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Pharmacy and accounting volunteers fill important roles

During World War II he joined the Navy as a pharmacist. However, the Navy sent him to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to get a degree in marine engineering and then sent him out to sea.

After the war he was a neighborhood pharmacist and then a medical service representative for Eli Lilly & Co. The company transferred him to Jacksonville in 1973. Currently he is a consultant pharmacist for nursing homes and surgery centers.

He was attending a meeting of the Northeast Florida Society of Hospital Pharmacists and an old friend, Jim Burt, came to speak to the group and ask for volunteers to work at the pharmacy at Volunteers in Medicine. Located downtown on East Duval Street, VIM is a volunteer-run medical clinic improving the health of Jacksonville area residents by providing free outpatient medical services to the working uninsured.

Plan to insure working poor stalls

John's spokeswoman Cora Scott said St. John's, along with other Missouri hospitals, will continue to work with lawmakers "to address the problem of the state's uninsured."

"Because of organizations like St. John's and our mission in the community, the good news is we take care of people regardless of their insurance status," Scott said.

"The problem is they end up receiving it in a fragmented way, in the most costly location — the hospital emergency department. That impacts the whole community because those costs are shifted to the whole community."

Through 2007, uninsured patient care in the emergency trauma center cost St. John's an extra $500,000 every month, St. John's administrators have said.

As lawmakers address ways to expand coverage to low-income Missourians, Scott said, "...we will also continue to collaborate with others in the community to work on solutions that expand access to care for uninsured and working poor people."

Under Blunt's initial Insure Missouri plan, coverage was expected to be available in March to working parents and caregivers with children who live at or below the poverty level — $20,650 for a family of four.

Man cycles backwards for HIV awareness

Curan Wright, 36, said his voyage, which began in California, is aimed at raising awareness for homelessness, HIV/AIDS and what he described as the need for a federal medical marijuana law, The Miami Herald reported Monday.

Wright, who has ridden bicycles backwards since he was a teenager, uses his peripheral vision and experience to navigate his modified single-gear Redline bicycle without the use of mirrors.

Wright said during a recent stop in Key West, Fla., that he was disappointed when he passed through Washington and could not get an audience with Capitol Hill lawmakers.

"They act like they don't have to hear me," he said. "I don't have money. I'm a nobody to them. I'm just a homeless man with HIV, who got it on my own because I didn't practice safe sex and used needles."

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Gov. Mark Sanford's 2008 State of the State address

His work creates opportunities for the people who work there, and these businesses and individuals pay the taxes that make government services possible in the first place. Finally, I'd recognize my Cabinet for their hard work in administering their respective fields of government. We've had some changes in the guard since last year, so I specifically want to recognize Colonel Emma Forkner at the Department of Health and Human Services, Scott Richardson at the Department of Insurance, Buck Limehouse at the Department of Transportation, Kathleen Hayes at the Department of Social Services and Reggie Lloyd who we just nominated at the State Law Enforcement Division.