People explain what changed their minds about getting vaccinated, why they waited until now
August 4, 2021 4:09 PM
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BELOIT, Wis. For the last several months, health officials at pop-up vaccine clinics weren’t seeing a lot of people show up to get vaccinated. But recently, that’s changed.
“Vaccination rates are not declining as they were a few weeks ago. They’re starting to be steady or even increase a little bit,” said Rock County Public Health Nurse Jennifer Weadge.
Weadge said the pop-up clinic hosted at Hackett Elementary School Wednesday was the best turnout she’d seen in months. Close to 20 people showed up to get the vaccine, compared to the six person average at other pop-up clinics in previous weeks.
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Kelly Clobes will be using trash to create an educational treasure in Guatemala.
Through the Hug it Forward multicultural organization, she will help put the finishing touches on a âbottle schoolâ in the community of Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, during a âvoluntourâ trip June 9 to give kids the prospect of a better future.
The school has been built in three trips by various volunteers starting in February. Clobesâ group will finish the school and be part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark its completion.
Hug it Forward volunteers use eco-bricks, or plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash, to build schools. Clobes, who is president of the Hackett Elementary School PTO and heads up the food pantry at the school, said many kids in Guatemala have to leave school in their early teens to work and donât always have the opportunity to pursue higher education.