Williamson County leaders break ground on Southeast Loop segment 1
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas - Williamson County leaders broke ground Wednesday on the first segment of the Southeast Loop.
Segment 1 goes from CR 138 at SH 130 to CR 137. Construction will begin in July and is projected to last approximately 18 months, says the county.
Leaders in attendance at the groundbreaking were Rudy Metayer and Mike Heath with the Pflugerville City Council, Mandi Villarreal Salvo and Peter Gordon with the Hutto City Council, Hutto Mayor Mike Snyder, Taylor Mayor Brandt Rydell, Hutto Fire Rescue Chief Scott Kerwood and Williamson County Pct 4 Commissioner Russ Boles.
Temperatures in Nanaimo hit 35 C on Tuesday and 37 C on Monday, according to Environment Canada. Andrew Trinder, director of operations, said the building has air conditioning on the main floor but the air flow through the building was not enough to provide relief for those suites on the top floors that don’t have air conditioners. Trinder suspects the residents will be back in the building on Wednesday if it’s safe and comfortable to do so. “They won’t be going back if it’s the same heat we had today,” Trinder said Tuesday night, “but I think we should be good for tomorrow.”
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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo announced Friday the municipal census will be extended to July 31 from June 30 as volunteers begin in-person data collection.
The plan to resume door-to-door census collection follows the ending of the State of Local Emergency earlier this month, the easing of most COVID-19 restrictions on July 1 and community vaccination rates. People uncomfortable with door-to-door interaction will receive a PIN to complete the census online.
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As of Friday, 63.6 per cent of eligible residents in Fort McMurray have gotten their first COVID-19 vaccine dose and 23.6 per cent have been fully vaccinated. In the rural areas, those numbers are 44.1 per cent and 23.4 per cent respectively.
Across virtually every key measure of childhood, progress has gone backward in the 12 months since the pandemic was declared, leaving children confronting a devastating and distorted new normal, says Unicef. Photo: 123rf.com
Ten-year-old Nurfaraiin is terrified of losing her parents to the coronavirus. Every day when her father, a delivery service rider, and mother who is a cleaner, leave for work, Nurfaraiin cries. She is afraid they will come home with the virus, be taken away to the hospital and die.
“Nowadays, she cries a lot, ” says her mother, Nora, 39. “She follows me around the house and when I have to leave for work, that’s when she starts crying. She says she’s afraid I won’t come back.”
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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo announced Friday the municipal census will be extended to July 31 from June 30 as volunteers begin in-person data collection.
The plan to resume door-to-door census collection follows the ending of the State of Local Emergency earlier this month, the easing of most COVID-19 restrictions on July 1 and community vaccination rates. People uncomfortable with door-to-door interaction will receive a PIN to complete the census online.
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As of Friday, 63.6 per cent of eligible residents in Fort McMurray have gotten their first COVID-19 vaccine dose and 23.6 per cent have been fully vaccinated. In the rural areas, those numbers are 44.1 per cent and 23.4 per cent respectively.