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Page 2A - Pike County Journal Reporter - Wednesday, April 28, 2021
SPECIAL PHOTO
Pike County middle and high school theater teacher Lori Bush (left) was surprised in a video call from Paul Milliken (right) of Good Day Atlanta as he told her she was nominated for the High
Five for Teachers honor by her students. Citizens across the state voted for who they believed was the best nominee for the honor.
THEATER: Teacher recognized after being nominated by her students
FROM PAGE ONE
The High Five for
Teachers program
provides $2,500 to the
winner who receives the
most votes on the Fox 5
website. The winner was
announced on Good Day
Atlanta! and even though
Lori Bush wasn’t the
winner, her students are
proud of her.
One of the students
who nominated her said
she saves lives from
her work with students.
When asked about it in
her video interview, she
said, “If 1 have a chance
to impact someone in
that way, I’m grateful to
have that opportunity.”
“In five short years,
the Pike schools drama
program has grown to
include more than 75 -100
children who participate
year-round in various per
formances and regional
competitions. Consistent
ly, 15 families donate time,
meals and other resources
to support life-long learn
ing. Theatre arts provides
exposure to public speak
ing, and theatrical applica
tion of history, science,
math, geography, gov
ernment, civics, English,
and social studies,” said
Kimberly Smith.
To support the Pike
County Schools Theatre
Program, lbush@pike.kl2.
ga.us or assistant super
intendent Ross Iddings at
770-567-8489.
COVID-19 cases down in county,
drop to zero in school system
Vaccine available, J&J pause lifted
Confirmed cases of
COVID-19 are down to
18 over the past two
weeks in Pike County.
There have been a to
tal of 1,057 confirmed
cases, 26 confirmed
deaths, 14 probable
deaths and 70 hospi
talizations since the
pandemic started last
March.
Pike schools are
down to zero con
firmed cases in stu
dents and adults and
only eight quarantined
students with no quar
antined adults as of
April 23.
Since the school
year started, there
have been 199 COV
ID-19 positive students
and 85 positive adults
in the school system.
That means 5.6% of
students and 21.1% of
adults in the school
system were confirmed
as having the virus.
The high school had
the most positive
student cases at 72,
followed by the middle
school at 60, the Ninth
Grade Academy at 29,
the elementary school
at 24, the primary
school at 12 and the
pre-K at two cases.
Since school started,
2,534 students have
returned from quar
antine and 190 adults
have returned from
quarantine.
As of April 26, 34% of
Georgia residents had at
least one dose of the CO
VID-19 vaccine and 23%
were fully vaccinated
with a total of 5,813,791
vaccines administered.
In Pike County, 16%
of citizens have at least
one dose and 14% are
fully vaccinated with
a total of 5,274 doses
administered.
Citizens planning
to get the COVID-19
vaccine can make an
appointment online at
gta-vras.powerapps-
portals.us or by calling
1-888-457-0186.
In addition to the
Moderna and Pfizer-Bi-
oNTech vaccines, John
son & Johnson’s vaccine
is again available.
Following a safety
review, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
and the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Pre
vention determined that
the recommended pause
regarding the use of
the Johnson & Johnson
(Janssen) COVID-19 Vac
cine in the U.S. should
be lifted and use of the
vaccine should resume.
The pause was rec
ommended after reports
of six cases of a rare and
severe type of blood clot
in individuals following
administration of the
Janssen COVID-19 Vac
cine.
During the pause,
medical and scientific
teams at the FDA and
CDC examined available
data to assess the risk
of thrombosis involv
ing the cerebral venous
sinuses, or CVST (large
blood vessels in the
brain), and other sites
in the body (including
but not limited to the
large blood vessels of
the abdomen and the
veins of the legs) along
with thrombocytopenia,
or low blood platelet
counts.
General and high-risk obstetrical care
Centering Pregnancy: Group Prenatal Care
Contraception care and management
Adolescent health education services
Offices inThomaston and Barnesville
UPSON
mm ob/gyn
Sherida L. Williams, M.D.
706-647-9627
PHOTO BY BLANCHE ROSSI
Pike County Extension is seeking volunteers to aid in local stream monitoring. Elkins Creek is
one of the largest in the county and is in need of water quality improvements. Above, this area
of Elkins Creek runs under County Farm Road right before it splits into Lewis Creek, another
stream on the state’s 303d list. Citizens are needed to monitor the creeks, take steps to clean
them up and possibly have them removed from the list if water quality has improved enough.
ADOPT A STREAM: Program needs
volunteers to monitor water quality
FROM PAGE ONE
“There are a couple of
unanswered questions
that Pike County Exten
sion aims to help answer
with the help of local
citizens. Are these water
sources still experiencing
the problems that landed
them on the list? With a
lack of stream monitor
ing in Pike County, is
the data outdated? Is
there a stream that we,
as a community, could
strive to get removed
from the list?” said Pike’s
agriculture and natural
resources agent Brook-
lyne Wassel. “The bot
tom line is these streams
need help, and through
collaboration with Adopt-
a-Stream and the commu
nity, we can make a real
difference on these water
sources that are right in
our backyard.”
For more information,
call 770-567-2010 or email
brooklyne.wassel@uga.
edu.
800-709-1
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