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For many Coloradans, the pandemic has led to
elevated levels of stress, isolation and anxiety, but the slow return to living life in-person can come with challenges too.
Max Knoll, an 18-year old senior at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins, has experienced mental health ups and downs throughout the pandemic, particularly during remote learning.
“COVID was just almost a lot of nothingness, really,” Max said. “Because every day you would just get out of bed and go to school and the school wasn t at school, it was a computer at your desk like five feet from your bed.”
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When she was a brand-new legislator besieged by lobbyists at the entrance to the Senate floor, state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger felt a tap on the shoulder from a man telling her she was late for her next committee. She rushed to the elevator, and the man accompanied her all the way to the committee room, securing several minutes of one-on-one time to make the case for his client’s bill.
When Zenzinger pushed open the door to the committee hearing room, there was no one else there. The meeting wasn’t even close to starting.
Now that Zenzinger serves as chair of the Senate Education Committee, education lobbyists don’t have to use creative tactics to get her attention. She meets weekly with key players ranging from the Colorado Education Association to Democrats for Education Reform to go over upcoming bills and hear their concerns.
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Metro Atlanta Girl Scouts say they have around 720,000 boxes of cookies stacked in a Georgia warehouse about $3 million worth of Caramel De-Lites, Trefoils, and Peanut Butter Patties that are unsold because of coronavirus-related challenges. “It’s a lot of cookies,” Girl Scout
Najya Robinson told
WSB-TV. “I did not know there was this many cookies left over.”
Although the Girl Scout Council of Greater Atlanta said it initially saw a 150-percent increase in their online cookie orders, that bump wasn’t enough to cover the decrease in the number of in-person sales. “Girl Scout cookies, in a normal year, would not be sitting in this warehouse,
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Bradford Lardner (right) rolls up his sleeve to receive a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Lardner, an English teacher, was one a part of the first wave of educators to receive their doses this week.
In true teacher form, Stacy Ruffer wanted to turn his COVID-19 vaccine appointment into a learning opportunity.
The morning before he was set to get his shot, Ruffer, an English and computer science teacher at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins, had his students journal about it in class.
The prompt?
What superpower will be my most likely side effect from getting vaccinated?
“I’m hoping for super strength,” Ruffer said after getting his shot on Tuesday. “And the kids were all over the place.”