LANSDALEÂ â Roughly 3,400 appointment slots are still available for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic happening this weekend at North Penn High School in Lansdale.
âWe are at a tipping point in our county where more than half of our residents have received at least one dose of vaccine,â Skippack Pharmacy owner Dr. Mayank Amin told MediaNews Group. âTo reach herd immunity, itâs going to take more than half to get there.â
The Schwenksville-based pharmacy is once again hosting the large scale clinic from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the high school, located at 1340 S. Valley Forge Road, according to volunteer Allie Galoozis.
LANSDALEÂ â Just days after hearing of a growing deficit in the district s extended school care program, North Penn School Board voted against a proposed fee hike. We need to lower as many obstacles as possible for the community to access the services so desperately needed to catch up after the pandemic crisis, said board member Jonathan Kassa.
On Tuesday night the school board s finance committee heard details of a massive deficit for the district extended care department, which provides professional child care to students outside of school hours. Prior to the pandemic, that department had a roughly $956,000 surplus, but the shutdown of schools and subsequent work-from-home environment over the past year caused enrollment to plummet by more than 500 students, from 839 to 317Â according to district staff, resulting in a $720,000 deficit for the current year.Â
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Images provided by The Schrader Group of issues identified and repairs needed in North Penn High School s basement storage and band room areas, as presented in a virtual tour of the high school and discussed during the March 29, 2021 facilities and operations committee meeting.
Courtesy of North Penn School District
Images provided by The Schrader Group of issues identified and repairs needed in North Penn High School s family and consumer sciences and mechanical areas, as presented in a virtual tour of the high school and discussed during the March 29, 2021 facilities and operations committee meeting.
Courtesy of North Penn School District
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LANSDALEÂ â Just days after vowing to stand with local minority communities, North Penn officials are now discussing ways to do so.
Staff and the school board started talks Monday night on how to better build ties between the district s diverse racial and ethic groups. We ve had conversations on the horrific acts of violence, and the increase in hate crimes that we ve seen on TV, and in the news, related to our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, said assistant superintendent Todd Bauer.
- Advertisement - We really wanted to take a step back, to develop some action items that administration, the district, the school board, and our students could put in place, that were not just, for lack of better phrasing, check boxes, he said.