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Anonymous ID: f4c67a Sept. 5, 2021, 10:15 p.m. No.14528835   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8841 >>8842 >>8846 >>8902 >>8913

Colorado nurse transforms Covidvaccine vials into a work of art to show appreciationfor health care workers. Laura Weiss told CNN she was a retired nurse when Boulder County Public Health asked for help administering vaccines in February.

"I had noticed all these hundreds and hundreds of empty vaccine vials that were otherwise going to be wasted, and I thought they were just really beautiful and wanted to do something significant and meaningful with them," Weiss said.

Weiss got permission to use the glass Moderna vaccine vials and created a beautiful chandelier.

I realized I wanted to do something with light because I just felt like it's been such a dark and challenging year for so many people that like the idea of bringing a light to this," she said.

 

"I think that light can represent hope and clarity and it also has the potential to actually expand the bigger view and verify perspective."

 

The actual idea of making a chandelier came from an eBay purchase. She found the empty frame online and thought it would be a great vessel for her project.

 

"From a distance…the chandelier just looks like a regular chandelier, but as you get up closer to it, it becomes actually something very different and it changes your perspective," she said.

 

"It reminds me that we can see something one way and as you get closer or look at it differently, our assumptions can actually be very incorrect."

 

The art piece doesn't have a permanent home yet, but Weiss said that wherever it goes, she wants everyone who sees it to understand her intention to honor healthcare workers who put their health and lives on the line during the pandemic.

 

"There's too many people and professions to mention, but especially these nurses who I just witnessed work tirelessly, hours and hours and hours, and days and days and days, without a day off, who just have so much passion and skill, and care and kindness," she said.

 

"How do you say thank you to someone who is just doing so much for others? It's so inspiring."

 

However, Weiss is now giving back and inspiring others.

 

"This light of appreciation art piece is really important because I think we're all seeing this sense of unity at this point as we see the Delta variant surge," Angela Simental, the communications and marketing manager for Boulder Public Health, told CNN.

 

"We're really happy to have this kind of light in art to remind us that we can protect ourselves and others by getting vaccinated by being kind to each other and by honoring the efforts of everybody involved in this."

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/colorado-nurse-transforms-covid-vaccine-vials-into-a-work-of-art-to-show-appreciation-for-health-care-workers/ar-AAO79cn

Anonymous ID: f4c67a Sept. 5, 2021, 10:22 p.m. No.14528853   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8897 >>8923

Colorado has been receiving Afghans for several years, Buzard said.

 

Of the state’s 185 arrivals of new refugees, special immigrant visa holders and Amerasians from Oct. 1, 2020, through June 30, 40.5% came from Afghanistan, according to data from the Colorado Department of Human Services, which oversees the refugee and asylum program.

 

Also, more than one-quarter of the 96 refugees and other arrivals who relocated to Colorado over the past eight months from other states originally were from Afghanistan, statistics show.

 

Lutheran Family Services, the main resettlement agency in southern Colorado, has accepted five cases of Afghan refugees since June 1, of which three have been sent to the Colorado Springs office, Blanchard said.

 

https://gazette.com/news/colorado-organizations-prepare-for-influx-of-afghan-refugees/article_0b0834d8-0060-11ec-b50d-c31b10fd1bac.html

Anonymous ID: f4c67a Sept. 5, 2021, 10:56 p.m. No.14528917   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8922 >>8974

Officials closed a river in California citingtoxic algaeweeks after a family of 3 was mysteriously found dead nearby.

Two weeks after a family of three was found dead on a hiking trail in Northern California, the nearby river area has been closed due to toxic algae, officials said Friday.

 

The Bureau of Land Management issued an emergency closure order for campgrounds and day-use areas located along a 28-mile stretch of the Merced River.

 

"The safety of visitors to our BLM-managed public lands is a top priority," Elizabeth Meyer-Shields, a field manager for BLM, said in a statement. "These algal blooms can produce toxins that can make people and pets extremely sick. We will continue to monitor for the algae's presence and look forward to when the public can safely recreate in the Merced River."

 

On August 17th, the bodies of John Gerrish, Ellen Chung, their one-year-old daughter, Miju, and their dog were found on a trail close to the river in the Sierra National Forest. Officials were mystified by the deaths.

 

Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese said at the time there was no obvious cause of death and no signs of blunt-force trauma, calling it the first incident like this he had seen in his 20 years on the job.

 

"I've worked in different capacities but I've never seen a death like this," Briese told KSEE.

 

Kristie Mitchell, a spokesperson for the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office, told the San Francisco Chronicle thecase was a "very unusual, unique situation."

 

Officials have still not determined a cause of death, but have said they were considering whether toxic algae in the river played a role. Days after the bodies were found, the area was designated a hazmat site.

 

The BLM-managed areas along Merced River will remain closed until at least September 17.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/officials-closed-river-california-citing-040310516.html