Fosters Daily Democrat
DOVER When Mike Romps kindergarten class of Garrison Elementary School students went to fully remote learning last year, he experienced what he considers one of the greatest challenges in his professional teaching career. I ve been teaching for 20 years, and I felt like a first-year teacher all over again, Romps said. In the beginning we were all just trying to kind of MacGyver it . It was a great deal of work to educate through a screen, and we saw that nothing beats that face-to-face in-person learning.
Romps was one of more than 800 educators and school staff members vaccinated on Friday during a mass vaccination clinic at Dover High School, made possible by a collaborative effort between Dover School District, Dover Fire and Rescue Department and the Strafford County Community Health Network.
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.”