Category: Health & Lifestyles

Birth Announcements, Engagement Announcements, Feature stories and photos about local residents in Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot/Moore areas. Also special features on the latest research and healthcare trends.

An interview and photos from family in Italy

The Bianki family, who are close friends of some local Texas residents, agreed to share their story and photos of what they’ve seen first-hand in their community in Italy.

Doctors in Italy are comparing the situation at hospitals to “war-time” triage, where they are having to focus on helping the ones they can, because they cannot help them all.

“It’s not just the lethality of this virus but the fact that many people need to be hospitalized in ICU and/or hooked up to mechanical ventilators,”Bianki stated.

Bianki, who is one of the many people on lockdown with the rest of her community stated, “We had “patient one” (first Italian to be infected in Italy) on the 21st of February, and in a little over 2 weeks we are over 15,000 cases.”

She adds, “Until Monday, people weren’t really taking this pandemic seriously…people made a lot of jokes about the virus, and went out with friends. “

“Now we are in total lock down…” Bianki adds, “It is forbidden to exit your town/village, police are now enforcing this ban, you will find patrols that can fine you or even arrest you if you don’t comply. You should have a valid reason to be walking in the streets: work for example, if you are employed by some of the business places still open since all non-essential goods’ shops have been forcibly shut down and only some factories are still operating.”

This is a photo of an emergency triage outside Pisa’s hospital, taken by the Biankis just days before the lock down. Photo credit: Shigita Bianki
This photo was taken at the local grocery store where the Bianki family lives. As Bianki says, you can see “people are complying with the strict but necessary laws that put the whole country in lock down… in this case staying a mandatory 1 meter distance from each other.”
Photo Credit: Shigita Bianki

Current Events Club prepares for Valentine’s Day, Charity Gala, and theater outing

Members of Current Events Club, (l to r) Martha Wall, Kay Shutz, Linda Cole and Robert Stanton, and an employee delivering Valentine remembrances to residents at the Devine Health and Rehabilitation Center.

The Current Events Club met in the home of Dinah Argo on Tuesday, March 17. Continue reading “Current Events Club prepares for Valentine’s Day, Charity Gala, and theater outing”

Devine 4-H competes at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo

Pictured Left to Right: Caitlyn Breiten, Corinne Fowler, Thres Villa, Collier Paige, Rozlyn Courtade, Charlie Stricker, Pauline Calame, Sydney Weyel, and Coach Madeline Steubing.

The Consumer Decision Making contest took place this past Saturday, February 15th at the San Antonio Stock Show. Continue reading “Devine 4-H competes at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo”