
Laurie Covers a Nursing Home Groundbreaking
Clip: Season 9 Episode 905 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Laurie, publisher and editor of the Canadian Record, covers a new nursing home.
Laurie Ezzell Brown, publisher and editor of the Canadian Record, covers the groundbreaking of a new nursing home and discusses the importance of keeping the weekly newspaper alive.
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Laurie Covers a Nursing Home Groundbreaking
Clip: Season 9 Episode 905 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Laurie Ezzell Brown, publisher and editor of the Canadian Record, covers the groundbreaking of a new nursing home and discusses the importance of keeping the weekly newspaper alive.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- This is the assisted living center that you see up here and the nursing home they're building below that.
Just recently, we voted to build a new nursing home.
There's a nursing home here that was built 50 years ago and it's falling apart.
I understand, this day, in a year, we're going to be- - Should open the doors.
- Opening the doors.
- That's the goal.
- We'll put it in print.
We may even put it in the big headline.
- [Participant] Everybody take a shovel full.
- That was something we wrote a lot about and supported.
[audience applauding] I think there are things like that that you can be influential in helping to happen, that are good things for the community.
- Okay, four and five, right, got that.
They were so excited about- - I know and, oh, there, is that Norma?
There's Norma.
- I love having all these people looking over my shoulder.
- What?
- You asked for this.
- I don't even remember asking.
- You said, "I need help."
- You said, "I need help."
We're here to help.
- I've been here for 23 years, 23 years.
Mostly because Lori's desperate.
We have a good group here.
We all work very well together, even though Kathy and I keep trying to retire.
Yeah, it's okay, and Lori too, but we have to keep going, huh, Lori?
- That's right.
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For the Record | Official Trailer
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Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas. (37s)
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