DOVER Area residents say they’re being helped “tremendously” through the state’s decision to allow local public health networks to administer leftover, soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses to them.
Tamara Collins, 87, of Dover, and her husband John were among the homebound individuals COAST Bus picked up and transported for vaccinations Thursday at a special pop-up clinic health officials operate at Community Action Partnership of Strafford County’s Dover office.
Leftover COVID-19 vaccine doses
“This came up very fast and is a fantastic, really fantastic service,” said Collins, who said her husband was originally scheduled to get his shot “months ago” but the appointment time didn’t materialize and they had to start the process over. “The way things are set up with the people that take care of people like us old people is more than fantastic and we’re more than grateful.”
Greatest good : Bystanders rush to aid Dover boy hurt sledding
DOVER Three bystanders are being credited for heroism and providing a helpful, calming presence after a boy hit his head on ice while sledding near Garrison Elementary School Tuesday afternoon.
After a local resident posted in a Dover community Facebook group Tuesday about the boy’s injury and to thank the bystanders for helping stem his bleeding until paramedics arrived, Dover Fire & Rescue Department Deputy Fire Chief Michael McShane echoed the praise for the bystanders.
“We absolutely do value community support like that,” McShane told Foster’s Daily Democrat in a phone interview Wednesday. “That’s one of the things that Dover’s known for and appreciated for, the community involvement… It really does take a community and that’s where it’s important.”
DOVER Longtime Dover paramedic and firefighter engineer Jennifer Myers said she often thinks back to the lives she was able to save rather than the ones that she could not.
In June 2013, a three-alarm fire was reported in the four-unit building on Cushing Street. A 16-year-old girl called 911 around 2:19 a.m. and reported she was home alone and trapped on the second floor of the burning apartment building. I was working that night, Myers recalled. I drove the engine out of the South End station and quickly arrived on the scene, seeing her house engulfed in flames. That call will stay with me forever because we were able to get her out safely. I still keep in touch with her to this day, and check on her on the anniversary of the fire.
Portsmouth Herald
Feb 1 To the Editor:
On Sunday morning the last day of January my husband and I received our Covid-19 vaccinations at the C&J bus stop in Dover. It was 8 degrees but we were greeted warmly by New Hampshire National Guardsmen. Our shots were given to us in our car by men and women from the Dover Fire Department. Cars of senior citizens like us moved smoothly through the vaccination process.
I texted my grown children before we left the parking lot following our shots. BRAVO! We can begin to think about visiting our granddaughters with far less anxiety. In my gratitude two realities are lit up for me in neon: #1 Government matters; #2 Solving large scale crises requires an honest, unvarnished assessment of the crises, followed by well-organized responses to the problems causing the crises.
By Ron Cole
As we slip slowly out of another year, one unlike any other most have ever experienced, we enter a new year filled with uncertainty and yet promising positivity, we harken back to many things that have occurred in just a few months.
Let’s recognize some of those folks and organizations.
One thing that surprised and pleased many Dover drivers for a short period (for obvious reasons) was wicked cool (I’m not sorry for the pun). On the 18th of December, Dennis Hickey and Dave Soha of Ice Breakers Ice Carving of Manchester worked through the night to create a marvelous sculpture at the Rotary Garden at the head of Henry Law Park. Rudolph was sculpted as well as three chilly, but beautiful Christmas trees. The responsible organization is Dover Main Street and the most recent of the fun things they ve presented. Of course, the sculptures will last only as long as Mother Nature allows, but if you go to dovermainstreet.org, there is a video for you.