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APRIL 2-8, 2020
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Villa Grande Gives back
Fuze Nutrition delivers Meals to medical staff
On Monday, March 30, Fuze Nutrition delivered 25 meals to the nurses, doctors and staff of the ICU unit at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus. They were so grateful to have us and we are so overfilled with joy to be able to serve them.
Thank you to all of our amazing customers who helped us to raise funds in the Pay It Forward Project to provide our frontlines with great nutrition. We will continue our efforts for our Pay It Forward Project. If you’d like to help our efforts to raise funds
to help fuel these heroes, you can do so in person at Fuze, VENMO: @FuzeNazareth CASHAPP: $FuzeNazareth PAYPAL-Friends & Family: FuzeNazareth@gmail.com @ St. Luke's University Health Network.
Gracedale staff member tests Positive for COVID-19 submitted by BECKY BARTLETT On March 27, a staff member at Gracedale Nursing Home tested positive for Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. As of March 27, no Gracedale resident has tested positive for COVID-19. Gracedale is working with the PA Department of Health and following all recommended protocols. An isolation ward has
been prepared should any of the residents begin to show signs of the virus. Residents and all employees at the nursing home are regularly monitored for signs and symptoms of COVID-19. All staff and residents have their temperatures checked multiple times a day and every resident has their vital signs, including oxygen saturation, measured at least once a day. Gracedale was closed to volun-
teers and visitors on March 11. Representatives of the Williamsport Field Office, Division Safety Inspection, did a survey of Gracedale on March 27 and found the Northampton County nursing home to be in substantial compliance with the Life Safety Code. Gracedale Nursing Home is accepting donations of Personal Continued on page 2
by ERIN FERGUSON Villa Grande, located at 225 W. Northampton St. in Bath, decided to give back in a “grande” way. On Thursday, March 26, owners Rinor Tominaj and Erfan Tominaj, brothers, donated 50 large pizzas to Lehigh Valley Health Network Muhlenberg to show their gratitude to all the hard-working doctors, nurses, and staff during the current crisis our nation is facing. “We were planning on donating somewhere and the hospitals, the nurses, doctors, they are the true heroes of this thing. If anyone needs food, it’s them,” said Rinor. “I don’t have money to offer, but food, I can offer that, so we decided to offer it,” adds Rinor. Villa Grande has been in business for over 35 years and started with Rinor and Efran’s parents in Long Island. They brought their business here to the Lehigh Valley in 2010 and this has been their home ever since. “We are happy to help the people of our community,” comments Rinor.
On top of the donation they made to the hospital, they are also offering families in need slices of pizza, whole pies or pasta dishes, but this is strictly for those in need and should not be abused. “If there is a family in need, children in need, we are willing to help them. If they want a pie, a pasta dish, a slice, all they have Continued on page 5
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