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October 4, 2022

Developmental Disabilities Residential Unit Manager – ASL Fluent

Recruitment #092622-MDDZ27-351100

Opening Date

9/30/2022 12:00:00 AM

Closing Date

10/6/2022 11:59:00 PM

Type of Recruitment

Open Competitive

Salary

Yearly: $42,320.00/Min – $52,900.00/Mid

Salary Plan

M37

Pay Grade

Shift Hours

8:00am-4:30pm

Employment Type

Actual Vacancy

Employment Term

Regular

Agency

DHSS/Developmental Disabilities

Location(s)

NCKCSC-Location to be determined:
(NCC, Kent or, Sussex, )

Contact Name

DHSS Applicant Services

Contact Phone

302-255-9100

More details at https://www.jobapscloud.com/DE/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=092622&R2=MDDZ27&R3=351100.

Deadline: October 6, 2022 (it may be extended and agency did say to use other similar applications if needed or contact them to reopen the position, not sure why posting is short lived)

October 3, 2022

Emergency Sirens Tested on Tuesday, October 4

Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations will sound alarms for their quarterly tests within 10 miles of it.

SMYRNA, Del. — The Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) and Delaware State Police will conduct a quarterly test of the Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations Alert and Notification system on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. The sirens will sound at approximately 10:45 a.m.

The 37 sirens located within ten miles of the Salem/Hope Creek (New Jersey) plants will be activated for three to five minutes. The siren tests will be followed by a test message of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on local radio stations.

The sirens tested are the same ones used to alert the public in the event of an actual emergency at either the Salem or Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations. If such an emergency were to occur, the public would be alerted by the sirens to tune their radios to one of the local EAS stations for important emergency instructions.

To check whether you live within the EPZ, you can click here: https://de.gov/epz.

To learn more about radiological preparedness, check out PrepareDE.org.

DAD Note: Pets may be alarmed during the test and this is also to give you a heads up if they act up. The majority of Middletown, St. Georges, Delaware City, Townsend, and Odessa are within the alarm testing range. Delaware Emergency Notification System (DENS) is now active and works with Smart911 which sends alerts to your phone, register at https://dema.delaware.gov/onlineServices/index.shtml?dc=dens.

Source: https://news.delaware.gov/2022/09/29/emergency-sirens-tested-on-tuesday-october-4.

September 26, 2022

Deaf Expo showcases deaf-owned businesses

Amtrak representatives talk with visitors checking out vendors

Delaware School for the Deaf celebrated Deaf Awareness Week on Saturday by hosting the annual Deaf Expo, which showcases deaf-owned and deaf-friendly businesses.

Organized by the Delaware Association of the Deaf, the event is held in a different location around the state each year. Feta Fernsler, president of the organization, said that holding the event at DSD gave students there a chance to meet successful deaf people and envision their own future.

“We don’t want to limit kids’ expectations,” Fernsler said.”The world is open to them.”

More than 30 vendors participated in the event, including many businesses owned by deaf people or children of deaf adults. Some sold products catering to deaf people, such as alarm clocks that vibrate and light up.

Read on at https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/deaf-expo-showcases-deaf-owned-businesses/article_21907ec6-ba36-57d5-a821-69a8a56aa1e6.html.