CONWAY â âThis could be the start of a career, you never know,â said RN Marta Ramsey, clinical educator for Memorial Hospital in North Conway as she and Nurse Practitioner Charisse Hirschfeld guided six teenagers as they sutured supermarket chicken thighs on their own operating table outside the hospital s emergency room.
It was all part of the five-day Mount Washington Valley School to Career Partnershipâs Health Camp, which wrapped up last Friday.
The School to Career Partnership is a day camp program for students heading into grades 7-9. Seven different camps are offered during July, and they are free this summer due to ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funding for the Conway School District because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL, as the saying goes, and that was especially true this warm and sunny Thursday, after the separate announcements by President Joe Biden and Gov. Chris Sununu one year into this pandemic.
President Biden cautioned that we as Americans must do our part by getting vaccinated and not prematurely abandoning mask wearing, social distancing and other measures that stem the spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, Gov. Sununu announced Thursday he is relaxing some of the Granite Stateâs restrictions, including allowing retail stores to again operate at full capacity and no longer requiring travelers arriving in the state to quarantine.