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Diaz helps preserve memories for students

By Marva J. Sneed

As the Yearbook Chair for the Beaver Technology Center’s PTA in Garland, TX, Tevis Diaz is passionate about preserving memories for the students, in spite of COVID-19.

While students are living through the pandemic, which is a reality they could never have imagined, Diaz is concentrating on capturing significant memories, just as she did when she was editor of her high school yearbook.

“It was so important for me to capture those memories this year,” said Diaz, as she talked about the challenges with remote learning.

Working with the PTA is something she loves doing and for theist eight years, this mother has devoted her time and resources with the help of TreeRing, a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks, to create the yearbooks at Beaver Tech. Then she joined the TreeRing team part-time in January of this year.

Diaz said she has kept the yearbook tradition alive by capturing pandemic-related photos. “This will be the yearbook that these kids will show their grandkids, telling them story after story about how unique of an experience it has been,” she said. “Challenging, for sure, but unique.”

In an interview she shared her story:

MS: Tevis, tell us about the yearbook you created for Beaver and what makes it different?

TD: You know like you, I didn’t have a yearbook in Elementary School. I have been creating yearbooks for the students for eight years. Four years ago I started working with a company TreeRing which allows me to make customized yearbooks. The students get to make their book a special yearbook with those memories to share. This year was probably the hardest yearbook I have ever made. Knowing how important it was to capture this year for them, just kept me going.

MS: What types of pictures will be in the yearbook and will it show the kids with their masks on?

TD: What’s so interesting is pretty much every picture from the school has kids with masks on and face shields. We had 60% of the kids remote learning so there is a blend of pictures with the children at school with masks and pictures of them at home at their dining room tables without masks on. The mix of pictures from school and remote learners tells the real story of this year. Trying to capture everything was a challenge, but it was fun, and my favorite book that I ever made.

MS: Elementary kids love their teachers. How difficult was it to develop those relationships during COVID?

TD: I think that’s an interesting question. I have been at the school for five years and I developed relationships with the kids. I gravitate to the kids and a lot of them know me. I spend almost the entire day on campus as a full time PTA Mom. Being remote this year, it was a struggle for me to stay connected with the school. I don’t feel like I ever disconnected from the kids. I can’t wait for the kids to see the books to see themselves on the pages of this yearbook….

There was so much more to the conversation, about the challenges and successes for this COVID year. For the full interview, go to BlogTalkRadio.com https:// bit.ly/3eXFxcw.

Tevis Diaz

“From Marva with Love” BlogTalkRadio.com/Cheryl’s World Texas Metro News email: marvasneed@ myimessenger.com

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“Each death is tragic and even more heartbreaking when we know that the majority of these deaths could be prevented with a simple, safe, available vaccine,” she demanded.

About two-thirds of U.S. counties have vaccinated less than 40 percent of their residents. That has allowed for the emergence and rapid spread of the highly transmissible delta variant,” Dr. Walensky continued.

President Joe Biden previously set a vaccination goal of reaching 70 percent of eligible adults by July 4, but the U.S. fell short.

Medical experts have warned that the delta variant is highly contagious and easily transmitted compared to other strains.

“The reason it’s so formidable is the fact that it has the capability of transmitting efficiently from human to human in an extraordinary manner, well beyond any of the other variants that we’ve experienced, up to now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical advisor, said during the Senate hearing.

Dr. Ebony J. Hilton, the medical director for GoodStock Consulting, LLC, and Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, repeatedly warned that the combination of vaccine hesitancy, the refusal to wear masks, and the delta variant would create the perfect storm for a worsening pandemic.

Expressly, Dr. Hilton has noted that Covid-19 deaths in predominately White communities have continued to rise at dramatic rates.

She said the snapshot provides a glimpse into just how bad the pandemic remains in African American neighborhoods.

“We see the disparity starting to close, but not because Black people are dying less, it’s because white people are dying more,” Dr. Hilton said. “Between February and March, 58,000 White Americans died of COVID, and it’s largely because of the ‘I don’t want to wear a mask,’ crowd.”

Dr. Hilton concluded that all should strongly consider getting vaccinated, and everyone should continue wearing masks.

“People are dying today, and they are likely leaving behind orphans,” Dr. Hilton said.

“We know that one in 9 Black children were already likely to see foster care in their lifetime. Because of COVID, imagine how many now if we are not taking it seriously and not getting vaccinated? It is not worth the risk. We have an agent, an intervention that has been proven safe, and it works.”

Dr. Hilton concluded:

“Look at the studies. We have 77 percent of people saying that they are not fully back to being themselves after they have experienced COVID.

“They have brain fog and other problems. It is not worth the risk, especially when we think about how the Delta variant has shown to be more contagious and more transmissible for our younger generation. We are setting ourselves up for a crisis.”

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