April 27, 2020 – mountainx.com

Mission Health to resume elective services within 10 days

April 27, 2020 by Daniel Walton

Cancer therapies, joint replacements and other elective procedures that had been postponed due to the initial COVID-19 response will be the first to return. Since North Carolina’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced on March 3, the Mission system has treated just over 20 inpatients for the disease.

Letter: About those downtown trees

April 27, 2020 by Letters

“It does seem odd that the trees were removed from spots that homeless people cool off at or take shelter to wait for the bus.”

Oakley residents plant seeds of community resilience

April 27, 2020 by Gina Smith

Michael Stratton at Fairview Road Resilience Garden

Since late March, Michael Stratton, his wife, Amanda, and a small, hardworking steering committee have managed to transform a 4,000-square-foot grassy field near Fairview Road into 15 neat garden beds, which in mid-April were already speckled with green sprouts of onions, potatoes, kale, chard and more. The group plans to donate the produce to food pantries and neighbors in need due to COVID-19.

Mission Health to resume elective services within 10 days

Letter: About those downtown trees

Oakley residents plant seeds of community resilience

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