State of Emergency declared for Monroe County s COVID-19 situation
Monroe County officials have taken the unusual step of declaring a Local State of Emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This declaration pertains to public meetings; and is one of several steps that local authorities have taken in recent days to respond to an increase in COVID-19 cases.
The order was signed by Mark Brant, chairman of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners; and issued Wednesday by Monroe County Emergency Management division.
Mark A. Hammond, director of the county’s Emergency Management Division, said the declaration was issued to allow all government bodies in the county to continue meeting virtually if they want. Councils and boards also have the option of meeting in person, but must adhere to the limit of 25 people due to COVID-19 restrictions imposed by federal and state authorities.
It s said that we know when it s our time to pass on.
That s what medical professionals told the Mendoza family earlier this year, when their father was lying weak in a hospital bed breathing almost solely with the assistance of a BiBAP machine and battling a deadly respiratory virus.
And after about a week spent in the Intensive Care Unit at ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital, Carlos Mendoza Sr., 79, began tugging at the mask of his breathing support machine, signaling to doctors that it was almost his time.
Although a difficult reality to face, the Mendozas were thankful that ProMedica personnel could read the warning signs. It gave them time to say goodbye.
105-year-old Michigan woman has lived through two pandemics and keeps on going
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
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MONROE, MI Marion Yoas has survived two global pandemics in her 105 years and has no plans of missing out on whatever comes next.
Yoas, who was a young child then, lived through the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide, 675,000 of them in the U.S.
And this week, from a rocking chair in the living room of her home in Newport, north of Monroe, she said she’s been toughing out the current COVID-19 pandemic, just like everyone else she knows.
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4 brothers rescued an elderly Monroe County man trapped in freezing pond
By Jack Nissen
RAISINVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Authorities in Monroe County say an elderly man was rescued from drowning after four brothers sprung into action Sunday afternoon.
The Monroe County Sheriff credited the actions of four brothers with saving the life of an 81-year-old man from the area
The informal rescue operation happened in Raisinville Township after Paul Motylinski was traveling down Custer Road when he noticed someone had fallen through the ice of a nearby pond.
The individual appeared to be in distress and only his head and upper shoulders will visible.