Nurses as real life superheroes celebrate National Nurses Week
The piece honors nurses on National Nurses Week from May 6 to May 12, tracing Florence Nightingale’s legacy and noting nurses as essential, highly educated team players who monitor vitals, chart health issues, advocate for patients, and provide compassionate care in hospitals and clinics. It invites public thanks to nurses like Robert Meier.
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Goose Creek hires three head coaches
Goose Creek ISD adds three new head coaches as it reshapes leadership across athletic programs. School district officials announced hires this week, citing program growth and student opportunity as driving factors behind the changes.
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Letter proposing Cheney as Charter Member of Profiles in Courage
Editor notes Liz Cheney's courage and suggests a House of Representatives edition modeled on John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage with Cheney as the Charter Member. The letter frames Cheney as a representative figure of principle.
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Today in History milestones span US society and world events
On this date from various years, the American Bible Society founded in New York in 1816, Minnesota statehood in 1858, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences created in 1927, Rural Electrification Administration formed in 1935, CARE packages arriving in 1946, a deadly 1953 Waco tornado, the Pentagon Papers end of trial in 1973, Bob Marley’s death in 1981, and a Thought for Today from Irving Berlin.
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Beverly Cleary's influence on boys reading decades long
John Martin recalls Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume shaping boys reading in third grade. Cleary’s The Mouse and the Motorcycle invited reluctant readers into books with a boy and a mouse sharing a language. He notes Cleary wrote to boy readers, showing authentic feelings and countering the idea that books for boys are junior versions of men's adventures.
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Impressions of Goose Creek Journal Entry 1836
Translator Dr Louis E Brister uncovers Edward Harcourt journal detailing a July 1836 Galveston Bay expedition. Entries describe Clopper's Point now Morgan's Point, Goose Creek Bay, Spillman’s Island provisions, field conditions, encounters with R A McGaghren and Mrs Nash, and travel to Galveston aboard the San Jacinto era schooner.
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