After two years of use in Pennsylvania schools, it s safe to say that the state-sponsored Safe2Say Something app is helping to protect students in Beaver County.
The app, run through the Pennsylvania Attorney General s office at a cost of $1.6 million annually, was implemented in 2019 and provides a safe way for students to anonymously report threats or unsafe activities. While area districts have had some issues with false reporting, county and school officials say it s saving lives. The first year when it was open and available to the students, it got kind of misused, said Bo Blinn, the school resource officer for the Beaver Area School District. A lot of the investigations we went through came out to be kind of unfounded because they weren t legitimate.
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BEAVER FALLS – Coronavirus has made mask-wearing the international symbol of caring, but for one area school their message may be a bit more muddled.
Documents acquired by The Times indicate that administrators at Beaver County Christian School offered parents the ability to opt-out of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Universal Face Covering Order, the July mandate which required all students older than 2 to wear masks while in school, allowing students in BCCS buildings to attend classes fully in-person and unmasked all year.
“(W)e are commanded to adhere to the law,” said Steve Wellendorf, the head principal of schools at BCCS, in an August email to parents. “We also firmly respect and appreciate that BCCS exists through an association of our parents…(and) that parents can/should make fundamental educational decisions.”
After more than a year of virtual visits and waving through windows, loved ones of those in local nursing homes have found their way back into residents’ arms.
In recent weeks, nursing homes throughout Beaver County started welcoming back visitors and allowing close contact with fully vaccinated residents, in response to changes in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) nursing home recommendations.
The new guidance advises, “responsible indoor visitation at all times and for all residents, regardless of vaccination status of the resident or visitor,” unless county positivity rates of COVID-19 move above 10%, less than 70% of residents in the facility are fully vaccinated, residents with visitors test positive for COVID-19 or residents with visitors are quarantining.
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