Blessing Hospital

This Monday morning at approximately 5:30 a.m. officers from the Quincy Police Department responded to Blessing Hospital for a report of a subject who had arrived by private vehicle to their facility with a gunshot wound.

As time passes, you would think it would get easier to talk about the loss of a friend. Well, it isn’t easier and maybe that’s good. I don’t want to forget John Tripp, not only for our close friendship, but for everything he did for others.

The 2017 Community Cancer Crush event will be held on Friday, April 14th at The Ambiance. Admission tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door.

Please allow me to be a little repetitive with my remarks this week, but I feel I must do so. Months ago I discussed my feelings on where the Adams County Ambulances in Quincy should be housed and my thought process has not changed at all.

Twenty-eight years ago I took my 6-year-old daughter to the Peoria Zoo and, as chance would have it, one of the Peoria hospitals was holding a stuffed animal day at the Zoo. Little did I know 28 years later, the idea that I brought back to Quincy would still be flourishing.

Last week it was revealed that the Adams County Ambulance Board has proposed building a structure for the three ambulances and crews in Quincy on property at both Eighth and Oak or Ninth and College after the service leaves its current space at Blessing Hospital's 14th Street campus by the end of the year.

Blessing Hospital, Adams County Health Department, and the Adams County Emergency Management will be conducting a public health mock emergency exercise on July 5 & 6 and volunteers will be needed.

Today is Earth Day 2016. It is a day that we are to find ways to try to clean up our environment. As a result,  Delta Tire & Custom Wheels and Blessing Hospital are hosting a used tire collection for recycling in honor of Earth Day.  The collection will take place tomorrow, Saturday, April 23, from 8 am to 4 pm.

After months of discussion and then weeks of installation, the traffic lights at 10th and Broadway are finally in operation today.

OK, let the debate begin, but for my money daughters are the greatest. I say that because my daughter has a birthday today. I'd say it the other 364 days of the year as well. I didn't want to wake her this morning, so I text her telling her that her birth was the greatest thing that ever happen to me and I meant every word of it.