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GRAB BAG
DECEMBER 15�22, 2021
AN ASSORTMENT OF MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
COVID-19
Vaccine
Other vaccine events offered in December:
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After a 22-month hiatus, the Grande Ronde Community Choir will resume
rehearsals Jan. 6, 2022. For information, visit www.artcentereast.org.
Grande Ronde
Community Choir
starting up again
The choir hasn’t gathered
since March 2020
Go! staff
L
A GRANDE — The Grande
Ronde Community Choir is
welcoming back singers on Jan.
6, 2022 — the fi rst time since
winter term March 2020.
Art Center East announced
that the choir will start again
for winter term on Jan. 6 with
rehearsals on Thursdays from
7-8:30 p.m. in Loso Hall, room
123, on the campus of Eastern
Oregon University. The music
director is Michael Frasier and
choir accompanist is Lanetta
Paul. No audition is required to
sing in the choir; register online
at www.artcentereast.org.
According to ACE, all singers
age 14 and older who wish to
participate in the choir must
be fully vaccinated against
COVID-19 by Jan. 6. Singers
are also required to wear masks
— a special vocal performance
mask (machine washable) will be
provided to each GRCC singer.
“When the choir last sang
together, the pandemic was
just starting,” Frasier said.
“We closed our March 5, 2020,
concert singing ‘Lean on Me’
and ‘We Shall Overcome’ with
the audience. I’m choosing
pieces for GRCC’s March 3,
2022, concert that will bring an
uplifting and positive tone to
our long-awaited resumption of
group singing.”
For more information about
Grande Ronde Community
Choir or other ACE Community
Music Programs, contact ACE
Outreach Coordinator Moira
Madden at outreach@artcen-
tereast.org or call the art center
at 541-624-2800.
Find out more about ACE’s
arts opportunities (including
classes and events) at www.
artcentereast.org. The center is
at 1006 Penn Ave. in La Grande
and is open Wednesday through
Friday from noon-5 p.m. and
Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Center for Human Development
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm every Friday with the exception of New Year’s Eve
in addition to Christmas Eve.
Additional options: Scheduled appointments available throughout the week.
Vaccines offered: 1st dose, 2nd dose, 3rd doses and booster vaccines. All
Covid vaccine configurations will be available including pediatric vaccination.
Other pediatric and adult immunizations also available at CHD.
CDC General Vaccine Info:
COVID-19 vaccines are effective
COVID 19-vaccines are effective and can reduce the risk of getting and
spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. Learn more about the different
COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines also help children and adults from getting seriously ill
even if they do get COVID-19.
While COVID-19 tends to be milder in children than adults, it can make
children very sick, require hospitalization, and some children have even died.
Children with underlying medical conditions are more at risk for severe illness
compared to children without underlying medical conditions.
Getting children ages 5 years and older vaccinated can help protect them
from serious short- and long-term complications.
Getting everyone ages 5 years and older vaccinated can protect families and
communities, including friends and family who are not eligible for vaccination
and people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
Booster Information from CDC:
Fast Facts Everyone age 18 and older is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine booster beginning Nov. 20,
2021. Some people are strongly advised get a booster dose to protect themselves and others. You
can choose which vaccine to get. The COVID-19 vaccines are extraordinarily effective at preventing
serious illness, hospitalization and death. That said, we are seeing immunity drop over time, espe-
cially in people over age 50 and those with compromised immune systems who are more likely to
experience severe disease, hospitalization and death. For these people, another dose boosts their
immunity, sometimes greater than what was achieved after the primary, two-dose series. Health
experts strongly recommend people over age 50, people over 18 who live in long-term care facil-
ities, and anyone who received one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine get a booster dose.
Younger, healthy people may also get a booster dose to protect themselves and others. A booster
will re-build neutralizing antibodies that strengthen the body’s ability to fight getting a breakthrough
case. Even if you’re not at high risk, you could be infected and then pass it on to others, such as
children too young to be vaccinated, the elderly, or people who are immunocompromised. Booster
doses help people maintain strong immunity to disease longer. The first vaccine series built up
the immune system to make the antibodies needed to fight the disease. Over time, the immune
response weakens. A booster dose stimulates the initial response and tends to result in higher
antibody levels that help people maintain their immunity longer. Boosters take about two weeks to
bring up the immune response. This continues to be studied, but we can reliably say it takes two
weeks to bring the immune response up to or better than that after the primary series.
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