Lifestyle wrap: Headlines in Saint Joseph

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LOCAL PICK

St Joseph / newspressnow.com

School board member urges no conditions on COVID paid time off

Following a vote this week by the St. Joseph Board of Education, district staff are to be granted 10 extra paid days off to cope with COVID-19 illness, on conditions not everyone agrees with. David Foster, elected earlier this year to a three-year term on the board, spoke Thursday to... Read more

LOCAL FAVORITE

St Joseph / newspressnow.com

Health Department to use potential money for contact tracers

The American Rescue Plan Act citizens committee has recommended the St. Joseph Health Department receive $200,000 of $13 million total budgeted dollars to be used for contact tracing. St. Joseph Health Director Debra Bradley said this money will be essential in ensuring the five contracted contact tracers continue to be... Read more

LOCAL HEADLINE

St Joseph / kq2.com

The Community Blood Center still in need of blood donors

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo) The Community Blood center held its Blood Donor Day on Friday at East Hills Shopping Center. And Officials saying they are in need of more blood donors. The pandemic caused many hospitals to put a lot of elective surgery operations on hold. Now that those operations are resuming, health workers say there is not enough blood being donated to keep up with the demand. Read more

TRENDING NOW

St Joseph / newspressnow.com

Snakes featured in conservation class at Krug Park

The Missouri Department of Conservation held a free program on snakes Thursday evening at Krug Park in St. Joseph. The one-hour program was taught by naturalist Shelby Smith. Smith brought three snakes to the event. “I’ve done snake programs for over 4,000 kids in St. Joseph since I started,” Smith... Read more