First patient treated for COVID-19 at St. Vincent s Medical Center gets vaccine
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 23, 2021, 7:49pm EDT
The first patient to be treated for COVID-19 at St. Vincent s Medical Center, who was in a coma for two months, received his first vaccine Friday.
Rodney Davis, 22, got the vaccine at Sacred Heart University with his mother. He is originally from Venezuela.
Davis says he s very happy to finally get the shot.
He will be attending Sacred Heart University and taking ESL classes before majoring in nursing.
Davis says after his experience, nursing is the best way to help people.
Brewer hopes to inspire POC to get involved in craft beer with scholarships
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Jamal Robinson, director of sales at New England Brewing Co., wants more People of Color to join him in Connecticut s craft beer world.Winter Caplanson / Contributed photo
When there is talk about encouraging more diversity in craft brewing, people often focus on the financial opportunity it affords. They point out, for instance, that craft beer is an $83 billion industry, employing more than a half-million people, but only 5 percent of those who work in the industry are People of Color.
But as important as these stats are, Jamal Robinson, director of sales at New England Brewing Co. (NEBCO) in Woodbridge, has an additional reason to encourage more people from diverse backgrounds to enter the craft beer world: so that they can experience its culture and community. “Craft beer has given me so much, from a career to some of my best friends and my girlfriend, to the awesom
Independent News Briefs, April 28
Independent News Briefs, April 28
The Middletown Arts Center is calling for submissions to The MAC One-Acts, a play-reading festival featuring original, one-act works by New Jersey playwrights. The deadline for entries is May 10th.
The MAC will present this year’s festival outside, under the arts center’s patio canopy, on June 9 at 7 p.m. The live reading will feature three selected plays read by local actors, according to a press release.
Submissions from playwrights age 13 and older will be accepted and must be original, unpublished scripts adhering to standard professional play format with a run time of no longer than 30 minutes. At this time, the festival is only open to New Jersey residents. The submission guidelines and form can be found at www.middletownarts.org/mac-one-acts
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Former Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine: ‘I shouldn’t have taken that job to begin with. I should have stayed at ESPN’ (report)
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Former Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said he should not have taken the job. (Associated Press, Winslow Townson)AP Photo
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Bobby Valentine told The Boston Globe’s Stan Grossfeld that he should not have accepted the Boston Red Sox managerial position almost 10 years ago.
The Red Sox finished last in the AL East under Valentine in 2012, his only year with the organization. He was fired when the regular season ended.