#barbrick

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flower dog acheived. and such other things

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How about Patrick/Barb? I think they have similar personalities.

Ooh, those two would be so cute!

Something about the pairing gives me Breakfast Club vibes, and I’m thinking that maybe Patrick is a secret nerd but doesn’t wanna tell his friends cause he thinks they’ll make fun of him. He and Barb get to know each other when paired up for a school project and find out they have a lot in common (and the exact same taste in books).

Lyrics would therefore be from Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds, a.k.a. the iconic Breakfast Club anthem.

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Reception Opens Haverhill High Fine Arts Academy Seniors’ Art Show

To submit school announcements, click on image. A student art show opens in May with a reception celebrating seniors enrolled in Haverhill High School’s Fine Arts Academy. Participating students are Reem Balbesi, Mila Barbrick, Keira Bushey, Amara Ezeoke, Jay Faxon, Jorie McIrvin, Dean Reinoso, Elina Sam, Nico Vaillancourt and Vasiliki Vourtsas. The gallery reception takes place Thursday, May 9,…

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N.S. to pay for practical nursing education for 25 continuing care assistants in long-term care

Nova Scotia says it will offer free practical nursing education to some continuing care assistants working in long-term care.

The province, that has been dealing with a chronic shortage of health-care, staff said Tuesday it will pay for 25 continuing care assistants to complete a practical nursing diploma at Nova Scotia Community College.

Continuing care assistants that have worked in a nursing home or in home care for at least two years will be eligible for the provincially-funded education — so long as they sign a contract to keep working full-time in Nova Scotia’s continuing care sector for at least two years after graduation.

“We've heard from CCAs (continuing care assistants) that they are looking for opportunities to advance their careers and we are happy to support them in their journey," Barbara Adams, minister of seniors and long-term care, said in a statement.

Adams said the program, which is a first in Nova Scotia, will help reduce financial barriers to professional development and will “help in our efforts to make continuing care a career path of choice in Nova Scotia."

The practical nursing program is two and a half years long and the first class is set to start in January. Students are expected to take classes online and complete in-person labs at the college’s Truro campus.

Those who graduate from this program will be eligible to write the licensed practical exam.

"I'm so pleased the college and government have been able to collaborate and use the existing pathway to support this blended practical nursing program,” Don Bureaux, president of Nova Scotia Community College said in a statement.

“This opens another door for our hard-working CCAs working in continuing care — offering an important opportunity to work and learn if they want to train to become a licensed practical nurse."

In February, a government official told Nova Scotia’s standing committee on health that there was a “significant deficit” of long-term care staff, which led to the province paying $45 million over 18 months to travel nurses to fill gaps in long-term care.

“Travel nurses have absolutely been a necessity while we ensure that we’ve got beds open in the nursing homes in the province so that people who are waiting at home can get into a facility,” said Tracey Barbrick, associate deputy minister of the Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care, during in a Feb. 14, 2023 meeting.

For more Nova Scotia news visit our dedicated provincial page.

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[smolrita]

“I love you.”

Hey daddy!” Rita purrs from on top of him in bed. Its the morning of her dress shopping trip. “Can we cook breakfast together love?”

No,“ he groans, rolling over and covering his face. “I’m tired. No.”

[greatvacationvegas]

Clark Hotel Downtown Los Angeles sympathizer Delaware Partner New CEO Of Embassy Partners LLC previous subcontractor to Ray Myers And Barbrick on Ronald Reagan Building onboard. Unite HERE Local 11 is challenging the projects’ environmental impact reports, saying that not enough mitigation measures were taken and that they require further study. The union filed appeals on both hotels in 2013, preventing the projects from receiving conditional use permits for serving alcohol and hosting live entertainment. This came despite approvals from a city zoning administrator in 2012.

[csrgood]

The Briad Group Raises $425,000 for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption at Annual Charity Golf Outing

At its annual Charity Golf Outing in Somerset, NJ last week, The Briad Group® presented the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption with a check for $425,000 and pledged additional contributions toward the Foundation’s commitment to dramatically increase the number of adoptions from foster care. With Dave Thomas’ value of giving back at its core, The Briad Group and its partners, employees and sponsors have raised more than $5 million to advance the Foundation’s mission over the last 20 years.

“The Briad Group sets the bar high for unconditional, passionate and cause-focused commitment in their restaurants and through their record-setting golf tournament,” said Rita Soronen, President & CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. “We are so grateful to the leadership of The Briad Group and their teams for being incredible stewards of Dave Thomas’ legacy and encouraging not only employees in the Wendy’s family, but also partners in other organizations and friends to support the Foundation’s mission.”

Through the generosity of The Briad Group, the Foundation is making significant progress in scaling its Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program across the United States and Canada. This evidence-based program is up to three times more effective in finding adoptive families for children who have been waiting in foster care the longest. To date, nearly 8,000 children have been adopted as a direct result of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, including more than 500 children in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, where The Briad Group operates.

“Briad has always been and always will be committed to giving back to the communities we serve,” said Rick Barbrick, President, CO-CEO & COO of The Briad Group. “We value all our teammates, guests and people less fortunate than us. We are proud to enter our 20th year supporting the Dave Thomas Foundation and exceeding $5 million in donations to this worthy cause.”

“Our mission is to ‘create lifelong relationships with our teammates and guests,’ and certainly that includes the entire Wendy’s family as well as our wonderful business partners and friends,” Barbrick added.

“Giving something back to the communities we call home is one of The Wendy’s Company’s core values, and it’s important to us that our franchise partners embrace this value too,” said Todd Penegor, President and CEO of The Wendy’s Company. “Since The Briad Group joined the Wendy’s family in 1994, it has been a tremendous contributor to Wendy’s and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. We consistently see the organization’s commitment to live the Wendy’s brand purpose of creating joy and opportunity through food, family and community.”

About the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems. Created by Wendy’s® founder Dave Thomas who was adopted, the Foundation implements evidence-based, results-driven national service programs, foster care adoption awareness campaigns and innovative grantmaking. To learn more, visit davethomasfoundation.org.

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[atlanticcanada]

Nova Scotia spends $30M on 'travel nurses' in long-term care over 18 months

A top government official told Nova Scotia’s standing committee on health Tuesday that a “significant deficit” of long-term care staff led to the province paying $30 million to so-called “travel nurses” to fill gaps in long-term care.

“Travel nurses have absolutely been a necessity while we ensure that we’ve got beds open in the nursing homes in the province so that people who are waiting at home can get into a facility,” said Tracey Barbrick, associate deputy minister of the Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care.

The dollar amount was news to union leaders at the meeting who represent the majority of the province’s long-term care workers.

“That’s not including acute care,” said Nova Scotia Nurses' Union president Janet Hazelton. “I was just shocked that it’s that much."

Nan McFadgen, president of CUPE Nova Scotia, said travel nurses are “not the answer.”

“We want our nurses living in community,” said McFadgen. “We want them to have work/life balance.”

Barbrick told the committee there are about 100 travel nurses in Nova Scotia right now.

“Travel nurses” work for contract agencies for hourly wages above what is made by continuing care assistants [CCAs], licensed practical nurses [LPNs], and registered nurses [RNs] in Nova Scotia. But they don’t receive benefits or job security from the provinces they work in.

Barbrick insisted Tuesday using travel nurses has been a short-term way to keep long-term care beds open and available, while the province waits for more continuing care assistants to graduate into the workforce.

“We have a thousand CCAs coming out this first year, a thousand next year. It would be my hope that we're tapering off into year two and travel nurses go away,” she says.

As part of the Tim Houston government’s action plan for health care, the province has promised to ensure residents at all of Nova Scotia’s licensed long-term care facilities receive an average of 4.1 hours of hands-on, direct care every day -- a standard Barbrick says is being met at 48 per cent of facilities.

“Four-point-one for Nova Scotia reflects three hours of CCA and one-point-one hour of LPN and RN time,” she said. “We are the only province in the country other than the Yukon that has made that commitment.”

But union leaders say the 4.1 figure is outdated by about 15 years.

“It's nowhere near what's required,” McFadgen told the committee. “So that we don’t see a repeat of what we saw [during COVID-19], which was 17,000 seniors that died from COVID in long-term care facilities across Canada.”

McFadgen explained to the committee what happens in a system she described as “chronically understaffed.”

“When someone’s waiting a half-an-hour to go to the washroom, how does anybody feel good about that?” she said. “Maybe you’re lying in bed waiting to get up for breakfast, maybe you’re 80 and you’ve laid there waiting two hours to go for breakfast.”

“Most of us get a shower every day,” she added. “Residents get a shower a week.”

Getting the level of care where it needs to be, union leaders suggested, could come by using funds from the recent health-care funding agreement with Ottawa.

“Long-term care has always been the poor second cousin, and it can't be any longer,” said Hazelton. “We've seen through COVID what happens when we neglect residents in long-term care.”

When asked whether any of the funds from Nova Scotia’s next bilateral agreement with Ottawa will be earmarked for long-term care, Barbrick said she couldn’t comment, “until that negotiation with the federal government is complete.”

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[atlanticcanada]

Public health sets up mobile testing clinic at Dartmouth bus terminal

A Public Health mobile testing unit was set up at the Halifax Transit Bridge Terminal on Tuesday, offering free COVID-19 tests to people of all ages.

For some, it was their first time getting tested.

"I'm going to hang out with some friends and I said might as well," said Ed Elliott after getting his first COVID-19 test.

Kaylie Arnold likes the convenience of grabbing a COVID-19 test while waiting for the bus.

"I'm fully vaccinated and everything but I just seen that they were having it so might as well do it while I can," said Arnold.

It appears less people are getting tested for the virus these days. The lab processed 2,407tests on Saturday, 1,987 on Sunday and 1,607on Natal Day.

Roughly 3,300 rapid COVID-19 tests were completed last week at various pop-up sites in Nov Scotia.

At this time, the province says they are not winding down COVID-19 testing but are considering modifications as necessary. While testing numbers may be going down, the number of people getting vaccinated continues to climb.

As of Aug. 2, 1,360,660 doses of COVID-19-19 vaccine have been administered. Of those, 620,557 Nova Scotians have received their second dose.

There are tens of thousands of vacant appointments available across the province in the next two weeks for those looking for a shot.

"People can go nearly anywhere and get their second dose or their first dose, said Tracey Barbrick, the associate deputy minister in charge of the vaccine rollout.

The province's goal is to get 75 per cent of Nova Scotians fully vaccinated by September, which is the next step in reducing public health restrictions.

Health officials would like to see those who are eligible for their second dose move their appointment up.

"Borders are opening and we've got some countries already seeing a fourth wave starting to make its way around so we of course want to have people with full immunity as soon as we can," said Barbrick.

Community vaccine clinics are now starting to wind down and by the middle of August pharmacies will be the main provider of COVID-19 vaccines in the province.

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[atlanticcanada]

Delivery delay slows down vaccination, but it will pick up again and remains on target in N.S.

The pace of vaccinations in the Maritimes has slowed slightly due to a delay in vaccine supply delivery, but officials say the provinces say are on track to reach their targets.

Halifax MP Andy Fillmore got his first shot Wednesday – taking the Oxford-AstraSeneca vaccine as politicians do their part to try to address concerns about that company's COVID-19 vaccine.

"Should you wait, should you not?" Fillmore said. "The advice from Health Canada has remained consistent; the best vaccine is the first vaccine you can get."

Nova Scotia MLA Claudia Chender got AstraZeneca, too, reiterating the message of officials this week.

"I certainly don't want to be bringing home the virus, so you know, for my personal risk assessment, I felt like the first shot offered was the best shot," Chender said.

But news that a New Brunswicker who received AstraZeneca died of the rare blood clot associated with it makes some nervous.

"I want to be vaccinated as soon as possible, but I want to do whatever one is safest," said Joell Majeau.

Hearing Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health describe Pfizer and Moderna as the "better" vaccines helped Majeau make up her mind, but they're not yet available to her age group.

"I'm talking to my friends in the States and they're all like, 'I've got my second shot, my age group, we're all good,' and it's like, I haven't even gotten my first shot yet," said Majeau.

Tracey Barbrick is the associate deputy minister of health in Nova Scotia and the head of Nova Scotia's vaccine rollout.

She says to expect age categories to open up weekly from here on out.

"We went to 50 plus this past Monday, and we expect to go to forty-five plus very soon," Barbrick said.

Last month, Nova Scotia was the fastest vaccinating province. That slowed over the past two weeks because of lower supply, but more Moderna is on the way.

"We'll have a week with a bit of an increase, but the total Moderna that we're expecting isn't getting any bigger," Barbrick said. "We're just getting a shipment a little earlier than we expected."

She says the province is on target to get the first dose into all eligible Nova Scotians by the end of June.

As for the second that depends on supply.

"We'll figure out whether we can bring everybody up a little bit so that their second dose is sooner," Barbrick said.

As for the AstraZeneca vaccine, Nova Scotia health officials say there are still about 200 appointments available for that right now, but they don't anticipate having any leftover doses.

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[atlanticcanada]

'This will be a milestone week,' says N.S. deputy minister responsible for vaccine rollout

With 90 new cases reported on Tuesday, Nova Scotia's COVID-19 case count continues to slowly decrease while the vaccine rollout ramps up.

As of Monday, 436,054 doses of vaccine has been administered in Nova Scotia; of those, 39,561 are second doses.

This week, the province expects to receive about 50,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine.

"This will be a milestone week and we'll have Wednesday and Thursday milestone days with darn close to 20,000 doses a day," said Tracey Barbrick, the associate deputy minister responsible for the vaccine rollout.

As of May 13, the province says all licensed long-term care facility residents have been fully vaccinated and residents of unlicensed seniors facilities are on track to be fully vaccinated by the end of May.

The province's vaccine rollout has been primarily aged-based.

Some key statistics include:

91 per cent of those over age 80 have had at least one dose

96 per cent of those aged 75 to 79 have had at least one dose

93 per cent of those aged 70 to 74 have had at least one dose

88 per cent of those aged 65 to 69 have had at least one dose

80 per cent of those aged 60 to 64 have had at least one dose

64 per cent of those aged 55 to 59 have had at least one dose

As of Tuesday, people 30 and older are eligible to book an appointment for a vaccine. The province hopes to open up bookings for all age groups by the end of next week.

"Our 11 and below right now can't get vaccinated which means our goal is to have 75 per cent of our entire population from birth to death vaccinated. So when you take the 11 and under out of the mix, that means the 12 and up actually have to overshoot 75 to get our entire population 75 per cent covered," said Barbrick.

Although many are choosing to get the vaccine, some people are still hesitant.

"Vaccine hesitancy is on a spectrum, so it can range anywhere from people who will accept the vaccine but have the concerns down to people who flat out reject the vaccine and everyone in between which may include people who delay making their appointments or consider cancelling their appointments because of concern," said Dr. Karina Top, a Halifax vaccine and infectious disease specialist.

Top said there are very few medical reasons why you can't get vaccinated.

"Other reasons people have concerns might be just you know, questions around the safety of the vaccine in general, concerns about adverse effects, and you know general lack of trust in the vaccine program, or the vaccine manufacturers, those types of things. Again, these vaccines have been rigorously tested for safety just as rigorously as any other vaccine," she said.

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[atlanticcanada]

N.S. needs 15,000 more people to get second dose of COVID-19 vaccine to hit 75 per cent target

Eighty-year-old Winston Barnwell got his first dose of vaccine on Tuesday afternoon.

"A neighbour offered to arrange it and take me in, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered," he said after getting the shot. "But my brother … younger brother's got cancer and I may want to travel."

Barnwell wasn't the only person who decided to pop into a drop-in vaccination clinic at Saint Mary's University to get vaccinated.

Rumman Islam also got his first shot.

"Just to be immunized, I guess, keep everyone, myself safe," said Islam. "Honestly, it was kind of like a no-big-deal kinda thing, just a little pinch and it's over."

Public Health nurse Tara Cuzner says officials are still seeing a lot of people pop into vaccine clinics for their first shot.          

"COVID's not going away unfortunately. We're seeing that. So, it is the best first line of defence against COVID to protect yourself and our communities," said Cuzner.

Nova Scotia is hoping to move into Phase 5 of its reopening plan and drop virtually all COVID-19 restrictions on Sept. 15, but only if 75 per cent of the province's entire population is fully vaccinated.

Right now, 71.6 percent of Nova Scotians are double-dosed.

"It is absolutely, 100 per cent doable," said Tracey Barbrick, the deputy minister in charge of the vaccine rollout in Nova Scotia.

With just eight days to go, the push to get to 75 per cent continues.

"We are going to be working hard to reach 75 per cent by Sept. 15," said Barbrick. "Right now, based on what we've got booked and scheduled, we'll be 73.8 per cent fully vaccinated so that means we need close to another 15,000 people to either walk in and get a dose of vaccine or make an appointment before the 15th and get a vaccine."

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[atlanticcanada]

40,000 Nova Scotians still need second COVID-19 shot in order to hit 75 per cent target by Sept. 15

Nova Scotia is hoping to move into Phase 5 of its COVID-19 reopening plan in just over two weeks – something those working in the restaurant industry have been looking forward to.

"It's a big deal for us,” said Luc Erjavec with Restaurants Canada. “Particularly the elimination of physical distancing, because that is our limiting factor. We cannot get enough people in our restaurants to make them profitable because of physical distancing."

According to Erjavec, many restaurants in the region are still struggling.

"Our last member survey showed that 55 per cent of operators are operating at a loss. Twenty per cent are breaking even, nine per cent are operating at less than a two per cent profit, so while we may seem busy, we just can't fill enough seats,” said Erjavec.

In order to move into Phase 5 of the reopening plan on Sept. 15, at least 75 per cent of Nova Scotia’s entire population needs to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. As of Monday, 70.8 per cent of the province’s population is double-dosed.

"That's about 40,000 people we need to get to 75 per cent fully vaccinated. We've got 25,000 who are already booked in, we've got another 15,000 at least that we need to book, so it's absolutely doable if everyone gets in there and makes their appointment,” said Tracey Barbrick, deputy minister in charge of the vaccine rollout in Nova Scotia.

There are currently 71 active COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia.

As of Monday, 1,443,183 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the province. Of those, 687,683 Nova Scotians have received their second dose.      

Outreach teams continue to travel across the province to make vaccines more accessible. Starting Tuesday, health officials will be doing a tour through the Northern health zone to increase access to vaccines for those in New Glasgow, Springhill, Five Islands and Great Village.

"They're just trying to get as close to home as they can for people to make it really accessible and achievable and have people not need to travel very far and if they happen to pull into a parking lot and see a vaccine van, then maybe they'll just pop by and get a dose so, it's just to make it is as convenient as possible,” said Barbrick.

Due to an increase in demand, the vaccine clinic at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax will be open from Sept. 1 to Sept. 3 for drop-in appointments.

According to Barbrick, there are still roughly 100,000 Nova Scotians who are eligible for a vaccine but have not yet received their first dose.

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[atlanticcanada]

Vaccination rates fall off in Nova Scotia amid summer vacation season

The summer vacation season seems to have created a slowdown in vaccination bookings, at least in Nova Scotia.

A pharmacy owner in Baddeck says appointments at his vaccination clinic have slowed down to a trickle, but health officials are still confident the province will reach its immunization goals by September.

"People have definitely cancelled more appointments now. In the summertime, it can be tough”, says Graham MacKenzie, a Baddeck pharmacy owner whose store is currently a vaccination clinic.

MacKenzie says for a while, he was seeing anywhere from 60 to 200 appointments a day, but bookings have dropped off in the past week and a half.

"Days that could hold appointments of 120 or more, we might get anywhere from six to twelve appointments”, MacKenzie says.

Tracey Barbrick is head of Nova Scotia's vaccine rollout. She says there are about 100,000 vacant appointments province-wide in the next two weeks.

"The most opportunity within the system is now. There's tonnes of vacant appointments”, Barbrick says.

“What we would like to see is a lot of those second dose people who are eligible, move their appointments up. We'd love to see them do that because we'd love to hit 75 per cent fully vaccinated before September."

Barbrick adds that at 63 per cent,Nova Scotia is leading the country in double-vaccinated residents. Meanwhile, more than 75 per cent have received the first dose.

She said the percentage of people who have been vaccinated is generally consistent across different provincial regions.

"So our first doses are 76 per cent, our second doses are 63 per cent, and about two per cent a day increase in second doses based on appointments”, Barbrick says.

Back in Baddeck, Graham MacKenzie says next week he has a good number of Pfizer appointments that are booked, though there are still plenty of openings.

He predicts the slowdown in bookings in his area will end soon.

"With the 15th of August and onward, most appointments are going to be reschedules. So I think we're going to see a change in this pattern”, MacKenzie says.

On Friday, the Nova Scotia Health Authority announced it is adding three new outreach vaccination clinics next week in communities North of Smokey. They say it's to offer a bit more accessibility to the vaccine.

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[atlanticcanada]

Vaccine vacancy: thousands of Pfizer and Moderna shots are waiting to be administered to residents in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

Cape Breton University has been a busy spot for COVID-19 vaccinations, but lately appointments have been easier to come by.

"It seemed like for quite some time they were booked up, booked up, booked up and then all of a sudden appointments became available. It flowed through very easily after that," says Kim Davis, a vaccine recipient.

Davis says she booked her appointment five days ago, and received her second shot today.

She says she was surprised there were no lineups.

"They have the vaccination clinic in the skating arena part, so there was loads of space and they could've accommodated more people from what I could see," says Davis.

The head of the vaccine rollout in Nova Scotia agrees and says they're starting to see significant vacancy across the province.

"In fact we have about 50,000 vacant appointments available in the next two weeks for both Pfizer and Moderna, so lots of room for people to get in there and move their second dose appointment forward," says Tracey Barbrick, the associate deputy minister for the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness.

In New Brunswick, thousands of first and second dose Pfizer and Moderna appointments have been opened for vaccinations through regional health authority clinics and participating pharmacies.

59.7 per cent of New Brunswickers aged 12 and older are fully vaccinated.

Nova Scotia is hoping to hit their two-dose mark by the middle of August, if people move their appointments forward.

"It looks like there are about 85,000 people that have their appointments booked from the second week of August into October and we want to pull all of those people forward as quickly as we can," says Barbrick.

She says reminders will be sent out in the coming days for people to reschedule to speed up the process of getting back to life before the pandemic.

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