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Kaiser Permanente will provide training for physicians, nurses and health care staff in the mid-Atlantic region through a partnership announced Friday with Warrior Centric Health to help the organization meet the medical needs of the military community and Kaiser Permanente mid-Atlantic members. This community of military Veterans, active duty, National Guard, Reservists, and their families represents close to a quarter of the population in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

While most of us wore sweaters on the chilly spring Saturday — many donned their swimsuits and braved frigid water for Maryland State Police’s Polar Bear Plunge. It’s one of the largest fundraisers for Special Olympics Maryland, accounting for a quarter of its budget. Around 4,000 people hopped in the water at Sandy Point State Park to fundraise about $2.8 million for Maryland’s Special Olympics. It was the first time the plunge was held since the pandemic began.

A salvage company is in the midst of a multiday dredging operation to free a massive container ship that has been aground in the Chesapeake Bay for almost two weeks. The work is expected to continue for several more days before tug boats try to loosen the Ever Forward, according to the Coast Guard and ship owner Evergreen Marine Corp.

The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic. A quarter-million doses from the company were supposed to be available to the vaccine-sharing initiative, called COVAX, by March. But the U.N. agency in charge of deliveries says the first shipments now likely won’t be made until April or May.

Trey Mancini missed the 2020 season undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer. He returned last season as baseball’s Comeback Player of the Year in the eyes of the league and his peers, contributing to the Orioles’ lineup throughout the year as the best story in the sport. At some point this season, representatives from the Orioles will explain to a panel of arbitrators why they believe Mancini should be paid less than his asking price, arguing for a difference of less than Major League Baseball’s new minimum salary of $700,000.

An old, vacant shopping center in Odenton will soon face the wrecking ball and become a workforce apartment complex for teachers, firefighters and police officers. The former retail spot at 1566 Annapolis Road today is boarded up. Plans to transform it into the 150-unit Blue Oaks at Odenton by Conifer Realty is part of a push to add affordable units in Anne Arundel County, where median housing prices are among the highest in the metro area.

Atlas Restaurant Group is reviving James Joyce Irish Pub in Harbor East after it was shut down in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the restaurant group announced Wednesday. James Joyce pub, named for the acclaimed 20th-century Irish novelist, resided on President Street for 18 years until December 2020, when its doors closed, and the building has since been vacant.

The Maryland Chamber of Commerce will induct Donald C. Fry and Mary Ann Scully — two of Maryland’s most accomplished business leaders — into the Maryland Business Hall of Fame at its annual event, Inspire MD, on May 12 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. In addition to these honors, the organization will present Gov. Larry Hogan with the 2022 Public Service Award and Sriram Manivannan, vice president of product development with Vorbeck Materials and an up-and-coming Maryland executive, with the Rising Star Award.