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DNR Becoming an Outdoors Woman shifts summer gathering to fall; take the BOW survey
DNR Becoming an Outdoors Woman shifts summer gathering to fall; take the BOW survey
Contact: Michelle Zellar (BOW), 906-293-5131, Ext 4004, John Pepin (Media), 906-250-7260 Agency: Natural Resources
June 2, 2021
The traditional June summer workshop for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Becoming an Outdoors Woman program is being moved for this year to Sept. 10-12 at a new location. The BOW program gives women, 18 and older, an opportunity to improve their outdoors skills in a relaxed, noncompetitive atmosphere.
Coronavirus safety protocols forced cancelation of the BOW winter gathering in February and will require postponement of the summer event as well. In the interim, organizers conducted several Instagram Live events instructing women on various outdoor recreation skills.
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Kids are shown having fun at Camp Quality, a national camp program for pediatric cancer patients and their siblings. Through a partnership with the Upper Peninsula Lions Clubs and Bay Cliff Health Camp, the program will welcome kids from across the U.P. and eastern Wisconsin with an in-person kickoff event at Bay Cliff in Big Bay on June 19, and a virtual camp week July 12-16. (Photos courtesy of Camp Quality USA)
BIG BAY Camp Quality USA, a camp program for pediatric cancer and blood disorder patients, is making its way to the Upper Peninsula for the first time this summer.
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MARQUETTE Dickinson County Healthcare System in Iron Mountain announced on Facebook that intensive care unit nurse Pam Faccio received the first COVID-19 vaccine in the county on Thursday.
Dr. Donald Kube, chief of staff, and Dr. Charles Papp, an emergency medicine physician, also were given the vaccine that day.
Aspirus Health on Thursday announced it received its first allocation of vaccine and has started vaccinating its employees. Aspirus’ first shipment of vaccine was delivered to Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital in Laurium.
Aspirus officials noted it did not receive enough doses for all the employees who wish to be vaccinated, explaining it is following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide the vaccine first to employees at the greatest risk, such as those regularly providing care to patients with COVID-19.