Pre-Register for Your Covid Vaccine Now!!
At this time ALL City/County residents in any phase can pre-register to receive the vaccine at https://aacounty.org/covidvax. This pre-registration form only needs to be completed once. You will automatically be contacted to schedule your second dose. Sign up for vaccine updates here.
Governor Hogan Makes an Announcement about Schools
We are calling on all county school systems to make every effort to return to hybrid in-person instruction no later than Monday, March 1.
By law, these decisions to reopen schools ultimately rest with the duly elected and appointed county school boards. But I want to be perfectly clear: I will do everything I possibly can to give all of our children the chance to get back into the classrooms.
I want to commend all the teachers, administrators, parents, and students, who have continued to adapt under difficult and trying circumstances. It is truly inspiring.
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COVID-19: One Year Later Virtual Event
At 7:30 on February 3rd, John's Hopkins Medicine's A Women's Journey is hosting a Zoom event. Recently, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s A Woman’s Journey conducted a national survey of more than 25,000 adults to identify the three COVID-19 issues that are of greatest concern and interest to consumers. The results — public health guidelines, vaccine safety and lingering COVID-19 effects — will be addressed during a powerful, virtual 90-minute live program featuring Johns Hopkins experts.
Virtual SOUPer Bowl Fundraiser for the Light House Shelter Live February 1-7th
Since 2007, Heritage Baptist Church has set aside a day to serve bowls of soup in exchange for donations to the Light House Homeless Prevention Center, raising over $34,000 cumulatively. Using the connection between “soup” and the NFL championship game, the donation-only SOUPer Bowl Lunch caught community attention and launched what has become a tradition in Annapolis. Find more information here.
Pandemic precautions this year prevent the annual gathering, but organizers did not want to break the 15-year streak.
“The Light House needs our help now more than ever,” said Pastor Scott Shelton of Heritage Baptist. “COVID-19 has made the work they do even more challenging. We did not want to pass up this opportunity to help, so we decided to continue the SOUPer Bowl tradition online.”
On February 1-7, Heritage Baptist will host a virtual SOUPer Bowl event on their Facebook page (@HeritageAnnapolis), with daily content featuring:
Video greetings from the Light House and the Heritage Baptist SOUPer Bowl team.
Soup recipes from the Light House Bistro and Chef Zachary Pope, SOUPer Bowl chef and one of the founders.
Information on the mission of the Light House.
Photo highlights from past SOUPer Bowls.
“Did you know” SOUPer Bowl trivia.
Severn River Association Thanks You For Your Donations
We'd like to thank everyone who offered gifts, donations, memberships, pictures, videos, cheers, expert advice, technical know-how and volunteer time and effort to help bring the Severn River Association through a difficult year.It's thanks to your generous support and hard work that we can celebrate some key accomplishments in 2020. Thanks to you, we were able to:
- Plant 17 million oysters in the Severn River,
- Introduce the Floating Classroom to give students hands-on, river experiences,
- Build a living shoreline for the West Severna Park community,
- Create a robust, river-wide water quality monitoring program,
- Join with Severn River communities to stop the Monticello Assisted Living Community development on Saltworks Creek, and
- Enjoy a bit of fun as Bryan Gomes hosted Chesapeake Bay trivia night contests.
