SPS to hold in-person, outdoor graduation ceremonies this year
April 23, 2021 10:27 AM Erin Robinson
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SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane Public Schools seniors will have in-person graduation ceremonies this year.
Ceremonies for all of the district’s high schools will be held outdoors, with the majority of them happening at the Pavilion in Riverfront Park.
Below is the schedule for each school:
Bryant/TEC: Friday, June 11 at 6 p.m. Location: TBA
Ferris High School: Sunday, June 13 at 3:30 p.m. Location: Riverfront Park U.S. Pavilion
IMAGES: TBD
Lewis & Clark High School: Sunday, June 13 at noon. Location: Riverfront Park U.S. Pavilion
North Central High School: Saturday, June 12 at 4:30 p.m. Location: Riverfront Park U.S. Pavilion
Young Kwak photo Staying home had a noticeable impact on carbon emissions, which plummeted globally last year by nearly 2 billion metric tons in 2020. F
rom her home, under the flight path to the Spokane International Airport, Amber Lenhart usually hears the recurring roar of airplanes overhead. But that stopped a year ago. When the pandemic hit, days would go by without her hearing that familiar roar. It wasn t just that people weren t flying anymore. They weren t driving either. The streets were emptier. Parking lots were vacant. We saw that people can work remote, that we can do our jobs from home, says Lenhart, who at one time worked for Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit that aims to improve public policy. In that job I would travel all over the country to Wisconsin, Hawaii, California, and I d drive across three or
Washington pushes for 90,000 daily vaccinations as younger people drive up COVID-19 infections
April 21, 2021 4:36 PM Maher Kawash
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SPOKANE, Wash. Younger people are driving up COVID-19 infections across Washington and the rest of the United States.
Specifically, teenagers and people in their twenties are out and about without masking up, and that’s why Washington is striving for 90,000 daily vaccinations in hopes of avoiding a fourth wave.
“We are close to turning the corner in Washington but we are seeing the beginning of a fourth wave,” Washington Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah said.
COVID-19 cases are rising among every age group in Washington except those older than 70.
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Spokane County’s chances of staying in Phase 3 of Washington’s coronavirus reopening protocol beyond the first week of May are becoming more tenuous.
Interim Health Officer Francisco Velazquez says the county is failing one of the two metrics state officials consider when evaluating counties’ progress.
That’s the two-week case rate. The county is at 295 cases per 100-thousand residents, well above the state’s acceptable standard of 200. In the other metric, hospitalizations, he says the county is teetering around the acceptable level of 5%.
“We’ve gone over 5% a couple of times. We were at 5.3% Tuesday. So we’ve fluctuated around that 5%, that magical number, for hospitalization. Our case rate is high. It’s going to be hard to bring it back below 200. We’re going to have to do some work on that. So it’s not clear if we’re going to be able to continue on Phase 3, he said.
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