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THERE ARE question marks over the rebuild of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory after a tender for the work proved too expensive – resulting in those leading the project to rethink their plans.
An enhanced building, costed at £7.4 million, has already secured planning permission after the former observatory was destroyed by fire nearly two years ago.
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But Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust chairman Douglas Barr said the charity is now looking at other options after a contractor priced the work well above the project’s budget.
“It means therefore at present we will not be reopening in 2021 or 2022 and will aim for doing so in 2023,” he said in an update to local residents at the end of January.
Vera Grace Moran is a five-year-old girl from Fairhaven. Although her parents have been very strict about keeping Vera and her sisters, Elle and Reis, safe during the pandemic, her family contracted COVID-19 shortly after Christmas and remained in quarantine for two weeks.
Vera’s case was mild, with symptoms only lasting 24 hours on Sunday, January 3. By Wednesday, January 13, the family completed their quarantine and thought they could put the virus behind them.
On Tuesday, February 2, Vera was extremely tired and started a high fever of 103.5. Vera’s mom, Stephanie Poyant-Moran, was very worried.
“I called her doctor and they said to keep an eye on it and let them know if anything changed. The fever remained that high for 48 hours, even with alternating medications to bring it down, she said. She developed a rash on Thursday morning and that was the last straw. We brought her to the pediatrician and they immediately called Boston Children’s Hospital to contact the COVI
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NEW BEDFORD The pandemic hasn t made it easy on anyone s interpersonal communication, especially those in nursing and assisted living homes. Luckily, residents in Greater New Bedford facilities will receive valentines from SouthCoast families this week.
It began with a fundraiser last March, called FaceTime for Nana, in which a New Bedford Public Schools nurse and a speech therapist teamed up to raise more than $6,000 to purchase iPads for those in nursing homes who could not have family visit at the beginning of the pandemic. The fundraiser granted 20 iPads to Autumn Glen’s memory unit in Dartmouth and Alden Court Nursing Care and Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center in Fairhaven.