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Today, she has enough donations to fill a large storage area in her home.
“It just took off,” she said. “It keeps growing.”
Townsend is the founder of Hope’s Closet, which gives away clothing and accessories such as belts and purses to people in need. She chose the name Hope’s Closet because “I like to give people hope.”
She got the idea for Hope’s Closet three years ago when she was volunteering as a receptionist at Voices Recovery Center, an addiction treatment center in Binghamton.
“My son is in recovery,” she said. “This is my opportunity to pay it forward.”
COVID-19 vaccination with fits and starts
The top administrator for a healthcare system that serves patients in a 12-county region in New York and Pennsylvania acknowledged that supply challenges result in a vaccination process with “fits and starts” but no patients will have appointments cancelled. Right now, the fundamental issue for us is the unpredictable nature of when we are going to receive those vaccine supplies, said Dr. Joseph Scopelliti, president and CEO of Guthrie, a non-profit integrated health system that includes Guthrie Corning Hospital in Steuben County. We do anticipate that on a weekly basis we get a resupply of vaccines, that is the way it has been working for the last five weeks.
However, multiple readers responded the link was not working, and many were getting error messages, including a page that read, Due to high volume, this site is temporarily unavailable. Please be patient and try again later. After enduring the pandemic for so many months, constituents are calling my office who are angry, frustrated and scared, New York Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo said. This is leading to panic and what can only be described as ‘the vaccine hunger games,’ pitting people against one another in an often futile attempt to get an appointment anywhere they can.
Among people who ran into problems was Vestal native Jennifer Sullivan, who now lives in northern Virginia but spent much of Friday trying to sign up her elderly parents, who still live in the area.