Over the past two years, student activities, clubs and experiences have either been altered or put on hold. And this Thursday, Eagle Valley Middle School is hosting an event to connect, or reconnect, students and…
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Melisa Rewold-Thuon, assistant superintendent for Eagle County Schools, remembers spending her birthday at the emergency school board meeting. “It’s a birthday I will always remember,” she said of March 13, 2020.
. It would close 17 schools and switch to remote learning for three weeks starting Tuesday, just three days later.
The news that kids would be learning from home because of the rapidly-evolving pandemic, exactly one week after Eagle County’s first confirmed coronavirus infection, reverberated throughout the county’s households and businesses.
“I was hoping for the best, but also worrying, what if we have a huge outbreak?” Rewold-Thuon said of the uncertain weeks leading up to the district’s announcement, when the shadow of the pandemic spread and darkened, but had not yet upended life. “I do remember thinking, ‘This is not going to be good, I have a feeling,’” Rewold-Thuon said.
Scanners are already being used by local businesses and in one local school
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Michelle Sanders, left, and Mitzi Forrester are the partners in Rocky Mountain Safety Solutions. The firm’s temperature-checking stations, center, are able to take temperatures at a distance of up to 6 feet. The device won’t work unless a user is properly wearing a face covering.
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Scanning the temperatures of employees and guests during the COVID-19 pandemic is time-consuming and a potential risk to both the taker and the person being checked. A local firm now offers a high-tech solution to scanning.