The Betster is on the brink of marching outside, banging pots and pans together and shouting “Bring on spring! Bring on spring!” If I have to shovel my walkway clear of snow one more time, I might lose my entire mind. Thankfully, there’s plenty of distractions from the temperamental weather going on lately. If you’re looking for something to keep your mind off more impending snow, check out this week’s Best Bets!
Homer Public Library and Friends of the Homer Public Library on Friday opened their National Endowment for the Arts Big Read event with music and songs at Alice’s Champagne Palace. Copies of the book selection, Jess Walter’s “The Cold Millions,” were available to pick up at Alice’s and are also available at library.
While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.
I am in the back row of “Nutcracker 2023” warmups on the high school stage. My head is by the pre-set elaborate Christmas tree, decorated with gingerbread ornaments and glittery glass balls, surrounded by stacks of giant presents in the parlor room for the party scene of Act 1.