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David Kern, a BHS grad who is now a vice president with TripAdvisor in Needham, is calling on private companies to help do their part in helping vaccinate our fellow neighbors and our most vulnerable residents. I wanted to share this Boston Globe article and callout TripAdvisor for supporting our local community, Kern emailed the Patriot, citing a Feb. 3 article titled TripAdvisor opens up its headquarters in Needham to distribute vaccines. As a former Barnstable High School graduate – it is very important that we all do our part to help one another, especially our most vulnerable residents, Kern wrote. He added that he spontaneously thought of using TripAdvisor s now-vacant HQs as a vaccine site two weeks ago over family dinner.
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The 11th annual U.S. Marine Corporal Nicholas G. Xiarhos Memorial Blood Drive will be held over the month of February. (Shutterstock)
FALMOUTH, MA Are you looking for a way to start off 2021 with something positive? Cape Cod Healthcare could use residents help replenishing the blood supply to help their hospitals get through the start of the new year, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The 11th annual U.S. Marine Corporal Nicholas G. Xiarhos Memorial Blood Drive will be held over the month of February. Supporters are encouraged to select a Cape Cod Healthcare blood drive of their choice in the month of February and donate in the honor of Xiarhos.
OSTERVILLE – In the vaulted library at Cape Cod Academy, the only applause for President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech came from the audio accompanying a screen display.
The 18 students and several faculty members viewing the ceremonies remained silent during the introduction of Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black and first South Asian and first woman vice president.
A pin could have been heard dropping for a poetry recitation by Amanda Gorman, at age 22 the youngest poet laureate in the nation’s history and an individual not much older than the teens watching the inauguration.
The silence wasn’t due to a lack of enthusiasm, a group of freshmen said as they left the library at the end of their study period.