Fatherhood, starting business helps senior turn life around
Kara Berg
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Lansing – Martell Davis was one of the first students Catherine Bates met in her role as an assistant principal in the Lansing School District.
Davis was in seventh grade, and even then Bates said she knew he was special.
“His leadership skills as a seventh grader were outstanding,” Bates told the Lansing State Journal. “His ability to convince his peers that his way is right and they should just do whatever he says – it really made him stand out to me.”
Now 18, Davis is a senior at Sexton High School, just weeks away from graduation. He co-owns a business, Lansing Mobile Detail, and is a father to 15-month-old Madalina.
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A Cincinnati Public School is one of the first in the country to pilot Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine s new K-12 COVID-19 testing program for schools, officials said.
Language Enrichment and Academic Proficiency (LEAP) Academy is one of three Ohio schools to pilot the program, ReadyCheckGo, which officials say could eventually be scaled nationwide. Ohio is the first state to test the program, according to a news release from Thermo Fisher Scientific, which developed ReadyCheckGo in partnership with Color Health.
The academy, which opened in August 2017, is a Spanish-language magnet school located in North Fairmount that serves students in preschool through grade 6. Starting Wednesday students, teachers and staff will be screened weekly for COVID-19.
Ingham County, LEAP offering $11 million in business relief grants
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LANSING – Businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic could soon get a piece of $11 million in relief funding coming to Ingham County.
The Ingham County Board of Commissioners last week agreed to give the Lansing Economic Area Partnership $11 million in federal COVID-19 relief money for small business grants. The money would be LEAP’s fourth round of relief grants since the pandemic began and the largest pot of money available to local businesses.
“We are trying to split the $11 million into a pretty wide variety of categories for different kinds of businesses,” LEAP President and CEO Bob Trezise said.