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Jasper, Ind. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is excited to announce the next recipient of the GARDENER Award is Stacy Kotsko in Post- Surgical Services. She is described as a who makes her patients feel heard and understood and will pray with them if they desire or will pray for them while she works. She puts into everything she does. Memorial Hospital is blessed to have Kotsko as part of our team.

For more information on the Gardener Award, please visit www. mhhcc.org or contact Brooke Ingram in Memorial Human Resources Department at 812-996- 6267. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center created The GARDENER Award as a result of the internationally known DAISY Award that recognizes the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Memorial Hospital is fully aware that it takes an entire team to function as a hospital. This team includes not only the nurses, but also maintenance, billers, therapists, medical records, food service, etc.

Every employee is necessary and plays an important role every day. The nurses would not be able to provide the proper care to patients without the appropriate support staff. The GARDENER Award was created to acknowledge incredible support staff that goes above and beyond regular call of duty. AREA DEATHS Page 2 NJASPERJ lews part of INDIANA NEWSPAPER GROUP Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Vol. 14 No.

19 Happy Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center announces Katie Zink at next DAISY Award winner Jasper, Indiana Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is excited to announce that the next recipient of the DAISY Award is Katie Zink, BSN, RN! Zink cares for patients in Memorial Lange- Fuhs Cancer Center. She is described as having an infectious, positive attitude and goes far beyond her normal duties to show love and care for her patients. Memorial Hospital is blessed to have Zink as part of our caregiver family! For more information on how you can nominate a nurse, visit www.mhhcc. org or contact Brooke Ingram in Human Resources at 812-996- 6267. The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is proud to be a DAISY Award Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor each quarter. To find out more about the DAISY go to www. DAISYfoundation.org. MHHCC names Stacy Kotsko at next GARDENER Award winner The Dubois County Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution recognized its three American History essay contest winners at its annual essay contest reception held on Tuesday, April 18 at the Jasper Public Library. The annual American History essay contest is open to all students in grades five through eight.

Southridge Middle School eighth grader Marisa Thacker, Jasper Middle School seventh grader Erin Verkamp, and Holy Trinity Catholic School sixth grader Natalie Rowling each read their winning essays about being a colonial delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1775-1776. After forwarding the three essays on to the state level, the Dubois County DAR then learned that in the eighth-grade essay contest, Marisa Thacker placed first in Indiana and second at the division level that includes the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. In the sixth-grade essay contest, Natalie Rowling placed second in the state. Along with their parents, Marisa and Natalie have been invited to attend the Indiana Good Citizens and American History Awards Luncheon on Saturday, May 20 during the Indiana DAR state conference that weekend. All three essay winners received a framed certificate and medal as well as a monetary award.

Dubois County DAR honors essay winners Sixth grade student and second-place state winner Natalie Rowling (center) with her grandmother (left), and her teacher, Debbie Kieffner (right). Eighth grade student and first-place state winner Marisa Thacker (left) and Dubois County DAR Vice Regent Paula Book (right). Seventh grade student and chapter winner Erin Verkamp (center) with her brother and grandparents. Each year on the last Monday of May, Americans celebrate Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors and mourns American military personnel who died while performing their duties in service to the United States Armed Forces.

Memorial Day has a rich history and one worth revisiting as the nation prepares to honor the sacrifices made by its military personnel over the centuries. Freed slaves played a role in the establishment of Memorial Day. The American Civil War is the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the Union and the Confederacy each suffered more than 800,000 casualties by the time the war ended in 1865. According to History.com, as the war drew to a close, hundreds of Union soldiers who were being held as prisoners of war died and were buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp in South Carolina. After the Confederate surrender, more than 1,000 now-freed slaves honored those recently deceased Union soldiers during a ceremony in which they sang hymns and distributed flowers.

The ceremony was dedicated to the fallen soldiers and served as a precursor to what is now celebrated as Memorial Day. It took a long time for Memorial Day to become a federal holiday. Despite tracing its origins to the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Memorial Day did not become an official federal holiday until 1971, more than a century after the war ended. Debate exists about which town has the longest history of celebrating Memorial Day. A handful of towns claim to be the first celebrants of Memorial Day.

That debate figures to continue in perpetuity, but History.com notes that Waterloo, New York, was officially recognized by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1966. Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, Wisconsin are some other towns that claim to have celebrated Memorial Day since the mid-1860s. Interesting facts about Memorial Day.