Through a partnership announced Wednesday, hundreds of employees and medical students from Children s Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin plan to help the Milwaukee Health Department deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to all education and child care staff who live or work in Milwaukee by March 15. We’ve attempted to move heaven and earth to make sure that we can get these vaccinations in people’s arms safely, efficiently and in a very coordinated fashion by the middle of March, Mayor Tom Barrett said.
The move comes as Wisconsin s vaccine rollout continues to ramp up. More than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in Wisconsin, and 9% of the population was fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
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“If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. File photo by Alhaji Camara/NNS.
A self-proclaimed lover of books,
Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to pursue a fine arts degree.
But a conversation with a supervisor changed that.
“The lightbulb went off, and I thought, ‘I should be a librarian,’ ” Kiely said.
“If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. (File photo by Alhaji Camara)
A self-proclaimed lover of books, Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to pursue a fine arts degree.
But a conversation with a supervisor changed that.
“The lightbulb went off, and I thought, ‘I should be a librarian,’ ” Kiely said.
Kiely, who served as the director of the Milwaukee Public Library since 2006, retired in August.
The road to librarian