EDITORIAL: Senior care shines
Free Press (Mankato, MN)
Feb. 20 Thumbs up to various nursing homes and senior living facilities for their random acts of kindness and efforts to bring joy to residents lives during this trying time of the pandemic.
Residents of the
Primrose Retirement Community this week were involved in a pay-it-forward program as they provided workers who take care of them with two gift cards one for themselves and one to pay forward to some friend or other in need.
It was a fine way to show the need for human kindness and gratefulness.
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19 Feb 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has been the target of attacks from several directions since photos surfaced Wednesday of him boarding a plane to Cancun, Mexico, while his state was experiencing mass power outages and water shortages amid severe winter weather.
Cruz admitted in an interview with a local outlet Thursday upon his return that the move “was a mistake” and said he had intended to take his family, including his two young daughters, 10 and 12, “somewhere warm” as his home was one of the four million that lost power, as well as one of the many to be left without heat and water.