The saying goes, “It is better to give than to receive.” When it comes to Covid vaccinations, the people I’m given shots to take joyous exception and would tell you we have that backwards. Yet in a recent article, the Washington Post wrote, “The happiest place in medicine is anywhere there is vaccine, and the happiest people in medicine are the ones plunging it into the arms of strangers.” So when it comes to Covid vaccinations, is it better to give or to receive? Finally, after this past long year of discord, an argument worth having.
Hundreds of Kitsap County volunteers have stepped up to run Covid vaccination clinics. These include both those with a healthcare background such as nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, and doctors; as well as those with other talents. At the clinics, some of the jobs these volunteers perform include behind the scene coordination and arranging for vaccine delivery; greeting, screening, and registering those coming for shots; dat
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The old boxer didn’t hesitate and went straight over where he took on the thugs and laid the pair of them out.
Chick received a personal thanks and was presented with a police cape, a dark blue Macintosh overcoat, which he wore while on duty protecting Princess Margaret.
A quiet and gentle giant when out of the ring, he surprised his friends in the pub in Barnes where her lived wearing it one day and shared his story.
His great-nephew Andy Scott, the author of a new biography called London’s Loveable Villain, admitted: “Nobody knew how Chick got that job at Kensington Palace, but there are quite a few dots that I’ve left for the readers to try and put together themselves as to the possible links between him and the Royals.”
Talented 200-plus-bout contender Kid Socks had a knack for embarrassing champions yet never won a title himself
“THE Wrecker of Champions” – as boxing epithets go it isn’t a bad one. The owner of that sobriquet was a fighter from London’s East End called Kid Socks. His career stretched from 1922 to 1934 and took in over 200 pro bouts – an eye-watering tally, yet Socks was no journeyman. At various times in non-title fights, he beat the reigning flyweight champions of Europe, Britain, France, Belgium and Ireland, plus the reigning bantamweight titlists of Britain and France.
This, of course, was in an era of eight universally recognised weights with one world champion at each, when holding a British title was akin perhaps in terms of kudos to holding a world crown today. Socks’ traceable record is 107-77-25 but he never won a title of any sort, which says much about the calibre of the fly, bantam and featherweights competing in Britain at the time.
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English professional boxer Len Johnson (1902 - 1974, in dark suit) in training with his father and manager Bill Johnson (second from right), Manchester, 30th December 1926. Promoted by Abe Hibbard, Johnson is due to fight Len Harvey in Southwark, London on 3rd January 1927.
A petition has been created for a monument of a highly influential boxer who hailed from Manchester to be constructed.
Born on October 2nd 1902 Len Johnson amassed 134 fights ranging from welterweight all the way up to heavyweight. And while Johnson was a major boxing figure at the time he was never able to hold an official British title belt.