The Daily Ardmoreite
When the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits last month announced finalists for their annual statewide awards, Ardmore was directly represented in the award’s “community” category by the Southern Oklahoma Library System. As it turns out, a finalist in the award’s “education” category also has a direct connection to Ardmore.
Amy Young was still travelling from the Oklahoma City area back to her hometown almost weekly before the pandemic. Even now she keeps up with the community through friends and family but stays busy with her nonprofit organization SixTwelve in Oklahoma City.
The organization focuses on community education through arts and sustainability and during the pandemic has limited its scope to PreK classes and outdoor meetings. SixTwelve is also the realization of Young’s childhood dream to have a schoolhouse when she grew up.
Published on January 11, 2021 at 3:33 pm
On-campus dorm residents at UT will be required to take a COVID-19 test within four days of returning to their residence hall according to an email they received Friday.
The requirement is due to a rise of COVID-19 cases in Texas, knowledge of how the virus spread on campus last semester and the recommendation of public health experts, according to the email sent by University Housing and Dining and obtained by The Daily Texan.
“We have determined that residence within our halls is conditional on receiving an on-campus COVID-19 test at the start of the spring 2021 semester,” the email said. “In order to maximize campus safety, the University will provide testing for returning students on campus to ensure testing consistency, as well as expedite contact tracing, and associated isolation and quarantine policies consistent with best practices.”
An army of pilots, delivery drivers and pharmacists last month started to ship, distribute and administer millions of
vaccine doses. The small vials are traveling on airplanes and trucks, and some times inside of specially made hand-held coolers.
So far, two vaccines have been cleared by the Food and
Drug Administration for emergency use in the U.S.: those by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Several other drugmakers also have agreements to provide their vaccines to the federal government once they are approved. AstraZeneca s vaccine, developed with Oxford University, was just approved for emergency use in the U.K. but is still in clinical trials in the U.S.
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