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6KPVI TV – ‘Greatly blessed,’ still ‘coaching’: Retired Eutawville teacher sees much change in 100 years – Eliza Read Spiers Couturier, of Lawson’s Pond in the Cross community, turns 100…

Daily Telegram – COVID care packages contain items to help people through quarantine – would you have enough household supplies and food to avoid going to the store for fourteen days?…

Episcopal News Service – Meet the Episcopal priest moonlighting as a Mars rover mission scientist – From her living room in Maryland, Conrad connects virtually with scientists around the country and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for several shifts a week, monitoring sensors that she helped design as they transmit data about the Martian environment

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‘Greatly blessed,’ still ‘coaching’: Retired Eutawville teacher sees much change in 100 years

6KPVI TV – Lawson’s Pond, ID

From coaching the Eutawville High School girls’ basketball team to decades of teaching and church involvement, Eliza Spiers Couturier has had experiences of a lifetime while enjoying small-town living.

“It’s something I didn’t think would ever happen. I’m amazed by it all and I feel greatly blessed,” said the soft-spoken Couturier from a rocking chair on the porch of her historic home, Lawson’s Pond, in the Cross community.

On April 16, she will turn 100.

“Most of my life, I have enjoyed good health,” she said. […]

COVID care packages contain items to help people through quarantine

Daily Telegram – Adrian, MI

If you were told today that you had to stay home for up to 14 days because you had tested positive for COVID-19 or were a close contact of someone with COVID, would you have enough household supplies and food to avoid going to a store?

A community initiative aims to help people who need a few things to get through a quarantine with COVID care packages. So far, about 40 care packages have been distributed, said the Rev. Dan Buchin of Christ Episcopal Church in Adrian. Christ Episcopal and City of Refuge Ministries International in Adrian are working with the Lenawee Community Foundation, Meijer of Adrian and the health department on the care packages. […]

Meet the Episcopal priest moonlighting as a Mars rover mission scientist

Episcopal News Service – Glen Burnie, MD

When Episcopal News Service recently spoke to the Rev. Pamela Conrad, rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland, she was exhausted – but not only from the liturgical marathon of Holy Week or the weary slog of daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic. On top of that, Conrad is a member of the tactical operations team for NASA’s Mars rover mission, often working through the night, analyzing feedback from the Perseverance rover as it searches for signs of potential life.

From her living room in Maryland, Conrad connects virtually with scientists around the country and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for several shifts a week, monitoring sensors that she helped design as they transmit data about the Martian environment. Among the instruments she works with are the cameras that have sent back over 25,000 photos, including Perseverance’s first selfie, which shows the rover and the small helicopter that is expected to take the first-ever powered flight on another planet later this week. […]