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Volunteer with the Community Cupboard Food Pantry: The Community Cupboard Food Pantry in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford seeks strong volunteers who can lift heavy items and stock storage shelves to work about three hours on the second Thursday of each month. Volunteers will work to provide a van full of food from the Greater Boston Food Bank. The load includes boxes filled with cans, 50 bags of fresh vegetables and other heavy items. For information: 781-391-2604.
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City officials will be asking the MBTA to reinstate bus route 710, which gives Fulton Heights residents transportation to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Wellington Station and stores at Wellington Circle Fellsway Plaza and the Meadow Glen Mall.
“There’s no reason that route shouldn’t be maintained; it’s the only option people in the Heights have,” said City Council President Richard Caraviello, who put the item on the agenda for the meeting Tuesday, March 30. “I’ve received many calls about this. We should get what we pay for,” a reference to charges the MBTA assesses to Medford.”
MelroseWakefield Healthcare awards grants
MelroseWakefield Healthcare awards grants
MelroseWakefield Healthcare, in collaboration with Shields Surgery Center Medford, is awarding $120,000 in grants to Massachusetts-based programs as part of a Community Health Initiative.
The recipients are nonprofit organizations and municipalities with approaches to improve the health of their communities through meaningful and sustainable change. They include Wakefield Board of Health, MetroNorth YMCA, the city of Malden, Boys and Girls Club of Wakefield and Stoneham, and Riverside Community Care.
MelroseWakefield Healthcare partnered with Shields Health Care Group and Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization in development of the ambulatory surgery center, and surgeons from seven physician practices will operate there. The 14,000-square-foot newly-constructed outpatient surgery center features three operating rooms and two procedure rooms and performed its first surgery in December.
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
Alabama
Montgomery: The state is expanding eligibility later this month for COVID-19 vaccinations to more front-line workers, residents with certain chronic health conditions, and people 55 and older, officials announced Friday. “We have been concerned that many people at high risk and others engaged in close-contact work have not been eligible to receive the vaccine yet, but with the additional vaccine supply we are better able to meet the needs of Alabama residents,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. The expansion, starting March 22, will add more than 2 million people to the groups who can receive a COVID-19 vaccination in Alabama, roughly doubling the number of people now eligible. But demand continues to exceed supply and will increase the competition to find shots. State Health Officer Scott Harris said eligibility was expanded because of the expectations of the public and health officials that the supply will jump over the coming
Over a week after he was tested for the novel coronavirus, Lawrence resident Justin Thomas learned his results were positive, but the process of getting that response was more challenging than he and his spouse ever imagined.
âWhat you need to worry about right now is hygiene, not because the coronavirus is a big threat here in Lawrence, but because ordinary colds and flus are,â said Sheree Willis, executive director of the KU Confucius Institute, at the âFact vs. Fictionâ event.
In less than a month, however, the world of KU students â like the rest of the world â took a dramatic turn that few expected but that all would feel. The year of COVID-19 began, changing life in ways that no one could have imagined but that nearly all continue to endure.