JANESVILLE
Crowds of people did not swarm through the Janesville Community Center for Sundayâs mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic, but that was by design.
Officials at SSM Health, the host of Sundayâs clinic, wanted the event to feel intimate and community-based as a way of welcoming neighbors and showing them the clinic was a service designed for them.
âPart of our mission is caring for the entire community,â said Eric Thornton, president of SSM Health St. Maryâs Hospital-Janesville.
Caring for the whole community means reaching out to people where they are, even if they are not SSM Health patients, Thornton said.
Health care workers from all kinds of practices and organizations are considered part of the 1A COVID-19 vaccinate priority group, however, several leaders at small health care organizations said logistics
Every student at Wilson Elementary School in Janesville can get special presents from Santa at the Janesville Community Center this weekend.
Father Earl Sias organized the giveaway with school principal Ashley Wright to give all 176 kids a voucher they can redeem for their free gifts Saturday morning starting at 10:00 at the community center in the former St. Patrick’s school on Lincoln Street.
Wright said the pandemic prevented the school from holding its annual holiday events, so she partnered with Sias and the community center to collect donations to give to the kids.
The reverend said the gift bags for kids will include something to play with, something to eat, something to read and something to wear.