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Volunteers listened to county and city leaders prior to the start of Douglas County s final mass vaccination clinic on April 28.
Douglas County hosted its last mass COVID-19 vaccination event on Wednesday after more than three months of clinics.
Since Jan. 29, Douglas County has held 26 mass vaccination clinics at the Douglas County Fairgrounds and administered around 55,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Prior to the start of the final event on Wednesday, county and city leaders addressed the crowd of volunteers to thank them for their involvement and commemorate the success of their efforts.
“I have been involved in a lot of things: the births of children, the deaths of a lot of people, the happy times, the sad times, the rewarding times … and I tell you that this clinic has been one of the most rewarding and fulfilling things I will ever do in my entire career,” Dennis Leslie, division chief of training with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, told
2021 Calendar of Events for the Alexandria Area, as published in DESTINATIONS magazine
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Every Saturday: WISSOTA Car Racing, 6:30 p.m., Viking Speedway; 320-762-1559
Every Sunday:
1: Theatre L’Homme Dieu Run for the Roses Kentucky Derby Party, Carlos Creek Winery
1: Viking Seafaring Vessel Display, Runestone Museum
1: On Golden Pond, Andria Theatre
2: On Golden Pond, Andria Theatre
6: History At Home: Gar Wood
13: History At Home: Phil Noonan
20: History At Home: A Biography of a One Room Schoolhouse
23: Immortal Words, Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra and Chorale
26: Alexandria Technical & Community College Foundation – Scramble for Scholarships Golf Tournament
27: Schjei Country Concert, Courthouse Lawn, Alexandria
Updated: 12:52 PM CDT Apr 28, 2021
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Alabama
Montgomery: State lawmakers have inched closer to approving a ban on so-called vaccine passports that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access services from a business or state agency. The House Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the bill to House of Representatives for a vote. It has already cleared the Senate. The bill contains a number of exceptions. Surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, hospitals and other health care providers are exempted. Universities could still require students to receive a vaccine; however, there would be exceptions for vaccines approved for “emergency use” by the FDA, as is the case with all three COVID-19 vaccines given in the United States thus far. The idea of vaccine passports is to have a document that shows a person has been inoculated against COVID-19. Federal officials say there are no plans to make them broadly mandatory, but some Republican governors have issued orders b