Weekend News Brief
Written by Tom Tharp on May 8, 2021
There is a frost advisory in effect for Sunday morning for the GLOW region. Temperatures are expected to dip below 30 degrees and frost could form killing sensitive plants. It is expected from midnight to 8am Sunday morning.
Pfizer is working to get approval for children 12-16 years of age to get the poke with their vaccine but many parents say they won’t make their kids get the shot. The San Francisco based Kaiser Family Foundation released a study showing that only about 30 percent of parents nationally are ready to get their kids vaccinated right away if the vaccine is approved for kids and teens. 20 percent say they won’t get their kids vaccinated and another 30 percent say they will wait and see how it goes for the first batch.
There is a COVID Vaccination clinic every day this week in Genesee or Orleans county. Monday there is one at the Ridgeway fire Hall in Medina, Tuesday at Darien Lake Amusement Park, Wednesday at GCC, Thursday at Ridgeway fire Hall again, Friday at Batavia Downs, and Saturday back at GCC. All of the clinics have walk in appointments available or you can call 815-7168 for Genesee county residents to make an appointment or Orleans county residents can call 589-3170. These numbers are just for making appointments.
COVID Update: From Friday at 4pm Genesee county has 14 new cases and 10 people have recovered. Orleans county has 8 new cases and 12 people have recovered. There are 69 active cases in Genesee county and 82 in Orleans. New York now has 37.5 percent of the population fully vaccinated. The rate of people getting the vaccines has dropped significantly over the past few weeks. In Genesee county nearly 20 thousand people have finished their vaccine series. In Orleans county almost 12 thousand people are fully vaccinated. New York is 9th in the Country in percentage of residents vaccinated with Connecticut in first place with 42.7 percent. The Genesee Orleans County Health departments will change to reporting the COVID numbers only on Tuesdays and Fridays starting this week.
Registration is open at Genesee Park and Forest for Environmental Science Camp for students in 7th to 10th grade. Camp goes for the week of July 12-16th from 9 to 4. Cost is 95 dollars a camper and kids get a t-shirt for attending. There is transport provided from Batavia High school to the park and back every day. The deadline to register is June 28th. You can download the registration form by following the link on wbtai.com and completing and mailing it to the Park Main office on Cedar Street.
