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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Black achievement isn't just reserved for one month and a 2021 calendar to highlight the important work of Black men 365 days a year in Palm Beach and Broward counties is set to be released this weekend.
For six years, the organization SHE Holdings LLC has held a black-tie event to release the Project 12 calendar. The event and the calendar are meant to empower and inspire South Florida's Black community. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the annual event had to rearrange things.
”It symbolizes and emphasizes the importance of Black males in our community,” said Bruce Lewis, Project 12 calendar 2016 recipient.
And the publisher of this calendar says the 10,200 social justice demonstrations and protests over the summer only fueled the need and urgency for a new edition.
”I saw the comfortable become uncomfortable,” said Shenetria Moore, SHE Holdings LLC CEO and Project 12 publisher. “Regardless if I’m a multimillionaire or not - this (killing of Black men) is affecting me. I need to put all boots to the ground. I need to put my hands to the plow. It's not a black or white thing. It's a humanity thing.”
Even amid the pandemic. In years past the calendar and release recognizing 12 black men in politics, law enforcement and law, ministry, and medicine making impactful contributions was held in front of a large sold-out crowd at West Palm’s Kravis Center.
But due to the pandemic, the unveiling will be held Jan. 2 at John Prince Park at 3 p.m. during a “drive-in” calendar release and reception. Proceeds go towards scholarships and enrichment programming for black youth and young adults from age 10 through college and early adulthood. To learn more, click here.
”We’re putting positive affirmation in front of the next generation,” Moore said.
To learn more about SHE Holdings LLC and Project 12, click here.
To see past calendars, click here.
The Guardian
Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered along, with the kind of bravado that is afforded only to the biggest and baddest and most-watched on the block.Some precautions were taken. Preseason was out. Mask mandates were in. But the bottom line was this: No matter the lineup, no matter the ridiculousness of the spectacle, no matter the health consequences, football will be played. And, in general, it was a success. Covid has the potential to embarrass the league in Week 17, the final week of the season, and we still do not know the extent of the health consequences, but for the most part the league got its wish: The season will be completed on time. As the calendar flips from 2020 to 2021, here are some subplots to keep an eye on. Aaron Rodgers’ futureAs of now, Rodgers likely has his name etched on the MVP trophy. Voters love a narrative, and the Rodgers Revenge Tour is a better narrative than ‘isn’t Patrick Mahomes droningly excellent?’ It’s the Michael Jordan syndrome. (Voters actually gave Karl Malone an MVP award during Jordan’s prime. That’s a real thing that happened.)But it’s not that long ago that the Packers selected Jordan Love in the first round of the draft, that Rodgers’ future was up in the air, that the team had obviously selected his replacement, that it was just a matter of when not if Rodgers would leave.Rodgers has been terrific this season. His game has evolved. The improvisational off-script, jazz artist is still there, but he’s married that with the on-script rhythm that defined his early years as a starter. It’s a deadly combination.The power to decide his future now sits with Rodgers. He’s performing at an MVP level and could guide the Packers to another Super Bowl title. Green Bay will want to keep the 38-year-old around until he truly starts to decline. But will Rodgers take matters into his own hands this offseason? How upset was he really by the love selection? With possible quarterback openings in such hot spots as New England, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, could Rodgers look to push his way out of title town as the final act of this year’s tour? A franchise saleThe NFL as a whole has done a decent job of inoculating itself from the financial losses that have hit the majority of sports leagues during the pandemic. Rather than push games or add weeks, the NFL stripped back its preseason and steam-rolled ahead whenever there was a sign of a health scare. We are playing football! Who’s ready to play? Who’s watching? We’ll play them on Monday nights and Tuesday nights and Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings, the quality of the games or the health of the players be damned.That was a lucrative strategy for the league, as much as any league is making money in the Covid age. But the league is still made up of old-school owners who made the bulk of their money in an old-school manner. While several owners have stomached the financial hit to their sporting institution, plenty have taken significant losses in their non-sporting ventures.You only have to look over to the NBA to see how even the tech-savvy, self-dubbed ‘smart’ sport owners have been hit by the pandemic: Tilman Fertitta, the NBA’s latest owner, who paid a record $2.2bn for the Houston Rockets franchise in 2017, makes his money in casinos and restaurants. His operation has been reduced to 4% during the pandemic and he has been forced to take his company public, as well as accepting an operating loan from the league.There are similar issues in the NFL’s upper chamber. Some owners are feeling the financial costs much more than others, particularly those whose wealth is based on owning an NFL franchise. (The NFL remains the sports league with the most ‘legacy’ ownership families.)Nobody will be shedding a tear for the fattest of fat cats, but NFL franchises are notoriously hard to prize away from owners because they print money. The pandemic has changed that. The year 2021 could usher in a band of new owners as those current owners who’ve been most severely impacted by the pandemic try to recover funds. Will there be any Cam Newton takers?Newton’s one-year plan in New England was clear: Get himself to the smartest, most creative and consistent organization in the sport; show that he still had plenty of juice left, that he just needed a break; and then sign a mega-deal this coming offseason, be it re-upping with New England or elsewhere.But for as much as Bill Belichick has tried to sell the Patriots-Cam Newton experience to the media and fans this season as a success, it hasn’t worked. The Patriots’ offensive staff has been creative and mailable, working around Newton’s idiosyncrasies and lack of accuracy. But all too often when Newton has dropped back and attempted to play with some kind of rhythm, it’s looked like he’s trying to throw a medicine ballNewton’s health is the question here. He no longer has the same kind of zip on his fastball, and his throwing accuracy that was so-so even during the best of times has now completely fallen off a cliff.Perhaps the Patriots talk themselves into Newton for another season as a bridge to whatever the team’s quarterback future looks like. Perhaps they tell themselves he looked OK prior to his Covid diagnosis. Perhaps Belichick believes Newton, even with his flaws, will be fine once the Patriots are able to bring back the chunks of their roster that missed this season due to COVID. But that seems unlikely. It seems like Newton, the great pioneer, the paradigm-shifter, is ultimately shot. And if Belichick isn’t willing to indulge another season, will any other team? And if not, what does Newton do? Retire? Sit out another year and hope to heal? It’s hard to imagine Newton doing the rounds as a one-year hired gun on a ready-to-tank, rebuilding team. Is this it for Bill Belichick?It doesn’t feel like Belichick is slowing down. But, at some point, Belichick is going to walk away from the Patriots’ job. Belichick tried rolling things back for one more push this season, band-aiding together a roster that was missing the core of its defense due to Covid defections and which lacked a quarterback given Tom Brady’s move to Florida.Is Belichick, at his advanced age, post-Covid, ready and willing after a par year to start another rebuild? He has no quarterback, and the backbone of the roster that delivered the last Super Bowl is starting to creak – a majority have already or are expected to exit this offseason. Plus: Belichick’s staff is expected to be picked apart again during the offseason, both on the coaching side and in the Patriots front office. Is it possible he opts to walk away before things get ugly? The Justin Fields surgeThe Jaguars have locked up the number one pick in the upcoming draft. The selection is expected to be Trevor Lawrence, Clemson’s once-in-a-lifetime-type quarterback prospect. But as always in a draft cycle, expect there to be a run on Justin Fields, the Ohio State quarterback who would be the sure-fire top selection in a traditional year.And if former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer winds up as the head honcho in Jacksonville, look out. The chatter will increase. Leaks will flow. Trade offers will arrive.Lawrence should be the top pick, but there is a chance that Jacksonville switch spots with the Jets (for a significant haul). A JJ Watt tradeJJ Watt and the Houston Texans are synonymous with one another. But if Houston is looking to generate some kind of assets to be able to improve its roster this offseason, moving Watt is one of the only ways.The Texans have little to no draft capital and have one of the worst cap sheets in the league. They also have a jumbled roster that is the walking embodiment of the fractured front office that oversaw its construction over the past five seasons. Yet there, in the middle of it all, is Deshaun Watson, one of the most gifted quarterbacks in the league. Having a great quarterback fixes a lot. So for the Texans to leap back into contention, even with the roster holes and lack of flexibility in the market, could take as few as five to six smart moves. One way to open up some sort of flexibility, to increase the margin of error when trying to make such moves, would be to move on from Watt while he still holds value.It would be a difficult move financially and culturally, but it would also be a savvy one. And it would allow Watt to get a shot with a different organization, where he may get a shot over the next 24 months to advance beyond the divisional round. New TV dealsAs noted in the Guardian’s 2021 bold predictions piece, the NFL’s current round of TV rights deals are set to expire in 2022. As sports continue to be the sole place that networks can bank on to produce a large, live audience, and as the NFL continues to reign supreme as the biggest provider of live content (eight of 2020s 10 most-watched single telecasts were football games or post games) the bidding is expected to be intense and expensive.The league could look to re-up with its traditional broadcast partners. Or it could hand a more favorable deal to ESPN/Disney, with the possibility of Disney snagging itself a coveted Super Bowl and moving its broadcasts to ABC. Or it could offer larger packages to a streaming client, like Amazon Prime, in the hopes of getting ahead of the live sports streaming curve or to try to make up for some of the revenue the league and its owners lost in 2020.
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When Northwest Catholic High School nurse Beth Bornstein got her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, she “teared up a little bit.”
“Gosh, I am so honored and thankful and I’m relieved, and I see that, you know, there may be light at the end of the tunnel,” she said in an interview. “I’m blessed.”
Bornstein got her first injection on Dec. 24 from the West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District, which received a shipment of 500 vaccine doses the day prior. As of Thursday morning, about 100 people have had an initial shot, said Aimee Krauss, health director of the West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District.
The district had given doses to nurses who would be assisting with inoculating others, Krauss said. It was a “pretty seamless” process, Bornstein said — she got a link to sign up, printed a barcode and headed to the district’s office where she didn’t have to wait around.
For Bornstein, she said it felt like what a flu shot — some soreness in her arm at first, but no other issues.
“I’ve had no symptoms — no soreness, no fatigue, nothing,” she said. “It’s been fine.”
And the rollout of the vaccines continued in the area this week. At a clinic in West Hartford on Wednesday, for example, 20 people got their first doses — 10 paramedics and 10 police officials — and at another clinic in Bloomfield, 10 more first responders got doses, Krauss said.
Following months of contact tracing since the early days of the pandemic, Krauss said the district is “very excited” about the vaccinations being underway.
“So this is a breath of fresh air with this vaccine coming in and the fact that we’re able now to help our community further with the mitigation and getting people vaccinated and offering this to our first responders,” she said. “It’s a sigh of relief, we are so happy to be able to do that.”
Krauss said they’ve been doling out their vaccine doses — which are the ones created by Moderna — in increments of 10 because that’s how many doses there are in the vials.
The district has more clinics planned this month, including one in the West Hartford auditorium Jan. 12 for people who are a part of phase 1A, Krauss said.
Krauss hopes paramedics who have received doses can assist at clinics for vaccinations in the future, but she said they still need approval from the state.
As the district continues to provide people with initial doses, it won’t be long until people who have already gotten their initial doses of the Moderna vaccine will be due for another. Those who have been vaccinated can opt to use a tool called V-safe and get alerted for their follow-up dose, Krauss said, and they can notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about how they’ve been feeling through it as well.
Lori Flaherty, the nursing supervisor for the town’s non-public schools, got her first dose this week and hasn’t experienced any side effects to report to the system. It has flagged her follow-up date and prompted her to pencil it in on her calendar, she said.
Moving forward, Flaherty said she would eventually “love to see schools go back to their normal routine.” And, as someone who has lost family during the pandemic, she said she doesn’t want others to share that experience.
“I want us to get back to normal, I’m ready, I think everybody else is too,” she said in response to a question about getting an initial dose. “I believe in the science behind the vaccine production and I think this is what’s going to help turn our country to reach a recovery and get back more to normal, so I am willing to do that.”
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Middle Georgia welcomes the first babies born in 2021 wgxa.tv
Grade 8
High Honors
Austin Anbari, Lillian Bellet, Kaelyn Bevington, Kanani Brown, Gavin Bucko, Nicholas Cannella, Sebastian Canty, Brady deCastro, Madeline DeLaura, Grayson Dull, Finnegan Eck, Holger Ericsson, Willow Fraser, Katelyn Freitas, Hayden Gothie, Hope Grant, Maclan Griscom, Ladleigh Hargus.
Elizabeth Jones, Bailey Joseph, Jonah Korinek, Charlie Kramer, Marra LaCour, Alan Lanoie, Anna Lettiere, Marina Lewandowski, Misha Lewandowski, Cooper Light, Ava Lindenmayer, Mary Lord, Samuel Lund, Blake Murray, Taryn Nicholson, Riley Norcia, Keira O’Brien, Emily Obrey.
Mia Pisani, Connor Poole-Scott, Iliana Rashleigh, Rory Risley, Maxwell Savin, Bethany Schoenecker, Aubrey Short, Emily Stamm, Abigail Steeno, Phineas Sullivan, Anna Sundman, Maya Terwilliger, Ella Wertz, Elizabeth Zuro.
Honors
Haley Adamson, Hailey Allard, Katie Anbari, Holden Berk, Alexis Caradimos, Aiden Carter, Owen Carter, Jeremy Collins, Olin Cooper, Charlotte Cornell, Isabela deCastro, Ariana Doenges, Seamus Doyle, Mackenzie DuFour, Fiona Fulton, Noah Galingan, Dainan Glennon.
Ethan Harris, Justice Henderson, Samuel Hine, Lindsey Houle, Matthew Hryn, Arleen Kaur, Taya Kelly, Emma Logel, Madelyn McAdams, Alexander McCammon, Patrick McGugan, Elena Menzies, Nolan Nanson, Alexander Nowak, Jevonte Owens, Brandon Pica, Hannah Reams, Gabrielle Reynolds.
Peter Schoenecker, Isabella Spaulding, Jeremiah Spear, Jai-Lynn Wheeler, Palmer Williams, Jace Wolfradt.
Grade 7
High Honors
Lily Ainscough, David Alessio, Salvatore Alessio, Maizy Alu, Thomas Berger, Audrah Brickey, Elizabeth Bull, Caden Christina, Logan Christina, Ella Cochran, Henry Cooke, Max DelaRosa, Nora Fanning, Cameron Getchis, Aiden Gillece, Ainsley Helbig, Josephine Hites, August Holdridge.
Kathryn Holveck, Luke Jones, Tyler Jordan, Michael Keefe, Micah Korinek, Morghan Kuhn, Sean Lord, Lillian Loughlean, Thomas Lyon, Finn Meadows, Molly Musselman, Finnella O’Keefe, Brady O’Neil, Maeve Oakes, Camden Ogden, Madison Oliverio, Samuel Olmstead, Sierra Redfern, Adilyn Risley, Ella Rothman, Melanie Verbridge, Camryn Williamson, Mason Zagol.
Honors
Jannat Ahmed, Isabell Andaloro, Allie Anderson, John Bogue, Sophie Bogue, Dylan Brennan, Cali Cairnes, Autumn Christian, Abigail Cohen, Valerie Conley, Turner DeLaura, Leah DePerry, Delaney Driscoll, Maya Flaherty, Caroline Foley, Connor Foley, Zahnyia Gonzales, Quinn Higginbotham.
Sophie Hryn, Ella Hultgren, Lydia Hunter, Nicholas Johnson, Angelina Levanti, Nicholas McCabe, Gwendolyn McGugan, Lukas Pelletier, Dominick Peralta, Emma Plew, Gianni Revoir, Samuel Rodgers, Arianna Scavello, Payton Stone, Ava Vangieri, Aaron Vislosky, Liam Ward, Taylor Whitman, Devin Yaworsky, Jayse Zaharie.
Grade 6
High Honors
Ross Biddle, Zi Qing Biondo, Samantha Boffi, Finnegan Bowyer, Tyler Cimini, Dylan Condie, Lauren deCastro, Eliza DuFour, Ryan Dugas, Sean Durham, Hannah Fyke, Kairi Grant, Cohan Hinchey, Shelby Mayo, Hope Mullen, Nolen Neale, Elijah Sullivan, Solana Thagnabouth, Oliver Turner, Brayden Wolfradt.
Honors
Amani Barrett, Benjamin Bozin, Jeffrey Bravar, Austin Center, Alexa Checchi, Garrett Cooper, Aiden Deary, Nevaeh DeMartino, Luke Dennett, Rowan Duhig, William Erb, Sakari Everett, Joseph Goulart, Emma Gowen, Ellis Hankins-Saltzman, Harriet Hardaway, Lillian Harney, Quinn Heal.
Gwendolynn Higginbotham, Lincoln Hillegeist, Sienna Hirschorn, Kiley Jameson, Ashley King, Andy Kramer, Haley Larkin, Joshua McBain, Corinne Mercier, Mary Jane Mickus, Kylie Nachin, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle Olsson, Isabella Page, Matteo Panciera, Manav Patel, Kaiden Perkins.
Aiden Peterson, Cormick Pettegrow, Joshua Post, Sophia Richards, Demitri Ritacco, Logan Rollins, Kate Ruenzel, Cole Scahill, Audrey Schrage, Annalia Simpson, Emmaline Spelman, Byron Stillman, Brayan Talbot, Jana Tannatt, Shaya Tarrabolsi, Lindy Thomas, Gabriel Torruella, William Young.
