COUNTY LIFE
MSU Texas group provides PPE supplies to area
With COVID-19 cases still rising in north Texas, health care providers’ need for personal protective equipment has also risen. The smaller rural medical facilities sometimes find themselves at the bottom of the list for distribution.
To help these smaller health care providers, the north Texas area health education center at Midwestern State University has purchased approximately $31,250 in personal protective equipment to distribute to those facilities. These supplies will go to Nocona General Hospital in Nocona and Faith Community Clinic in Bowie in Montague County, along with several entities in neighboring counties.
The area health education center is a federal grant program that opened in the fall of 2019 at MSU Texas under the direction of the Texas Tech University health sciences center. One of the center’s main missions is to recruit, educate and sustain a health professions workforce committed to underserved and rural populations.
The funds used to purchase the PPE were intended for a large symposium that would connect students with scholarship opportunities and health care providers, but the threat of COVID-19 canceled those plans.
“It was a use it or lose it moment,” said Charis Rhoades, community health educator and coordinator for the health education center. “We had to commit to a change of plans and find out how we could still help our rural clinics.” The supplies were ordered in April, but with nationwide shortages and much of the equipment on back order, they have just now come in. Personnel will deliver the supplies throughout the end of July.
Read the full story in the weekend News.
Spring has sprung and it is time to nominate top yards from your neighborhood to be considered for The Bowie News Yard of the Month. Top yard honors will be given for April, May and June.
The first award will be made for April and nominations may be submitted through May 1. The winner will be announced in the May 8 edition.
Call the Bowie News office at 940-872-2247 or email it to editor@bowienewsonline.com. Please include the address and name of the resident if you know it or a contact phone number for the nominee. The contest winner gets to show off the brightly colored Yard of the Month sign in their yard during the month.
Do you have unwanted computer components such a desktop computers, laptop computers, LCD monitors, keyboards, mice, scanners, printers, battery back-up units, etc., that you don’t know how to dispose of properly?
If so, members of the Montague Emergency Communications Team can help as they host the annual Computer Recycling Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 19 at the Bowie City Hall parking lot at the corner of Mason and Pecan.
The team will recycle your unwanted computer components and insure they are disposed of properly, in an environmentally friendly manner. It is the perfect time to clean out that closet of nonworking or old electronics at your house.
They also will insure any computer hard drives are destroyed, thus preventing anyone from gaining access to personal information which may be left in the memory.
They also can accept sealed lead acid (SLA), nickel cadmium (NiCad), nickel metal hydride (NiMH) and lithium ion (Li-Ion) batteries for recycling. They cannot accept computer monitors or TV with cathod ray tubes.
This is a public service being offered at no cost to the community.
Any proceeds will benefit the Team and the Montague County SKYWARN program.
For details email kirk-@higginstx.com.
Bowie High School’s one-act play is just one step away from the state University Interscholastic League contest after it placed first in the area round on April 12.
The BHS play, “View From The Bridge,” will now move to regionals at Clyde Huff Pac in Clyde on April 23. The play is expected to perform at 2 p.m.
“We placed first in this round, and all the plays were phenomenal,” said Director April Word.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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