ALAN HALL and ERIKA GRUBBS
POLIO IMMUNIZATION AT MINGO JUNCTION Pictured are the first of 502 Mingo Junction boys and girls who received their first polio immunization shots Feb. 28, 1957, during a special clinic at the school administration office. Diana Caranda receives her shot from Dr. J.W. Albaugh, rear left. Mary Ann Anderson received her shot from Dr. Fred H. Birney, lower right. Assisting the doctors were, from left, Mrs. Eleanor Smith; registered nurses Mrs. Thomas Banbridge, Mrs. Emory V. Hendon and Miss Bertha Kendrach; and Mrs. John West, with her back to the camera. Also assisting were Drs. J.P. Cava and Paul Ruksha; registered nurses Mrs. Joseph Connors and Miss Marian Sinclair; and Mrs. Gale McGee, Mrs. Trevor Jones, Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs. William Morris, Mrs. Merrill M. Dennis, Mrs. Willian McGough, Mrs. Earl Knight and Mrs. William Dawson. The clinic was planned and directed by Miss Martha E. Rex, the Mingo school nurse. (Contributed photo)
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Enjoy the library’s Christmas StoryWalk through Jan. 9 where you’ll walk to read the book, “The Nutcracker” by Susan Jeffers, page by page along the storefront windows of businesses on Fourth Street in downtown Steubenville. The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County has teamed up with Leonardo’s Coffeeshop for families to read a book together while viewing the life-size nutcrackers. Start by asking for a treasure map at Leonardo’s Coffeeshop, 159 N. Fourth St., Steubenville. “When you complete reading the book, take the treasure map to the Main Library to claim your nutcracker surprise,” explained Jennifer Cesta, the library’s public relations coordinator.
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The wait time for popular books and other library materials has been reduced in part thanks to new ultraviolet ray book sterilizing machines that arrived at the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County. Donna Straney, library assistant at the Main Library, is shown using one for returned library materials. The sterilizers were purchased with money from the CARES Act funding. The state’s Office of Budget and Management distributed funds to Ohio’s public libraries. Each PLSJ branch will have a machine to sterilize library materials that are returned, including books and DVDs. Before the sterilizers arrived, the library quarantined returned items for three days. Now with the sterilizers, items only take 30 seconds to a minute.