GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Schools all around Grants Pass decorated their buildings to celebrate the holiday season with drive-through Christmas light viewings for families to visit.
This past Thursday, the front of all 10 schools in the Grants Pass School District were transformed into the sights and sounds of the holiday season.
Dutch Bros partnered with the district by offering up free hot cocoa for students and their families.
Each school collected donations of non-perishable food to help families in the community.
Teachers said it’s just another way for them to connect with their students during this difficult time.
“COVID created this, something beautiful out of it, for sure,” said Parkside Elementary PTA President Daniele Parkhurst. “This is just, kinda, a way we thought that the kids could still come to the school, and see something fun. Bring a little holiday cheer.”
On Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, Jan Badgley, loving wife, mother and grammie suddenly passed away at the age of 64.
She was born Jan Holliday on April 21, 1956, to Albert and Wilhelmina Holliday in Lewiston. She was the long awaited daughter with two older brothers.
She married the love of her life, Stuart Badgley, on Jan. 17, 1975. She then devoted her life to their daughters, Miranda, AnnaJo and Laura.
She was a proud staff member of Parkway Elementary for 31 years. She loved her time spent working with her students as a para-educator. She officially retired in June 2019. In her free time she enjoyed reading, all types of crafts, gardening, and sharing stories of her grandchildren with everyone she met.
There s one word describing the north s current COVID-19 situation: concerning.
Cases are still surging while hospitalizations are also on a steep incline, which is pushing the health care system in the region to its max, where resources were already limited before the pandemic landed in March.
Christmas break has also started for schools throughout Northern Health, something that may be needed for the time-being as the list of exposure events has rapidly expanded over the past month.
But perhaps the most concerning part is that Northern Health currently has the highest positivity rate for the virus in all of B.C., currently at 10.2 per cent from the most recent data from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).
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Yet again, the new case count and number of deaths remain at high levels, as has been seen for most of this week.
There s news and updates on several outbreaks, including at a Trans Canada pipeline worksite, a ski resort in Kelowna, and food-processing plants in the Lower Mainland.
In addition, low-intensity physical activity in groups such as classes for yoga, pilates, and tai chi can begin again indoors under revised public health guidelines.
Immunocompromised people and vaccinations
Henry said she has received many questions about why people who have compromised immune systems should avoid taking the vaccine at this point.