As part of the church’s yearly Advent Giving, the parishioners of St. Joseph Catholic Church collected lap blankets, body wash and plastic containers to be donated to the Rockdale Rehabilitation Center. Father Pedro Castillo, the pastor at St. Joseph’s, shows off the more than 50 sets of items that were collected. Submitted photo
Thorndale ISD nurse Sara Sanders told the board of trustees about updated COVID quarantine statistics and discussed the new guidelines that changed the quarantine period from 14 days to 10 days at the district’s Dec. 16 meeting in the administration building. She said that there had still not been any documented student-to-student transmission which goes along with the statement made by the CDC director last month.
For months now two women have been doing their parts in keeping the county as safe as possible from the spread of COVID-19. Even though there is now a vaccine, testing remains important in the fight against the virus.
Three more residents of Milam County have died as the result of COVID-19. This brings the official death total in the county to 14.
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