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Thanks for contributing to our Homeless Awareness Sleepout
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The members of the Juneau-Douglas High School Interact Club and health classes who participated in the Interact Club's annual Homeless Awareness Sleepout Night on Nov. 17 thank the parents, friends, neighbors and three Rotary clubs that contributed more than $2,000 to the overnight event. The money was evenly divided between The Glory Hole, which aids families with food boxes, and the Juneau School District, which serves 160 homeless students.
Each of the 40 participating students had to raise $50 and sleep out in a temporary home they created of cardboard and duct tape from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The Homeless Awareness Project is to educate students and the community that an estimated 11,816 youth are homeless in Alaska and the average age of a homeless person in the United States is 9 years old.
Juneau's generosity and support of activist students helping fellow students is sincerely appreciated.
JDHS Interact Club
Dixie Weiss
Juneau
Congratulations to the nursing program graduates
The staff of Reifenstein Dialysis Center would like to add our congratulations to the seven University of Alaska Anchorage nursing program graduates. One graduate is especially close to us. On Dec. 17, the Juneau Empire featured a picture of her on the front page.
Deanna Browne is a locally raised and educated wife, mother and now new graduate nurse. Last summer she came to us to learn chronic hemodialysis as a technician. We are very pleased to now be precepting her toward being a Registered Nurse at our hemodialysis center. This will expand our availability of care here in Juneau as well as local employment for our local families.
Sandy Gillim
Registered nurse and clinical manager, Reifenstein Dialysis Center
Juneau