The Fresno Center s community garden in Sanger serves 100 people.
It’s been 40 years since Dr. Ghia Xiong lived and farmed in Laos, but he says this seven acre community garden in Sanger always reminds him of his childhood.
“Going to the farm with my parents and seeing how beautiful it is and then being able to come to this garden just takes me back home like that,” he says.
Xiong says being here out in the open provides a sense of peace.
“The plants, the corn, the lemongrass here tells you where the wind flows,” he says.
Xiong is director of the Living Well Center at The Fresno Center and has developed mental health and wellness programs for more than 20 years, including prevention and early intervention services like this garden.
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Soon after COVID-19 vaccines were first developed, health authorities estimated that as much as 40 to 50 percent of the population would be reluctant to get it. However, vaccination clinics in the San Joaquin Valley are already reporting a lull in demand, even though nearly 70 percent of the local population remains unvaccinated. In Fresno County, so many appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine went unfilled last week that health officials redistributed 28,000 doses to other counties, and they’ve reduced their weekly vaccine request to the state by nearly two-thirds.
So what’s given rise to such a slowdown? For some communities, it comes down to barriers that reduce access to some of the Valley’s larger, stationary vaccination clinics; but within others, there s also significant vaccine hesitancy, primarily among whites, adults age 30-49, rural over urban residents, and Republicans rather than Democrats.
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New vaccination site for farmworkers opens in Fresno, more vaccines expected in CA next month
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FRESNO, Calif. Areas with large communities of farm and agriculture workers, including the Central Valley, will start seeing a boost in COVID-19 vaccine doses available next month, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
The governor visited the Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM) in Fresno County, where the state has set up a new vaccine site to administer doses to farm workers in the area.
FIRM is one of ten sites that have popped up in rural communities within Central California. Earlier this week, Newsom visited a site set up in Arvin in Kern County.
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