They all got into the car and headed to the Main Gate. My wife had this gut feeling to get in the back (seat) and we made it to two stop signs from our house we don t live very far from the gate and she just started saying, Grant, this baby s coming now, pull over at the gate, Grant said.
Grant parked, alerted the guards on duty that night and asked them to call 911. I think we were all, for the most part, keeping our calm, Grant said. (The two Security Forces guys) were ready to go. Those guys were amazing. They were so helpful.
Alamogordo Public Schools Health Director shares lessons of COVID-19
Lisa Patch has been busier than usual this year.
Patch is the health director at Alamogordo Public Schools which reopened its facilities to all students fulltime and in person on March 29.
From the COVID-19 public health crisis to a revamped Winnebago named FLO, Patch has kept up with the changes COVID-19 forced and worked with her team to make sure that when Alamogordo Public schools reopened that all health protocols were ready for fulltime in-person learning.
The process was long, Patch said. If there is anything positive that s come out of all of this is our ability to be flexible and transition to learning virtually very quickly, Patch said. Some of the other things that will have long-term positive effects are all of our outdoor learning spaces. anytime the kids are outside, it s a good thing.
HOPE task force holds drive thru health and wellness fair
Following a year of changes where drive thru parades and virtual learning became the norm, the HOPE Task Force was set up at Alamogordo Public Schools.
HOPE is short for Healing Opportunities Prevention Encouragement and it held its first health and wellness fair in the parking lot of the Tay Center, 2235 North Scenic Drive in Alamogordo, on April 17.
The fair included booths from local domestic violence shelter the Center of Protective Environment, or COPE, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Otero County, Alamogordo Police Department and the APD Mobile Crisis Response Team, 12th Judicial District Attorney s Office, 100% Otero, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center and more.
Teresa Ham, nurse and Flickinger Center head passed away at 77
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Teresa Ham died following a brief non-COVID-related illness on April 2, 2021. Teresa was born in Savannah, Georgia on October 20, 1943 to Pickney and Velma Newman.
Teresa was remembered in the Alamogordo community not only for her work at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, but her service to the community.
Ham was a board member of the Rotary Club and was actively involved with the Rotary Mexico Medical/Dental Mission from 1978 to 1989. She assisted the doctors on trips to remote locations in Mexico as the medical providers provided eye care to those in need.