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Catherine Bernard, Aspen Valley Hospital’s chief of medical staff, remembers how that week played out in the emergency department.
“We were frightened,” she said. “Despite our training and our systems, the frontline workers were scared.”
With precautions and adaptations, they were able to overcome that initial fear. Time and experience made the situation a bit more manageable.
“It was a jump into the very cold deep end,” Bernard said. “It felt like in March, we saw very sick patients. I specifically saw very sick patients – some of them much older than me, and some of them even colleagues. That really brings it home and makes it very frightening.”
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Nancy Wilhelms started writing her book – “Yes! You Can Do It! The Young Woman’s Guide to Starting a Fulfilling Career” – two decades ago.
She put it aside as her own career accelerated, eventually landing her a post as executive director at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, which she left in January 2018.
When she stepped down from the Ranch and started a nonprofit consulting firm, Wilhelms revisited her manuscript and took a trip to Mexico to dig back into the book. The working world it reflected, she found, had transformed with more women in leadership posts and few careers shut off for women, as they seemed to be when Wilhelms began her career as just about he only photojournalist in Milwaukee a generation ago.
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Results from more than 1,000 free COVID-19 tests administered in the Roaring Fork Valley between Feb. 13 and Feb. 16 have been delayed because of winter weather in Texas.
Collage of the Aspen City Council candidates 2021. Top row from left: Sam Rose, Erin Smiddy, Casey Endsley, John Doyle; second row from left: Ward Hauenstein, Jimbo Stockton, Mark Reece, Kimbo Brown-Schirato.
Of the eight candidates vying for two seats on Aspen City Council, four of them did not vote in the last municipal election, and all of them have not attended a council meeting in years, except the incumbent, and only two said they have not violated local COVID-19 public health orders.
Those revelations, among others, were made public Thursday during the traditional, albeit non-traditional Zoom platform, Squirm Night debate among the candidates hosted by The Aspen Times, Aspen Daily News and GrassRoots TV.