City of Gainesville offering $1 rides to COVID-19 vaccination sites
The City of Gainesville is now offering $1 rides to COVID-19 vaccination sites through its WeGo vanpool service, as opposed to the usual fee of $3.
Beginning today through March 31, WeGo will transport customers to vaccination sites within the city limits of Gainesville, including Northeast Georgia Medical Center, the Hall County Health Department, Longstreet Clinic, MedLink Georgia, Kroger, Riverside Pharmacy, Lawrence Pharmacy and McElveen’s Pharmacy.
WeGo utilizes a fleet of 10-12 passenger vans to transport travelers and operates through a smartphone app called “WeGo Powered by VIA.” The service operates from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and is available to everyone within the city limits of Gainesville, including persons with disabilities.
On Thursday, Feb. 4, Brenau University’s catering service offered curbside pickup meals to raise money for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), according to a news release from Brenau University.
All cash proceeds from the meals are going to the Wesley Warriors Foundation Fund at the North Georgia Community Foundation. The fund helps nonprofits and initiatives that involve children and families affected by childhood cancer, and right now, it is providing Medi Teddy’s to patients at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta.
Medi Teddy’s are plush bears that make medical equipment less intimidating for children by hiding IV bags.
Brenau students assisting with COVID vaccine clinics Doses for eligible faculty and staff being given Feb. 1 Northeast Georgia Health System holds their first COVID-19 vaccine clinic Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, NGHS Corporate Plaza for those 65 and older. - photo by Scott Rogers
Days before Christmas, Brenau University’s nurse practitioner Sarah Davis reached out to the health department about the COVID-19 vaccine and how to get doses to the students working in clinical settings and direct patient care.
“As that relationship grew, the health department reached out and said we would love to use your nursing students and faculty in order to help us get the vaccine out within the community,” Davis said.
A legacy of love: Jack Frost remembered for his heart for others Jack Frost stands in the new mausoleum at Memorial Park Funeral Home. With more than 1,000 crypts, Frost says the new building is the largest of its kind in Georgia. - photo by Nick Bowman
Even those in Hall County who never knew Jack Frost have seen traces of his legacy memorialized in marble.
The 89-year-old owner of Memorial Park Funeral Home, who died following a sudden illness on Jan. 20, commissioned the statue of Lyman Hall, Hall County’s namesake, on the grounds of Hall’s government center; delivered a monument to the Hall County Sheriff s Office to honor its fallen officers, at no cost to the community; and recently donated a Vietnam War veterans memorial to the Rock Creek Veterans Park in Gainesville.
Why Gainesville Renaissance is putting brakes on adding tenants Construction in downtown Gainesville continues Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, on the Gainesville Renaissance project on the square. - photo by Scott Rogers
Work is moving along on Gainesville Renaissance, a $22.4 million mixed-use development on the Spring Street side of Gainesville’s downtown square, but not so much the pursuit of potential retailers.
The building “is coming along on schedule” with completion set for January or February 2022.
“We have all the site work complete, all the foundations are in,” Roddy said, adding that steel is being installed in two phases, with the first phase completed and the second phase starting this week.