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Iditarod officials contact tracing after positive virus test BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) A musher taken out of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after testing positive for COVID-19 at a checkpoint is believed to have been exposed by a person who had been in his quarantine bubble before the race started, a doctor working on the race said Thursday. Dr. Jodie Guest, an epidemiologist working on the race, told reporters musher Gunnar Johnson and all other mushers tested negative on March 4 and all were also tested on Sunday, before the race start. On March 5, Johnson was in a vehicle with a person “who was part of two people in his bubble that he was quarantining with prior to the race, between his 14-day-before-the-race and his three-day-before-the-race test,” she said. ....
Katie Couric is thankful yet emotional that she s a guest host for Jeopardy! In an interview with People magazine, the first-ever female guest host revealed the show holds a special place in her heart because she watched it with her late husband, Jay Monahan. Monahan was 42 years old when he died of cancer. I love watching the show and used to watch it all the time with my late husband, who was good at it. Now that she s married to John Molner, they re still doing the tradition of watching the famous game show. I watch it now with my current husband, but I think it has a special place in my heart because Jay loved it so much. ....
Print article Michael Meisake leaned back in his bunk early Tuesday morning as he listened to reggae music through his phone speaker and dug into a plateful of scrambled eggs. The 50-year-old guest of Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage had just received his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and he was feeling good. “I’m not scared of needles,” he said. “A couple of my friends had sore arms, a little pain after the first shot, but not me.” A year ago, Alaskans were first told to stay home to protect themselves and others from a strange, new virus. ....
Jeopardy! Next Guest Host: Will Ken Jennings Return and Be Alex Trebek s Permanent Replacement? Jeopardy! already has a guest host list for this year. However, most fans want to see Ken Jennings again. After Alex Trebek died in 2020, his position on Jeopardy! became available to be filled by a deserving host. Since the game show was yet to find the perfect replacement, they hired Jennings to spearhead several episodes. Before leaving his post, he revealed how fortunate he was to be able to watch the original host. Stepping in as a guest host was incredibly humbling, emotional and a lot of fun. It will forever be the honor of my life, he said on the Jeopardy! website. ....
Wilkes University March 8, 2021|Submitted by: Today@Wilkes The Division of Global Cultures introduces the second in a series of guest lectures this semester with “ Music as a Globalizing Force,” presented by Adam Zanolini, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, via Zoom. Ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Adam Zanolini is a jazz artist and arts organizer based in Chicago, originally from Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His PhD research examined the sustainability of Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago, focusing on key figures in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a Black musicians collective founded in 1965. Currently, he is the Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation, a Chicago multi-arts ....