Mar 10, 2021 8:00 AM
A giving heart, an industrious soul, a loving and wonderful wife and mother, Joan died peacefully at St. Andrews Village early on March 6, 2021. Despite pandemic restrictions, her daughter Melissa had seen her less than 24 hours before her passing and had let her know how much her family loved and adored her and wanted her spirit to be peacefully released.
The daughter of Duane Stigers and Jean Dickey, Joan was born in Punxsutawney, Pa. on March 28, 1932. Raised in Indiana, she attended Horace Mann School and graduated from Indiana High School. When the Indiana Junior High school underwent renovations in the early 2000’s, she was the driving force behind saving the bas-relief of a WWI doughboy on its north side.
Local News Briefs: Robotics in surgery is topic of podcast
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Robotics in surgery is topic of podcast
ZANESVILLE - Robotics and Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery is the topic for the latest edition of the Sounds of Good Health podcast from Genesis HealthCare Systems.
Dr. Atiq Rehman, chief of cardiovascular surgery, will highlight the advantages of robotic assisted bypass surgery including quicker recovery and smaller incisions. The podcast can be found at genesishcs.org/podcast.
Library trustees to meet
ZANESVILLE - The Muskingum County Library System Board of Trustees will have a special meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday via Zoom. The purpose is to discuss personnel issues.
Mar 6, 2021
ENDING HUNGER: The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown are collaborating with the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Villa Maria, Pa., to combat hunger. Catholic Sisters Week is Monday through Friday. The annual event emphasizes all the good that avowed religious women contribute to society.
The two local communities, who separately offer many ministries in the Mahoning Valley, are asking lay partners also to answer the call to combat hunger.
Various parishes have been collecting canned goods for food banks including the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Second Harvest Food Bank.
The Diocese’s five Early Childhood Learning Centers have asked parents to collect food for either their local church pantries or St. Vincent de Paul.
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A month into a hunger strike protesting the relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding business to the Southeast Side, activists said they were ending their campaign and noted their disappointment that Mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t meet with them.
Yesenia Chavez, a lifelong resident of the Southeast Side and one of the first four hunger strikers, said at a rally Thursday night that she lost 17 pounds and experienced a host of physical and psychological stresses.
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“I was 134 pounds when I started. Today I am 117 pounds,” Chavez told a crowd of around 150 supporters outside Grace United Methodist Church near Lightfoot’s house in Logan Square.
Only Hackensack sees huge increase
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Pine River Area Food Shelf Coordinator Joanna Perry stands next to the protein selection at the food shelf Tuesday morning, March 2.Travis Grimler / Echo Journal
While 2020 was tumultuous for much of the world, locally an abundance of groups worked to keep people fed and, as a result, some food shelves saw fewer people requesting their services.
Area food shelf directors attribute that to more federal money available to people, COVID-19 relief checks distributed in 2020 and popup pantries occurring in the area.
“We were always ready. We just expected this great big turnout so we were always ready. But it just never happened,” said Doris Mezzenga, Crosslake Food Shelf director.