VENDOR WRITING

Hadley Park Towers (and COVID-19)

BY VICKY B., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

The usual hustle and bustle of the Hadley Park Towers has come to a complete stand still. The once vibrant and social place has become a ghost town. When taking my dog Faith out we usually encounter four or five people we say hello, but today it’s been solitude. The lobby, once filled with residents talking and sharing the latest gossip, is bare and quiet. The community room that plays a TV with ladies playing cards on Monday nights are no more. The occasional clanking of the pool balls down the hall is dark. If you’re lucky enough to see someone, you’re practicing social distancing. Today all residents were made aware of a lock down to protect the mostly 62 and over, disabled residents. Today at 4 p.m., until further notice, no more visitors are allowed unless they are medical. No family and no grand kids running around. Quiet. Solitude. On the opposite side of the flyer was a caring and compassionate letter from the Director of MDHA, James Harbison. Thank you MDHA for doing what needed to be done, for caring enough about the residents to make some hard and I’m sure unpopular decisions. Resource flyers in the elevators are much needed assistance to an elderly and poor community.

Even though we’ve been preparing for this with technology for years, it’s odd to finally put it to use — those who can. We have video conferences, broadcast from our homes, shop online and have groceries delivered to our homes. Facebook and Twitter are where we chat with friends, so we don’t need to go out anywhere. Everything is as close as your keyboard.

It’s lonely and sometimes scary wondering if you’ve been infected during every cough and every sniffle. I have to remind myself that allergies are bad in Nashville, so I divert my thinking to that instead of COVID-19.

So Happy to be One of the Top Sellers

JAMIE W., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

Well what can I say. I’m so happy and so proud of myself to be one of the top sellers of 2019. I can’t believe this is my forth year in a row to get this award. In August I will be doing this for nine years and I’m so grateful and thankful for each and every one of my customers. God bless all of my customers. I’m also so grateful for my husband Tommy for encouraging me to get out there and do what I do. I will say if this paper is still around and if I live to see 90 and as long as I’m able, I will be selling these papers.

I love doing this and I will say this is thelongest I’ve held down a job. There are some people tell me to get a“real job” and I tell them, “hey, this is my job.” But I feel so honored to get this award for the fourth year in a row and God Bless everyone at The Contributor. If it was not for this paper I would not have a job.I love talking to all kinds of people and I’m so happy to know and getto know all of my customers. They are very great and amazing people.

The Atlantic Ocean

BY JASON T., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast expanse of water which divides the continents of Europe and Africa from North and South America. This great sea extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic and has a serious share in both polar seas of ice. The North Atlantic section has more island and a greater variety of a coastline than some of the southern portions. The Atlantic is much longer from north to south that it is from east to west. The total surface has actually been affixed at 106.4 million square kilometers or 2/km. More great rivers empty into the Atlantic than any onto any other sea. The deepest spot discovered in the Atlantic is the Nares Deep, north of Haiti and Puerto Rico, at a depth of approximately 8,526 meters. The Atlantic, on the surface at least, is the saltiest of the great oceans. It has been tested on and in some locations as high as 37.5 percent salt, the lowest measurement being an even 3 percent salt.

One of the famous sections of the Atlantic Ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. It is separated from the outer coastline of Florida and the island groups which actually carries a cold waterfall from the south, northward into Newfoundland. From whence, the water is distributed into smaller currents each of which, river or stream, affects a different country, either giving that country a milder or hotter environment or climate than they should expect. Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, and the Azores, we are all affected. Be kind and rewind.