The City Sentinel
May 25, 2021
By Patrick B. McGuigan
Patrick B. McGuigan, Special to The Southwest Ledger Hopes for a fully operational Managed Care system for implementation of Medicaid Expansion in Oklahoma probably ended.
Students and staff finish Capital High School greenhouse construction
By: Andrew Curtis
and last updated 2021-04-28 20:25:05-04
HELENA â A wise frog once said, âIt ainât easy being green. And that is now something the students at Capital High School know first-hand after completing this greenhouse.
âWe learned that it takes a lot of soil and it takes a lot of time, said Capital High School Special Education Teacher Ellie Fjeseth.
âGetting people to come was kind of hard, added Capital High senior and Green Club memebr Ella Krumm. But itâs been nice because weâre not in school on Wednesdays. So on Wednesdays weâve had a lot of time to work to plant plants and get a lot of people together.â
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The lab offers a variety of hands-on learning opportunities for eligible high school and postsecondary students. At right, the new lounge for taking a break. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. With a fresh coat of paint and hew hands-on learning equipment, BFAIR s Learning Lab is open and expanded. Our goal is to get more students in and to get that hands-on experience they really deserve, Director of Employment Services Becky McAllister said at the Learning Lab open house Wednesday. Before we really didn t have the space for it. This is a fun bright colorful space. The program is open to high school and post-secondary students ages 14 to 22 with a documented disability. The goal is to equip students with the skills they need to enter the post high school world.
What started as an order in March for 750,000 sample collection vials for COVID-19 test kits has turned into almost 10 million vials assembled and collected by the staff at Watauga Opportunities Inc.
Watauga Opportunities President Michael Maybee explained that WOI provides services for adults with disabilities, and houses a manufacturing operation to train people with disabilities while also using the manufacturing as a funding engine for WOI services. Approximately half of the agencyâs operating revenue comes from money made through manufacturing.
Maybee said the agency provides surgical and lab supplies to a company called Sarstedt, which then sells the manufactured items across the country to users like the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and National LabCorp. WOI receives large boxes with of the vials, and its up to them to assemble the vials and seal them in bags according to the size of the order. After the initial order