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Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rock Hall of Famer Jason Newsted hosting benefit show at the Everson
(WSYR-TV) — Jason Newsted is a six-time GRAMMY award winner, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a former member of Metallica, and he's one of the great bass players of all time. For several years now, he's called Central New York home. He's ready to give back to the community through a two-night concert this July. He joined our Tim Fox for a preview of the show and to talk about his time living in the Syracuse area. Jason will take the stage with his band, Newsted & Friends, for a performance inside the Everson's iconic Hosmer Auditorium. He is using this event to give back. Proceeds will support the Everson's exhibitions, education programs and community outreach initiatives. The two-night benefit concert is set for July 18 and 19 inside the Everson's iconic Hosmer Auditorium. Learn more and get tickets at Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Alpha Opportunities Inc. opening new residential habilitation group home
Mar. 29—Editor's note: This story and accompanying photo are advertorial content in the 2025 "Moving the Community Forward" special section of The Jamestown Sun. JAMESTOWN — Alpha Opportunities Inc. recently opened a second residential habilitation group home to serve clients, said Mallory Everson, executive director, and plans to open another one in April. "Last December, we opened an all-men's residential habilitation group home on the southwest side of Jamestown, and six gentlemen live there," she said. The third home will be located in northeast Jamestown. "It will originally open as a four-bed home for women for residential habilitation but it will be expanded to having six people (women) living in the home," Everson said. Alpha Opportunities Inc. is a nonprofit organization providing person-centered services to people with developmental disabilities over the age of 18, Everson said. In addition to the residential habilitation group homes, it also operates two intermediate care facility group homes for people with higher needs, she said. Residents have their own bedroom in residential habilitation group settings, Everson said. They make their meals together, go grocery shopping together and are encouraged to help with cleaning and maintaining the home, she said. They also have 24/7 staffing support, Everson said, including help with transportation and teaching them skills needed to live in that apartment setting on their own. "They go out in the community, some of them work jobs, some attend the day program (Alpha provides)...," she said. Everson said the goal of a person in a residential habilitation group program is to build skills and gain independence to move into an apartment and be successful in the community. Alpha Opportunities supports 54 people in the community, Everson said, including 22 who live in their own apartments. There are 38 individuals currently in its day program. Alpha Opportunities has 87 employees, Everson said. She said there is a high need for more group home facilities to support people and it can be difficult to open one when everyone is looking for employees. "It makes it very challenging for a provider to expand and to grow," she said. "However, Alpha has now been able to have this impact on the community of Jamestown two times in the last about year and a half. And so I think that's a huge asset for the community to be able to have a provider that is flourishing enough to offer these services to more people that need them." She said the referral list is very long in North Dakota for those looking for services. "I think Jamestown is very lucky," Everson said. "They're a very good community. Alpha's been around since the '80s and the community is very welcoming for what we do and the people we support. We have a lot of people that work in different businesses here in the community and the community has been a very big supporter of Alpha. And so any chance that we can to be able to enhance our services in the community and provide something back to the community, we're really trying to focus on that." For more information, visit or call (701) 252-0162.
BBC News
16-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Couple believe law was broken in Nottingham abortion sign-off
A couple who went through with an abortion after being mistakenly told their unborn daughter had a serious genetic condition believe doctors did not follow the Wesson and Carl Everson terminated their pregnancy in 2019 after being advised by Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust that their daughter had Patau's syndrome - which often results in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the baby dying shortly after birth - but she did not have order for an abortion to proceed, two doctors have to sign a legal document but the couple believe one of the doctors was not made aware of the circumstances of the are examining the case as part of a wider review of maternity failures at the trust, which said there was nothing to indicate the second doctor "did not have access to all relevant information". Ms Wesson, 43, and her partner Mr Everson, 47, were expecting their first child when in January 2019, a blood screening test indicated their baby had a high chance of having a chromosomal were offered a further test, known as chorionic villus sampling (CVS), to check their baby's days later, the foetal care team at City Hospital in Nottingham told them the initial results indicated their daughter had a rare genetic condition called Patau's Syndrome, which often results in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the baby dying shortly after birth. Ms Wesson and Mr Everson say they had a conversation shortly afterwards with a foetal care say they were told their baby would be left with severe care needs, and that it might not survive the from a more detailed analysis of the sample were due back two weeks later. The couple asked if it might show a different outcome, but they say their consultant advised them it would on the advice that their daughter had a fatal foetal abnormality, which would be incompatible with life, the couple decided to have an weeks after, Ms Wesson and Mr Everson were called to a meeting at City Hospital where they were told the second test showed their unborn daughter had no chromosomal abnormality. Regulations published in 1991 require the two doctors to agree to the termination on the same grounds, although the two-signature requirement does not apply in an emergency. Further guidance issued by the British Medical Association in 2020 says the Abortion Act requires the signatures of two registered medical practitioners on a form "confirming that in their opinion, which is made in good faith, the terms of the Abortion Act have been satisfied". 'I'd still have my daughter' Ms Wesson said when the couple decided to move forward with the termination at 14 weeks, their consultant "offered to end the [pregnancy] that day"."So there was no opportunity for them to speak to the other doctor, to consult anyone about the results. She offered us the medication," she added. The trust investigated Ms Wesson and Mr Everson's it found a number of mistakes had contributed to the termination, the investigation did not question the circumstances surrounding the signing of the paperwork. "He [the second doctor] was never interviewed, investigated or spoken to, and yet he's pivotal," said Ms Wesson. "If he'd actually acted as a fail-safe, if he had had the knowledge [about our case] that he should have, and then national guidelines were followed, he would have said 'this termination should not be offered' and I'd still have my daughter."Mr Everson added: "The second signature, critically, is on there but he did not date it." Nottinghamshire Police is examining the case as part of Operation Perth, an investigation into maternity failures at the force announced a criminal investigation in September 2023 following discussions with senior midwife Donna Ockenden, who is leading the independent inquiry into maternity services. In November, the force said it had recently started to receive information from the Ockenden review investigation in 2012 by the healthcare watchdog - the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - found evidence that 14 NHS trusts were pre-signing abortion forms - whereby one doctor would sign the forms in anticipation of patients seeking a termination. This breach of the Abortion Act allowed a second doctor to take an individual decision to allow a Department of Health and Social Care subsequently published guidance saying it considered the pre-signing of forms, without subsequent consideration of any information relating to the woman, "to be incompatible with the requirements of the Abortion Act".NUH was not one of the organisations identified by the CQC investigation. A spokesperson for the trust said "from the records, we can confirm that the second signature on the form was undertaken by an appropriate registered medical practitioner". "There is nothing to indicate that the second practitioner did not have access to all relevant information with which to provide their signature within the grounds of the Abortion Act," they to the couple's case, Anthony May, NUH chief executive, said: "I know that we failed Carly, Carl and their baby, Ladybird, in 2019, and for that I am truly sorry. "While words will never change the outcome, I can assure them and other families that we have investigated and learnt from this tragic case."He added: "Our foetal medicine teams provide a specialist regional service to hundreds of women and families a year from across the East Midlands."For women and families using this service, there will be times when they are faced with making very difficult and long-lasting decisions. "We strive to support them to do that in the most compassionate and professional manner and we always want to hear from families who don't feel their experience matches that ambition."
