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Hospice of Davidson County hosted its fourth annual Hearts for Hospice sending its “Cupid Crew” across Davidson County to safely distribute Valentine’s goodies to the agency’s patients and their families. Armed with handmade cards, stuffed animals, candy, flowers and balloons, volunteers dropped off items on the front porches of patients and their families at their homes, and to skilled nursing facilities or at the Hinkle Hospice House.
The crew also surprised and brought goodies to non-Hospice of Davidson County residents at its partner skilled nursing facilities, the Davidson County Health Department and Davidson County Senior Services.
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COVID-19 took the life of Les Brown on Jan. 30, but he was so much more than a statistic of the pandemic to his friends at Davidson County Senior Services who want to be sure people like Brown are remembered for the way they lived, not the way they died.
To honor the memory of older adults in Davidson County that have lost their lives due to COVID-19, Senior Services will hold a drive-thru Luminary Remembrance Ceremony at the Davidson County Government West Campus on Feb.25 beginning at sunset.
The public is invited to drive through the campus to view luminaries and reflect on the darkness of the pandemic and the light of hope ahead. A luminary will be lit for each Davidson County resident age 50 or older who has died because of COVID-19. As of last week, that number was 143.
Lexington clothing boutique, Copper Lane on Main, has closed its doors for good.
Misty McMillion, who opened the store above Textür Salon & Wellness Spa at 113 N. Main St. in September 2020, said the store closed on Dec. 24, a few days shy of its four-month anniversary.
McMillion, who opened her first women s clothing store in Welcome in May 2020, said several reasons played into the closing of the Lexington location. Business never took off like her Welcome location, she said. One, we opened in the middle of a pandemic, she continued. Then everything with the Confederate monument happening in downtown. People were not coming to downtown to shop for months with the protests going on every day. Then so many big events were canceled because of COVID, where I could have gotten word out about the store... And so many people who usually work from offices in downtown are not doing that now. That all hurt businesses.