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From the local businesses who are able to stay open offering us groceries and pick up meals, to the front line workers at our local clinics and hospitals.
We think it would be a great idea to thank those in our community and recognize those people for all they do. If you would like to thank someone who has shown kindness to others, or give a shout out to your local grocery store, restaurant, retail or health care workers serving the Queen Anne and Magnolia area, we are offering 1/8 page size ads for only $25 (black and white) every week in the newspaper. The ads will all appear in a special THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY page. Space deadlines are every Wednesday at 10am for the following week’s newspaper. Please email your request to ppcadmanager@nwlink.com or call 206-461-1322, leave us a message and someone will return your call to get the details.
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DECEMBER 30, 2020
VOL. 101, NO. 53
FEATURED STORIES
While filled with challenges, past year also had bright spots
DR. UNIVERSE
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
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In a year where a deadly pandemic, social unrest and economic recession dominated the headlines and affected everyone’s lives in some way, 2020 has proven to be a challenging and exhausting year for many. At the same time, not everything about 2020 has been bad, with examples of positivity and progress peeking through all the gloom. Longtime Queen Anne resident and neighborhood activist Paula Mueller said one of the positive things that has come out of 2020 is a renewed interest and awareness in community. Mueller said, when Gov. Jay Inslee enacted shelter-in-place restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, many people formed
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Jessica Keller photo A sign posted on a house fence in upper Queen Anne advises people to not give up in what could be considered a very discouraging and disheartening 2020, during which the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 virus and social unrest in the country dominated the headlines and impacted SEE YEAR, PAGE 8 nearly everyone.
COVID-19 vaccine brings frustration, hope to Queen Anne senior living facility Bayview staff, residents poised to receive inoculations, but when? By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor With the recent approval of COVID-19 vaccines from companies Pfizer and Moderna, 2020 is wrapping up on a high note for many who see them as an end to the coronavirus pandemic. Not everything has gone smoothly, however, in the subsequent rollout of the vaccine programs, as questions over who
can receive the vaccine and when are creating confusion. That confusion is creating additional frustration at Queen Anne continuous care retirement community Bayview, , which offers a gamut of services from independent living to skilled nursing and assisted living all on one campus. Bayview CEO Nancy Weinbeck said the facility has been receiving new information almost every day about vaccination
rollout and when Pharmacy to adminisresidents and staff ter the vaccines at the will receive the facility in two phases, inoculations. Bayview Health Ser“It changes vices Administrator Joel almost minute by Smith said. minute,” she said The first phase – of the informaschedule 1A — will intion being told to clude three clinic dates. administrators. On the first, half the As identified Nancy Weinbeck staff and half the skilled in Washington’s nursing and assisted vaccination rollout living residents, includplan, senior citizens and health ing memory care, will receive care staff are two segments of the the vaccines. They will receive population who will receive CObooster shots 21 days later, when VID-19 vaccines first. Bayview has opted to partner with CVS SEE VACCINE, PAGE 3
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