light intensity presents challenges. Clinton Chamness, a greenhouse manager at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has tips for winter plant care and suggestions for houseplants that make great gifts.
“Think of winter plant care as keeping the plant in a period of dormancy,” Chamness said. “They often do better when indoor gardeners leave them alone for awhile.”
Here are five tips to help indoor plants survive winter:
Celebrating A Century of NCAA Track & Field Championships
Collegiate Record For BYU’s Andersen
June 13, 2003
It wasn’t until the final water jump that Kassi Andersen of BYU took the lead in the steeplechase at the 2003 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships.
Andersen’s sprint to the finish not only gave her a seemingly easy victory, but her time of 9:44.95 set a new meet and collegiate record.
Though the steeplechase was a new event for Andersen, it came in an event where success was nothing new to BYU – Elizabeth Jackson (2001) and Michaela Mannova (2002) had done the same thing for the Cougars in the NCAA’s first two women’s editions of the event.