Suzanne Heck, Lawrence
To the editor:
After weeks of despair from tapping into various county, hospital and pharmacy websites to get an appointment for a COVID-vaccine shot, I finally received an email from Sigler Pharmacy that a clinic was going to be held. Within seconds I hustled to the online portal and got the usual no-go-all-slots-filled deflating scenario. I decided to email Sigler Pharmacy that if anything came in I would like a spot and was overwhelmed to get a personal reply back from Melissa Sigler that doses came in sporadically to the pharmacy and in unknown quantities. However, within an hour, Melissa emailed me back that they had received more doses and I was able to secure an appointment on the portal. Two days later I was in line for a shot at my scheduled time at Theatre Lawrence that was made streamline efficient by volunteers and staff. I left with a second dose reminder card in hand.
Tue, 03/02/2021
LAWRENCE – Kansas Public Radio is launching its third annual KPR Mug Design Contest, in which the winner’s unique design will be used on the 2021 KPR Membership Coffee Mug.
These new mugs will be given to members of KPR at a socially distanced fifth annual Ice Cream Social in the Theatre Lawrence parking lot and during the KPR Mug Drive-Thru events. Further details will be announced in April.
The winner will receive a $150 value art supply gift basket from Wonder Fair; a free KPR T-shirt, socks and hat; a $25 Raven Book Store gift certificate; and two mugs. The runner-up will receive a $75 value art supply gift basket from Wonder Fair and a KPR T-shirt. KPR is planning smaller-scale distribution of this year’s mug to KPR members and sustainers while being mindful of health and safety concerns.
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Plans have been filed that would allow Lawrence-based Sigler Pharmacy to build a new health care building on the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Folks Road. The site is shown in November 2020 as crews were moving dirt on the property, which is part of the Bauer Farms residential and commercial development area in northwest Lawrence.
Properties, of course, can’t catch COVID, but one prominent piece of vacant ground along Sixth Street got sick from the pandemic nonetheless.
I’m talking about the vacant commercial lot at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Folks Road. As other pieces of property in growing northwest Lawrence developed, it continued to sit empty. That may change as plans have been filed for a new pharmacy and health care building on the corner.