Managing Director and CEO, JEA
Jay Stowe, the new CEO of Jacksonville’s municipal water and electric utility since Nov. 30, inherited an organization cooperating in a federal grand jury probe and preparing a five-year, $2.5 billion capital investment plan.
His hiring ended a 1½-year period that saw an attempt to sell JEA to a private company, resulting in U.S. Department of Justice and City Council investigations and the firing of former CEO Aaron Zahn and his senior leadership team.
Stowe plans to repair trust within JEA while moving on plans to invest $1.6 million to modernize its its water and wastewater system.
The nation s top doctor recently stopped in Illinois to urge people to get vaccinated. At a Dec. 22 press conference in Chicago, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounted speaking earlier in the day with a nurse at a hospital who worked in an ICU that was at capacity. Even if you don t personally feel at risk from COVID, your actions still can have an impact on you, your family and your community in other ways, said Adams. That full ICU, it s full because there are COVID patients pushing it over the top. That means people facing emergencies such as car accidents or heart attacks could find there isn t a bed for them, he said.
MOLLY PARKER
The Southern
MURPHYSBORO â Mike Mills, who died this week at the age of 79, didnât set out to seed a love of barbecue across the country, well beyond its roots in the South and parts of the Midwest, but thatâs what he ended up doing. After graduating from Murphysboro Township High School in 1959, he enrolled in the first class in the Dental Technology program at Southern Illinois University.
He earned an associateâs degree and moved to Elgin to work in a lab there. After learning the trade, he returned home and founded the Murphysboro Dental Lab. It produced crowns and dental prosthetics for nearly 60 years on 14th Street until it closed in 2019, making it one of longest continuously running businesses in Murphysboro.
CARBONDALEÂ â Just before 9 a.m. Wednesday, health care workers began forming lines near the concession area inside Southern Illinois Universityâs Banterra Center.
Some filed to the left and others to the right as they made their way to tables manned by Jackson County Health Department staff who were administering the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine.
Dr. Andy Riffey, a physician at SIU Student Health Services, was first in line to receive his. âIâm excited about it,â he said after rolling up his sleeve for the injection procedure that lasted less than 30 seconds.
Riffey was at the front of the line because heâd volunteered to help out with the Jackson County Health Departmentâs vaccine clinic after receiving his shot. He was one of two physicians assigned to a waiting area near the door where people were advised to sit for 15 to 30 minutes post-vaccination in the event they would develop a rare allergic reaction or other adverse effects.
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