Southern Illinois health care workers see first round of COVID-19 vaccine
Mt. Vernon vaccine By Colin Baillie | December 16, 2020 at 8:00 PM CST - Updated December 16 at 8:04 PM
MOUNT VERNON, IL. (KFVS) - It’s a historical day in the healthcare profession in the region, Southern Illinois’s first vaccinations happened on Wednesday.
SSM Good Samaritan in Mount Vernon was the first healthcare group to receive the vaccination.
Thejeswi Pujar was the first healthcare worker to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
he said wanted to be the first, “I want to be kind of a role model and an example to both the healthcare personal as well as the general public as an example. To say it’s pretty safe and I think it’s good.”
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CENTRALIA â Drivers travelling on Whalen Line near Highway 4 can catch a glimpse of some unique Christmas decorations.
The Mills family decided to set up decorations with a âGrandma Got Run Over by a Reindeerâ theme on their front lawn which features lights and mannequins which hearken back to the classic Christmas song.
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Judy Mills said the idea for setting up the eye-catching decorations came after participating in the Villages United Church Halloween Mystery Tour, where homes throughout the community decorated for Halloween and invited those taking the tour to decipher a mystery code to win prizes.
Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC), one of the newest in U.S., risks closure due to market forces
December 16, 2020 (IEEFA) Retiring the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC) will bring unnecessarily abrupt economic hardship to Wise County if state and local officials do not begin to plan now for a transition, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis.
The 8-year-old coal-fired power plant, owned by Dominion Energy through its subsidiary Virginia Electric & Power Co., is at risk of closure as market and policy forces continue to work against its viability.
VCHEC ran at only 19.86% capacity during the first eight months of this year. At its peak performance in 2013 and 2014, it operated at slightly more than 65% of its capacity, but has fallen off over the past two years, to 54% in 2018 and 22% in 2019. If it remains online which is unlikely, the report concludes Virginia Power estimates its annual capacity facto
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CENTRALIA â Drivers travelling on Whalen Line near Highway 4 can catch a glimpse of some unique Christmas decorations.
The Mills family decided to set up decorations with a âGrandma Got Run Over by a Reindeerâ theme on their front lawn which features lights and mannequins which hearken back to the classic Christmas song.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Try refreshing your browser. Centralia homeâs Christmas decorations catching eyes Back to video
Judy Mills said the idea for setting up the eye-catching decorations came after participating in the Villages United Church Halloween Mystery Tour, where homes throughout the community decorated for Halloween and invited those taking the tour to decipher a mystery code to win prizes.