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Despite pandemic and weather, North Country students get creative to stay fit
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Tanya Hewitt, an endurance athlete and chair of the SUNY Potsdam Department of Public Health and Human Performance, runs the back roads of the North Country to keep her edge during the pandemic. (Photo by Jason Hunter/SUNY Potsdam)
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By Bret Yager | SUNY Potsdam
Some are college athletes trying to keep their edge. Others are personal fitness hounds pounding the snow on solo cross-country runs or finding objects in their garage that can work as improvised dumbbells while they dream about gymnasium doors swinging fully open. All would like to survive the fog of Covid-19 with some measure of their pre-pandemic fitness intact.
MASSENA â With additional coronavirus vaccine doses having arrived this week in St. Lawrence County, new clinics are now scheduled.
The county Public Health Department, with St. Lawrence Health System, is hosting four clinics in the next week, two in Gouverneur and two in Massena. Registration for Thursdayâs clinic at Massena Hospital launched Wednesday morning, and by Wednesday afternoon, appointments from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. were filled.
The four clinics have been separated by eligible populations â two clinics each for priority group 1b and those with developmental disabilities or comorbidities.
Friday, Feb. 26: Appointments available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gouverneur Hospital, 77 W. Barney St., for essential workers in priority group 1b to receive first dose of the Moderna vaccine. As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, 139 appointments were available.
Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 5:24 pm
The Office for the Aging is available to help older adults who don t have a way to register for COVID-19 vaccination appointments on their own or have family/friends who can help them. The office is scheduling appointments as they become available at the local pharmacies. There is a wait list and clients are contacted as Kinney Drugs re-opens their appointments.
“Our team is committed to helping older adults through this pandemic and encourage clients to call us if they need any type of assistance,” Office for the Aging Director Andrea Montgomery said in a news release.
Opened Jan. 18, the state-run vaccination center will enter its third week of operation on Monday.
Coming from the hamlet of Plessis in the town of Alexandria Thursday afternoon, James H. Mercer said he was initially doubtful about how organized the site would be. He said he signed up for an appointment about two weeks ago and drove more than 60 miles to St. Lawrence County.
âIt was smooth as hell,â Mr. Mercer said, patting his arm with satisfaction, after a roughly 20-minute process inside SUNY Potsdamâs Maxcy Hall.
Of New Yorkâs 13 state-run points of dispensing, or PODs, seven currently have appointment availability through mid-April. Earlier this week and into Friday morning, only SUNY Potsdam and Plattsburgh International Airport were accepting appointments, but by late Friday afternoon, the stateâs online eligibility and appointment portal updated availability at SUNY Albany, the New York State Fairgrounds, Westchester County Center, SUNY Stony Brook