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MARY PIEPER
Special to the Globe Gazette
Last year Amanda McNeese, a critical care nurse at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, had the priceless opportunity to walk a COVID-19 patient out of the ICU.
McNeese cared for the patient for 28 days in the fall. He spent 17 of those days on a ventilator.
âHe wanted to make it home before his daughterâs boyfriend graduated from cadet school so it was a big thing for him,â McNeese said.
The patient was released from the hospital in time to attend the ceremony. He has also returned to work.
Itâs rare to be able to walk any patient out of the ICU, especially a COVID patient, according to McNeese.
-Messenger photo by Kriss Nelson
Austin Anliker, of Manson, rakes dirt on what will eventually be a new tee box at Willow Ridge Golf Course. Anliker is a first year student in the Turfgrass Management program at Iowa Central Community College. -Messenger photo by Kriss Nelson
Caleb Harb, of Grand Island, Nebraska, packs the dirt on a new tee box at Willow Ridge Golf Course. Harb is a first year student in the Turfgrass Management program at Iowa Central Community College. Working at the collegeÂs golf course gives the students more handson experience. -Submitted photo
Two of the Turfgrass Management program students build a retaining wall as part of their landscaping education.
Paul DeCoursey
During the NCAA recruiting process, runners typically discuss things like training expectations, academic majors, and team dynamics with a prospective college coach. But Rosalie Fish, who currently runs for Iowa Central Community College, was looking for a different kind of support; the Cowlitz Tribal member wanted to know if she could count on her coach to be an ally.
Since her senior year of high school, the 20-year-old from Auburn, Washington, has dedicated her championship performances to missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) a crisis in which Indigenous women on some reservations are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average,
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Children walk through the Dadaab Refugee camp. This camp is where FourtyTwo stayed before he came to America in 2013. -Submitted photo
This aerial image shows the Dadaab Refugee camp in Kenya. Fourty-Two spent about half of his life at the camp before coming to America in 2013. FourtyTwo Yet
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Children walk through the Dadaab Refugee camp. This camp is where FourtyTwo stayed before he came to America in 2013.
Editor’s note: This is the first story in a two-part series about the life of FourtyTwo Yet, a Sudanese refugee who defied the odds to find success in the U.S.