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"If you have a moment, take the moment, like I needed to, and just go ahead and get the COVID-19 vaccine. It can even save your life," Golden Keys Learning Center owner Blackshear shared.

Be Kind: Man donates homemade banana bread to show appreciation for essential workers WABC Share: Sean Reynolds of Brooklyn Banana Bread Co. is the owner of a delicious banana bread recipe. Reynolds makes the sweet treats and gives them out to firehouses, police stations, nursing homes, and hospitals to show his appreciation throughout New York. "Ive been donating the banana bread -- its my mothers recipe. Ive been donated it to frontline workers and first responders throughout New York City, a...

When Troia Butchers mother, Katie was admitted to the hospital for a non-COVID-related health issue back in November 2020, she couldnt help but notice the care and attention Katie was given not only by her nurses but all the hospital workers she came in contact with. "The hospital staff, not just her nurses, but food service and orderly, took amazing care of her, even as the COVID cases in our town rose," Troia, an author, speaker, and life coach, tells Sh ape. "I later learned that our hospi...

Share "Gratitude for working and feeling needed helps my mental health." By Tonya Russell February 16, 2021 Nothing could have prepared us for 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a myriad of challenges and changes that, to say the least, have required some major life adjustments. While many people had to shelter-in-place at some point this year with the ability to work remotely, countless...

A local nurse whose home burned down was featured on Dr. Oz’s 2,000th show

Massive snowstorm continues to pummel NYC amid state of emergency Brittany Kriegstein, Denis Slattery, Shant Shahrigian, Morgan Chittum and Graham Rayman, New York Daily News © Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/TNS Snow continues to fall in Queens on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. NEW YORK — Folks using a grade school ruler to measure the snow in much of the New York City area on Monday needed something a little longer after the region got walloped by a massive storm that slow...

The Raise the Wage Act would more than double the current $7.25-an-hour base pay.

Eunice Wambari, an essential healthcare worker from Mississippi, was featured in a virtual sing-a-long with Demi Lovato in the 2021 presidential inauguration special.Wambari said producers of the inauguration special contacted her less than a week ago requesting that she record herself singing the Bill Withers song, "Lovely day." And so she did, right in front of the state Capitol while also getting ready for work. The producers did not tell Wambari how she would be incorporated into the b...

Working from home and showing the Heart of the Hutch A majority of Fred Hutchs workforce is carrying on the mission while working from home January 14, 2021 • By Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service Fred Hutch’s Courtney Smith, working at home, started at Fred Hutch just 10 months ago. She has never been to the Fred Hutch campus or met any of her coworkers in person. Photo courtesy of Courtney Smith Heart of the Hutch: Working From H...