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âIt just feels so good,â she said. âItâs just amazing.â About four months ago, Flores-Ballesteros donated one of her kidneys to John Brown. Both are educators, and Brown is the spouse of Flores-Ballesterosâs friend and school district colleague Patrice Brown, the principal of Western Guilford Middle School. On Sunday they and their spouses and other family and friends participated together in the 5K event. They wanted to raise awareness about organ donation for everyone, but also especially for people of color. Brown is Black, and Flores-Ballesteros is Hispanic. Organizers of the race helped them out. Anyone who registered for the Pig Pounder event was given the option to donate money to support organ donation as part of the online registration process. They also sold T-shirts designed by Flores-Ballesterosâ husband Jorge Ballesteros. ....
Nearly a thousand health care workers in Ingham County are getting Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine every week. Health Officer Linda Vail says so far, the state has provided her department with 975 doses of vaccine a week. They’re getting an extra dose out of some vials. She says the staff and the schedule would allow for more. “We did ask for the double, 1,950 doses this week, and didn’t get it, Vail adds, but we will be asking again, and I’ve also made a few phone calls.” Vail says the department is vaccinating 350 or more people per day, and could double or triple that if they had enough vaccine. ....
Skip to main content In the nation s capital, Black families reel from the pain of hundreds lost to covid-19, killings Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post Dec. 30, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9People prepare on July 7, 2020, to march on the street where Davon McNeal, 11, was fatally shot by a stray bullet after a July 4 cookout organized by his mother, a violence interrupter trying to persuade the Washington, D.C., community to put down their firearms.Washington Post photo by Jahi ChikwendiuShow MoreShow Less 2of9Medical workers arrive Dec. 22, 2020, in the Carver-Langston neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., which has been hit hard by covid and gun violence.Washington Post photo by Jahi ChikwendiuShow MoreShow Less ....
GREENSBORO â On Monday the week before Christmas, principal Carla Flores-Ballesteros sat in her office at Allen Jay Elementary School in High Point, making the last preparations for a month or so absence because of her upcoming surgery. Meanwhile, at his home in Greensboro, John Brown sat for what he hoped would be his last dialysis treatment. He was in a buoyant mood, the day before his surgery, as workers took away the dialysis chair in the family s sunroom, where he d received treatment for more than a year because his kidneys weren t working properly. There are 3,000 people waiting for an organ transplant to save their lives in North Carolina alone, according to donatelifenc.org. Of those, almost 90% are waiting for a kidney. ....