By Julia Bertino
Photo: WOWT 6 News
(Omaha, NE) After nearly 20 years, Dr. Adi Pour retires as the Douglas County Health Director this week and Omaha s mayor wasn t going to let her leave without a bit of fanfare.
On Tuesday, Omaha Mayor Jean Sothert gave Pour a key to the city and declared Tuesday as “Dr. Adi Pour Appreciation Day.” Back in March, Pour announced her plans to retire this summer during a Douglas County Board of Health meeting. “Because of my age, I think, I had a lot of thoughts about when is the right time. So that’s when I made the decision in June the middle of the summer it is the right time.”
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Portraits of James Scurlock remain scattered across Omaha a year after his fatal shooting.
The plywood displaying his likeness that had covered the windows of a downtown coffee shop last summer now are held in the Durham Museum basement archives.Â
A billboard that demanded Justice for James, which was briefly posted at 72nd and Dodge streets, now is tucked away at the Great Plains Black History Museum.
And in the neighborhood where Scurlock grew up, a massive mural honoring JuJu World has weathered months of storms outside the Easy Drive Package convenience store.
Those permanent relics ensure that a piece of the story of what happened to the 22-year-old will endure â both to remind those who observed last summerâs cascading events and to teach future generations.