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Coronavirus testing set for Sorrento

Ochsner has expanded its community coronavirus testing efforts across the Capital Area.

Locations are secured in cooperation with government officials and focus on testing near local hot spots. Testing across the region will continue through the remainder of 2020 based on community need.

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Testing is open to Louisiana residents, age two and older. Even if you are not experiencing symptoms, youre encouraged to get tested to learn your COVID-19 status. Doctors orders are not required. People coming for testing are required to bring a picture ID and insurance card, if applicable. There are no out-of-pocket costs for those seeking a test and no one will be turned away based on their insurance status. Testing is available at the times listed or until all test kits have been utilized.

Ochsners investment in enhanced community testing is a critical step towards a continued safe reopening, said Eric McMillen, CEO, Ochsner Baton Rouge. I encourage everyone to come for a test to know your status. Weve seen several positive cases with no symptoms.

Community members will receive their test results within 72 hours via the MyChart patient portal or by phone. Those who test positive can participate in Ochsners 14-day symptom tracker program designed for COVID-19 patients who do not require hospital care. Participants receive daily text messages to monitor symptoms and can be connected to a 24/7 nurse on-call line for additional support. In addition to offering community testing, Ochsner has the following resources available:

Free Ochsner information line at (844) 888-2772 for 24/7 advice and COVID-19 information

Schedule a video visit with an Ochsner provider and ask follow-up questions through secure messages using MyOchsner

Urgent Care by video through http://www.ochsner.org/virtualvisits or via the Ochsner Anywhere Care app

In-person appointments at one of 13 Ochsner Health Centers across Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston and Tangipahoa Parishes including Ochsner Cancer Center Baton Rouge

To make an appointment, call 225-761-5200, or visit http://www.Ochsner.org/BatonRouge. To learn more about COVID-19, visit http://www.ochsner.org/coronavirus.

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7471 Main St., Sorrento

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River Region Art Association is opening its Summer Art Camp on June 15 at its Depot Gallery in Gonzales.

Summer Art Camp will be held June 1519, June 22-26, June 29 -July 3, July 1217, July 20 -24, July 2731 and Aug. 37.

Age groups and times are: ages 610 attend 9 a.m. to noon and ages 1215 and older attend 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Fee for summer camp is $100 per week. A camp registration form is available at rraa@riverregionartassociation.org.

A limit of 8 youths in each week of camp has been set in order to maintain the safe 6 foot distance requirement in the classroom. Masks are to be worn by all including teachers, sanitizing is done before and after class and students will have their own supplies for the week of class.

For any additional information, leave a message at (225) 644-8496.

Tanger Outlets will host the La. 621 Farmers Market near Shopper Services Suite 299 during June.

Locally-sourced products will be abailable from 7 am. to noon each Saturday in June. Products include fresh fruits and vegetables, farm fresh eggs, artisan breads, honey, jams/jellies, pickled eggs and vegetables, tamales, kettle corn, baked goods and specialty food items.

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For years, if you came into the emergency room with a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (blood clots in the lungs or a vein, typically in the leg), doctors would put you on a medication to try to break up the clot as well as to thin the blood.

Those medications, though, come with side effects that include bleeding in the brain or having part of the clot break off and travel somewhere you dont want them, like the heart.

Patients with the most serious cases, at immediate risk of death, would go immediately into surgery, says Dr. Peter Monteleone, interventional cardiologist at Seton Heart Institute.

This year, though, hes been using a technique to get rid of blood clots that are serious but not the most critical or the most benign.

Its the whole group in the middle, he says.

Monteleone is using the Inari FlowTriever for pulmonary embolisms. Using ultrasound to guide him, he inserts a guide wire through a vein to go through the clot in the lung. Then he inserts the FlowTriever catheter into the vein to reach the clot.

He deploys the FlowTrievers three self-expanding nitinol (metal alloy) mesh disks. The disks attach to the clot and dislodge it. He then drags the clot back through the catheter to a syringe that is attached to the catheter outside the body.

Its a bit like a plumbers snake inside the body, gripping the clog and bringing it back through the pipe to the surface.

If the patient has a deep vein thrombosis, he uses the Inari ClotTriever, which acts similarly. A guide wire is inserted through a vein through the clot. The catheter with the ClotTriever is inserted through the clot. Then he deploys the nitinol ClotTriever, which looks like a cylindrical net, and grabs the clot. He can then drag it back through the catheter and into a collection bag outside the body. The ClotTriever also has a nitinol funnel by the catheter that keeps the clot from escaping as its being sucked into the catheter.

Both procedures can be done in about half an hour with the patient under light sedation, which means they are awake but not in pain.

Its not a big surgery, Monteleone says.

Patients are put on blood thinners to prevent new clots from forming, but they dont have to worry about the clot that was just removed migrating somewhere dangerous like the heart.

Signs of a pulmonary embolism include shortness of breath and pressure in the chest, dizziness or lightheadedness, a cough or coughing up blood. Deep vein thrombosis comes with swelling or pain in the leg, a feeling of warmth in the leg and redness in the leg.

Monteleone and his colleagues have been seeing fewer people coming into the emergency room for care like heart attacks, strokes and other serious problems like embolisms because of concerns about COVID-19.

There are processes in place to keep them safe, he says. It is heartbreaking to know there are these therapies for patients that are treatments, and were not seeing them because they are scared.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) An Austin mom held her new baby for the first time after recovering from a scary battle with COVID-19.

The woman, identified only as Brenda by Ascension Seton Medical Center, was in the hospital for more than a month and was so ill that she was placed on a ventilator.

However, this week she was finally discharged from the hospital and was able to finally meet her baby.

Ascension Seton said Brenda was 35 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital with worsening symptoms of COVID-19.

She had a C-section but was then placed on a ventilator in the ICU for 24 days as she fought for her life.

Emotional footage shows staff at Ascension Seton cheering as Brenda was pushed out of the hospital in a wheelchair.

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Dawn Rudolph, Guest columnist Published 12:00 a.m. CT June 6, 2020

Over the past few weeks, many people postponed care for almost all of their health needs from elective procedures and surgeries to vaccinations, and from routine checkups to important health screenings. These extraordinary measures were necessary to meet the critical care needs of patients and communities across the state of Florida.

Ascension Sacred Heart is fully prepared to provide all of the important health care and procedures that patients might need urgently, have put off during this time or have been considering. Balancing care with caution, we have added strict safety precautions to help protect both patients and caregivers. And we continuously monitor guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, then adjust safety precautions accordingly.

Dawn Rudolph(Photo: Courtesy of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola)

These precautions include:

Emergency rooms across the country are reporting that fewer people who suffer heart attacks, strokes and serious injuries are coming to ERs to get the critical care they need. Avoiding care can make these conditions worse or recovery more difficult. For example, even a small delay in seeing care for a stroke can be the difference between recovery and permanent disability.

Delaying care for chronic conditions, routine appointments and screenings could also impact a persons long-term health. Whether its rescheduling a delayed visit or scheduling care for a new health concern, overall health is too important to delay.

We have added more options for receiving care, including the ability to see your Ascension Medical Group doctor virtually, when it makes sense. While insurance coverage limited virtual care we were able to provide before the pandemic, we launched virtual visits with our local providersin March. For the past six weeks, they have averaged 2,500 virtual visits a week. We will be advocating that this openness to virtual visits remain in effect from now on for the convenience of our patients.

Our doors have remained open to patients who have needed us for urgent or emergency care, and we are now scheduling for all types of care. Regular follow-up visits, surgeries whatever the need, were here for you. From the routine, to important care and emergency care, patients can get the care they need, when they need it, even now:

Dawn Rudolph is the president of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola.

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By the time the next softball season begins, it will be a new decade. Here is a look back at some of the best Ascension softball players of this decade, years 2010-2020.

Unfortunately, the Coronavirus pandemic cancelled the second half of the high-school softball season, not allowing the parishs best players to finish what they started

With no games being played, it prompts us to look to the past and reflect on all of the great parish players that had memorable careers.

By the time the next softball season begins, it will be a new decade. Here is a look back at some of the best Ascension softball players of this decade, years 2010-2020.

Its no surprise that St. Amant had so many special players over the years. In this decade, they made five state semifinal appearances and won a state title in 2019.

Kara Gremillion was so good at St. Amant that they retired her jersey soon after she graduated.

Gremillion was an All-American with the Lady Gators and helped lead St. Amant to the semifinals in two or her final three years there. In her senior season, he hit .548 with 38 RBIs.

She went on to be a four-year starter and three-time All-Sun Belt player at UL-Lafayette.

Her younger sister Kourtney was a starter on the 2015 St. Amant team that reached the semifinals.

She had a monster year in 2016 as a seniorhitting .602 with 13 home runs and 62 RBIs. That was enough to earn her All-American honors.

Kourtney went on to start at UL-Lafayette, where she made All-Sun Belt two years in a row.

Another starter on that 2015 semifinal team was Taylor Tidwell. Tidwell started all four years at St. Amant.

As a senior, she broke the schools season-season home run record with 17. She also hit .598 with 53 RBIs. It led to her being named an All-American.

Tidwell went on to sign with LSU. As a sophomore this past season, Tidwell started 17 games and was hitting .351 with 14 RBIs and three home runs. Unfortunately, the season was cut short due to the virus.

Madison Edmonston was an all-district player that hit nearly .600 her senior season at St. Amant. She helped lead the Lady Gators to the semifinals in both 2012 and 2013.

She went on to have two huge seasons at LSU-Eunice. She then transferred to Southeastern, where she was an all-conference player.

Another player in the parish to have her jersey retired was Bailey Landry.

Landry helped lead East Ascension to the state semifinals in 2011. As a senior in 2013, she was named an All-American.

Landry went on to play at LSU, where she now holds school records for longest hitting streak (21 games), most hits in a season (92) and all-time hits (291).

She also played professionally.

Jessie Watts was her teammate at East Ascension. She was a four-year starter that helped lead the Lady Spartans to the semifinals in 2015.

As a senior in 2016, she was named the districts Co-MVP.

Watts went on to play at UL-Monroe. Before the season was cancelled, she had started all 24 games and was hitting .355 with 19 RBIs as a senior.

Claire Weinberger was also a four-year starter at East Ascension, and she was also on the 2015 semifinal squad.

Weinberger was first-team All-State as a senior, hitting .582.

She went on to play at LSU for four years. This past season as a senior, she had started four games.

Aleah Creighton was a first-team All-State performer for Dutchtown in 2013. She was the teams best hitter and best pitcher.

Creighton went on to play at UL-Lafayette, where she was a two-time All-Sun Belt performer.

Ali McCoy was a four-year starter at Dutchtown. She helped lead the Lady Griffins to the state title game in 2015.

As a senior in 2016, McCoy was named the Co-MVP of the district.

She went on to play at Southeastern. Before the rest of 2020 was cancelled, she had started 21 games and was hitting .321.

Alayna Falcon was a big-time player for Ascension Catholic. As a senior in 2011, she was first-team All-State and the districts MVP.

Falcon went on to play four years at LSU. As a senior, she made eight starts.

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Ascension Day is the 40th day of Easter. It occurs 39 days after Easter Sunday. It is a Christian holiday that commemorates Jesus Christ's ascension into heaven, according to Christian belief.

Ascension Day marks the 40th day after Jesus Christ's resurrection, according to Christian belief.

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Ascension Day is officially celebrated on a Thursday on the 40th day of Easter (or 39 days after Easter Sunday). In countries where it is a public holiday, Ascension Day is a free day for many workers. Many people take a long weekend off because the day falls on a Thursday. The Friday in between is usually quiet, particularly in shops and offices. Despite Christianity being a minority religion in Indonesia, Ascension Day is a public holiday and special services take place at churches throughout the country.

Ascension Day is sometimes called Fathers Day in Germany because many Protestant men have herrenpartien outings on this day. In Sweden, many people go out to the woods at 3 am or 4 am to hear the birds at sunrise. It is good luck if a cuckoo is heard from the east or west. These jaunts are called gkotta, or early cuckoo morning.

In England, Ascension Day is associated with various water festivals ranging from Well Dressing in Derbyshire to the Planting of the Penny Hedge at Whitby, a small town in Yorkshire. Other customs may include beating the bounds. In the old days, it involved beating boys with willow branches as they were driven along parish boundaries, not only to purify them of evil but to teach them the limits of their parish. In modern times, it involves people in the locality walking around their farm, manorial, church or civil boundaries pausing as they pass certain trees, walls and hedges that denote the extent of the boundary to exclaim, pray and ritually 'beat' particular landmarks with sticks.

Ascension Day is not a federal public holiday in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, or the United States. It is a public holiday in some countries, including:

Government offices, schools, banks, and many businesses are usually closed in countries where Ascension Day is a public holiday. Public transport services may run on weekend schedules in some countries that observe Ascension Day as a public holiday.

Ascension Day is one of the earliest Christian festivals, dating back to the year 68. According to the New Testament in the Bible, Jesus Christ met several times with his disciples during the 40 days after his resurrection to instruct them on how to carry out his teachings. It is believed that on the 40th day he took them to the Mount of Olives, where they watched as he ascended to heaven.

Ascension Day marks the end of the Easter season and occurs ten days before Pentecost. Depending upon the phases of the Moon in a particular year, Ascension Day is celebrated on a Thursday. However, some churches, particularly in the United States, celebrate it on the following Sunday.

Many Eastern Orthodox churches calculate the date of Pascha (Easter) according to the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar used by many western churches, so their Ascension Day usually occurs after the western observance.

Ascension Day celebrations include processions symbolizing Christs entry into heaven and, in some countries, chasing a devil through the streets and dunking it in a pond or burning it in effigy symbolic of the Messiahs triumph over the devil when he opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

In England, eggs laid on Ascension Day are said to never go bad and will guarantee good luck for a household if placed in the roof. In Devon, it was an ancient belief that the clouds always formed into the familiar Christian image of a lamb on Ascension Day. If the weather is sunny on Ascension Day, the summer will be long and hot. If it rains on the day, crops will do badly and livestock will suffer from disease. According to Welsh superstition, it is unlucky to do any work on Ascension Day.

In Portugal, Ascension Day is associated with wishes for peace and prosperity. Traditionally, in rural communities, people make bouquets from olive branches and sheaves of wheat with poppies and daisies. The olive and wheat are symbolic of abundant harvest; the poppy stands for peace and the daisy for money. Wheat is kept in the house throughout the coming year as a symbol of prosperity.

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This rendering included in planning materials filed with the city of Waukesha shows a northeast perspective of the micro-hospital that will be operated by Ascension Wisconsin at Sunset Drive and St. Paul Avenue. The hospital building, which was approved by the city's plan commission on May 27, is part of the redevelopment of the old Fox Run Shopping Center and will be built atop the land with the Sentry Food Store stood.(Photo: Philo Wilke Partnership)

WAUKESHA - The old Sentry store is gone, and in its place will stand a "micro-hospital," operated by a health care provider with an expanding footprint in Waukesha County.

In documents accompanying the agenda for the May 27 meeting of the Waukesha Plan Commission, Ascension Wisconsin is proposing tofill the 32,000-square-foot building in what was until recently the original Fox Run Shopping Center at St. Paul Avenue and Sunset Drive.

If approved, thefacility will become another provider of emergency care for Waukesha patients who, until now, had relied on ProHealth Care's Waukesha Memorial Hospital or urgent care facilities such as those offered by Advocate Aurora.

It's all part of a 13.4-acre redevelopment of the former shopping center, announced in October, into a 72-unit apartment complex and all-new commercial space. The plan is tied to a redevelopment district in which new taxes generated by the improvements would help pay for some of the upfront debt in the project.

At the May 27meeting, the plan commission, which ultimately approved final site plan and architectural review,considered the details of the medical office building itself, in which the main floor would feature the micro-hospital and a second floor filled with medical offices.

As presented in a letter to the city's planning department in April, the medical facility will be positioned on land that was previously home to Bob and Kurt's Sentry store, which was the last in remaining Sentry store in the city of Waukesha. The store closed in January and has since been demolished.

In the new building, afirst-floor hospital will include eight emergency beds and eight in-patient beds, plus X-ray and CT scan rooms. The second floor was listed as "future" medical offices that would be accessed through a separate entrance.

Ascension, which regionally grew to encompass both the Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital and Wheaton Franciscan health care facilities, has recently tried to gain a greater foothold in the suburban areas outside Milwaukee, including in Waukesha County.Among locations proposed or approved in the past year include small hospitals in Menomonee Falls, Greenfield and Mequon.

Technically, the health care provider had already entered the city of Waukesha, where it opened an Ascension Medical Group office on Moreland Boulevard on the city's east side several years ago.

Ascension Wisconsin officials were not immediately available to discuss their expansion efforts and why Waukesha was added to the list of hospital sites.

From the city's standpoint, from a planning perspective, the focus isn't so much about the addition of a hospital and another medical office, but the design of the building itself and the property value increases resulting from redevelopment.

"I've always looked at from the standpoint about what the building would look like," Mayor Shawn Reilly said in a brief phone interview Thursday. "Not so much another hospital, but as another business coming to town. I'll leave it to others the number of hospitals (in the city) and stuff like that. That's always been contentious."

Of course, Ascension's neighbors will be unlike those whichpreviously occupied the former commercial parcel.

The mixed-use development proposed by partner firmsVJS Development Group LLC of Pewaukee, Bedford Development of Waukesha and Somerstone LLC of Brookfield will be greatly defined not by commercial tenants, but residential ones.

The plan is for 72 apartment unitswith rents ranging from roughly $1,000 to $1,500 monthly.

The apartment complex would be built close towhere the former 67,000-square-foot vacant strip mall sat deeper into the Fox Run property relative to Sunset Drive. The strip mall had been completely vacant for years, but once housed a liquor store, a craft shop and other retail businesses in its heyday.

The new development also calls for commercial space, but there areno firm plans onwhat and where those leased elements would be, at this point. In all, the property consists of five developable lots.

It all adds up to a projected $32.3 million increase in taxable property, based on a term sheet that's part of the tax increment financing district which was recently approved to enable redevelopment. For the mayor, that's an important bottom line.

"Very happy about that," Reilly said. "And that's one thing about the hospital itself. That building will be a draw for other businesses to locate next to it. I think we are going to end up with a very successful, major corner in the city of Waukesha."

Though the redevelopment abuts a newer section of the shopping center, most notably anchored by a Kohl's department store, it will have no impact on that commercial center, which is under separate ownership.

Contact Jim Riccioli at (262) 446-6635 or james.riccioli@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jariccioli.

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Today is the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, which is celebrated each year on the fortieth day after the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha (Easter).

Since the date of Pascha changes each year, the date of the Feast of the Ascension changes. The Feast is always celebrated on a Thursday.

The Feast itself commemorates when, on the fortieth day after His Resurrection, Jesus led His disciples to the Mount of Olives, and after blessing them and asking them to wait for the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Spirit, He ascended into heaven.

The story of the Ascension of our Lord, celebrated as one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church, is found in the book of the Acts of the Apostles 1:3-11. It is also mentioned in the Gospels of Mark (16:19) and Luke (24:50-53). The moment of the Ascension is told in one sentence: He was lifted up before their eyes in a cloud which took Him from their sight (Acts 1:9).

Christ made His last appearance on earth, forty days after His Resurrection from the dead. The Acts of the Apostles states that the disciples were in Jerusalem. Jesus appeared before them and commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father. He stated, You shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit not many days from now (Acts 1:5).

After Jesus gave these instructions, He led the disciples to the Mount of Olives. Here, He commissioned them to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). It is also at this time that the disciples were directed by Christ to go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). Jesus also told them that He would be with them always, even to the end of the world (Matthew 28:20).

As the disciples watched, Jesus lifted up His hands, blessed them, and then was taken up out of their sight (Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9). Two angels appeared to them and asked them why they were gazing into heaven. Then one of the angels said, This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen Him going into heaven (Acts 1:11).

For forty days after His Resurrection, Our Lord Jesus Christ remained on earth. Filled with the glory and honour of His Divinity, He appeared to His Disciples at various times and places. By eating and drinking with His disciples and conversing with them about the Kingdom of God, our Lord Jesus Christ assured them that He was Truly alive in His Risen and glorified Body. (The glorification of Jesus refers to His Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension into heaven. When we speak of Christs glorified Body, we refer to Its honour, splendor, majesty and visible radiance it gave off rays of bright Light!).

The time span of forty days (40) is used symbolically in the Holy Scripture and by the Church indicate that an appropriate amount of time has passed for COMPLETENESS. The rains of the Great Flood lasted for forty days. Christ prayed in the wilderness for forty days. We fast for forty days to prepare before the feasts of the Holy Nativity and the Resurrection (Pascha).

The Ascension is a sign and symbol of the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgment. Christ will return to the earth in the same manner as He left it. When the Risen Lord returns again in glory, Gods will for mankind will be fulfilled.

Jesus Christ completed His earthly mission of bringing salvation to all people and physically was lifted up from the world into heaven. The meaning of the fullness of Christs Resurrection is given in the Ascension. Having completed His mission in the world as the Saviour, He returned to the Father in Heaven Who sent Him into the world. In ascending to the Father, He raises earth to Heaven with Him.

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Lauren Hudson sits outside her home in Villa Hills, Kentucky holding her book series entitled "The Ascension Series." "The Redemption," which is the third and final installment, has just been released.(Photo: Albert Cesare / The Enquirer)

In the month leading up toher sophomore year final exams at the University of Kentucky, Villa Hills native Lauren Hudson released the third and final novel, "The Redemption,"in her young adult fantasy series "The Ascension Series."

The books followa set of triplets who discover on their 15th birthday that they are members of a guardian angel race, called Asterians, and that their real mother is trying to take over the world.

Hudson, 20, said she has always gravitated towards fantasy because it's what she loves to read.She said she realized she might have a future in writing fantasy while she was in middle school.

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My seventh-grade English teacher asked us to create a short story. And instead I gave her a30- pagenovella," Hudson said.

Hudson said she got the idea for the first book in the series, "The Ascension," back in sixth grade.

She was on a FaceTime call with a friend when the idea came to her.

I sat there, and we weretalkingand I said, How cool would it be if someone could see the past, present and future? And I wrote the first chapter to my series that night, back in sixthgrade," Hudson said. "And I picked it back up when I was a freshman in high school, and it was horrible.

Lauren Hudson, 20, also wrote the "Students Leading America Series" with her co-author and father, Rob Hudson. The two books in that series are "Our Best Tomorrow" and "It Can Be Done".(Photo: Albert Cesare / The Enquirer)

Sherewrote itin high school, and thought it had potential. She was right.

In 2017, Hudson flew to London where she accepted the Best Young Adult Book award at the London Book Festival.

Within its first couple weeks, "The Redemption" was featured on Amazon's "Hot New Releases" list for the religious science fiction andfantasy category. The book received a No. 1 ranking on the list.

Surprisingly, the Dixie Heights High School graduate said she never really thought about majoring in creative writing. She has been excited to go into medicine since "before she can remember." Currently, she is a neuroscience and biology major on the pre-med track.

Hudson has to compartmentalize her fiction writing skills when writing for scientific journals, she said. It has been a learning curve.

Another learning curve? Finding time to write her fantasy novels.

It was easier to write during the school year back in high school, Hudson said. In college, it's more difficult.

"And so now I write furiously over breaks," Hudson said. "I pretty much take, like, a break from writing during the school year."

Over the summer, Hudson says she will crank out 2,000 words per day. Over spring break and Christmas, she'll spend a few hours each day writing.

Hudson says that she enjoys talking to students about her books. The series is geared towards middle and high school aged kids. Her favorite thing to hear from readers is that they connected with a certain character in the series. A lot of the sibling interactions in "The Ascension Series" are based on Hudson's real-life relationship with her older brother.

"I hope that I'll never run out of stories to tell," Hudson said.

Hudson said she does not know what she will write next. For now, it is time to focus on her studies at the University of Kentucky.

I am hoping to get through med school, and then once I get settled into wherever I am for my residency that I will pick up with a new story," Hudson said.

Lauren Hudson's book series entitled "The Ascension Series" rests on a table. "The Ascension" is the first book; "The Deception" is the second, and "The Redemption" is the third and final installment.(Photo: Albert Cesare / The Enquirer)

"The Ascension," "The Deception" and now "The Redemption" are all available on Amazon.

Hudson said printing has been delayed, but you can preorder a physical copy of "The Redemption" online. It is currently available as an eBook.

Hudson will also be participating in a Zoom Into Books chat about her latest book on May 30. Registration can be completed online.

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WAUKESHA When the developers behind the new vision for the former blighted, and now demolished, Fox Run Shopping Center first approached City Hall last fall with their project plans, they had the key components of the development sketched out.

The 13.42-acre project at Sunset Drive and St. Paul Avenue would consist of five developable lots with a possible micro hospital, a proposed new financial institution, 72 residential units and future commercial space.

This week we learned that it will be Ascension health care who will be constructing that hospital.

When members of the citys Plan Commission gather today for their monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. theyll get a first look at the plans for a two-story, 35,031square-foot building slated to be built on 4.2 acres off Sunset Drive.

According to a staff memo, the first floor of the building will be occupied by the hospital itself, which will include an emergency department and in-patient rooms, as well as X-ray and CTscan rooms. The second floor of the structure has been designated for medical offices. That part of the building will have its own separate entrance on the south side of the building, with a passenger elevator. The hospital will have an ambulance drop-off on the north side of the building with a general entrance on the east end.

Other than suggesting more direct pedestrian access to the building from the Sunset Drive and St. Paul Avenue intersection area, and some more plantings in and around the parking lot, city planners have recommended that commissioners approve the plans.

Aldermen voted in October of last year to approve the $32 million redevelopment of the Fox Run site, creating a tax incremental finance district for the project, and later granting $3.7 million in tax incremental financing to developers.

Demolition of the main shopping center and the former Sentry Food Store took place in April.

Video of the meeting can be streamed online at http://www.waukesha.legistar.com.

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