From The Bismarck Tribune: legislative bill addresses visitation at North Dakota nursing homes. It varies from nursing home to nursing home but bottom line is that the elderly have been pretty much cut off from the outside world due to Covid-19. A ND legislator has introduced a bill to turn this around:
At the 2021 Legislature, Sen. Kristin Roers, R-Fargo, has introduced Senate Bill 2145 which would allow residents to assign “designated caregivers.” If passed, these caregivers would be able to freely visit the resident to offer physical, spiritual or emotional support. Administrators said their residents need this support.
I would not have posted this except for one thing. This is from The Bismarck Tribune. The story concerns all nursing homes in North Dakota but the lede goes to the "Bethel Lutheran Home" -- in quotes because the full name is much longer -- but "we" all still call it the "Bethel Lutheran Home."
That's the home my dad helped build decades ago, the home to which he donated a lot of money over the years, the home he said he would never move into, and the home which was his last home.
For the "Bethel Lutheran Home" to get the lede in this all-state article speaks volumes about the quality of this home. It really is quite amazing. My dad loved it. He might have lived there a decade; I've long forgotten; my sister would know; it doesn't matter.
When I first went to visit him in the "home," he was always eager to go for a drive around Williston, to see what was new. It was during the boom, probably around 2009 that was most amazing, all the activity. When I was in Williston for a week or two, we would go out at least once a day, maybe twice a day.
As the years wore on, however, he had less and less interest in leaving the home. In the last two years he did not want to take a drive around Williston at all. He had no interest in leaving the "home." All his friends were there and that's where he wanted to stay. That spoke volumes about the quality of "Bethel."
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Musical History
Several interesting links to follow.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Carole King and Willie Nelson
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? wiki.
Scepter Records. Wiki.
Florence Greenberg. Wiki.
Obituary. NYT.
And this is how it all began. America. What a great country.
Florence Greenberg (September 16, 1913 – November 2, 1995) was an American record label owner, music executive and a record producer.
Greenberg was the founder and owner of Tiara Records, Scepter Records, Hob Records, and Wand Records.
She is most known for her work as a record producer and music executive for several popular singers in the 60s including Dionne Warwick, the Shirelles, Tammi Terrell, Chuck Jackson, B.J. Thomas and many others.
Greenberg—a former Republican campaign worker—lived as a housewife in Passaic, New Jersey.
In the mid-1950s she was in her mid-forties with two children, Mary Jane and Stanley, who were both in school, so she had nothing to do at home during the day.
By 1956, a 43-year-old Greenberg was desperately searching for an escape
from the suburban lifestyle that accompanied her being a housewife.
The rest is history as they say.
