New Waldo County Elder Outreach provides volunteer small home maintenance tasks to seniors
Aging Well in Waldo County partners with Waldo County Masonic Lodges Tue, 03/02/2021 - 6:00pm
Home maintenance is often an obstacle to being able to age in place. Small tasks which were once a simple part of maintaining a home and a property become difficult, dangerous or even unattainable for senior citizens. Things like climbing a ladder to replace light bulbs or batteries in a smoke detector, putting the air conditioner in the window for the summer, cutting up a fallen tree branch after a storm, replacing a board of the front steps – all of these become challenges for people as they age.
(The Center Square) – Enough COVID-19 doses will be available by the end of May that every American adult who wants one can receive it, President Joe Biden said Tuesday,
For Mississippi farmers, the transition between the administrations of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could not be more impactful on any topic more so than in agricultural trade with China.
China is the third leading trading partner for Mississippi exports behind Canada and Mexico, with $759 million in value in 2020 â with that number representing a 63.8% increase over the previous year. That grow came after 2018-2019 tariffs standoff between China and the Trump administration led to hundreds of millions in lost export revenues to Mississippi producers.
A 2020 study by Business Roundtable found that international trade supported 326,200 Mississippi jobs in 2018. The same study found that in 2018, trade with China supported 64,000 Mississippi jobs â which highlighted the need for China to abide by the commitments under the âphase oneâ trade agreements.
Ron James and Retta Feller, the owners of Captain Ronâs Smokehouse and R&R Catering, are usually the first to post online about a new charitable effort or donation jar to support the valleyâs less fortunate, so when a grease fire destroyed their smoker and drink cooler on Saturday afternoon, the community was quick to respond with aid.
âItâs good karma,â Ron said on Monday. âThatâs what we do here, we take care of each other.â
Around 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, a customer at the BBQ shack started honking her horn and alerted Ron that smoke was coming from the rear of the small Driggs business. A grease fire had ignited in one of the smokers.