In 2010, several factors led to the creation of the Pride Planning Committee, which would become the NW PA Pride Alliance. Erie Gay Pride Inc, which had been the organizer of the local Pride from 2006 to 2009, reorganized as the Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and changed its focus. With there not being a Pride Fest for 2010, a group of volunteers got together on January 16, 2011, at the Plymouth Tavern to begin planning events for that year.
Like Nick in the Morning. And it appears we are not alone.
Road trips in search of at least temporary COVID protection have been prompted by uncertainties about vaccine supplies and about who is eligible to be inoculated and where.
Yours truly was among those who hit the highway.
Who is eligible to receive a COVID vaccination in Illinois?
Nick in the Morning qualified last week for a COVID shot, after Illinois guidelines expanded to include those who have certain chronic health conditions. But around Peoria, finding someplace that was offering vaccines wasn t easy.
Local health departments did not expand when the state did; they cited tight vaccine supplies. But most pharmacies that have been administering vaccines followed the state s lead.