The LuLac Edition #4,129, August 29h, 2019

TRUMP, TWITTER  AND PUERTO RICO

While a storm bears down on Florida, President Trump cancelled a trip to Poland because the Sunshine State has more electoral votes than Puerto Rico. Trump continued his racist tweets, that bordered on the ridiculous as the island nation was in peril.
President Trump took a shot at Puerto Rico and Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan and a frequent critic of the president, as the island braces for Tropical Storm Dorian. Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that the storm was headed "as usual" to Puerto Rico, and urged residents to be grateful to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
"We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job. When they do, let them know it, and give them a big Thank You - Not like last time. That includes from the incompetent Mayor of San Juan!" Mr. Trump said, referring to Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island.
In another tweet, Mr. Trump castigated Puerto Rico as "one of the most corrupt places on earth." He also said that he was "the best thing that's ever happened to Puerto Rico!" (LuLac, CBS News)

CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES $85K IN GRANTS TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN NEPA

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-o8) announced $85,000 in federal grants to improve the quality of two health care facilities in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The first grant totals $36,000 and will be awarded to the Scranton Primary Health Care Center, Inc.; the second grant, which totals $49,000, will be awarded to the Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern PA.
Both grants are part of the Quality Improvement Awards program at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They are one-time supplemental awards to recognize achievements in quality of care and are designed to improve the overall quality and efficiency at these health care facilities.
“Investing in health care is incredibly important, and these centers provide excellent and comprehensive care to families in our community,” said Rep. Cartwright, a member of the House Appropriations Committee. “I continue to be a strong advocate for federal funding that goes directly to health care facilities across Northeastern Pennsylvania, so they have the resources they need to keep up their work.”
“We at Scranton Primary Health Care are very proud of the fact that we have once again been recognized by HRSA for our quality efforts and initiatives, especially while increasing our patient volume by 20% from the previous year,” said Joseph H. Hollander, executive director of the Scranton Primary Health Care Center. “It is because of grant awards like this that Scranton Primary has been able to achieve double digit growth, year over year, for the last five and a half years. In addition, we are extremely proud of the expanded services we offer to the community while maintaining
our Patient Centered Medical Home status.”
“We are very excited to receive the supplemental funding for our health care centers,” said Tiffany Tankalavage, president & CEO of the Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern PA. “Due to the high-quality care that our providers are committed to everyday, we were able to achieve these awarded dollars. We are also consistently ensuring our IT infrastructure is up to date to achieve certain additional funds. This funding will be reinvested back into our centers to provide the best patient experience possible in our Patient Centered Medical Home deemed locations.”

MEDIA MATTERS

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BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week’s guests on Bold Gold Community Forum with Jim Riley is NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch #2306’s President Ronald Felton. Also the branch historian Constance Wynn was on the program giving a historical and real time perspective. 
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ECTV LIVE

The ECTV crew will be taking Labor Day week off but the program will continue with a "Best Of" show during the week! ECTV Live is seen on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and on the electric city television YouTube page!

BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:20 and 8:20 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

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1969

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Three weeks after U.S. President Nixon's letter to North Vietnam's President Ho was sent, representatives of the ailing 79-year old North Vietnamese leader sent a reply that would be described as "uncompromising"; a historian would later write that "Ho neither read Nixon's letter nor did he pen the reply"; President Ho would pass away eight days later, on September ……..Sixteen of the 94 passengers on board Aeroflot Flight 1770 were killed when the Ilyushin Il-18 jet burst into flames upon landing in Moscow. The crew had failed to deploy the landing gear upon completion of the flight from Norilsk The Soviet press made no effort to conceal the disaster, which had been witnessed by numerous foreign visitors at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport……The very first Interface Message Processor (IMP), a set of electronic switches designed to communicate from one computer to others on a network, was delivered to UCLA from Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (now BBN Technologies) as the first part of the ARPANET computer network, predecessor to the Internet. Over the next three months, IMPs would be installed at Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at the University of Utah………Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion in history, was killed in the crash of a Cessna 172 airplane that was taking him from Chicago to Des Moines, along with pilot Glen Belz and another passenger, insurance salesman and family friend Frank Farrell. Flying at night, the Cessna ran out of fuel as it approached Des Moines. Belz attempted an emergency landing at Newton, Iowa, and struck the ground two miles short of the runway at 9:05 in the evening. Marciano, born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, had a pro boxing record of 49 wins and no losses upon his retirement in 1956 after almost four years as champion. His death came on the eve of his 46th birthday. Marciano and Farrell were making the flight to Des Moines for a birthday party at the Farrell home, after which the former champion would have flown back to his home at Fort Lauderdale, Florida


and fifty years ago the number one song in America was Put a Little Love In Your Heart - by Jackie DeShannon