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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk532890042"></a><a name="_Hlk532890118"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk532890042"><b><span style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">NEWS RELEASE</span></b></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk532890118"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk532890042"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk532890118"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk532890042"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Contact: Public Information Office Phone: (919) 560-0000/Fax:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Watch the March episode of ‘In Touch with Durham County’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">March guests talk Durham Pre-K and Cooperative Extension programs and services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Durham, N.C. – </span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Thanks to Zoom, the Durham County Public Information Office
continues to bring residents who are also social distancing important information on our programs and services with the “In Touch with Durham County” show for March 2021. The show is available to watch on the DCo YouTube channel
<a href="https://youtu.be/1TtwICK0lk4">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">In this month’s episode, host Deborah Craig-Ray, General Manager of Strategic Planning and Innovation, welcomes a Dr. Linda Chappel, Senior Vice President,
Triangle Area Child Care Resources and Referral Services, and Donna Rewalt, Director of the Durham County Cooperative Extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Dr. Chappel joins us to discuss all things
<a href="https://durhamprek.org/about/">Durham Pre-K</a> during the opening segment. Durham County contracts with Child Care Services Association (CCSA) to manage our local investment in public preschool for 4-year-olds. Durham Pre-K is open universally to
all children in Durham County and is committed to meeting the full community need for publicly supported high quality early education. The program is currently accepting applications for the 2021-2022 school year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">In segment two, Rewalt returns to our program to talk about how the
<a href="https://durham.ces.ncsu.edu/">Cooperative Extension</a> has responded to the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in delivering services to the community. She discusses the critical role the Extension staff and local partners have had in providing
food and nutrition assistance to our community, as well as how other vital programs have innovated during the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">About “In Touch with Durham County”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">The “In Touch with Durham County” show is a monthly program that provides governmental programming and access to your local government and provides
timely, ongoing coverage of Durham County Government. The show airs daily on the
</span><a href="https://durhamnc.gov/1104/Durham-Television-Network"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">Durham Television Network</span></a><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif"> (DTN). DTN is available on
Spectrum channel 8, Google Fiber channel 8, Frontier channel 70 and AT&T U-verse channel 99. To view past editions of the “In Touch with Durham County” show, visit the DCo YouTube Channel
</span><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfYjpxKxVJ0FM3sAWsGZZYrGcYz7Mk1Tn"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">. For more information on the Durham
County Public Information Office, call 919-560-0000 or email </span><a href="mailto:publicinformationoffice@dconc.gov"><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">publicinformationoffice@dconc.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Avenir LT Std 55 Roman",sans-serif">.
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