Columnist Mike Berry thinks it won’t be long until the post-COVID era arrives
Mike Berry
The Star Courier
My wife is in a group of ladies who get together every so often to do needlework.
They work on various projects while discussing issues of the day and enjoying various snacks, desserts and so on.
At least, they did until about a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
But this week, Cathy was calling or messaging her friends from the stitching group, coming up with a date when they could get together again.
Why? It’s because of the vaccines.
In Stark County
Kent State University and the Stark County Health Department will host a vaccination clinic from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 19 at the Stark County Board of Developmental Disabilities Whipple-Dale Centre. The clinic, which will be staff by the health department with Kent State volunteers, is open only to students at Kent State s Stark and Tuscarawas campuses.
Stark State spokeswoman Robyn Steinmetz said the college has been in contact with the state to determine how it can fulfill the vaccination program requirements and doesn t yet have a specific clinic date for its students.
Clinics in Kent and Akron underway
Health officials offer signup for Friday s vaccine clinic
Henry/Stark County Health Department
The Henry and Stark County Health Department and the Henry County Office of Emergency Management announce the online registration system for the First Dose Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Drive Thru Clinic scheduled for Friday, April 9th is open.
Those eligible to participate include anyone 18 years of age and older who have not yet been vaccinated. Henry and Stark County residents age 65 and over, those in Phase 1B+ which include those under 65 years with co-morbidities; and remaining healthcare (1A) and frontline essential workers (1B) who have not been vaccinated, are still advised to seek vaccination.
I believe that Stark County Common Pleas Judge Natalie Haupt served as the umpire in a baseball game calling balls and strikes.
While I may not agree with her ruling, I would never disrespect her or her office. She personally granted a continuance of the March 1 hearing and again on March 2, because I was not able to hear the proceedings through my landline.
Can you imagine the pressure from Columbus on the Stark County Health Department, Prosecutor Deborah Dawson, and Haupt? If the court ruled in favor of Lake Varsity Diner, the morning after, every restaurant in Stark County would take down the signs on their doors and say, “If they can do it, so can we.”
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