This weekend two items will record good news in Petersburg.
The new Southside Regional Medical Center will open on Sunday. The proccedings will include the transfer of 200 patients from the old hospital on South Adams Street to the new one on South Crater Road. The center will offer 408 beds and will have about 1,400 employees. This is good not only for physical health throughout the region but also for economic health. Yesterday reporter Luz Lazo referred to a "surge of development as a result of the hospital" in the South Crater corridor. And to call the Southside Regional Medical Center a Rolls-Royce among hospitals is to remind readers of another positive step in the environs.
Tomorrow Petersburg kicks off a two-day Intercultural Celebration. The festivities will mark the area's rich diversity with music, displays, neat stuff, and food, glorious food. The event will take place in downtown's Poplar Lawn Park. Downtown itself is enjoying something of an artistic renaissance. The Intercultural Celebration will intensify the excitement.
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Petersburg confronts severe challenges. These pages have discussed many of them, which is one reason we are profoundly happy to cheer the Southside Regional Medical Center and the Petersburg Intercultural Celebration.
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