Helping Spanish speakers in Hazleton area find COVID-19 vaccines
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Hazleton is posting videos online in Spanish dispelling myths and a local newspaper written in Spanish is connecting readers to resources. Author: Carolyn Blackburne Updated: 10:27 PM EDT April 20, 2021
HAZLETON, Pa. Amilcar Arroyo publishes the magazine El Mensajero based out of his office in downtown Hazleton.
Among the articles written in Spanish is an advertisement for a COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinic.
He has made it his mission to educate members of the Spanish-speaking community here about how they can get the vaccine. The Hispanic community in Hazleton is big, it is growing and it is hard. Hard because of COVID-19. There is misinformation, Arroyo said.
Attorney Lawrence M. Klemow, aka âPapa,â 76, of Sugarloaf Twp. died early Tuesday morning at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton surrounded by his family. He died from complications of COVID-19.
Larry was born in Hazleton to Grace and Phillip Klemow. He married the love of his life, his high school sweetheart, Marion Novotnak, and continued to share a wonderful life together. Larry was a graduate of Hazleton High School, Drexel University and Temple Law school.
A lawyer, Larry started his career as an assistant district attorney in Luzerne County and became first assistant district attorney. He was in private practice for many years and finished his career as a senior law clerk, also at Luzerne County, from which he retired in 2018.