Precious Elders News Today

Randall Kent Mietzner was born on Jan. 26, 1951, in Wendell, Idaho. He died Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, of multisystem failure to thrive following a neck injury that occurred in

E Ala E Hawaiian Cultural Center, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, is hosting a Gala Ball to honor our Hulu Kupuna (Precious Elders)! We welcome you to an evening with Hawaiian-style cuisine, fun and laughter, exciting auctions, and fabulous entertainment by Hawai`i’s own, award-winning, falsetto extraordinaire Kamakakēhau Fernandez and hula dancers from the DMV area! Guests

Alice James — beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, aunt, cousin and goodhearted friend — passed from this life at the age of 104 years, five months, and four days,

“A life well lived is a legacy, of joy and pride and pleasure. A living, lasting memory our grateful hearts will treasure.”

Some of the most significant work during the pandemic has been done by people who are parts in a larger machine, working to make sure the social infrastructure in rural

The Lamoille Area Health and Human Services Response Command Center is that machine. Formed in the early weeks of the pandemic, the command center brought together a disparate group of health and human services organizations under one umbrella. That was no mean feat; the various social services components were busy enough helping their own sectors of society — food insecurity, mental health, restorative justice, substance use, homelessness, unemployment, poverty — even before the worl...