Upcoming Vaccine Clinics and COVID testing sites:
Vaccine Clinics at the Ranson Civic Center
To schedule an appointment at one of these clinics call the Jefferson County Health Department: 304-728-8416
January 7th 2pm-6pm
January 10th 2pm-6pm
January 12th 2pm-6pm
January 14th 2pm-6pm
• Pfizer, Moderna, and children’s Pfizer are available.
• Children have to be over 5 years old to get their first dose
• You can get a vaccine if it has been:
3 weeks between your1st and 2nd doses for the Pfizer vaccine
4 weeks between your 1st and 2nd dose for Moderna vaccine
• Booster shots are six months out from 2nd dose date (Moderna and Pfizer) and only
available for peope16 years of age and older
Free COVID Testing Locations (all testing is send out unless specified as rapid testing available)
Martinsburg VA Hospital (for veterans enrolled in VA care and must meet CDC criteria for testing)
Appointment required call 304-263-0811
The following Walgreens Pharmacies: All are drive through testing and require an appointment
Walgreens, Shepherdstown 304-876-0505
Walgreens, Ranson 304-728-7713
Walgreens, Charles Town 304-724-0002
Walgreens, Inwood 304-229-0935
Walgreens, Martinsburg 304-262-4697
Med Express Urgent Care (no appointment needed, rapid testing and send out) The Retail Commons Parkway 8 am to 7 pm 304-264-9730
CVS, Inwood: (Drive through and appointment required) 304-228-4318
Shenandoah Community Health Center (Drive through and appointment required) 304-263-4999
Hollywood Casino West Parking Garage (Drive through and no appointment needed) Monday through Friday 10 am-6 pm
Shepherd University outside the Wellness Center (Drive through and no appointment needed)
Tuesday and Thursday 12 pm -4 pm
Friday 10 am-5 pm
Saturday 10 am- 1 pm
SHEPHERDSTOWN ROTARY HELPS
EASTERN PANHANDLE EMPOWERMENT CENTER
The Shepherdstown Rotary Club has provided Christmas gifts for a needy local family through the Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center's annual holiday "Adopt-a-Family" program.
In addition, the Club has donated $700 in cash to the Center, to be used to purchase gifts for other families or meet whatever other current needs the Center has.
The Club presented the Christmas gifts and the check to the Center's Berkeley County office in Martinsburg on December 17. The accompanying photo shows, from left to right, Shepherdstown Rotary Club President Steve Campbell; Cheryl Groen, a member of the Rotary Club's evening group; Teri Biebel, who chairs that group; Tina Branson, the Empowerment Center's Business Administrator; Nicole Roehm, the Center's Outreach Services Director; and Rotary Club Vice President Sean Murtagh.
The Shepherdstown Rotary Club consists of two groups: a morning group that meets weekly and an evening group that meets twice a month. The funds for the cash donation to the Empowerment Center came from contributions by members of the morning group. The Christmas gifts for the needy family were contributed by the evening group.
This is the third year in a row the evening group has participated in the Empowerment Center's annual holiday Adopt-a-Family program. This year, the family the Club's evening group adopted included a single mother with six children ranging from a few months old to 19 years of age. The Center provided the evening group with the family's gift wish list, the group purchased presents for all of them, including the mother.
The Empowerment Center, formerly the Shenandoah Women's Center, is a non-profit, community-based agency founded in 1977 to help women abused by their partners. It has grown to become a comprehensive resource and counseling center serving all three counties of the Eastern Panhandle. Its mission is to protect victims, prevent violence and empower survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking.
SHEPHERDSTOWN ROTARY CLUB DONATES MEAL
FOR CANTERBURY CENTER STAFF
On December 9, the Shepherdstown Rotary Club recognized the hardworking staff of Shepherdstown's Canterbury Center care facility by donating enough sandwiches, salads, sweets and soft drinks to provide a meal for 40 staff members over all three shifts of the Center's workday.
The donation was organized by the Club's evening group members. They purchased the food from the Royalicious Bagel Bakery and Deli in Charles Town, which gave them the best price.
The accompanying photo shows members of the Royalicious staff loading the food into a van for delivery to the Center.
The total cost of the donation was $450. The funds came from the proceeds of a golf tournament the Club's evening group sponsored last September.
The Canterbury Center offers both long-term and short-stay rehabilitation care.
SHEPHERDSTOWN ROTARY DONATES DESKS TO N. JEFFERSON SCHOOL
The Shepherdstown Rotary Club has donated 10 specially built, compact, portable desks to North Jefferson Elementary School in Kearneysville.
The desks were delivered to the elementary school on Friday, December 3. The faculty and staff will decide how the desks will be distributed.
The desks were delivered by four Shepherdstown Rotary Club members: Cara Keys, who chairs the Club's Youth Service Committee; Walt Eifert, who organized and supervised the construction of the desks; Rotary club member Jennifer Wabnitz, who recommended donating to the school; and Steve Campbell the Club's, President.
The accompanying photo shows, from left to right, Eifert; Wabnitz; Keys; Vicki Bubb, North Jefferson Elementary School Counselor; Allison Bivens, School Improvement Support Specialist; and Campbell. One of the desks is in the foreground.
The Club has built a total of 110 of these desks over the past year. Based on a design developed by an interfaith charitable organization called DreamBuilders in Howard County MD, the desks were originally intended for use by children who could only attend school remotely during the Covid pandemic. However, because the desks are easy to store and move around, they remain useful for organizations that have ongoing space and resource constraints, and for disadvantaged children who have no place of their own at home to do schoolwork.
The Club donated 20 of the desks to the Shepherdstown Day Care Center in July, and another 25 to the Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle in August. It has given 45 to the Jefferson County school system, for distribution to students who need them for home use. The Club will auction off four full size and 10 miniature replica desks at a fundraising event in the Spring of 2022 to raise funds for the Club's youth activities.
SHEPHERDSTOWN ROTARY ASSISTS LOCAL CHARITY
On December 3, the Rotary Club of Shepherdstown donated a carload of canned goods, non-perishables, baby items and toiletry items to Jefferson County Community Ministries. The organization, based in Charles Town, is a cooperative ministry of local churches that helps families and individuals in need. The donated items were contributed by Club members.
SHEPHERDSTOWN ROTARY PARTNERING ON KENYA PROJECT
The Rotary Club of Shepherdstown is partnering with the Rotary Club of Kakamega, Kenya, on a Rotary Global Grant project aimed at reintegrating street children in Kakamega back into homes, society, school, and other community settings.
Assisting with the project is 29:11, Inc., a US nonprofit organization which has an established partnership with the Victorious Children’s Home, a Children’s Charter Institute in Kakamega, and an established relationship working with the street children there and in the surrounding community.
It is hoped that the project will serve as a template for helping street children in other cities throughout Kenya. The total budget for the project is $65,000. The Shepherdstown Club has been raising funds though District 7360, and the Kakamega Club has been doing the same through its district and other Kenyan districts and clubs.
The project total is nearly reached, and only about $6,000 more is needed. The target date for beginning to implement the project is January 22.
The Shepherdstown Club received an update on the status of the project November 30 from member Maria Brown and Alice Atemo, who is managing the project for the Kakamega Club. The accompanying photo shows, from left to right, Maria, Alice, and Shepherdstown Club President Steve Campbell
For more information about the project and to support it, visit the project website at https://isc.shepherdstownrotary.org/projects/kenya-project/.