Baton Rouge Health District encourages locals to get vaccinated via new campaign
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A Baton Rouge healthcare employee receives boxes of COVID SAFE T-shirts.
BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Health District announced Friday (Jan. 8), that it will begin encouraging citizens to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by means of its new COVID SAFE campaign.
The Health District described the initiative as a coordinated outreach effort among its member healthcare institutions that will focus on COVID-19 vaccine promotion and engagement, with healthcare providers and caregivers showing leadership in the community as vaccines roll out.
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Disasters, pandemic, uncertainty challenge nonprofits
While it’s been a rough year for a lot of people, 2020 has been especially tough in southwest Louisiana.
On top of the pandemic and recession the rest of the world has been dealing with, the region anchored by Lake Charles was hit by two major hurricanes this year, including Hurricane Laura, a 150-mile-per-hour beast and the strongest storm on record to make landfall in Louisiana.
Sara Judson, CEO of the Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana, vividly recalls receiving one of the first post-Laura donations. She opened mail with a New York state postmark and unwrapped some brown paper with “Hurricane Laura relief” written on it to find an envelope containing three one-dollar bills. Someone who probably doesn’t have much money to spare wanted to chip in.
Gabriel Bump named 2020 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award
by Chevel Johnson, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2020 4:10 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 4:14 pm EDT
NEW ORLEANS Chicago’s South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump’s debut novel, “Everywhere You Don’t Belong,” which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
The nationally acclaimed award, which recognizes outstanding work from African American fiction writers, is in its 14th year and comes with a $15,000 prize given by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Bump will receive the award in a virtual ceremony Jan. 28.
Chevel Johnson
Gabriel Bump, 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence winner, discusses his novel, Everywhere You Don t Belong, at the county library in St. Louis, Mo. Bump, a Chicago native, now resides in Buffalo, New York. (Kara Hayes Smith via AP) December 21, 2020 - 1:10 PM
NEW ORLEANS - Chicago s South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump s debut novel, âEverywhere You Don t Belong, which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
The nationally acclaimed award, which recognizes outstanding work from African American fiction writers, is in its 14th year and comes with a $15,000 prize given by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Bump will receive the award in a virtual ceremony Jan. 28.